The Versions of Us

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Roads not taken and lives unlived can make for great fiction. The human tendency to think what if, to consider the greener grass, is satisfied as an author manipulates her characters through time and space. This is what the English author Laura Barnett does in her debut novel, The Versions of Us, a captivating whirlwind of a book that offers readers three variations on one couple's life. Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge in 1958 when their paths first cross. Jim is walking along a lane when a woman approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid a dog. What happens next will determine the rest of their lives. We follow three different versions of their future – together, and apart – as their love story takes on different incarnations, twisting and turning to the conclusion in the present day. The thought will slip into her mind, fully formed, with a force that will snatch her breath. She’ll lie still, watching the light slide around the curtains, considering the precise angle of her tyre on the rutted grass; the nail itself, old and crooked; the small dog, snouting the verge, failing to heed the sound of gear and tyre. She had swerved to miss him, and her tyre had met the rusty nail. How easy – how much more probable – would it have been for none of these things to happen? The flag of the United States is the nation's most widely recognized symbol. [78] Within the United States, flags are frequently displayed not only on public buildings but on private residences. The flag is a common motif on decals for car windows, and on clothing ornamentation such as badges and lapel pins. Owing to the United States's emergence as a superpower in the 20th century, the flag is among the most widely recognized symbols in the world, and is used to represent the United States. [79] In 2012 and 2013, Microsoft released versions of Windows specially designed to run on ARM-based tablets; these versions of Windows, named "Windows RT" and "Windows RT 8.1," were based on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, respectively. Upon the release of Windows 10 in 2015, the ARM-specific version for large tablets was discontinued; large tablets (such as the Surface Pro 4) were only released with x86 processors and could run the full version of Windows 10. Windows 10 Mobile had the ability to be installed on smaller tablets (up to nine inches); [26] however, very few such tablets were released, and Windows 10 Mobile primarily ended up only running on smartphones until its discontinuation. In 2017, the full version of Windows 10 gained the ability to run on ARM, thus rendering a specific version of Windows for ARM-based tablets unnecessary.

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For the want of a nail… Laura Barnett has cleverly hung a series of alternative incarnations on that nail; they all depend on happenstance and/or moral judgement, and all beg questions. At the heart of them is this: in all her incarnations, Eva is going to be a successful writer. But how will that affect her relationship with Jim, doomed to be a failed artist? Or with David, destined to be an egotistic, vain, but successful actor? Which is the ‘right path for her to take? How can she best flourish with either man? Brandywine Flag (1777) – This flag is stated in most research as being the flag of the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment. However, the Independence National Historical Park, which currently owns the flag, states it is the flag of the Chester County Militia. [151] The flags gets its name for being used at the Battle of Brandywine which took place on September 11, 1777, less than three months after the passage of the first flag act making it one of the earliest stars and stripes. [152] [153] In the following table depicting the 28 various designs of the United States flag, the star patterns for the flags are merely the usual patterns, often associated with the United States Navy. Canton designs, prior to the proclamation of the 48-star flag, had no official arrangement of the stars. Furthermore, the exact colors of the flag were not standardized until 1934. [74] [75] Number ofThe United States Flag Code outlines certain guidelines for the flag's use, display, and disposal. For example, the flag should never be dipped to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. This tradition may come from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries were asked to dip their flag to King Edward VII: the American flag bearer did not. Team captain Martin Sheridan is famously quoted as saying, "this flag dips to no earthly king", though the true provenance of this quotation is unclear. [101] [102] In Versions Barnett trips across a variety of settings – Cambridge, London, Bristol, New York, Cornwall, Los Angeles – that each come to life. In LA David's glittering acting world has "Faye Dunaway, gazelle-limbed in white bellbottoms". A holiday to Athens for Jim and Eva shows the landscape from Jim's painterly perspective: "The deep blue expanse of sea; the bleached yellows of the retreating land; the cerulean splash of sky." Main article: Grand Union Flag The flag of the East India Company, introduced in 1707 and flown at sea in the Indian Ocean The Grand Union Flag, also known as the Continental Colors, used between 1775 and 1777 However, in common with the majority of records released in the opening months of 2020, any promotional push or live shows to showcase the album to a wider audience came to a grinding halt when the covid pandemic hit these shores. It was a shame, as songs like Baddies and Every Atom seemed poised to lift the band to another level.

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Civil Air Patrol". AF.mil. United States Air Force. 23 January 2009. Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia Barnett’s evocative presentation is a masterly romantic study of love’s choices and consequences, leaving wide open just what constitutes a perfect ending.’ (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – boxed/starred review)