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...Tom Williams, who runs Desert Island Survival, the bushcraft survival company that organised Davison’s trip to the Pearl Island archipelago off the Pacific coast of Panama, says the majority of guests who...
...To start with, unlike other colonies, the territory at the mouth of the Pearl River did not attain the independent status for which its economic development and stability could have adequately fitted it,...
...I stand corrected if not abashed after reading Julian Barnes’ haunting novel on the agonies of Shostakovich under Stalin and his successors....
...Curiously, Julian Barnes, often held up as the most Francophile of English novelists, is the subject of some scorn....
...“Then there are new pearls tinted with deeper tones, like navy or gunmetal, which give a hint of metallic but not in such an obvious way.”...
...And in the 1930s, Edward, Prince of Wales, travelled to Biarritz with Wallis Simpson, issuing the instructions: “Chill the champagne, pack the pearls, and tune up the Bugatti.”...
...Black Pearl, a specially packaged edition of the very same brandy, has seen bidding top £8,000....
...An account of the murder of the journalist Daniel Pearl was widely heralded....
...His company’s latest model released in May (pictured) sticks with the black-and-white Pearl screen....
...After Flaubert’s Parrot, novelists fell on the lives of the famous dead (think of Girl With a Pearl Earring and many others)....
...A decade ago, the world’s most expensive home was The Genesis, a Hong Kong property purchased for HK$540m, the equivalent of about £40m at the time, by Pearl Oriental Holdings for its chairman Wong Kwan....
...Pearl, Chairman and CEO, Perseus, LLC Richard Perry, Founder, Perry Capital Charles Phillips, President, Oracle Corporation Kim Polese, Co-Founder and Former CEO, Marimba Robert Pozen, Chairman, MFS...
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