Hints and tips:
...Name your favourite river.There are two contenders. I once went on a school rafting trip down the Connecticut river, very wide and long, and I have deeply fond memories of that....
...Perhaps everyone who walks for pleasure and perspective seeks what Percy Shelley called “the secret strength of things / Which governs thought”....
...“I think most people can see the beauty of it now,” said toshao (leader) Lennox Percy....
...The concert hall is a 30-second walk away on the river and appears less glamorous in style....
...The highest point of the Cambrian Mountains is Pumlumon Fawr: the rivers Severn and Wye begin as springs close by, meeting again among the shipping lanes and lighthouses of the Bristol Channel....
...Having decided not to buy a property, she invested instead in an ambitious expedition with her brother, exploring the tributaries of a river system in Indonesia....
...The river was effing along, heavy with sprung.”...
...I’m about to start Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen. Phone on or off? I don’t think I’ll get the chance to do a true digital detox myself this summer....
...The present 12th Duke of Northumberland, Ralph Percy, is the descendent of Harry Hotspur and his brother Sir Ralph Percy who fought – and lost – against the Scottish Earl of Douglas at Otterburn in 1388....
...There is already a plan in place, the Percy Committee Report of 2007, on making Mumbai an International Financial Centre. It has been gathering dust, but it could just as easily gather support....
...Percy and Mary Shelley lived here while she wrote most of Frankenstein (1818), which may have provided a model for our lock keeper’s personality....
...Yet in 1914, the first publication of Percy Wyndham Lewis’s magazine Blast was a manifesto for a new aesthetic: for steel and mechanisation over the bric-a-brac of Edwardiana, for the cerebral thrills of...
...The foreign community made up a quarter of the population of the Italian city by the second half of the 19th century, many of them Britons, including writers and poets such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth...
...“We were in my car driving and I stopped at the stoplight at the corner of Grand River Road and Hagadorn in East Lansing, Michigan....
...The opulence of the British ambassador’s residence in Moscow, directly across the river from the Kremlin, makes a stark contrast to the city’s cold, windswept streets with its gridlocked traffic crawling...
...into Iraq were “the source of much subsequent trouble” – rivers of blood worth of trouble....
...You feel the mist coming off the river as you take barges between More’s house in Chelsea and the Palace of Whitehall....
...This street is dominated by what used to be Percy Dalton’s peanut factory....
...Before dawn on November 27 1943, New Zealand rifleman Percy Murphy waded across Italy’s icy Sangro river under intense German gunfire, his fellow-Maori platoon members extending their rifles as links in...
...She lent me the £100 and, like De Percy but minus the retinue, I headed for the Holy Land....
...Large flats in Percy Street are rarely on the market but when they are they tend to fetch about £350,000....
...One of his most powerful influences as a child was his adoptive mother’s father, Percy Cook, a full-time poacher who lived in a cottage with gas lighting and an earth closet at the end of the garden....
...Bush found themselves campaigning just blocks away from each other along the banks of the Mississippi River at Davenport, Iowa....
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