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The Elizabethan Snail Mount

The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning.
Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and alleys, enough for [...]

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Treetop walkway at Kew Gardens | Travel | guardian.co.uk

Treetop walkway at Kew Gardens (9 pictures)

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Stairway to heaven for tree lovers at Kew gardens
One hundred and eight steps up, tree top walk way provides new striking view of Londo

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The 200m-long walkway was designed by the architects of the London Eye

Photograph: Linda Nylind

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October climax set for The Mount – Berkshire Eagle Online

By Benning W. De La Mater, Berkshire Eagle Staff

Article Last Updated: 05/14/2008 03:00:18 AM EDT

LENOX — An agreement between The Mount and its creditors has staved off foreclosure and a May 31 deadline that would have forced Edith [...]

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Cuisines in Bloom – New York Times

Published: May 4, 2008

DUKAGJINI BUREKTORJA
(718) 822-8955; 758 Lydig Avenue (Wallace Avenue), Pelham Parkway; $; Article: 5/18/05.
This Albanian place may be the only restaurant in the city devoted entirely to bureks: savory pies that are the Balkans’ answer to pizza. They are convincingly good, stuffed with meat, spinach, or feta [...]

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