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...Escorted by a military band, it was carried through the grounds of L’Echangeur, a tower built in 1974 as a monument to Lumumba....
...It claims Robert Downey Jr as a neighbour, but most folks would hardly know the estate is even there. Sprawling compounds are common in this billionaire’s playground some 100 miles east of Manhattan....
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...Badgemore Grange, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK, £6.95m Where One mile from Henley town centre, in a secluded setting. Heathrow airport is 24 miles away....
...The Morey family business started in 1953, when Morey’s father, Wilbert, built the Fantasy, a utilitarian L-shaped motel with a space-aged neon sign....
...Directly across the water was Le Manech, barely half a mile away as the crow flies but two days’ walk around two rias....
...ULAE’s main operation is now a few miles away, in Bay Shore....
...“People here are ridiculously trustworthy,” said Maurice Kennedy, editor of the Fermanagh Herald....
...extras, pausing en masse every few miles for a dégustation at one of the vineyards running down to the Loire....
...It can be found in the country town of Montfort-l’Amaury, a 40-minute train ride from Paris, followed by a three-mile walk through countryside that resembles an Impressionist landscape....
...… The Medici Boy, by John L’Heureux, Astor & Blue, RRP£14.99/$24.95 A tremendous historical tale evoking the creative fervour of Renaissance Florence....
...Since my fellow committee members are chef Michel Roux Jr of Michelin-starred Le Gavroche and the heads of super-smart wine merchants with royal warrants Berry Bros, Corney & Barrow and Justerini & Brooks...
...He was eventually taken off by ambulance but the next day had to get up and ride another 116 miles....
...Robert L....
...Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr, took more than $300m in the US, with a sequel due this summer....
...Parker, Jr Scribner $24, 273 pages Blade Runner By Oscar Pistorius Virgin £12.99, 186 pages FT Bookshop price: £10.39 A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York By Liz Robbins Harper...
...To visitors, it looked like the vibrant, money-making, healthy operation it was on paper: Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities....
...Ile Maurice (Journey to Mauritius), published in 1773....
...When Cynthia McKinney speaks the words of Martin Luther King Jr, they resound through the church with some of King’s cadence....
...Nadine et Maurice Guerrin, La Roche 2006 Mâcon-Vergisson £7.40 Tanners13% Smoky, well balanced, fully open classic southern burgundy....
...Alas, you cannot make your way to the home of JR Ewing, the star of the television show Dallas, as he really never lived here....
...“Hank” Greenberg, the former AIG chief who is fighting civil charges filed by the New York attorney general, and given that two other committee members, Wilbur L. Ross Jr and Kenneth C....
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