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...“Nothing has been done to change the stones, to alter their shapes or hues,” he insists of the banquet collection, an assortment of agates and jaspers....
...September is another matter entirely, offering both warm seas and welcomes....
...In 2013, he challenged China’s expansion claims in the disputed South China Sea....
...Intrigue in the palace Jokowi is a tactical rather a strategic leader....
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...The room, scrambled underfoot with cables, feels more bike shed than Buckingham Palace. But then the cameras start rolling. Erin Doherty strides in as Princess Anne....
...At Chécrouit, the hub of the ski area 1,700m above sea level, guests will be able to relax and recharge at the Loge du Massif, a restaurant, lounge, ski room and kids’ club....
...As I start slicing my pizzetta into little triangles, I detect an envying glance at my plate — but Ive assures me that the sea bass carpaccio is excellent....
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...The Landmark Trust, a charity that conserves historic buildings, has raised 78 per cent of the £1.8m needed to save the fragile Georgian house, close to the sea in Lyme Regis, Dorset....
...The earlier boat, passed off as deep-sea mining craft, turned out to be part of a clandestine project to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the floor of the Pacific....
...In Kyrgyzstan, Russia Inc has been similarly active....
.... ——————————————- BUSINESS Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace, Bantam, RRP£20/ Random House, RRP$28 Catmull defies...
...But burdened with huge estate duties levied on him after he inherited the palace post-independence, Pratap Sinhji sold (shown as a co-lessee in the property card) the palace to the US consulate for Rs1.72...
...In Cairo as in Alexandria, protesters marched on the presidential palaces determined to achieve their goals of bringing down Mr Mubarak, who had left to his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh...
...It is in Colaba where the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, attacked by terrorists in 2008, stands, and where the city’s most exclusive social clubs and shopping areas are located....
...He had homes in Athens and New York and kept permanent suites in Claridge’s and Lausanne Palace....
...Berlin Klassiktage The 18th-century Französischer Dom church and assorted palaces and stately homes will host small-scale classical music performances during Berlin’s annual Klassiktage (“Classic Days”)...
...from the imperial porcelain factory are less engaging than those crafted from this vast empire’s extraordinarily rich and diverse natural resources – rhodonite, quartz and tourmaline, porphyry and Orsk jasper...
...Wrapped in a toga-like towel, in front of a pediment-topped beach hut beyond a dispassionate teal-green sea, Carlos Carrà’s “The Last Bather” (1938) is a study in lonely disillusion....
...Visiting heads of state usually opt for the deluxe waterfront Ciragan Palace Kempinski, a restored Ottoman palace....
...Starving people, though, make poor revolutionaries and Mr Mugabe still exercises a mesmerising authority over the better fed members of his own coterie, which militates against a palace coup....
...Terrorists, laden with plastic explosives, grenades and assault rifles, killed at least 192 civilians across India’s financial capital and laid waste to the luxury Taj Mahal Palace hotel....
...“Some of the palaces take up more space than three or four villages nearby and block access to the sea for fishermen. People knew this already. But they never saw it....
...But I have yet to spot Bono or that actress with lips resembling a startled sea anemone....
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