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...They’re prised off the rocks in the outlying islands of Kiwayu by passing fishermen, and presented in baskets at the decks of Noor, one of three elegantly restored Mozambican dhows that are part of the Jannah...
...The Illinois reform takes “money out of the equation in making determinations of risk”....
...Back in 1984, by way of comparison, it took depositors an entire week to withdraw half their funds from Continental Illinois — in person — when that giant lender failed....
...Into the breach stepped his godfather, the plantsman Bobby Jenkinson, and his American grandmother, Lady Herbert, née Helen Gammell, from a Rhode Island business dynasty....
...However, in 2019, Roper was standing at Mount Desert’s famous view, on the cliffs at Cadillac Mountain, and realised to her delight that the rocks in Savage’s dry garden referred to the Porcupine Islands...
...Hozier is from the photogenically poetic wing of Irish rock. In publicity photos the County Wicklow-raised singer-songwriter broods soulfully against a backdrop of mossy trees or sandy dunes....
...In the US, Rodd Sala, of Park Ward Motors, an Illinois Rolls-Royce specialist, is in discussions over the sale of a 1980 Shadow to the drummer in a well-known rock band....
...A Nashville country music outsider, originally from Illinois — a stray of sorts herself — she came up through the city’s independent scene, gigging in the bars and clubs on its east side....
...Polls have also closed in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Tennessee....
...Long Island by Colm Tóibín (Picador)Was Eilis Lacey right to settle as she did, or could her life have taken another turn?...
...Colm has written a guide to his home county of Wexford; a tribute that nearly made me cry. “This is not an Ireland of tourist posters,” he writes of the local strand between Curracloe and Morriscastle....
...Three acts from London outside the festival’s usual rock and pop focus provided some of the highlights....
...After Laisamis, the road to Sibiloi is two days and 404km of sand and rock desert....
...Their five members did not join Sheeran on the central stage but instead stood separately on little island stages ringing it....
...Out my bedroom window I see sunsets and sea and islands: Turtle Island, Spectacle Island, Heron Island, Flat Island. I see deer and wild berries and lobstermen on their boats....
...He charted vistas bounded by large masses: a channel separating two islands, a pair of peaks parted by a valley, a gulch between southwestern hoodoo rock-spires....
...I have carried those memories of Valentia with me as my parents carried memories of the Antrim Coast and the villages of County Down....
...Miami Beach — a separate city — is the southern part of a skinny barrier island that runs alongside Miami (both are part of Miami-Dade County)....
...She lives nearby, while her late husband, the rock star Lou Reed, lived a couple blocks north on West 11th Street....
...Her husband booked us a night at a hotel three hours north of the city, so we planned a road trip stopping at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County....
...English summer holidays used to involve a stick of rock; this year they involve being stuck on a rock....
...Each episode leaves the audience craving more, much like another successful show set on an island: Survivor. This is probably not a coincidence....
...Forty hot minutes later, though, the road takes a sudden turn and makes a dip, and I’m in one of those magical barrancas typical of the Balearic Islands: steep white rocks dotted with dense shady pines and...
...At the six-day, 155-mile Marathon des Sables in the Sahara desert that I completed in 2019, we carried our own food and equipment and slept on the rock-strewn desert in open-sided Berber tents....
...Such scenes evoke brash American sports fixtures rather than genteel English county cricket. The IPL also attracts huge, raucous crowds....
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