Where the hill of Fiesole begins to climb, but still in Florence, that’s where the quiet idyll of Il Salviatino begins, a 15th-century villa surrounded by a 13-acre park just 10 minutes away from the Duomo (Santa Maria del Fiore) and a 25-minute ride from the airport.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Apr. 2026
If your lawn is surrounded by weeds, gophers may be attracted to the area, dining on the roots of the weeds on the way to your lawn.
The latter was accompanied by the most striking choreography of the night, as a mass of humans encircled and swallowed Reznor at the end of the song, inviting him to join them in their amorphous horde.
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Jeff Miller,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2026
How to Get Around Koh Chang is almost entirely encircled by one main road, and the island doesn't have any private tuk-tuks or taxis.
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Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Apr. 2026
Southeast Alaska, largely encompassed by a temperate rainforest, is no stranger to landslides.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
Queen Elizabeth's record reign encompassed 15 British prime ministers, audiences with 13 sitting American presidents and at least 14 generations of corgis roaming her royal homes, to her great joy.
Built in the late nineteen-twenties, the park sits on more than eight acres at the foot of the hill where Carlsberg ran its original brewery, and is ringed by apartment blocks, schools, and churches.
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Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
The large circular feature at bottom left is Mare Orientale, a huge impact structure ringed by concentric mountain chains.
While Iran's domestic intranet remains operational — supporting local messaging apps, banking platforms and other services — access to the global internet has been severely restricted since early February.
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Brian Dakss,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
The company is rolling out Mythos via an invitation-only initiative restricted to organizations focused on security risks, such as Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Cisco.
After leading the initial round of voting with 37%, compared to Fuller's 35%, Harris has framed the runoff as a referendum on independence versus loyalty to Trump.
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Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
Nastiness can be framed as a function of mourning a loved one, as with Dorinda’s rants on RHONY; or despair over personal crises, as with RHOC star Shannon Beador’s DUI and car crash.
Representatives from hostile states like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are circumscribed in their movements, typically limited to a small radius around their official posts—an embassy, a consulate, a permanent mission to the UN.
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Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
Eventually, the area in the Pentagon where reporters were allowed was circumscribed to a single corridor outside the press room – even though the public affairs officers who worked most closely with reporters were in an office on the other side of the 6½-million-square-foot building.
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