These questions have led me on a fascinating journey through the landscape of Britain's immigrant names.
Tony Curtis, the Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan - and a keen golfer to boot - had a timely poem to read as the train sped through the landscape of early autumn.
This kind of stone, he explains, is particularly good at conducting lightning and often sparks tremendous bush fires that feed on the flammable, oil-laden foliage of the eucalyptus trees and roar through the landscape every few years.
In a grand sweep through the rugged landscape of the northwest, the story of Zar Gul's life unfolds.
Winter highways are sandy tracks through the boggy landscape, passable only in winter when the ice hardens.
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We ride along the path, downhill through the treeless landscape.
Jazzily painted trucks and buses cut through the parched landscape.
He said it was so significant because it "allows the interpretation of a large area of landscape through the ages".
Steep slopes rise and fall on either side as the narrow road zigzags through progressively spectacular landscape with the snow-capped Himalayas in the distance.
On the way out to the archipelago from Stockholm, the road winds through the radiant green landscape of a fairy-tale: forests, timber houses, rye fields, fat cows.
The artistic love affair with the American West dates back to the early 19th century, when a few intrepid painters trudged through the wilderness to paint the untamed landscape.
It was, instead, one of those relationships where one party (him) had a very deep, very dark secret that he hid for years and that, when it exploded to light, was such a seismic shock to my system that it took years to pick through the charred emotional landscape and tentatively begin to rebuild anew.
And as he struggles through the desert-like landscape, reminiscent of Christ, he looks anew at the wonders of nature and the essential goodness of humanity.
In the past three years, Mr. Bloomberg changed the landscape of the city through zoning, helped create a new technology-focused university on Roosevelt Island, and continued his public-health initiatives, pushing through a partial ban on large-size sugary drinks.
Despite objections over the impact on wildlife and the landscape, the vote went through.
After slicing through the hustle and bustle of Lagos, the landscape turns green and in some areas the thick bushes touch the sides of the carriages.
We made the journey in three 4x4 Unicef vehicles bumping along the red dirt roads through the lush green tropical landscape - trees packed with bananas, oranges and lemons.
The holes twist through a phantasmagoric landscape of sand dunes thrown up half a century ago when phosphate mines worked the site, and which native plants and grasses have since overgrown.
On the screen, Liam Neeson fought his way through a barren artic landscape, battered by the weather.
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Leaving behind this city of Buddhist temples and delicious French pastries (one of the few reminders of the colonial era) the river winds its way through a landscape dominated by forested sugar-loaf mountains that in places rise vertiginously from the river.
His first big task was to fill in a hole torn through a large landscape by the 19th century Royal Academician Thomas Sidney Cooper.
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Lewis said the devastation was so catastrophic that city officials rushed to print new street signs to help guide rescuers and residents through the newly mangled and unfamiliar landscape.
Whenever I take a taxi home from the city center to Etiler, I pass along the otobahn through an Alphaville landscape of Trump Towers, kiddy-neon malls and Carrefour Express supermarkets.
It is a green-shoot with as yet frail tendrils that can easily be uprooted before it has a chance to send its bureaucratic shoots and runners through the entire health care system and entangle itself permanently on the landscape.
Nonetheless, in framing our defense, they provide the only way through this uncharted landscape.
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The landscape literally runs through and under the residence, with spectacular views of the valley and the Housatonic River.
You walk a 100 yards off the track, passing through a landscape that looks just like northern Nevada, when suddenly you find yourself face-to-face with a wildebeest, 500 springbok, or a giraffe.
Into this crisis comes the weary Theo (Clive Owen), who is asked by an old girlfriend (Julianne Moore) to guide the expectant mother to freedom through a landscape of tribulation and trial.
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Players will be able to maneuver a monkey through a three-dimensional landscape by tilting the iPhone.
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