With our annual high-summer grilling holiday coming up, we set out to find some of the best.

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It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).

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English Heritage said only 13% of the castle's annual visitors go outside the summer months - and the number in January had been less than 1% of the number expected to visit during the whole of 2011.

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The semi-annual confab is chock-full of cocktail parties, coffee breaks and, during the summer edition, an awards show.

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Last summer, Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) presented data at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology indicating that the drug may be effective in kidney cancer.

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Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship: The center offers Middlebury students a wide range of learning opportunities, including an annual symposium featuring the brightest stars of social entrepreneurship, summer grants, multi-year fellowships, and the MLab, a weekly discussion for students learning about the challenges of social change leadership.

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The exhibition, which is part of this summer's annual opening of Buckingham Palace, includes a host of priceless jewelry, such as the emerald-encrusted Vladimir Tiara and two brooches set with stones from the famous Cullinan Diamond, said to be the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found, at nearly 3, 107 carats.

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