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Country & Garden: In a ring of bright water You don't need to live in a castle to own a moat - around 5,000 houses in the UK have them. In your watery garden you can drift along and watch as the inhabitants glide and swim around you.
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It is a hot August afternoon, and I am fishing the water-weed out
of my moat, flinging a garden rake across the water towards the far
bank like a whaling harpoon, letting the string attached to its
handle wriggle through my hands, then towing in the heavy weed-
bundle to my side and pitchforking it into a glistening bright green
tangle beside me. Clearing the exuberant crop of Canadian pondweed
and carting it off to the compost heap is part of the give and take
of owning a moat: part struggle, part love affair. I have been living
on terms of the greatest intimacy with this ancient flooded ...
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Now and Then
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...novelist and playwright; 1904 Sir Gordon Richards, champion jockey...Beatrice Harraden, novelist;1985 Sir Donald Bailey, wartime bridge...pioneer of psychoanalysis; 1861 Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet and Nobel prize...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Tennyson, poet, 1809; Sir Henry Thompson, surgeon...Claudel, poet, 1868; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer...expressionist painter, 1867; Sir Granville Bantock, composer...director, 1938; Sir Rabindranath Tagore, writer, 1941; Oliver...
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Story behind noblest award
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...Einstein, Pierre and Marie Curie, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Rabindranath Tagore, W.B. Yeats, Max Planck, Albert Schweitzer, Martin...Jean Paul Satre, Betrand Russell, T.S. Elliot and Sir Winston Churchill. Of course, there are many great...
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The Almanac.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...activities, fearing they might be used to spread toxic substances. A thought for the day: Indian Bengali poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore said, "The artist is the lover of Nature, "therefore he is her slave and her master." By United Press International...
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Almanac
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...is 26. Thought for today: "Each child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Nobel Prize-winning poet (1861-1941). Copyright 2004 by Telegraph Herald, All rights Reserved...
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Art; Under Java's Spell; At the Sackler, Jewel-Encrusted Magnificence and Splendor of The `Court Arts of Indonesia'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...that's part Hindu, part Islamic and wholly Indonesian. "I see India all about me," said the Hindu poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore when he first viewed Indonesia, "and yet I recognize nothing." The Indonesian archipelago - with its 13...
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Saturday, Oct. 26
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...1963--). Thought for Today: Each child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man _ Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Nobel Prize-winning poet (1861-1941).
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Today in History - Oct. 26
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...is 26. Thought for Today: "Each child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." _ Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Nobel Prize-winning poet (1861-1941). Copyright 2004, AP News All Rights Reserved
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THE ALMANAC
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...passenger jet with a surface-to-air missile at Bangkok's airport. A thought for the day: Indian Bengali poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore said, "The artist is the lover of Nature, "therefore he is her slave and her master." By United Press International...
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 "Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)")
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Eastern Medicine; Wake Up From Seep, Pursue Enlightenment.
Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
; Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian writer and philospher) once prophesied that Korea would become the ``Lamp Bearer of the East.'' And...
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