OVER-SCHEDULED ANDREW Written and illustrated by Ashley Spires 32 pp.
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Cathedral spires and town halls dominated British skylines until the 1950s.
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D.A. Xiaolin Spires counts stars and sand, currently residing in Hawai'i.
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The fireworks break right over the spires near the Millennium Falcon.
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The lake holds an isolated ecosystem of microbial mats and spires.
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If you think of like technology and technology awareness, if there was like a topological map of technology awareness, it's mostly flat with a few short buildings, and then some very tall spires, very tall spires.
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Dilapidated buildings and cathedral spires rise into the gray air around them.
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MILAN — The landmark Duomo Cathedral, its spires towering over Milan, is closed.
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They have been companions ever since, marrying in 2009, Mr. Spires said.
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Perhaps he was duped by the brand's new face with winged spires.
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Thompson-Spires achieves a masterful, darkly funny, evocative collection about our America.
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These enormous goliath mechanical spires growing out the top of a complete dustbowl.
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The spires are visually jarring, as if to perpetuate an element of anxiety.
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The cathedral now reaches six times deeper than its Gothic spires soar high.
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The naves are several stories tall, and the spires rise more than 100 feet.
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The Sparsholt Affair begins among Oxford's dreaming spires but we do not stay there.
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BRUGES, Belgium — Leicester City's fans gathered in the shadows of dreaming spires and sang.
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In the distance, the sun glistens off the golden spires of a village church.
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GAZING out over London's chimneys, Liverpool's docks or Edinburgh's spires can cloud a tourist's judgment.
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Read "A Conversation About Bread," a short story from Nafissa Thompson-Spires' best-selling debut.
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I love the magical fairy tale quality it has with its thin, tall rock spires.
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Night was falling around the golden spires of the pagodas in this former capital city.
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Tall windows in the living room looked out over the imperious spires of the Kremlin.
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According to the Mitsubishi Jisho website, the spires are intended to look like praying hands.
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Rock spires meant to resemble petrified sequoias and speckled with yellow lichen towered before us.
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As you exit the park, you'll hear the traditional Batuuan good-bye, "Til the Spires."
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It decorates the papal regalia, spires, domes and minarets of temples, churches, monasteries and mosques worldwide.
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The dorm — a beautiful 1829 Gothic Revival building with spires — had been the centerpiece of campus.
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Russia paraded the attackers on television, claiming they were innocent tourists with an interest in church spires.
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The spires and crenellations of the midtown buildings had taken on a Gothic cast in the gloom.
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Outside, Eric Lindquist, 67, a Buddhist from California's Bay Area, was taking pictures of the cathedral spires.
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The purple-pink sky casts a colorful shadow on the spires and the whole outpost is transformed.
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The town is made up of pale neo-Classical buildings edged with verdigrised turrets and elaborate spires.
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Vistas open dramatically through Midtown's tallest spires, including intimate views of the new crop of billionaire towers.
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Crenelated spires have scalloped molding tucked along their doorways, and there are deep grout lines between bricks.
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"We want to give our heritage cars greater longevity," said Mr. Spires, president of Aston Martin Works.
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To the right are fading golden spires that are meant to represent Angkor Wat, a temple in Cambodia.
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Spires from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The community got its name from St. Joseph's Cathedral, whose two spires are part of the city's skyline.
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What it's getting instead are these spires that figuratively tear the heart out of a disappearing middle class.
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It is winter in Prague: Night is rising in the mother of cities and over her thousand spires.
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The Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire on April 15, destroying the structure's spires and parts of the roof.
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Like church spires, tall twin smokestacks announce the campus from afar, declaring the center a factory for ideas.
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Not rebuilding the temple spires, they say, would also make the monuments less attractive and depress domestic tourism.
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There is also deep concern here about the archaeology department's decision not to rebuild many damaged temple spires.
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Riding on one of Disneyland Park's most exhilarating attractions, Big Thunder Mountain, you'll notice some unique rock spires.
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The city's sugary spires and golden filigree look at once better and worse for their current day insignificance.
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At a Halloween party in 1947, Mr. Spires dressed in a costume inspired by a sparkly laundry soap.
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Ornate foam towers, like petrified church spires or imploded rockets, rise from the floor and hover from the ceiling.
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They bonded over their dreaming spires and a desire to forge links across Europe while others are breaking down.
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Such is the case of Nafissa Thompson-Spires and her debut short story collection, Heads of the Colored People.
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As Spires presents it, Andrew himself creates the frenzy of after-school activities that bring him to near collapse.
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Instead I found myself staring out to the gleaming spires of San Francisco, at the topped-out Salesforce Building.
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To me, gray skies and cooler temperatures are as welcoming as the spires of Disneyland are to a child.
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I started climbing buildings while in college, clambering up small spires and saluting Oxford's gargoyles, but this was different.
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But now, at 91, Mr. Spires said he can finally be at peace with that part of his life.
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In an often overlooked Flemish city: canals, spires, cobblestone streets and some of Belgium's best food and design. Bruges!
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Workers added stately twin spires to the track in 1895, which became symbolic of Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby.
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In each of these humorous, intelligent vignettes, Thompson-Spires explores aspects of being Black and middle-class in today's America.
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The candy castle also has 21-meter high spires covered in crystals; there are 225,200 crystals in the entire display.
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AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS dabbed and flicked paint on their canvases to suggest spires of purplish blue hollyhocks and cascades of poppies.
