Word: caernarvon
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...that map how we missed our chance this year," says Paul Harrison, an Environmental Defense attorney. The huge brown plumes around the Atchafalaya, the Head of Passes and Bonnet Carre are where sediment isn't needed; the too-small-to-see diversions at Davis Pond and Caernarvon - and a planned diversion at Myrtle Grove - are where sediment is needed...
Turner didn't always deal in turmoil. His great hero was Claude Lorrain, the 17th century French landscape painter who invented formats like the idealized harbor, places flanked by classical piles, where a setting sun bears down gently on the horizon. In Caernarvon Castle, an early watercolor flushed with orange twilight, Turner took Lorrain's tranquil model and invested it with the nostalgia and high-minded melancholy of English Romanticism...
...office on the British island of Jersey will issue stamps featuring the fetching royal against a variety of backdrops. They will "show his sporting side, and the fireworks represent a celebration at his coming of age," says philatelic artist William Wall. One stamp's backdrop was supposed to show Caernarvon Castle, where William's father was invested as Prince of Wales. But another fortress is pictured in error. Charles never gets respect...
...expected, there were a number of protests by Welsh nationalists who have long sought to break the country's 445-year-old union with Britain. As the royal Rolls approached the 13th century castle city of Caernarvon, a young woman leaped forward, spraying the car with white paint before she was whisked away by some of the 600 Special Branch policemen guarding the prince and princess. Outside the castle, demonstrators chanted, "Charles, go home...
...Caernarvon, where Charles was vested as Prince of Wales in 1969 by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, the couple rested on two slate chairs in the castle courtyard. Overhead, the skies added their own dramatic greeting, going from sun to inky storm clouds, to rain and, finally, at dusk, to a rainbow that seemed to touch down just behind the battlements. When the couple emerged, Diana thrilled the young schoolgirls in the crowd by removing her gloves and wiggling her fingers so that they could get a glimpse of her engagement and wedding rings...