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...We are heaped with laurels, at least superficially....
...It bore Eliot’s personal inscription “for E. P., miglior fabbro”, the better craftsman; the laurel wreath Dante had bestowed on the troubadour Arnaut Daniel....
...After the blockbuster IPO, India’s newest billionaire has no plans to rest on her laurels....
...A much-heralded halving of the rate at which new bitcoins are produced has also driven interest, including some “wild predictions” about the price, said Manuel E De Luque Muntaner, head of investment firm...
...“Many funds . . . did not pass our due diligence process,” said Manuel E De Luque Muntaner, chief executive of Block Asset Management, a firm that invests in crypto hedge funds....
...In which Laurel and Hardy (above) film does Stan discover he’s really Lord Paddington — a great English scholar and athlete?...
...E&V is marketing something a little grander, a five-bedroom mansion in Herzogpark, for €13.9m....
...was assumed that Hadi al-Amiri, leader of the Iran-backed Shia paramilitary coalition, the Popular Mobilisation Forces, that first braked the Isis onslaught after Iraq’s army melted away, would share the laurels...
...Chief sentinels are two more tall bronzes: “In Bilico” (“Poised”, 2015) and “Luce e Ombra” (“Light and Shade”, 2012). But this time, huge solitary rocks nestle in the crooks of their branches....
...Globally, that title goes to Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce group with American Depositary receipts traded on the New York Stock Exchange....
...And the old guard haven’t been resting on their laurels either....
...E&V is marketing a four-bedroom villa with sea views for €3.95m....
...Other indicators have not looked so bad, and the laurels have gone to those who stayed with the market. There has been a huge debate over ways to adjust and improve the details of the Cape....
...BMW held the crown for a decade, but a range of new products from Mercedes and a push in China helped the marque wrestle back the laurels....
...Unique plants abound in each of these distinct zones, and E. pininana is one. The laurels that form the canopy species in the laurisilva are four species of tree defined by their leaves....
...I spend a lot of time gardening and have all kinds of plants with a Mediterranean feel, such as wisteria and laurels. I love that it’s green even in the winter months....
...Yet it turned out well for the founder of e-commerce site Alibaba, who is now one of the richest men in China....
...“B-e-e-t-h-o-v-e-n”, my friend helpfully replied and repeated the name “Beethoven”, whereupon the concierge further enquired, “Is he a guest of the hotel?” My friend was amused and said, “No....
...This enormous, picture-heavy tome, which covers 250 of the world’s most exceptional gardens, has a western bias but is strong on the Middle East and Asia, from the 19th-century Iranian masterpiece Bagh-e...
...Richard Greer is a partner of Laurel Capital Kingsway LLP...
...Strikingly modern, though typical of the traditional Japanese genre ukiyo-e (literally “pictures of the floating world”), it is composed like a vertical frieze, not tethered to linear perspective....
...Confident, long and pungent. 13.5% £26.95 Bancroft, www.bancroftwines.com, 020 7232 5440 Francesco Rinaldi e Figli 2008 Barolo Lots of integrity here....
...On January 10 that year, at 44.7°N, 178.1°E, south of the Aleutian islands “in the stormy latitudes renowned in the age of sail as the Graveyard of the Pacific”, a cargo ship called the Ever Laurel faced...
...“You can’t rest on your laurels,” Mr Belling says. “You have to continue to innovate, you have to continue to be different.”...
...So besides the public laurels and burnishing of his own image, I think the offer also has to do with a plan to promote the luxury goods industry, i.e. his products, and elevate them into the realm of art...
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