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...Bulk prices of olive oil — described by Homer as “liquid gold” — have soared as a result, doubling in a year to about €9,000 per tonne....
...Head from there to Hathaway Mill Antiques for a bit of antiquing before a meal at Jewel of India – the lamb rogan josh is outstanding....
...Fintech venture capital firm Nyca Partners has hired Matt Homer as executive in residence. He joins from the New York State Department of Financial Services....
...Our picnic is not run-of-the-mill either....
...The Silence of the Girls , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Doubleday, RRP$27.95 Barker’s powerful feminist revision of Homer’s Iliad creates a central narrative voice for Briseis, the Trojan queen...
...John Stuart Mill famously opined that Marathon was more important as an event in British history than the Battle of Hastings....
...Most of the woollen mills had closed. There used to be 43 piers, now there are 17. Then a whole lot of old hippies started moving in and opening their craft shops and galleries....
...Homer Joy, “Streets of Bakersfield” On the spring day in 1988 when he turned 41, Carl Cole left the small town in North Carolina where he had grown up as a boy and fallen into disgrace as a man....
...He is even amazed by a run-of-the-mill sycamore that a local old lady shows him how to pronounce correctly....
...His masterpiece “Flatford Mill” (1817) is largely painted outdoors. 1841 The portable paint tube is invented – previously, artists ground their own pigments – making plein-air painting practical....
...The buyers who come for help to Reg Parry, manager of the Cornish office of property search firm County Homesearch, are mostly second homers and older people....
...Alice’s collection includes paintings by Asher Durand, Winslow Homer, Charles Willson Peale and Marsden Hartley....
...But she does not explore this – it would have been intriguing to hear what she made of champions who came out or were exposed as bisexual (Freddie Mills and Emile Griffith, for example)....
...Half Time: The Autobiography By Nigel OwensTranslated by Lynn Davies Y Lolfa, £14.95 Run-of-the-mill account of a top rugby referee’s life, but for one thing: Owens is gay....
...Some of them are also involved with the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, which showcases their craft at The Riverside Mill in Bovey Tracey....
...Ms Shepherdson’s work with Topshop is widely admired within fashion circles for turning Topshop from a run-of-the-mill clothing chain into the high street haunt for fashionistas....
...The company described its tie-up with Homer and Marge Simpson as a heavyweight advertising campaign. There can surely be only one way to classify such shares: overweight....
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