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It features elaborate designs of Kentucky scenes like the Twin Spires of Churchill Downs, and a thoroughbred with a jockey.
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Movable frames representing the buildings of Moscow — the Kremlin, church spires, castles — were designed to collapse or explode on cue.
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Densely packed into this area, which was rezoned in 2001, are more than a dozen other residential spires, mostly rentals.
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The soaring spires, the sloping shores, the straitjacket of the street grid — many things give form to the great metropolis.
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Although 2018 offered us many books that dealt with oppression, none other than Thompson-Spires did so with cutting sarcasm.
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Called "penitentes" after their resemblance of a crowd in kneeling penance, these icy spires can reach over 1,600 feet tall.
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A series of arches in the foreground give way to ghostly domes and turrets, the distinctive spires of Armenian churches.
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Spires and Booth are also alleged to have sold products containing FUB-AMB that resulted in severe hemorrhaging among numerous people.
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Disney is also setting up a tie-in novel for the world from Phasma author Delilah S. Dawson called Black Spires.
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In addition to hosting marine life, these spires are rich in copper and gold, hence the interest in deep sea mining.
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The innovative fire sculpture is comprised of three stainless steel moths with 13-foot wingspans, set atop 18-foot high spires.
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Around midnight, we drove a rental car into the city as snow flakes drifted on myriad spires in the yellow streetlights.
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Aerial photos show the fallen trumpet appeared to land on the roof of the temple near the base of its spires.
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Drawing from the Old and New Testaments simultaneously he tells us: see the spires or God might tear off your roof.
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The neighborhood of Dornbach is home to many 19th-century villas in the distinctive Gründerzeit style, with spires and ornate facades.
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Spires, turrets, baroque gilding, classical pediments, neo-imperial this and that, appeared all over town, sometimes all on the same building.
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As with any intergalactic travel, your mileage may vary on some of the other meals offered below the spires of Batuu.
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There is also a project with two spires — the tallest at 798 feet — from L & M Development Partners and CIM Group.
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The spires of Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom are part of the view for guests who stay at Disney's Contemporary Resort.
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The Victorian spires of the Brahma Kumaris meditation center are glinting and golden in San Francisco's first Sunday sunshine of the year.
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Most devout Londoners (88%) worship outside the ranks of the established church whose spires pierce the skyline; about a third are Pentecostal.
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They fall for each other — or is it the landscape they love, the icy spires that give bewitching shape to their loneliness?
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Spires, steeples, bell towers, parapet walls, heavy chandeliers, thick plaster ceilings, timber truss arched roofs are all collapse dangers that kill firefighters.
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After an hour, I reached an alpine lake at 10,000 feet in a glacier-carved gorge, surrounded by walls, spires and memories.
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Poem If, as Wallace Stevens claimed, "the poet is the priest of the invisible," Elizabeth Spires may well be its high priestess.
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Aerial photos show the fallen trumpet appeared to have landed on the roof of the temple near the base of its spires.
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Its ornate spires are indicative of Churrigueresque architecture, the elaborate Spanish colonial Baroque style commonly found in wealthy mining towns like Taxco.
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Up there I leave the car behind and sleep in a tent under big granite spires at the foot of a glacier.
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Then as you look out over the spires and walkways, you know that they're out there, somewhere, waiting to kill you mercilessly.
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Relatives of the families - more than 30 nationalities were onboard - will gather beneath the pink stone spires of Addis Ababa's Holy Trinity Cathedral.
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The Temple Riders are celebrating the club&aposs 30th anniversary through Wednesday with the "Color Country &aposn&apos Spires" rally, The Spectrum reported .
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Problematic when you take a lovely picture of a neighborhood church and Panono starts stitching spires to the wrong parts of the building.
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You can see the glittering spires of Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers from the threadbare football pitch that the Rohingya Football Club calls home.
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The only anachronistic feature is the inclusion of Notre-Dame's spires, which weren't yet constructed in 1789, which is when Unity is set.
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A few yards down at No. 94 is the Home of the Illustrious Brotherhood, with a mustard yellow facade and Gothic-looking spires.
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That late-running colt sneaked into Churchill Downs and hid in the shadow of the track's iconic twin spires without anyone much noticing.
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Beneath the gilded spires and medieval cobblestone streets of Bruges, the lifeblood of Belgium now flows at more than 1,000 gallons an hour.
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Mindong is dotted with dozens of these churches, many of them with soaring spires, chapels, residences and nunneries, all of them technically illegal.
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It would fulfill the aim of the architects of Gothic cathedrals around Europe who wanted to touch heaven with their spires, he added.
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The campaign began in 2014, when the province of Zhejiang demolished a big Protestant church and began removing spires from hundreds of others.
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As towers join church spires in piercing the sky, there is a sense that the rest of Brooklyn is encroaching on Cobble Hill.
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You begin to explore the more than 500-year-old site, marveling at its ancient, towering rock spires, its surreal terraces and ramps.
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"We expect sophisticated global buyers, especially those who consider themselves socially and environmentally aware, to think more of Aston Martin," Mr. Spires said.
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Cranes and scaffolding still flank the ornate spires of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi's most famous monument, which draws some 20 million visitors a year.
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In any war with Iran, the UAE's slender coastal cities with their gleaming spires and fine palaces would be right on the front line.
