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...Even the once dazzling yellows, blues and reds on the flower-and-vine detailing on gate catches, chairs and pillars had faded or been washed away by rain....
...The consultant from Serbia recently bought a three-bedroom apartment in the Šiška district — a central neighbourhood next to the Tivoli City Park, home to more than 100 bird species and three times the size...
...It looks drab in drought periods but springs back into life with rain and therefore still needs mowing sometimes and in some areas....
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
...The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)A collection of the 16 song lyrics that Nobel laureate Ishiguro wrote for the singer Stacey Kent with illustrations...
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...“And I remember Spain,” wrote the Irish poet Louis MacNeice, the “tripper” in the rain in 1938 recalling “sherry, shellfish, omelettes . . . fretted stone the Moor/Had chiselled for effects of sun and shadow...
...Both night and heavy rain were falling as we crossed the Portuguese border on a back road with only a roofless hut, once the customs post, to indicate a change of countries....
...For many, the influx of headlines, about, say, some weird nesting bird rediscovered in the Pennines, are a welcome reprieve from the relentless drone of misery and malcontent....
...Here at 4,278m above sea level, the birds are coping far better with altitude than I am....
...As Gareth Jones and Rob Goffee wrote in their book Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People, you can “protect them from the rain”....
...Its 12 panels contain symbols of Great Britain (including a gloriously buxom Welsh harp), surrounded by a whirlwind of exotic flowers, birds, garlands and grotesques....
...Before the event, viewers were treated to a bird’s-eye view of the area where models were being made up....
...The Big Three are on course to control 40 per cent of the votes in American corporations in a couple of decades....
...Doug always called her Birdy, and there is indeed something bird-like about her. “Kris is like a migratory species,” an aide had answered when I’d asked where she lives....
...Lawyers say that Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, which came into effect this month, has prompted many Asian regulators and corporations to ensure that the tough new rules do not jeopardise global...
...Ms Luca, who emigrated from Romania a decade ago, has been one of the better recruits, staying for 18 months....
...Holkham is run as a corporation, overseen by a management board of six, with 48 business concerns and 250 employees....
...The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has more than a million members....
...Mr Ashford, who was first elected to Congress in 2014, is embroiled in the fight because he is a rare bird in American politics today: a centrist, pro-trade Democrat....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...The other is for a social responsibility project to encourage Californian rice farmers to create bird habitats....
...A few birds died during the clean-up, after mistaking the reflective surfaces of the oil puddles for water....
...Geoff Goss, chair of the Highgate Men’s Pond Association, says: “It’s a totally open space with the sky above you and birds flying around....
...“The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man” was a trophy, acquired by 18-year-old Prince William V, last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and a passionate collector since childhood....
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