Word: royal
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...ended her job at Harvard in August, sold her car, and moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music...
...tiny six-pointed white star, also symbolic of the snow-covered peak, as its trademark. Since its launch, the Montblanc pen has revolutionized the industry, elevating beautifully crafted writing instruments to designer status in the ever growing luxury stratosphere. The most expensive model, the limited-edition Meisterstück Solitaire Royal, is decorated with 4,810 pavé diamonds (the metric height of Mont Blanc). A version of that pen entered the 1994 Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive fountain pen in the world. For more modest fans like Ernest Hemingway, however, the standard Montblanc model served the purpose well...
...until he was 11 years old. As a boy, he learned 600 basic Mandarin characters from a Chinese calligrapher, causing later observers to remark on the strange way he held his pen. After his family returned to England, Peake finished his education at Croydon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools...
Happy trails to the 100,000 people who visit the Branson, Mo., shrine to the western royal couple. Displays include the actor-singer's golden palomino, Trigger, mounted on its hind legs...
...happens that, in the past two months, my TIME.com work has been awash in Englishness: not just in the Up films but in the humor of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the royal satire of the new film The Queen. I also participated in a South Bank Show about Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit who, although they are made of plasticine (and one, a dog, says nary a word), speak eloquently to the English traits of gamely soldiering on through life's trials, many of them self-inflicted...