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The Brolly Blog: Book Covers: Cutting for Stone
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Monday, November 15, 2010. Book Covers: Cutting for Stone. Another book, another apparent fiction best seller, another book I had not heard of. This time we have an umbrella on the cover of the U.S. 2010 Vintage paperback edition of Abraham Verghese's "Cutting for Stone." [There is no such image on the original hardback or paperback covers.] So, let's go fishing. Not doing any better with remaining hits. Do hit a gold mine- for book covers,...
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The Brolly Blog: Umbrella Crime Wave Continues: Washington Post Knows Nothing!
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Saturday, January 28, 2012. Umbrella Crime Wave Continues: Washington Post Knows Nothing! Reports on a new instance of umbrella-carrying malefactors: This time in Potomac, Maryland, outside of Washington, DC, according to this poetic news account:. The rain falls, according to the Bible, “on the just and on the unjust, ” and a man who robbed a bank in Montgomery County on Friday may have taken that idea into account. More important to our reade...
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The Brolly Blog: Travel Destinations: Umbrella Shops: London
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Saturday, February 18, 2012. Travel Destinations: Umbrella Shops: London. After your visit to Paris,. It is short channel hop to London, where you will want to go to Oxford Street to see James Smith and Sons. As touted in the the Daily Telegraph. The Guardian has also listed Smith's as one of the 10 best shops in West London. For the umbrella tourist, one blogger has chosen an umbrella theme London Walk. Taking James Smith and Sons beyond their...
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The Brolly Blog: Royal Umbrellas: Queen Tours Factory with Royal Warrant
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Royal Umbrellas: Queen Tours Factory with Royal Warrant. Well, this isn't an umbrella image, but rather the Royal warrant. From the home page of Fulton Umbrellas. Firms receive a Royal warrant from the Queen for supplying their products to Buckingham Palace. This comes up today, because the Queen is touring factories in London’s East End today (Wednesday). All umbrellas may be damaged by strong gusts. Wind damage ...
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The Brolly Blog: April 2012
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Sunday, April 29, 2012. Footprints and Umbrellas: Brolly Blog Goes Wandering. This is probably much more appropriate for my Internet Wandering/Wondering. Habits, but it is about umbrellas and comforms to my random unearthing of umbrellas in our lives. Today's link comes from India's Express News Service. While search for more information about these "umbrellas of hope" and for a visual to add to this story, I found the Institute's website.
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The Brolly Blog: Umbrella Video Goes Viral and Brolly Blog Had to Read It in the Newspaper
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Friday, December 9, 2011. Umbrella Video Goes Viral and Brolly Blog Had to Read It in the Newspaper. Finally, umbrellas make it into the gossip columns! After sneaking into movies, songs, literature, and luring the consumer dollar, umbrellas are in the big time- a viral video! According to a story "Fox host's umbrella factor". From The Reliable Source in the Washington Post. Aside: For those who followed the Washington Post. Link above, they mi...
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The Brolly Blog: Book Cover: Spring (by David Szalay) [US Divergence]
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Friday, February 3, 2012. Book Cover: Spring (by David Szalay) [US Divergence]. A new book cover today prompts suggestion that Americans like umbrellas more than the British, at least in the minds of publishers. The book in question is Spring: A Novel. By David Szalay. This book was first published in (no accident) Spring 2011 in the United Kingdom to fairly good reviews- "95 per cent excellence" according The Independent. Buy Posters at AllPos...
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The Brolly Blog: The Umbrella Goes Evil: Used in Bank Robbery
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Friday, March 20, 2009. The Umbrella Goes Evil: Used in Bank Robbery. Not sure what this says about our friendly umbrella, but now we have a bank robber, dressed all in black and fully masked, using a black umbrella- what, to shield his shielded face? According to The Virginian-Pilot. Police are looking for a man who robbed a BB&T bank Tuesday morning on Kempsville Road. Luckily, a CNET Crave article. Posted by Ralph Silberman. Umbrella as Meta...
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The Brolly Blog: Book Cover: Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Monday, May 30, 2011. Book Cover: Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel. Returning to my theme of umbrellas on book covers, I have hit a snag on this one. "Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel" by Kate Atkinson. In this instance, the book cover showed up in a Barnes and Noble book review. So, is that all there is? Not much, but something. I had hopes reading one reader. Posted by Ralph Silberman. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Open letter to ...
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The Brolly Blog: The Parasol is the Umbrella's Daughter
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All About Umbrellas: Art, Literature, Culture, You Cover It. Sunday, March 27, 2011. The Parasol is the Umbrella's Daughter. I did not know of this poem by Emily Dickinson. While it obviously deserves to be highlighted on The Brolly Blog, what really fascinates me is how just a quick Internet search shows it to be an inspiration for all sorts of things. But first, this short poem, in its entirety:. The parasol is the umbrella's daughter. The parasol is the umbrella's daughter,. And associates with a fan.
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