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Mining magnate buys Perth’s second-most expensive house
The $39 million sale of the former Dalkeith mansion built for the 1980s entrepreneur Alan Bond ranks as WA’s second-most expensive house sale.
Mack Hall, of Mack Hall Real Estate, has confirmed the Watkins Road mansion on the Swan River has been bought by mining entrepreneur Steve Wyatt and his wife, Sue.
They initially expressed an interest in the home about a year ago. It was so… (View original article)
Wealthy anonymous donors in the United States, a group of historians,
archaeologists and concerned citizens are working to preserve what’s
left of the infamous slave castle on Bunce Island near Sierra Leone in
Africa. The area is a crucial site in remembering America’s slave trade
in the 18th and 19th centuries. Philanthropists now want to build a
museum that explores the island’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
LOS ANGELES. CA (Catholic Online) – Bunce Is… (View original article)
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Languedoc, History and Scenery, Taken with a Glass of Wine
The Languedoc wine region did not live up to my expectations, and that worked out just fine.
Set in the south of France, Languedoc does not have the name-recognition of Bordeaux or Burgundy. And what reputation it does have is as a producer of inexpensive, rustic reds. So I went expecting a fairly in… (View original article)
William and Kate ‘object’ to neighbours ‘overlooking’ their new Kensington Palace home
By
Richard Kay
Last updated at 11:15 AM on 8th August 2011
They moved in only a couple of weeks ago, but already the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have decided their Kensington Palace home is not quite what they had in mind.
Their main objection, I am told, is that their property, Nottingham Cottage – though secure in the royal compound and not vi… (View original article)
Experience Seoul
Martina Zainal, Contributor, Seoul | Sun, 08/07/2011 8:00 AM
Enjoy the many sites encountered inside the walls of Gyeongbokgung Palace.Stand in Gwanghwamun Plaza between the mighty statues of King Sejong the Great and Admiral Yi Sunshin and you are not more than 20 minutes in most directions from a cultural or shopping destination in and around Seoul.
If you have only limited time in this great city you will need to make choices to … (View original article)
This ornate villa overlooking Malaga Cove in Palos Verdes Estates feels like it could be in Italy. But views of Santa Monica Bay and points north, and on clear days, the San Gabriel Mountains and downtown Los Angeles, belie that.
Yet the views alone don’t account for the $10.9-million price tag. The home’s eye-popping extravagance begins with a $1.7-million foundation and continues from the ground up. Marble mosaic floors and 300-year-old terra-cotta pavers from France s… (View original article)
One of the best-loved privately owned gardens in England, East Lambrook Manor
was created by the late Margery Fish, celebrated plantswoman and gardening
writer. Her natural gift for combining old-fashioned and contemporary plants
in a relaxed and informal manner has created a garden of immense beauty and
charm. She described the process of making the garden in her classic book
from 1956, We Made a Garden.
Now Grade I listed, the garden is renowned as the premie… (View original article)
Clothes once worn by an A-List celebrity are never second-hand bargains. The prices shoot through the roof, and only the seriously well-heeled can purchase these celebrity-touched outfits. However, things are different in the property market. Here too, a celebrity home attracts a great deal of interest, but the prices do not surge unreasonably. This is why celebrity homes that go up on sale often sell off quickly. Buyers like owning property that was once home to a celebrity. If nothing else… (View original article)
Malibu mansion poised to set record at US auction
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LOS ANGELES — A California mansion could become the most expensive US property to be sold at auction when it goes on the block next month with a starting bid of $22 million, marketers said Saturday.
The 10,500 square-foot beachside house — originally listed at $65 million — includes six bedrooms, nine and a half bathrooms, a theater, a 75-foot (25-meter) two-lane lap pool, a … (View original article)
“Among the most beautiful in Hungary, this Classical Mansion built to the plans of Mihály Pollack between 1819 and 1827 was nearly completely destroyed in World War II. Only its portico with Ionic columns remains.In addition to the fragment that remained from the main facade there are also some outbuildings left, such as the Classical Dolls’ House (Babaház) on Stephen Hill (István-halom) and the Gloriette built in 1880.
The landscaped gardens are still of g… (View original article)