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...Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Sunnylands is a modernist San Simeon on 208 acres. Built in 1964 at a cost of $5 million, the mansion alone covers nearly an acre. Inside is a major collection of impressionist (Renoir, Monet) and postimpressionist (Gauguin, Van Gogh) paintings...
...next 500 years under the yoke of Constantinople before being set free by the Tsar's forces. During both world wars the country sided with Germany, but it could never bring itself to declare war against the Soviet Union. In 1944, the regency of seven-year-old King Simeon II scrambled to forge a separate peace with the Allies, but to no avail. Stalin's troops marched through the country unopposed and a coalition government was installed, with the Communists gaining complete control...
Less dramatic but just as noteworthy was sophomore Grace de Fries' effort in the 800 Meter Run. In what could be called a "textbook" race, de Fries jackrabbited to an early lead, was joined by freshman teammate Amy Simeon with one lap to go, and then shot out again to finish the clear winner with a new meet record of 2:15.4. Simeon finished third...
...house is one way to establish Paradise, but a garden, historically, is a more appropriate place to start. The childish "What if that envisions a mansion is not nearly so ambitious as one that seeks to transplant cypresses from one soil to another (as Hearst did in San Simeon) or to display the rarest species. (After seeing Lionel Rothschild's Japanese garden in London, the Japanese Ambassador was said to remark: "We have nothing like this in Japan.") Versailles, the model of gardening for so many big spenders, must have had Eden as its model, as a place...
...manuscript probably was made in the workshop of Jothel Ben Simeon, a prolific scribe of the late 1400s working in Northern Italy, Walter Cahn, chairman of the Yale history of art department, and his wife, Annabelle, wrote in an article for the Yale Library Gazzette...