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  • BusinessWeek has compiled an interesting slideshow about the past year's marvels of architecture including green offices, Apple's store, and the World's longest over-sea bridge.

    Buildings of the Year 2006

  • BusinessWeek has compiled an interesting slideshow about the past year's marvels of architecture including green offices, Apple's store, and the World's longest over-sea bridge.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • After the election, Gladstone hoped to drop his opportunistic focus on “over-sea” and concentrate on granting Home Rule to Ireland.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Once beyond the village, where the cottages ceased abruptly, on either side of the road they could smell through the darkness the friendly fields again; and they braced themselves for the last long stretch, the home stretch, the stretch that we know is bound to end, some time, in the rattle of the door-latch, the sudden firelight, and the sight of familiar things greeting us as long-absent travellers from far over-sea.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Divers 2007

  • After the election, Gladstone hoped to drop his opportunistic focus on “over-sea” and concentrate on granting Home Rule to Ireland.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • His critics called him a “Little Englander,” ignorant of “over-sea” matters.2

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • The past year's marvels of architecture include innovative green office buildings, Apple's showcase store left, and the world's longest over-sea bridge.

    Architectural Wonders 2006 The Nag 2007

  • His critics called him a “Little Englander,” ignorant of “over-sea” matters.2

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

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