Hints and tips:
...Holzach is the curator of the Historical Mughal Jewellery and Objets d’Art exhibition, due to open late next year, which includes bejewelled weapons, pendants and brooches from a private collection....
...I have to negotiate with a tyrannical maître d’ to get a stage view. Someone at my table orders a shrimp cocktail; the table behind me drinking Martinis....
...Ludacris launched Conjure Cognac in 2009 and Jay-Z launched D’Ussé in 2012....
...And I'd had the germ of this book in my head for a very long time....
...I’ve recently discovered Vienna, which I’d never been to and which, oh my God, I loved....
...Let’s think about the human dynamics a good maître d’ applies when seating a room. You can put a couple on a date at a perching bench....
...His house, too, is at once historic and unusual, a sort of bourgeois Helvetian Taj Mahal in whose romantic past he revels....
...“You’d walk into this kitchen and see a vault over your head that just shouldn’t have been there.” Pennal is waiting for someone to fund her dream commission....
...She’d be talking to me and very often she’d have a telephone call as well.” He recalls attending a party that Peter was throwing for employees in Mumbai, while Urrshila stayed at the office....
...Until February 23 2001, when UFC 30: Battle on the Boardwalk was held at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City....
...Lucky Boston, then, to be home since May to The Newbury, a historic building on the Back Bay’s main drag functioning as a hotel since 1927 – first as a Ritz-Carlton, then a Taj, now owned by a partnership...
...Having moved there from his native Jammu and Kashmir, a region long affected by terrorism, “I thought I’d seen everything, that it couldn’t [get] worse than that . . ....
...No Taj Mahals or Grand Canyons — instead the rhythms of natural and human life to be found each day within minutes of my home, crossing and recrossing Hampstead Heath in London....
...I ended up using all of my blocks, and then all of his, and when I was done, I’d created a beautiful building. I liked it so much that I glued the whole thing together....
...But we already have the TAJ files, we have Parafe [facial recognition] gates in some airports and train stations — it’s very strange.”...
...I’d gently pry his fingers open to reveal a beautiful polished stone. Noguchi, a lifelong friend of my father’s, also came to our house several times....
...Taj Taj Tandoori and Kameha Suite are also [worth knowing about] for a quick business lunch....
...Shah Jahan, responsible for the building of the Taj Mahal, razed temples in the holy city of Varanasi....
...A two-bedroom flat on Prince of Wales Drive is on sale for £750,000, though John D Wood & Co....
...If I were, I’d call it quits. We move on....
...She and her late husband bought the work in 1975 and it is now the top-priced item in Sotheby’s 61-lot auction on November 15 (Taj Mahal Palace)....
...My uncle Anthony Defeo survived the D-Day invasion mostly by luck....
...Frankly, we’d never seen anything more us....
...“The tax is supposed to be applied on revenues generated with a French audience,” said Julien Pellefigue, an economist at Taj, a law firm that is part of Deloitte....
...While on vacation, I call my brother to discuss Abbu’s health, how he doesn’t go to the doctor as often as we’d like him to. At this point, my husband has been learning Urdu for a few months....
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