Speaking of James, the museum is gearing up for a show next year to commemorate the 400th anniversary of another of the greatest English Renaissance productions, the King James Bible.

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Ideally situated between San Francisco and San Jose, it's 15 minutes from four 18-hole golf courses, a short drive from Purisima Creek Open Space Preserve and five miles from tourable Filoli one of the finest remaining country estates of the early 20th century, boasting a 36, 000-square-foot Georgian country house and a spectacular 16-acre English Renaissance garden.

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This is a fine detail in a persuasive account of the renaissance of English cricket, and no one is better qualified to tell it.

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Since then Bhutia, who was on the verge of retirement, has enjoyed a career renaissance under the team's English coach Bob Houghton.

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Instead he was interested in the polyphony (separate lines of music intermingling) first of the Italian renaissance composer Palestrina, and then the English composers of the 16th century.

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