Hints and tips:
...First, the light: hard, true, somehow unmistakably North Sea, laying a distinct architecture of shadow across the flat marshlands and low towns on late-winter afternoons, making you wish you were a painter...
...Links and mentions from the episode: –Elif Batuman’s essay on reading Russian literature in the shadow of the war in Ukraine: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/rereading-russian-classics-in-the-shadow-of-the-ukraine-war...
...Indian Creek Forget Millionaires’ Row: tiny, private, high-security Indian Creek Island is known as “Billionaire Bunker”....
...But what a lot there is to see in West Sussex, especially in Petworth....
...Details of the March 2003 accident — which left the passengers crawling out of a wreckage into a creek — were kept secret for more than a week, sparing Amazon’s staff and investors from having to ponder...
...Coronavirus crisis: are ‘shadow banks’ the weakest link?...
...The median price of the 183 homes sold in Aspen in the year to September was nearly 12 per cent lower than the same period in 2018, according to agents Douglas Elliman....
...Underfunded and understaffed, they long led something of a shadow existence....
...Wanting to respect the original open plan, the designers decided that subdivisions of the floorspace ought to be understood as insertions....
...Shadow Creek near Las Vegas lets guests of MGM Resorts play — for a $500 fee per round. Visitor numbers are very limited and access is only available from Monday to Thursday....
...Turner’s shadow is ever-present in the photos and inspirational books in his office....
...Bike tracks are also being built along the man-made Dubai canal, which has extended a natural creek through the city to the open sea....
...There isn’t a lot of easy terrain here. Only 20 per cent counts as beginner runs....
...But those numbers are likely to include lots of people ineligible to vote in the leadership contest....
...It is Washington’s embassy row situated around the city’s incongruous — though stunning — Rock Creek Park....
...As I started to look harder, the names got even better: Lousy Creek, Mosquito Creek, Dead Fish Billabong....
...“There hasn’t been an appetite for $100m-plus ranches lately, but there are certainly sales for up to $50m,” he says, citing Aspen Valley Ranch, a bank-owned 800-acre estate with 14 lot subdivisions (land...
...Lord Howell was recorded saying: “Now Qatar’s a great place, but it’s also near a lot of jihadists. [It is] the size of Guildford. If it was to go into chaos we would be up shit creek, we really would.”...
...There was a lot of absurd stuff that went on during that decade. I think most everyone remembers the endless articles on Generation X as an idea … what is it? Who are they?...
...Denver, in the state of Colorado, sits in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains....
...I was staying at the Ranch at Rock Creek, about 20 miles west of Philipsburg in the heart of the Anaconda-Pintler wilderness....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.5 per cent to 10,097.18 but the Nasdaq was 0.3 per cent higher at 2,183.53....
...The area includes Rock Creek Cemetery, established in 1719 and best known for architect Stanford White’s Adams Memorial, as well as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, a sprawling compound founded in 1851....
...On the right, a handful of men in polo shirts playing the 14th hole of the Shadow Valley Country Club golf course. “A master planned community”, says the sign....
...Her condominium is about a five-minute walk from the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte, the very spot where Denver was born in the 1800s....
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