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Every turn reveals a new vista, sometimes a window framing some spires from the stately university campus, sometimes looking inwards at the Library Court.
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I want a movie, book, or show from the other side, amid Coruscant's glittering spires, as Iella navigates a life as a double-agent.
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The pointed spires, the wraparound porch, the shingles, and the elaborate columns are all popular features of a Queen Anne Revival, according to Boehme.
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" In a large room of the gallery, the hip-hop video is projected on a huge screen — part of a diptych entitled "Dreaming Spires.
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He then makes it happen with an invite-only app called Spireworks that allows users to control the colors of lights on nearby spires.
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The trail begins at Rifugio Auronzo and loops around the rugged spires, past meadows of wildflowers, small lakes and a few rifugi (mountain huts).
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Nafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Nafissa Thompson-Spires earned a doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University and a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of Illinois.
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The multi-tier tower, with painstakingly detailed spires, flowers, and cherubs, features some realistic bride-and-groom cake toppers — and what looks like a moat.
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The Salvation Church, a complex with three spires atop a three-story congregation hall, offices and a parking lot, quickly became a center of resistance.
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Another escalator leads to an outdoor piazza, with views to the harbor on one side, and to this city of church spires on the other.
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"Cute" really was one of the best words to describe Vaduz, where the tallest buildings seemed to be the steeples and spires of medieval churches.
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" Mr. Spires said a ride in Aston's converted 2100 DB250 MKII Volante — successor to James Bond's famous DB5 — conveys "an incredible sense of well-being.
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True enough ... she never made it past the fence and in the first case her shoelaces became entangled on the spires and she dangled helplessly.
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Two other individuals—Rachel Spires, 30, and Richard Booth, 26—were also arrested and charged with aggravated battery and delivery or possession with intent to deliver.
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The trailer panned over the ornate spires of Agrabah, teased the possibility of a magic carpet, and showed an adorable Aladdin and Jasmine making eye contact.
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The central timber lattice echoes the Gothic vaulting at nearby King's College Chapel, she said, while the golden dome punctuates the skyline of lean university spires.
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And her core project is the defence of a France of church spires, rural roots and family values, which taps into a seam of Catholic nationalism.
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Spires-Jones, who is also deputy director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, was not involved in the new study.
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And one by Cape Town vlogger Adam Spires, which explains how much water is used to produce different products, has been viewed more than 276,000 times.
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In midafternoon, a view of San Gimignano's famous spires peeked through the trees, and soon we joined a road filled with cyclists in bright spandex outfits.
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The crash happened near a highway rest stop a few miles from southern Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park, an otherworldly landscape of narrow red-rock spires.
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"Every aspect of this land, from the droid tracks on the pavement to the spires that reach the sky, is 100% authentically Star Wars," he said.
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Head up towards Docking Bay 7, near the railing of the lookout, and you'll get a wider shot of the Falcon and of the spires above.
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The 50-meter-high royal pyre and pavilion is decorated with nine gilded spires, a great white umbrella and statuary of the king's favorite pet dogs.
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" Besides "Florida," judges chose a pair of debut story collections: "A Lucky Man," by Jamel Brinkley and Nafissa Thompson-Spires' "Heads of the Colored People: Stories.
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The entire city was a patchwork of rooftops and spires, providing a view that only the very brave or the very rich are able to see from.
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I spent the year after college living in Moab, Utah, where the 360-degree views of magnificent red rock spires made me pinch myself every day.4.
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Louring is already available on Bandcamp, but on October 28, The Evergreen Spires will give rise to the album's physical form—a limited run of 100 cassettes.
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Steeped in Satan, madness, and riffs that sound like the spires on medieval churches, Slayer will forever be the soundtrack for my daily fight against the world.
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A pair of dome earrings, for example, recalled church spires, with the gold first given a high sheen before it was textured with a fine wire brush.
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Every feature is visible, from the narrative reliefs above the main doors to the gargoyles and spires high above, to the color and textures of the stone.
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The sun burned through the fog and Cortina's renowned landscape — the craggy, snow-capped spires of Col Rosà, Cristallo, Faloria, Sorapiss, Rocchette, Becco di Mezzodì — revealed itself.
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In another, Thompson-Spires drops us into the blue-contact-lens-and-bleached-hair-filled world of "blerds" (black nerds) at a cosplay convention in Los Angeles.
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A service for the families of passengers - more than 30 nationalities were onboard - was also held beneath the pink stone spires of Addis Ababa's Holy Trinity Cathedral.
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Its gold finials and blue spires will tower 60 metres above the centre of the park, making the castle the largest in any of Disney's six such domains.
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But honestly, the destination that freaks me out the most is the collection of gleaming, phallic glass spires that comprise Oligopolis, where corporations and the rich own everything.
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Digletts are burrowing in Central Park, a Zubat is flying around the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral and the rare Mewtwo has reportedly been sighted in Times Square.
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It's the particular mix that lends each one its complexity, and really, the same could be said for Puebla itself, where multicolored tiled facades sit alongside gilded spires.
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The regal red stone walls and towering spires are an imposing yet enticing sight from 'Kongens Have' — or the Kings Garden — the oldest royal garden in the country.
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There's a wide establishing shot when you first enter this area of the park where you can see all the spires and ships on top of the buildings.
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But as I looked up to see the medieval buildings and church spires of Frosolone rising on top of the mountain, all I felt was wonder and gratitude.
