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...It is the first show of the artist’s work — paintings of exaggeratedly warped rooms and staircases, people overgrown by leaves and vines — since his death three years ago....
...The theatre has an eminent history – it opened in 1900 with a production of Ben-Hur that had a cast and crew of 350, a chariot race with eight horses and a young Winston Churchill in the audience....
...We are to have a lesson in pruning vines. Vines have to be pruned because they grow 1.4mm a day and if they get too tall they cast a shadow on the next row so the grapes don’t ripen....
...Bubbling under: English estates take the fight to the French The British taste for French champagne is well documented by writers from Samuel Johnson to Winston Churchill....
...Boris Johnson chose London’s St Ermin’s Hotel for what was meant to be the launch of his Conservative leadership campaign for its associations with his hero, Winston Churchill, for it was here that Churchill...
...There are also some unexpected items, most notably as a still life in oils by Sir Winston Churchill....
...Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and their advisers gathered at Quebec City in September 1944 to discuss, among other topics, an extension of the multibillion-dollar US aid programme that had been Britain’s...
...The fact is Saddam Hussein was withering on the vine....
...It will be replanted with old types of Venetian vines....
...Yes, vine-growing and winemaking may be more sophisticated now than they have ever been for the Bordelais but it was not all rubbish before the vintage they currently have to sell....
...Over the years it has welcomed Tsar Nicholas II, Winston Churchill, King Farouk, the Shah, King Mohammed V of Morocco and Princess Caroline, to name just a few....
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