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...On a recent trip, my friend James and I headed toward Missoula, the area where Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It was set....
...A table full of food and everyone smiling at you is a cheap way to star in your own Norman Rockwell painting....
...He married a woman called Dodie Pilgrim and moved to Humble, Texas, where Joel was raised. Osteen senior’s rise is Lakewood’s foundation miracle....
...Once the Normans conquered England, successive campaigns enabled London to subordinate Wales and part of Ireland....
...Centuries ago, the payment of tithes and pilgrims’ tributes brought rich building and furnishings....
...The Norman invaders, after all, were migrants but quickly became the embodiment of Englishness. This notion may hold when migration is followed quickly by integration....
...We drove on through contoured darkness and past occasional floodlit Norman towers and I basked in the night’s heat greeting me, after a cool English June, like a long-lost friend....
...The Norman invasion brought what we now think of as a British tradition of aristocracy, along with castles and cathedrals....
...From Prof Emeritus Norman Birnbaum....
..., and second, what would that mean for “the chap who arrived a tourist and a day later he’s a pilgrim”?...
...The last decade has seen the death of the many of our greatest travellers – Wilfred Thesiger, Eric Newby, Norman Lewis – and it is interesting that almost all of them came home in the end....
...” … When Norman and Patience settled in Apulia, they were beginning a 30-year stretch of solitude, until Norman’s death in 2000....
...They spread following the Norman conquest when monasteries began to brew their beer for sale to pilgrims. ● Pub signs started to appear during the Middle Ages....
...Later strata include Irish, Saxon and Norman churches. Above ground though, it is all Wren....
...I sat in the quiet there for a few minutes and remembered “Assisi”, a poem by Norman MacCaig....
...One hundred visitors a year – mainly Christian pilgrims – go insane and are committed to the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centre....
...One of my favourite places is the Norman crypt, with its forest of exuberantly carved columns, strangely reminiscent of the Mezquita of Córdoba....
...On February 27 2002 at Ahmedabad, 58 Hindu pilgrims were murdered and at least 1,000 Muslims killed in revenge as the authorities stood idly by....
...From Chaucer’s 14th century pilgrims meeting in the Tabard Inn in Southwark, to the fug and brute aggression of a Martin Amis-imagined local, England has been described and understood through its pubs....
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