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On the opposite bank, peeking above the trees, are the spires of Riverside Church and the cupola of the General Grant National Memorial, also known as Grant's Tomb.
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Now tourists and well-wishers on pilgrimage sought out the site, standing at great distances, taking pictures of the hulking wreckage and skeletal spires looming over the fences.
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The U.K. government has signed an agreement with the Church of England that will see church spires across the country used to improve digital connectivity in rural areas.
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I ran a slow lap around it, drinking in the view of the gilded dome fountain below and the forest of spires beyond, immersed in the moment, without distraction.
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Making the moment even more intense, the ladders which reach the top of the spires did not have safety cages, but On The Roofs didn't really seem to care.
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Fantasy and science fiction writers have dreamed up some amazing fictional cities, from the gleaming spires of Minas Tirith to the rainy neon streets of the Blade Runner movies.
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The dark shape rises skyward, shifts, and pivots as the sun sets behind the golden spires of a nearby Buddhist monastery and the green rice fields of western Thailand.
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In Egypt, the Gothic spires and stained glass windows I idolized in America were rendered gauche next to the domes of Fatimid Cairo, the glazed tiles of her mosques.
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More often than not, he willfully subverts his own placement of color spires, as shown in the four paintings mounted in the rear gallery at Shainman's 24th Street location.
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Steep inclines lead to views of the box canyon, carved out arteries signaling where rivers once flowed and spires of limestone telling stories of a more violent geological past.
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At first, the camera shows us a picture-postcard view of Oxford, the famous English university city, from above: spires, towers, trees and lawns, golden in the morning sun.
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He had the refined accent of the university students who came to Glasgow and thought it a magical place, full of Gothic spires and the romance of rheumy diseases.
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The sight of old spires squeezed between new towering high-rises suggests the ability of churches and other houses of worship to hang on through block-altering building booms.
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She saw the Twin Spires for the first time and tasted her first mint julep, and now she is working with Woodford Reserve Distillery to develop an Ascot julep.
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It is even rarer that such a collection reflects the precision and devotion to language and craft that we see in Nafissa Thompson-Spires' Heads of the Colored People.
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Some of these spires rise more than two storeys above the seabed, and they attract deep-sea animals who are nourished by the hot fluids streaming out from the chimneys.
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F&W explains that some of krasinthusith's pieces eschew the tradition of flowers and dragons for more abstract work, with swirls, spirals, and spires rising from within gourds and melons.
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Probably he was too solitary a soul—and too confirmed a heterosexual—to relish the jostling, sybaritic pleasures on offer in the City of Dreaming Spires in the interwar years.
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That morning, a pink light from the rising sun illuminated the river and distant spires as statues of some three dozen obscure saints and notables gazed down at the bridge.
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To get there, we drove hundreds of miles through Old Bohemia, Moravia and Austria, passing shriveled vineyards in icy rain, green fields in fog, and church spires on foggy hilltops.
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Its red brick, mansard-roofed main building, which opened in 2100, stands five stories tall and is graced with two cupola-topped towers that recall the spires of a cathedral.
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What soap and warm water do Under the microscope, coronaviruses appear to be covered with pointy spires, giving them the appearance of having a crown or "corona" -- hence the name.
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We were many floors up, suspended in the storm clouds, and through the window, I could see the spires of the skyscrapers on the other side of the Hudson River.
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Lyra Belacqua, an ostensible orphan being raised under the guardianship of Jordan College, Oxford, rips across the roofs and spires of the town with her friend Roger, generally causing mayhem.
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A smart red-and-white-brick 2240 office building, the structure was topped with twin rooftop spires that nodded respectfully at those of the 2262 Marble Collegiate Church next door.
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But for Mr. Spires, who recently recovered from pneumonia, it took years of effort that will now allow him to have a burial, when the time comes, with military honors.
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The Freedom House report focuses on a cross-removal campaign, which ran from 2014-2016 and saw over 1,000 crosses removed from the spires of churches, or the tops of buildings.
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" In the poem, he wrote, "He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees / My woods — the young fir balsams like a place / Where houses all are churches and have spires.
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"We need more research into the brain changes that cause the diseases underlying dementia symptoms in order to develop effective preventions and treatments for everyone affected by dementia," Spires-Jones said.
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As National Public Radio (NPR) has reported, glorious Prague, the "City of 100 Spires," presently is grappling with just such a moral challenge, this time from the People's Republic of China.
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One drawing shows a stand of New York skyscrapers, from their towering spires to the shadowy cars at their feet; the other shows two scientists hunched over a crowded lab table.
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Although he denied it, it was widely accepted that all architectural projects had to meet with his approval, and that he insisted on the use of ornate decorative elements, including spires.
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For more than half a century, Hubert Edward Spires has lived with the painful memory of being kicked out of the Air Force as a young gay sergeant in the 1940s.
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To help his case, Mr. Spires also filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut in November, assisted by the Yale Law School's Veterans Legal Services Clinic.
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With "Moonlight" and "If Beale Street Could Talk," he is one of the few filmmakers to ascend the narrow spires of American prestige cinema with work that regularly centers black characters.
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At Sleeping Beauty Castle, for example, the pink, gold, and blue spires and turrets pop against the freshly fallen snow — as do the dramatic red rock formations at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
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While the building's spires don't reach the heights of St. Peter's 450-foot-high dome, the Pope's new neighbors hope their temple will also become a place of pilgrimage for spiritual seekers.
