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...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...
...over, but it takes on new meaning when it comes from one of your host country's wealthiest families - and when your temporary "home" is their mansion. The Buyukkusoglu family, who made their fortune in the automotive industry, converted their 48,400-sq-ft (4,500 sq m) modern manor house in Bodrum, Turkey, on the edge of the Aegean Sea into a 12-suite hotel, and in 2007 opened it to paying guests as the Casa Dell'Arte, www.casadellartebodrum.com...
...this 1993 rethinking of the Virginia Woolf novel, Swinton plays Lord Orlando, a gallant 16th century nobleman whom Queen Elizabeth awards a stately manor, on one condition: "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old." Over his 400-year life, Orlando is a man, then a woman, then a bit of both - the two sexes evolved into one. Swinton had played men before: she was Mozart in a production of Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri, and in the play and film Man to Man she was a woman in Nazi Germany who assumes her dead husband's identity...