Refine Search

DIARY

... Alentejo is a Portuguese wine close to my heart. My grandfather helped plant the vines at Mouchão, and Dom Rafael was named after his father—it’s been reduced from £91.20 to £Bl.OO a case. 2LB ] II DG ¢ a ahar ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 2008
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 92 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

THIS WEEK & EVERY WEEK SUBSCRIBE NOW, CALL TODAY Adopt a painting HE Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens, the

... Japan, Seychelles and, on the suggestion of Charles Darwin, Australia. The pitcher plant series, Nepenthes northiana, is named after her. Patrons will be given a print of their painting and will be invited to an event when the gallery reopens in 2009. For ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 2008
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 149 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

The Buzz? News from the Caribbean. Michael Smurfit

... from the Caribbean. Michael Smurfit is having a new yacht built. The problem with his current one, the Lady Anne Magee (named after his late mother) which cost $4O million about five years ago? It's too small! Tipple? Cocktails, Mimosas and Kir Royals ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

SWEET FA

... present a candid look at the story behind the mass suicide of the population of the Jonestown commune in Guyana in 1978. Named after cult leader Jim Jones (pictured), Jonestown was founded as an agricultural commune on his initiative. Prior to the suicides ...

Published: Friday 25 January 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 97 | Tags: none

Genius of da Vinci gives hope to cancer sufferers THE skills of Leonardo da Vinci minimally invasive surgical ..

... invasive surgical syshave been used to provide a tern. new life fora cancer patient. Eventually, the da Vinci Robotic surgery, named after robotic surgery system will also the famed inventor and artist, be used for cardio-thoracic surhas been successfully carried ...

Published: Monday 14 January 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Producer: Southern Alps

... and, of course, dried fruit used to be eaten in baking and was, consequently, diluted,’ says Mrs Garner. Southern Alps, named after the New Zealand mountains where the two met when both were mechanical engineers, was born seven years ago after they had ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 2008
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 375 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

E.C.Bentley 1815 – 1956

... the English have invented is characteristic of their dry sense The Clerihew consists of humour. This was the Clerihew, named after its creator, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who had written one of the most famous of a four-liner about detective stories ever ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 205 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

LADY IN RED: ACTRESS ORLA WAS INSPIRATION BEHIND OM PAINTING

... inspiration However, she says that she - HANNAH-LOUISE DUNNE SPRINGBOK VS THE PIROTIEIA THE NAME GAME: The rugby Springboks, named after the local creature, win last year's World Cup In Paris. Below - The protea plant ...

Published: Tuesday 22 January 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

McAleese NEWS E in new row over legacy of top Nazi hunter

... controversy. The President is at the centre of a fresh storm this evening after she said that the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, named after the renowned Nazi hunter, had diminished his name. Ms McAleese's comments have caused outrage amongst Irish Jews and follow ...

Published: Tuesday 22 January 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Enter the maestro of Mozart... on crutches

... increases in audience numbers. It was his vision that helped drive the project that became the purpose-built Benaroya Hall (named after the most significant benefactor), that has been its home since 1998. However unfortunate the outcome, that Canadian skiing ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 461 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

Rutter keen to rule at North West

... a 's islew Year wish is to be first past the post in this year's race riding the new factory Ducati which is backed and named after the North West and which could in fact become part of history I know there's a lot depending on me, said Rutter. But ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 2008
Newspaper: Ireland's Saturday Night
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 598 | Page: 23 | Tags: none