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But the 2017 version is set not against the snow-capped mountains and glassy downtown spires of Denver, but in this steamy, leafy city that begat "Gone With the Wind" and Spanx.
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As American thoroughbred racing takes center stage under the famed Twin Spires of Churchill Downs this weekend, several horses in the spotlight will be bankrolled by a new and surprising source: China.
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And the corner room had tall windows along two walls, with views of the rooftop pool at the neighboring Thermae Bath Spa, the spires of the Bath Abbey and surrounding verdant hillsides.
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We would climb up church spires, tall office buildings, multi-story car parks and clamp Wi-Fi transmitters (which were kind of the size of a small golf bag)...to establish a network.
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The precipitous and shaded 64-degree pitch is flanked by towering spires, a majestic sight near the top of the famed piste with a ski racing history dating to the 1956 Winter Olympics.
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Most people in the county live in Kopparberg, where the 17th century church, with its blood-red, wooden facade and spires, hints at the region's rich past, built on copper and iron mines.
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One influential proponent of a less starry-eyed attitude to the future is William Gibson, who made his name by rejecting the togas-and-crystal-spires view common in mid-century sci-fi.
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The majestic spires and pillars within the Carina Nebula were were observed by ESO PhD astronomy student Anna McLeod and her team, who did so by using the MUSE instrument on the VLT.
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At the push of a button, dozens of rectangular, knee-high spires shoot up from the ground—the accompanying metallic shriek sounds like something right out of Inception—to form a generic cityscape.
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So he was looking to buy a horse for a client at the Ocala 211.60-year-old-in-training sale, one that would return him to the hallowed ground beneath Churchill's twin spires.
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The view from atop the 22016th-century Castell de Bellver, about a mile west of the city center, encompasses all of Palma: from the palm-lined harbor to the famed cathedral's distant spires.
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Especially up on the roof, though, with the spires of Manhattan hazy in the distance, I felt a little on vacation, too — willing to let my impatience go quiet, open to placid pleasures.
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Against a backdrop of school spires that seem modeled on Hogwarts, the young athletes swarm onto the fields nearly every day, kicking, dribbling and passing in the hope of soccer glory and riches.
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While Jaguar is moving ahead with restored and converted E-types, Mr. Spires says, his firm will offer conversions — and reversals — of the rarer Aston models at its Newport Pagnell facilities in Buckinghamshire.
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Lima's cathedral, with its pair of neo-Classical spires framing an epic door, appears here blown up to mural size; a smaller photo captures Mexico City's more Baroque cathedral, lording over the massive Zócalo.
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A trail from the monastery runs along bluffs among a spectacular range of sand pyramids, featuring large boulders perched on top of spires like mushroom caps as the sand continues to erode away underneath.
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" Ms. Shaver, the mayor, said it was incumbent on the city to find better ways to protect its low-lying areas, "and not have the spires of Flagler College have gondolas going around them.
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Foxcombe Hall, a grand estate with views of the "dreaming spires" of Oxford, looks like an architectural jumble, but it was purposefully built by a British nobleman at the turn of the 113th century.
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A charming agent showed me to the 233th floor to a vast apartment of 212,43 square feet with a deck that overlooked the deranged towers and spires of the 24st century's greatest Buddhist metropolis.
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The morning wreck near Bryce Canyon National Park, known for its distinctive landscape of narrow red rock spires, left 12 to 15 people with "very critical injuries," the Utah Highway Patrol said on Twitter.
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An exacting full-bleed illustration of the edifice — once home to Roberta Flack, John Lennon, and the couple in Rosemary's Baby — gets textured domes and blackened spires, each built out in Wertz's precise draftsmanship.
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ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES have long been defined by their architecture, from the dreaming spires of Oxford, to the red-brick universities built after the Industrial Revolution, to the concrete polytechnics that sprouted everywhere after the 2000s.
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The Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson Spires, 2014Sometimes, a voice comes around that is so singular, so funny, so wholly original, that you go back and reread each story once you finish it.
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All the gravity afforded a royal saga is in the designs, including tech and architecture â€" jagged but fleet flying machines and glittering, steely spires â€" and it all fits the mood of majestic mystery.
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A close viewing of one image from the book suggests solid connections to the city: There's a towering building capped by two spires, the outline of which is an exact match for Milwaukee City Hall.
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Most of the region's tourist attractions, including Lassen Volcanic National Park, McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, home to 129-foot Burney Falls, and Castle Crags State Park, with 803,000-foot granite spires, remain open.
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Shiv Shanti Bhuvan is one in the line of 1930s Art Deco apartment blocks that front the green of the Oval Maidan, looking across it to the Victorian spires of the University and High Court.
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Last October, Hurricane Matthew poured historic flooding into St. Augustine, inundating downtown, where Spanish colonial-style buildings and Gilded-age spires gleam over the bay, and leaving residents ripping out walls and replacing sodden furniture.
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The glistening spires of Iceberg Alley on Canada's East coast, so called for the yearly parade of icebergs that floats by, don't normally inspire headlines around the world, despite how impressive a sight it can be.
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In Ivangorod, the town's biggest attraction, aside from a fortress first built in 1492, is the newly renovated Church of the Holy Trinity, a charming cluster of spires and cupolas on the edge of a lake.
