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A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albín Polášek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blaník Mountain. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water".
This Brazilian style steakhouse will be open on Thanksgiving from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. Servers walking around bringing meat to your plate sounds like a great way to celebrate. typhoonski ...
An aerial view of people standing near destroyed and damaged buildings in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene flooding on Oct. 8, 2024, in Bat Cave, North Carolina. / Credit: Getty Images
A house on Hog Island near Charleston, South Carolina, was advertised in 1734 as having "A delightful Wilderness with shady Walks and Arbours, cool in the hottest Seasons", and other owners included George Washington at Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson and John Penn. From such descriptions as are given, most American wildernesses seemed to lack ...
Beth Chatto OBE VMH (27 June 1923 – 13 May 2018) [1] was an English plantswoman, garden designer and author known for creating and describing the gardens named after her near Elmstead Market, Essex. She wrote several books about gardening under specific conditions and lectured on this in Britain, North America, Australia, the Netherlands and ...
Police in Scotland are continuing to search for two sisters after they were last seen walking near a river three days ago. On Thursday, Jan. 9, Police Scotland issued an appeal to trace 32-year ...
But Hamm, seated near the middle of the class with a binder in his lap, wasn’t buying it. He interrupted the man and began to talk about the limitations of his own faith. Mere belief, he knew, wouldn’t be enough to keep him from using again. “It’s hard to say, man,” Hamm told the others. “We’re all addicts. We all have these ...
The diarist John Evelyn records a visit to the hill in August 1655 to view "those natural bowers, cabinets and shady walks in the box copses." [31] The close grain of the box wood made it highly prized for its timber for carving and there are numerous accounts of the sale of trees from the hill throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. [32]