Cornelia White, Swartland 2015 (£10, M&S), where a generous portion of stone fruit is cut with Cox's apple, is a fine place to start an exploration of the modern marvel that is the Cape white blend.
Infidelity is common to tens of thousands of other species — like the great grey shrike, an elegant raptorlike bird with a silver cape, white belly and black tail: A male shrike provisions his mate with so-called nuptial gifts: rodents, lizards, small birds or large insects that he impales on sticks.
They dogged Whitman throughout her 2010 campaign, dressing an actress as "Queen Meg," in a red velvet fur-trimmed cape, white gloves and a sash.
Reporting in the journal Animal Behaviour, researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University and the University of South Bohemia described transactions among great grey shrikes, elegant raptorlike birds with silver capes, white bellies and black tails that, like 90percentt of bird species, form pair bonds to breed.
She opened her closet and pointed out other eBay finds: an embroidered pink slip from the 1920s ($80), a Daisy Buchanan-era floral print sundress ($20) and a black mink cape with white fox collar ($450).
· History, I noted from Jonathan Freedland's report from Westminster Abbey on Wednesday, has also called Douglas Hurd to be High Steward of Westminster, which involves dressing up in an orange cape and white ruff like some medieval plotter.
Sheik Fartusi, an intense young man in a dark cape and white turban, said he also worked under the authority of Moktada al-Sadr, the revered ayatollah's son.
He was dressed peculiarly, as he had been on the road — in a yellow helmet, a flaglike blue cape with white stars on it, and denims — and the crowd at once joined him in singing: "You've got to move when the spirit say move, Move when the spirit say move.
White House schedulers find five minutes at 11 45 a.m. for Elvis, who, on time for once, enters wearing tight purple velvet pants, the matching cape, a white pointy collared shirt unbuttoned to reveal two enormous gold chains, and a belt buckle the size of Rhode Island.
The ETA video showed the statement being read in Spanish by one of three ETA activists seated at a table flanked by Basque nationalist banners, wearing black berets and capes, and white masks.
At a long-shut United States Air Force base, women who were about to graduate from a business-computing course looked one day like a congeries of Whistler's mothers: clad in black plastic hairdresser's capes with white tab collars, they waited tight-lipped for their waist-long hair to be snipped into blunt cuts and bangs.