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" Ms. Thompson-Spires was inspired by James McCune Smith, a 19th-century abolitionist and doctor whose brief stories about various characters were published under the title "Heads of the Colored People, Done With a Whitewash Brush.
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And then 21990 minutes later, emerging in the distance in jagged blue-gray shapes — and unmistakable — were the sharp spires of the medieval city, piercing that orange and announcing that we'd arrived, modern devices be damned.
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But the 2016 earthquake, he said, could offer Myanmar's new government a fresh start with Unesco because it destroyed much of the military's worst construction work, particularly the temple spires that it built in the 1990s.
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All the other usages — for the bird (a type of crane), the fish, the dragonfly, the geological spires we call hoodoos — all somehow refer to the qualities of said young woman of noble birth, a damsel.
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Image 2 of 2 LONDON – The Church of England owns some of the most impressive houses of worship in the world, with towering facades and spires that have drawn in the faithful for close to 500 years.
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But in taking Andrew's parents off the hook for his overscheduled life, perhaps Spires is just being strategic — after all, it's the parents, for the most part, who will be buying and reading this book to kids.
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On set with photographer Parker Day, Desmond is a whirr of activity, stomping between flower spires, contorting his face in front of the camera, and moving his body to the Richie Rich song playing through the speakers.
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Heads of the Colored People By Nafissa Thompson-Spires Out April 163Sometimes, a voice comes around that is so singular, so funny, so wholly original, that you go back and reread each story once you finish it.
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Using a deep-diving remotely operated vehicle (ROV), the researchers managed to explore an area about the size of a football field, and it was littered with more than a dozen mineral spires known as vent chimneys.
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Whether you're marveling at jagged desert spires, peeking inside ancient cave dwellings, or (safely) observing a grizzly bear in his or her natural habitat , you'll find enough inspiration to fill up several weeks—or months—of vacationing.
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Spires atop the domes and towers will reference essential moments from beloved fairy tales and films, including a rose for "Beauty and the Beast," poisoned apple from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and a "Cinderella" carriage.
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Instead of the immense spires of gunmetal gray and glass that populate neighborhoods on either side, the buildings are two- or three-story warehouses in a Creamsicle orange that matches the sand that spills onto the road.
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The hotel has a roof terrace with a small pool and new bar that offer commanding views of Mount Tibidabo and the cranes buzzing about the spires of Gaudí's Sagrada Familia a dozen or so blocks away.
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CAMBRIDGE, England — When you step off the train here and walk into the city square outside the railway station, you will not see the spires of King's College Chapel or the turrets atop the Trinity Great Court.
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In the wedge-like spires of color that characterize Odita's paintings, we see subjects, not only by way of association with what exists in the visible world, but by way of feelings emanating from an unknown source.
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Politically to the left, eco-friendly and a touch bohemian, the city has its own scenic waterways, soaring spires and a massive Gothic cathedral where you'll find one of the most stunning paintings from the Middle Ages.
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"The land policies now are, basically, lock it up and throw away the key," said Leland Pollock, a commissioner in Garfield County, Utah, a county roughly the size of Connecticut with pine forests and stunning red-rock spires.
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In typical fashion, the team didn't just stop at the the roof of the building, they climbed to the top of one of two spires located atop the tower, which tops off at 1,260 feet above the ground.
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The park, which drew 2.6 million visitors last year, is known for his red-rock scenery, rock spires known as hoodoos and "horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau," according to its website.
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Built on the highest point in southeastern Wisconsin, the nearly century-old Holy Hill church in Hubertus has twin spires that are an aiming point for golfers, beckoning well-struck drives to safe passage on the home hole.
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For the middle tunnel, you get a peek at some of the architecture, for instance and then boom, you're presented with ships in the foreground, buildings, tall ancient spires, ships perched atop the buildings, canopies sawing in the wind.
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They hit the wire together in a blur, two gray horses that had shown promise on their way to the Kentucky Derby but once beneath those iconic twin spires looked as if they hardly belonged in America's greatest race.
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The colorful spectacle — with its golden spires, vermilion-costumed soldiers, marigold garlands, saffron-robed monks and royal guards in crimson hats — contrasted with the somber mood of a nation that has mourned ever since King Bhumibol's death on Oct.
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Climb the tower of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin (entry to the tower, £21862) for the classic view of the city's "dreaming spires," then set off on a walking tour of the heart of Oxford academia.
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In 2000, 12 people protesting the Navy's use of the Puerto Rican Island of Vieques for bombing exercises were arrested after a man climbed out on the spires of the statue's crown and attached flags and banners to it.
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As families await results from the investigation, the airline is planning to hold a service on Sunday in Addis Ababa, at the Kidist Selassie, or Holy Trinity Cathedral, where many of Ethiopia's past rulers are buried under its pink stone spires.
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Behind her, Muslim women with their bodies and heads fully covered in burkini-like clothing played in the water or relaxed on the sand, with the church spires and mosque minarets of the town of Jaffa in the near distance.
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SHUITOU, China — Along the valleys and mountains hugging the East China Sea, a Chinese government campaign to remove crosses from church spires has left the countryside looking as if a typhoon had raged down the coast, decapitating buildings at random.
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But art classes at Pratt Institute and elsewhere taught Mr. Hamill how to see, and he says he got tired of looking up and seeing only the spires of buildings and the darkened windows of apartments devoid of human habitation.
