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...Through it, initiates gain spiritual enlightenment by communing with dead ancestors — represented by the haunting masks on the walls of the temple, or Mbandja, objects of such exquisite beauty that they...
...But the city is prospering beyond Carter’s intervention, with people moving up from the Bay Area to start sweetly original businesses....
...De Wolfe was close friends with Lady Duff-Gordon, better known as Lucile, another pioneering Belle Époque couturier, and a survivor of the Titanic....
...Next, the Temple of Horus in Edfu, one of the best preserved and the second biggest after Karnak. Finally, reaching Aswan in the south, I come to the temple complex of Philae....
...The house was amazingly big, nearly 100 yards long on its main facade, with Britain’s first pillared portico, like an ancient temple’s, in the manner of the great Italian architect, Andrea Palladio....
...climax of this excellent book: “The very air you breathe,” marvelled Carter, “unchanged throughout the centuries, you share with those who laid the mummy to its rest.”...
...Bryan Carter, head of emerging markets fixed income at BNP Paribas Asset Management, said his firm considered about half of the green bonds issued from emerging markets to be truly environmentally friendly...
...Most glasses list three basic measurements on the inside arm: lens width, bridge width and temple (arm) length. But this is a crude analysis....
...Its emblem is the Chinthe, a lion-like mythical Burmese beast that guards the entrances to Buddhist temples and pagodas....
...William Taft, former president and chief justice, described the US judiciary in general as “high-priest[s] in the temple of justice”....
...Mike Carter is the author of “All Together Now?...
...But his place in the cultural consciousness was secured after Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered his still-intact royal tomb in 1922, laden with gold, jewellery and finely wrought objects....
...But here he veers away from the historical narratives that characterise much of his earlier work into a territory trod by the likes of Garner and Angela Carter: that “good long while” will stretch out a...
...The beach club even boasts its own ruins — the sixth-century BC Temple of Apollo Zoster was discovered in 1924 by children of a nearby orphanage digging around in the sand....
...The London Outer Orbital Path Mike Carter As a travel writer, I go to some extraordinary places....
...This is, instead, a temple to colour. Yet its roots do lie in religion....
...Paul Rudolph’s Temple Street Parking Garage in New Haven, for instance, is a modernist masterpiece. Some of the best have already gone....
...The Kenya Land Commission of 1933, headed by one Sir William Morris Carter, pronounced the Ogiek “a savage and barbaric people who deserved no tribal status”....
...Details Mike Carter was a guest of Journeys by Design and Kenya Airways....
...The defence secretary Ashton Carter said there would be no exceptions to the new rule, which ends the military’s so-called “brass ceiling”, despite a request from the Marine Corps that women be excluded...
...Photographs: Mike Carter...
...It is an organisation that sits at the heart of trying to operate smarter,” said Sir Nicholas Carter, chief of the general staff....
...As far as one could see, Currie played this virtuoso half-hour of music on instruments from tom-toms to south Asian temple blocks from memory. The second half moved on to a trio of premieres....
...Then I continued along Central Street, Makung’s oldest, winding and brick-paved, past Confucian temples and ancestral shrines....
...the peace treaty to be Jimmy Carter’s greatest legacy, Arthur Herman, a historian, argues that this is somewhat a myth: “if any one man deserves credit for Camp David, it is not Jimmy Carter but Anwar...
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