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...“At the time Hollywood Road was the mecca for antique collectors....
...“San Francisco undoubtedly has socio-economic problems, but it is not yet at a point of implosion . . . it’s still a mecca.”...
...It also happens to be a mecca of Japanese classical literature. Taking in a mountain, a river and a bamboo forest, Arashiyama is worth visiting in all seasons....
...Another in Newcastle wears his navy Peter Storm fleece with cargo pants for casual and tailored trousers to the office....
...But in the past fortnight, two High Court judgments ruled that tenants including Sports Direct, Mecca Bingo and Cineworld will have to pay arrears....
...mixed reviews, but the rest of this year’s line-up looks sharp — a fresh production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, director Adele Thomas’s festival debut in Handel’s Semele, and welcome returns for Peter...
...It also happens to be a mecca of Japanese classical literature....
...Few could fail to notice the new additions of the Fendi and Dolce & Gabbana megastores to the city, both lifestyle meccas for fashionable living....
...– Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda’s characters in Easy Rider make a little stop off near Taos, New Mexico....
...The Danish capital, meanwhile, became a mecca for hospitality workers....
...One of the conference organisers introduced him to an indoor crowd as “the most irresponsible politician in America, the mayor of the mecca of freedom.”...
...There are several UK-based artists of note too, not least Peter R Mason, Emma Biggs, Ed Chapman and Gary Drostle....
...In the early days of the band, which was formed in 1997, Barât and Doherty shared a flat in Camden, London’s grungy indie-rock mecca....
...Japan has announced the closure of all its schools and Saudi Arabia a halt on pilgrimages to Mecca....
...He grew up in southern Indiana, which was the furthest thing from a foodie mecca. “There was a lot of canned food and frozen food and processed food,” he recalled....
...Japan issued a de facto order for all schools to close for more than a month from Monday and Saudi Arabia halted the entry of Muslim pilgrims intending to visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina....
...But in established coffee meccas around the world the independent café scene was already booming....
...It was neatly, if a little archly, described by the architect Peter Smithson as looking “hand-knitted”. But it set the scene for Cullinan’s solo career....
...He has made the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. And he wears the English game’s most recognisable beard since WG Grace, the Victorian-era great....
...Inside were simple whitewashed walls and a scrap of carpet orientated to Mecca. It would have fitted into a side cupboard in Casablanca’s Hassan mosque....
...The Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, for which 1.9 million travelled to Saudi Arabia last year, is due to take place in July and early August....
...“Grosvenor Square is about to reclaim the crown as London’s number one address,” says Peter Wetherell, chief executive of Wetherell estate agents....
...Most of his clients are designers renowned for using artworks in their projects, such as Kelly Behun, Nicole Hollis and architect Peter Marino....
...One is at Tabung Haji, or the Hajj Pilgrims Board, that manages the 73.5bn ringgit worth of savings by Muslims for pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia....
...“Things never stop changing in this market,” said Peter Marks, a 36-year-old veteran of the nightclub industry who runs the Deltic chain....
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