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Flying south, she might stop to admire the view from hives overlooking the Place de la Concorde before following the Seine River to the spires of Notre-Dame, where the bee hives, in contrast to the crumbling gargoyles, are thriving.
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Because they're not just any old hills; these are the "blue remembered hills" of A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad": Into my heart an air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those?
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However, many cities that have not particularly struggled with heat in the past – though may soon – are not as worried about the risks, said Meggan Spires of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), whose African chapter is based in Cape Town.
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With the gothic spires of Canada's Parliament as a backdrop, Mr. Obama, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico announced a landmark agreement on climate change and extolled the benefits of a Pacific Rim trade agreement.
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The Appraisal New York is awash with architectural imitators: the rows of identical 248th-century brownstones, the spires and setbacks of the Art Deco era, the Seagram Building knockoffs strewn around Midtown Manhattan in the 2110s and '210s, the luxury fishbowls rising now.
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That night, overdosed on meat and beer, steeped in the fairy-tale scenery, I dreamed strange dreams of lonely church spires in the fog, cobbled streets and cobblers and Good King Wenceslas, looking out on the newly fallen deep snow a millennium ago.
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Two weeks ago, beneath the twin spires of Churchill Downs, War of Will lost a chance at victory after tangling with Maximum Security as Gaffalione and his colt turned for home in the 145th running of the Derby, America's most famous horse race.
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Novels like the dentally obsessed "Tlooth" (1966), which includes several puzzle-plotted mini-stories (spires, cyphers, codes and something that looks like a lopsided labyrinth) along the route taken by its characters as they flee a "prison house" of religious language in Siberia.
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Part of Housman's charm, even now, is the way he makes that sadness sound and feel so sweet: Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills What spires, what farms are those?
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On a wall of the Charity Bird Hospital, located within Shri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir, a Jain temple with tall red spires, is a painting of a Jain king sacrificing his arm, then his foot and eventually his life to save a pigeon.
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As families wait for the results from the investigation, Ethiopian Airlines is planning to hold a service on Sunday in Addis Ababa, at the Kidist Selassie, or Holy Trinity Cathedral, where many of the country's past rulers are buried beneath its pink stone spires.
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CreditCreditBenjamin Quinton for The New York Times CAMBRIDGE, England — When you step off the train here and walk into the city square outside the railway station, you will not see the spires of King's College Chapel or the turrets atop the Trinity Great Court.
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West and his wife, Mary — philanthropists, telecommunications barons, horse owners — watched as their colt splashed home on a soupy track beneath Churchill Downs' familiar spires, bringing them the Kentucky Derby win that had eluded them for 40 years, before it was snatched away from them.
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"It builds on what we have been seeking to do in the Diocese of Norwich since 2011 with the creation of WiSpire, a company seeking to use church towers and spires to enable Wi-Fi connectivity in communities, especially in rural locations," he said.
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Topped with spires, the finely wrought Gothic-style facade opens onto a soaring space with columns, ornate medieval motifs and a dazzling stained-glass ceiling that hovers over the marquee attraction: a sinewy blood-red double staircase that coils like a strand of DNA.
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The hybrid condo building, detailed with German limestone to distinguish it from typical glass spires, and designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, is a tapering tower with a square base and a curvy top and will be the tallest residential building in Hudson Yards.
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Here's exactly what goes into the four-figure cocktail: While the ingredient list is simple, the cups the drinks are served in are not: Each one is handcrafted by a Louisville-based jeweler and feature elaborate designs of Kentucky scenes like the Twin Spires of Churchill Downs.
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A zoom that big is the smartphone equivalent of walking around with a 17-303mm lens in your pocket, and on the P30 Pro, that's enough to let me capture details on the spires of nearby buildings or snap pictures of passing pedestrians from 15 stories above.
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Stealth Cell Tower, my latest project, brings the covert practice of disguising cellular infrastructure indoors Julian OliverOctober 31, 2016 "Stealth Cell Tower is a continuation of my research into the uncanny design practice of disguising cell towers as other things (like trees, bricks, church spires)," Oliver said.
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Not cigarette smoke, or smoke from a fire, or any other kind of smoke that signals imminent danger, for that matter — more like an apparition, a light fog, like something that might roll slowly over Winterfell after dusk and settle there, concealing its high turrets and spires.
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From my window, I could see the jagged spires of the city's most imposing church, the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, rising behind the Baroque buildings on the other side of the square, while the tall, ornate Parnas Fountain, built in 1695, looked almost within reach.
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The golden azaleas and the bluebells on both sides of the Moat Walk were in bloom; so was the White Garden, perhaps the most famous "room" in Sissinghurst, a dazzling show of pale colors provided by stands of white wisteria, delphinium, clematis and spires of white veronica.
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For "View of Florence From San Miniato" (1837), Cole shifted his eye from close-up to a panorama of the Italian city, capturing the eclectic architectural forms — domes, spires, arches and steeple — that Cole was already using in works like "The Course of Empire: Consummation" (circa 1835-36).
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After 10 months of construction, a 164-foot-high royal pyre and pavilion — decorated with nine gilded spires, a great white umbrella and statuary of the king's favorite pet dogs — awaits the funerary urn and coffin in which the ninth monarch of the Chakri dynasty has been placed.
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Princeton, N.J. Even if you didn't go to Princeton, a sense of nostalgia flares up while roaming the resplendent campus with its Gothic edifices and spires, its greens once crossed by illustrious names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill (who both failed to graduate) and Michelle Obama (who did).
