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The Casuarina tree of the title is native to Australasia and Southeast Asia, often used to stabilise soils. [5] In Maugham's foreword, he writes that the title was a metaphor for "the English people who live in the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo because they came along after the adventurous pioneers who opened the country to Western civilisation."
Orchard Gateway (stylized as orchardgateway) is a shopping mall in Orchard Road, Singapore, connecting Orchard Central and 313@Somerset together next to Somerset MRT station. The mall was meant to be completed in November 2013, [ 1 ] but was delayed and officially opened on 26 April 2014. [ 2 ]
The station is located under Somerset Road and is near landmarks such as Orchard Central, 313@Somerset, Comcentre, the Centrepoint and 111 Somerset. [9] It is served by the North–South Line, between Orchard and Dhoby Ghaut stations, and has the station code NS23.
The 215th, composed of approximately 190 personnel, arrived in Liverpool, England in October 1943 and moved en masse by train to Taunton, Somerset. From there, the unit detached to perform various support activities, mostly repairing, maintaining, and issuing communications equipment to field units marshaled there.
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She was the second wife of Henry Somerset, 2nd earl of Worcester, the son of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, and Elizabeth Somerset, Baroness Herbert. [4] Henry's first wife, Lady Margaret, had died without issue. [5] Elizabeth married Henry before 1527 and was officially deemed the Countess of Worcester on 15 April 1526. [4]
Rose Blumkin (née Gorelick; December 3, 1893 – August 9, 1998) was an American businesswoman who founded the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937. [1] Businessman Warren Buffett said of her, "One question I always ask myself in appraising a business is how I would like, assuming I had ample capital and skilled personnel, to compete with it.
Tom says "There really should be an eight hours' day for the idle rich". There is a telephone call for her; Smith, having been told to ask the caller what it is about, says that Mrs Otto's baby, whose ill-health has been mentioned in conversation, has died. The caller had phoned earlier, but was told only that Mrs Otto was not there.