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...The paper cites the example of a couple in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who filed a lawsuit against chemical company DuPont over pollution from its local factory....
.... £63 for 125ml, cultbeauty.co.uk My favourite building is the Thomas Jefferson-designed Rotunda on the Lawn at the University of Virginia, where my son is studying....
...British Italophiles come to wade through Dante and grapple with irregular verbs before clocking off for an aperitivo in nearby piazza Santo Spirito....
...Small towns across the county have vestiges of walkable downtown cores and city centres, such as Winchester, Virginia, thriving with the help of its still intact colonial-era design....
...(Virginia Raggi, an Italian lawyer and member of the Five Star Movement, was mayor of Rome from 2016 to 2021 after campaigning to fight corruption.)...
...There was one image in particular from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando that really struck me, of a Russian princess who wears a pearl choker on her head instead of around her neck – a personal, eclectic choice....
...“We are a step away from winning,” said Luigi Di Maio, Five Star’s 31-year-old leader, at a final rally in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo....
...In West Virginia a colony of quaint clapboard houses gaze on to an autumnal Arcadia of amber-leaved trees yet huddle beneath the smoke-grey behemoths of a coal power plant....
...The struggles of Virginia Raggi, the Five Star mayor in Rome, could also be weighing negatively in Genoa....
...“We are the closest to the piazzas, to the people.”...
...Rushing to a press conference this winter across Piazza Navona, one of Rome’s most gorgeous squares, I stopped for a second to remind myself of my good fortune....
...Initially, it was distracted by the difficulties experienced by Virginia Raggi, the new Five Star mayor in Rome elected in June....
...“We went into the piazza and celebrated, it was a beautiful moment,” says Fabio Fucci, the 37-year-old Five Star mayor of Pomezia, where Mr Renzi’s “yes” campaign lost by a margin of 73 to 27 per cent....
...Huge piazzas are animated by swirling patterns and playfully geometric tessellations which foreshadowed Op Art....
...Protests were not always peaceful, and demonstrations and picket lines drawn up around Pennington Street and Virginia Street resulted in more than 1,000 arrests over a 13-month period, while non-striking...
...Where the book falters is in its digressions into the lives of contemporaries such as Florence Nightingale, Virginia Woolf and Vaslav Nijinsky....
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