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From owners and trainers escorting their prized racehorses from the barns to the paddock, to the singing of "My Old Kentucky Home," to the moment a blanket of roses is draped over the winning horse, the dramatics under the Twin Spires all shape the first Saturday in May.
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Then it's mostly Gothic and High Gothic, when the churches reached unprecedented heights in the naves and spires, thanks to the distribution of weight made possible by the Gothic arch (and flying buttresses, like those on the beautiful Flamboyant Gothic Church of the Holy Trinity, in Vendôme, France).
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Known around the world for its baroque architecture, Gothic churches and famed spires, the Czech capital was a sea of European Union and Czech flags, with parents bringing their children to the place where in 1989, some 750,000 people protested before declaring a general nationwide strike on Nov.
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"While this well-conducted study adds to data suggesting that a healthy lifestyle can help prevent dementia in many people, it is important to remember that some people will develop dementia no matter how healthy their lifestyle," Tara Spires-Jones, UK Dementia Research Institute programme lead, told Science Media Centre.
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As families wait for the results from the investigation into the cause of the crash, Ethiopian Airlines is planning to hold a service on Sunday in Addis Ababa, at the Kidist Selassie, or Holy Trinity Cathedral, where many of the country's past rulers are buried beneath its pink stone spires.
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Riding a European train, gazing at the lines of swaying poplars, the villages huddled around their church spires, it was often impossible, at least for me, not to look past the tranquility to the blood-seeped soil and the tens of millions who gave their lives in Europe's collective suicides.
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Jamel Brinkley ("A Lucky Man"), Nafissa Thompson-Spires ("Heads of the Colored People"), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ("Friday Black"), and JM Holmes ("How Are You Going to Save Yourself") published moving, trenchant and vividly rendered short story collections, some vibrating with the up-to-the-minute urgency of contemporary events.
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When the temperature is so cold that the entire harbor freezes, that signals "time to go out and play," said Whitney Webster, a sixth-generation islander, standing out on the frozen harbor before Algonquin Island, the crowded concrete and glass spires of the city's downtown rising like a ghostly battalion.
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Clambering down into the half-buried ruins of San Juan Paringuricutiro, past stone archways subsumed in lava less than 80 years ago, I glanced up over jagged spires of black basalt to the ash cone of Paricutín, one of the world's youngest volcano, hovering like a specter on the horizon.
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" In an author's note, Ms. Thompson-Spires writes that, like the work of Smith and some of his contemporaries, including William J. Wilson and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, her stories are interested in "black U.S. citizenship, the black middle class and the future of black American life during pivotal sociopolitical moments.
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"The details of this study have not been peer-reviewed or published yet, so the scientific community simply does not know yet how robust the findings are," noted Tara Spires-Jones, deputy director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, who was not involved in the research.
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Yet none of his paintings had prepared me for the hallucinatory strangeness of the real thing: a place that inverts geological time, where the ground underfoot is younger than the orphaned church spires rising above it, where a mountain — an immovable part of any ordinary landscape — is only a few decades old.
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He looked out over the panorama of Brooklyn around him—the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan to the northwest, the New York Bay to the south, and miles of Kings County opening out to the east, punctuated by church spires and water towers—before walking me into the stairwell where his son had been shot.
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OXFORD, England — After the murders at Charlie Hebdo last year, the public intellectual Timothy Garton Ash — once a dashing foreign correspondent, long since a scholar amid the spires of Oxford — issued an appeal to news organizations: Publish the offending cartoons, all of you together, and in that way proclaim the vitality of free speech.
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I happened to be standing on Abbey's old house trailer site at Arches, now a cluster of blackbrush and cliffrose in spring bloom, and gazing across his "33,000-acre terrace," a windless, sun-warped sprawl of red spires and orange buttes rising and falling to the horizon like a city of dust and stone.
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Fitzgerald is one of Princeton's demigods — in a turbulent undergraduate career there, he withdrew twice, the second time to join the Army in World War I. He dreamed of the Gothic spires and gargoyles on its campus long before he dreamed of East Egg and the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
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Playlist: "Spanish House" / "Rain of Crystal Spires" / "Primitive Painters" / "She Lives By the Castle" / "Roman Litter" / "Don't Die on My Doorstep" / "Whirlpool Visions of Shame" / "Stained Glass Windows In the Sky" / "Fortune" Apple Music | Spotify The joy of being a perennial underdog is that virtually anyone around you becomes a plausible target for an unending choir kiss-offs, put-downs, and fuck-yous.
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Here are the books discussed in this week's "What We're Reading": "Cherry" by Nico Walker "Heads of the Colored People" by Nafissa Thompson-Spires "The Secret Place" by Tana French "Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce" by Sylvia Jukes Morris We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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"While some people are unlucky and inherit a combination of genes that makes it highly likely they will develop dementia, many people have the opportunity to substantially reduce their risk by living a healthy lifestyle," professor Tara Spires-Jones, UK Dementia Research Institute program lead and deputy director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, told the Science Media Center.
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From above, higher than the spires, higher even than the office towers… the river comes pouring in above the city and crashes from the edge of the gorge in a recoil of spray and rainbow mists — Back then I hadn't yet read those lines in the epic poem "Paterson" by William Carlos Williams, the pediatrician-poet who lived a short drive away and made house calls in the city.
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