Savor mango sticky rice at a food stall before taking in the gilded splendor of the Grand Palace. Read more Mirissa Fringing two sandy bays separated by a rock island reachable at low tide, Mirissa feels hidden away compared to Sri Lanka’s other busier resort towns. While the quiet sand...
Actually, it wasn’t that bad as we did have a seat between us on both flights. As always, those of you who are coming along vicariously, have the most comfortable seats! Singapore: As we watch the weather report prior to coming, we were expecting nothing but rain, but it was clear ...
370 T he S elf and the L otus V olume I I Figure 12.1 Two Buddhas on One Diamond Seat But this was not supposed to happen! The Early Buddhist Majjhima Nikāya had been explicit: "It is impossible, it cannot happen that two Accomplished Ones, Fully Enlightened Ones, could arise ...
Though Queen Victoria considered Gladstone’s “unpatriotic ravings” as treasonous, the Grand Old Man won the election to the joy of his wife’s niece, 39-year-old Lucy Cavendish who lived with them at Hawarden Castle, Cheshire. Lucy was almost a surrogate child as was her husband ...
1847 Henry Gerard Sturt elected Conservative MP for Dorchester, a seat he holds until 1856. Sir James Simpson uses chloroform as an anaesthetic. Queen Victoria will use it in 1853 for the birth of her eighth child. 1848 An aunt leaves Mr Radford a legacy of £100 which he devotes to ...
地点:The Victoria Palace Theatre, Victoria Street, London, SW1 5EA票价:有特价当日票(票价待询问)Chicago(芝加哥)地点:Cambridge Theatre, Earlham Street, London, WC2H 9HU票价:有当日特价票与学生特价票, Top priced seat reduced to £30评价:是我看的第一场现场歌舞剧,因为实在是太喜欢同名电影了(...
Palace entry tickets are valid for a year and cost E38 for adults,£ 22 for under-16s. Toulouse-Lautrec in Bath A new exhibition, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Masters of Montmartre, opens at Victoria Art Gallery in Bath in April. More than 30 pieces from the artist's colourful career will...