Word: manors
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...Leaside Manor Apartments This 88-year-old property, www.leasidemanor.com, lies a 20-minute stroll from downtown St. John's and is a charming cocoon - think pretty gardens, wooden beams and walnut paneling. The 10 suites, more boudoir than businesslike, feature canopied beds, ornate fireplaces, and jacuzzis and double tubs in which to soak away the jet lag. Lip-smacking communal breakfasts are a house tradition. Get to know your fellow guests over eggs benedict, pancakes and croissants with partridgeberry jam before heading out for a day's sightseeing...
...afforded a close sidelines view of the capital's political scene, although as the Bush administration ran out its term, he purposefully maintained a low profile, giving few public speeches or media interviews and spending large chunks of his time at two other homes outside Washington - the old manor in St. Michaels, Maryland, and the farm in Taos, New Mexico...
...Born Sept. 29, 1948, in Watertown, N.Y. Currently lives in Pierrepont Manor...
...buried in a small 18th century chapel on the property, beside his wife, who had died in 1945.BERENSON’S BEQUESTEven as the man shaped the villa, though, the villa shaped the man. “It made Berenson into the lord of that manor, the sage of that hermitage, the bait of that gilded trap,” wrote William F. Weaver, author of “A Legacy of Excellence: The Story of Villa I Tatti.”Located in Fiesole at the western edge of Florence, the I Tatti estate covers 75 acres...
...researchers cite no shortage of examples. Meerkats, whose societies are rich enough to have sustained a wildly popular television series - Meerkat Manor - don't weigh in with a whole lot of gray matter relative to their body size. The same holds true for hyenas and mongooses - albeit without the TV following. Bears, small cats and weasels, on the other hand, pack a lot of brain into their heads yet prefer to go it alone. (See pictures of animals in love...