It takes away the beauty of the night sky, often disturbs sleep patterns and can have a negative impact on our wildlife.

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From the village of Ivalo (and with the help of a guide), visitors drive their own team of dogs through pristine, snow-covered fells, covering between 30km and 50km a day, sleeping in remote wilderness huts each night and experiencing the isolation and beauty of Lapland in a section of forest just 50km from the Russian border.

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Their beauty as they rose through the night sky made him cry about the end of things.

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Part urban ramble, part bar crawl, the route takes in South Bank views and a hidden basement drinking den, and is designed to showcase the beauty of the city as it fades to night.

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There, a serviceman on leave (Phillip Reed) locks eyes with a masked beauty (Nancy Coleman), and they share a rapturous night of passion.

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And Drogba went agonisingly close with the hosts' best effort of the night in the 93rd minute when he turned brilliantly in the box and crashed a beauty of a shot onto Howard's crossbar.

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Throughout eight galleries, cranes and egrets roost in gilded screens, eagles swoop down on prey in hanging scrolls, sparrows and swallows variously flit across the black night of lacquer and the pure white of porcelain, and all manner of avian beauty graces works big and small.

WSJ: Flights of Feathered Fancy | Birds in the Art of Japan | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Lee Lawrence

One night in Kenya (I was there), a comely woman at the peak of her beauty, lent across the dinner table and told Teller that she used to do life modelling.

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