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...Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by Peter Heather and John Rapley (Allen Lane) Western hegemony is in decline....
...British fell-walker Alfred Wainwright described it as thus: “Flowers, heather and bilberries bloom on the pleasant little ridge where stands the summit cairn.”...
...Inside, 55 rooms and suites mirror the heather-flecked surroundings with soft woods, slate greys and mossy suede....
...The emerald lime of pastureland patched here and there with the buff and taupe of heather. Low grey farm buildings huddled into the hillscape....
...Tucked away at the end of a tapering road, Agia Marina is a sheltered sliver of sand where locals go for fresh fish, stuffed tomatoes, and epic sunsets....
...The name comes from the fact the sand makes a squeaking sound when you step on it — a phenomenon apparently caused by grains of sand that are unusually spherical....
...“We’ve bred dogs for generations and generations to want to be around humans,” says Heather Bacon, a veterinary clinical senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire....
...The glass is partly opaque, partly translucent; the fruit bowl resembles a slice of cardboard, but thick, resistant surfaces are achieved by mixing sand with pigment....
...That morning we had been at our hotel on the coast, with the rocky shoreline, blazing sun and black sand the Canary Islands are famous for....
...A purist might want to fell a lot of the heath’s 25,000 trees, since the original heath — as painted by Constable — was a blasted heath: moorland of heather and gorse....
...We’ll be parsing the particulars of the Biden proposals for some time to come — but Peter, do you agree with me that this is an important line in the sand? And does it hearten you, as it does me?...
...But there are areas of tension, which even a long weekend on the white Cornish sands of Carbis Bay are unlikely to erase....
...Bolton, France; John Morrissey, Surrey, England; RK Ajayakumar, Croydon, England Polymath 1,050: Anthea Sinclair, Edinburgh Crossword 16,332: Thomas Foubister, London; Michael Sweeney, Dublin; David Sands...
...platter by Annemarie O’Sullivan, £3,600 Inspired by the heritage of the Orkney Islands, this platter was made as part of an art residency. thenewcraftsmen.com Ashanti sand wallpaper by Andrew Martin,...
...1 — De Hoop, South Africa De Hoop Nature Reserve is a Western Cape gem: turquoise ocean, a lagoon thronging with waterfowl, white sand dunes and a floral cornucopia of rare, heather-like fynbos....
..., turquoise waters and a backdrop of heather-covered mountains....
...Marram grass grows on golden sand....
...These are carpeted in purple and yellow wild flowers, in some places so thick that it looks like heather and gorse....
...Up near the ski resort we could see columns of smoke, where heather was being burnt to create firebreaks before the summer heat took hold....
...Alice Little, a psychology graduate who lives amid the sand castle mountains of rural Nevada, is the kind of young person Obamacare was designed to help....
...Jon and Elsa Sands, Indianapolis, IN, US I’m not shy, just smartly silent “Since December 2015, when I was summarily shot down for expressing my support of Donald Trump (at an Upper East Side Christmas...
...We munched tuna baguettes hunched beneath a clump of giant heather bushes, which caught the mist and dripped it on to my leg....
...From time to time I’m reminded of the Scottish Highlands; then I remember we’re no more than two hours from the sweeping sands of the Atlantic coast....
...Selfridges womenswear buyer Heather Gramston agrees: “The discovery process is faster than previously as we aren’t limited to viewing collections during fashion weeks....
...“The area has certainly grown up,” says Heather Motes, owner of Sand Dollar Real Estate. “Seasons have extended and there are more events and activities attracting people throughout the year.”...
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