Climbing to 16,000 feet over the Virginia countryside Saturday, Charles McGee looked intense but at ease.
Interviewed from an adjoining car as he rolled through the German countryside Friday morning on a training ride before a long individual time trial, he said with a laugh, "I'm not a superstar, I'm a regular guy".
— After 16 years and $10 billion — and a long morning of electrical groaning and sweating — there was joy in the meadows and tunnels of the Swiss-French countryside Tuesday: the world's biggest physics machine, the Large Hadron Collider, finally began to make subatomic particles collide.
His wood engravings and linocuts, often highly coloured and alive with wit and observation, captured the buildings, coast, countryside and day-to-day life of his surroundings.
Before June, ISIS controlled neighborhoods of the city by night, collecting money and slipping in to the countryside by day.
After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious.
The top official of one of Britain's largest police forces was found dead in the North Wales countryside a day after he left for a walk in the mountains, the authorities said.
Our favourite, so grand that it's been named an "avenue verte", is the 45km Dieppe Forges route from the Channel port to the heart of the Normandy countryside (one day, they say, it will be part of a mighty "avenue verte London Paris").
Represented in the show by almost as many drawings as Poussin, Claude early in his career assiduously pursued nature themes, making arduous treks in the Italian countryside each day to scrutinize trees, grasses, rocks and other natural phenomena, while also observing the effects of changing light.
