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...Then I took the coastal trail round the island, where wild mouflon sheep, with horns the size of broad swords, watched me from vertiginous perches as if they might be in league with Grocery Granny....
...Both played their part in the Christianisation of Europe but, he writes, coercion was the more significant, whether by full-force submission at sword-point (in the Baltics by the Teutonic Knights in their...
...For pudding we have frozen summer berries drizzled with melted Pump Street chocolate and chilled glasses of Monks Mead with honey from coastal heather....
...The Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistanby Heather A Campbell, Pen and Sword Books £20/$34.95 South Asia was where British and tsarist...
...The lack of clarity has led many analysts to suspect that Pyongyang is not sincere about vows to abandon what the regime calls its “treasured sword of justice”....
...“Time is like a sword, if you don’t use it to cut, it will cut you,” goes the saying here....
...Heather Wilson, the top civilian Air Force official, said this year that Russia and China are developing ways to “disable our satellites”....
...(Perhaps wisely, those statues and paintings which have Lady Justice blindfolded tend to have her with the sword safely lowered; and whether someone brandishing a sword whilst wearing a blindfold is an appropriate...
...Heather Self, director of Pinsents Mason, a law firm, described the proposals as “a massive headache for UK businesses and individual taxpayers”....
...The WikiLeaks cables proved a double-edged sword for Mr Correa, who angrily denied former US ambassador Heather Hodges’ classified assertion that the president had knowingly hired a corrupt police commander...
...The film is a throwback to the old Steve Reeves sword-and-toga epics. Expect the same dialogue, dramatic values and errant homoeroticism....
...With guns, swords and horses, it’s hardly the kind of sport that children are likely to take up in the school playground....
...It turned out that the Soviet army major – one of the world’s leading pentathletes – had “wired” his sword to register false hits....
...Last year Venter became engaged to Heather Kowalski, his public relations executive, who will be his third wife....
...“The UK credit card market has been under stress and we saw a deterioration in performance in 2005,” says Heather Dyke, at Fitch Ratings....
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