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...Sylvanian comes from the word “sylvan”, meaning “of the forest”; although you should take this etymology with a pinch of salt....
...Asolo, once home to the actress Eleonora Duse and the poet Robert Browning, is the kind of place that gets people obsessively scanning estate-agent windows, it’s so beautiful....
...I could see from the photographs how it sat entirely by itself, surrounded by a stone wall and a patchwork carpet of sylvan green....
...Mr Becker and one of his partners turned to education in the early 1990s, acquiring Sylvan Learning Systems, a publicly traded tutoring company....
...In 1850, when the great US landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was regrading what had become an 843-acre wasteland in Manhattan into the sylvan green topographic scene that is now Central Park, he...
...sweet overtures of the widower, Sylvan, whose daughter runs the apartment building’s board....
...He persuaded his friend Robert McNamara, former US defence secretary, to help and provide funds – Margy was McNamara’s late wife....
...Joshua David and Robert Hammond set up the Friends of the High Line in 1999, garnering instant celebrity support....
...includes cups by Lin Cheung, contemporary rococo-inspired porcelain coffee pots, cut-crystal milk bottles and Alice in Wonderland-sized silver spoons from designers including Hans Stofer, William Phipps, Robert...
...Portraying Jupiter and Apollo, Robert Breault managed to be sly, heroic and vulnerable, as needed....
...One year after opening his new car design centre on the outskirts of Paris, Robert Peugeot is still tinkering....
...We substitute the Médoc for Manchester, the sylvan setting of Franken for Frankfurt, and the Napa Valley for Silicon Valley....
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