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...Flakes were peeling off the bone, around the nerve cavities, almost like the bark of a tree, only harder and more brittle....
...Plaques around the base of the church base commemorate the reformer Alexander II, fatally wounded here in 1881; above one, pocked by shrapnel, is a secondary plaque to mark the tens of thousands of bombs...
...The Albermarle & Bond deal is the first investment from its second fund, Promethean UK Opportunities Fund II LP....
...(Financial Times) Greece to seek German war reparations: Greece is seeking to revive a long-standing demand for reparations from Germany arising from World War II in a move that could test Athens’s ties...
...Synthetic rubber became widely available after World War II, and consumption has exceeded that of natural rubber since around 1960....
...(ii) More importantly, nearly 90% of US foreign liabilities are dollar denominated. Therefore, a weaker dollar only has a very minimal impact on net foreign liabilities....
...The ban, which covers all stocks, triggered a 4.5 per cent rally in Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index, led by Macquarie, Babcock & Brown and Fortescue Metals Group, all of which had been targeted by...
...Few days pass in my management of garden workers without sympathy for that gardener and his servant-helper who emerge in the third act of Richard II....
...Pop single of the year was between Mick’s “Brown Sugar”, Rod’s “Maggie May”, Marc’s “Get It On” and John’s “Imagine”....
...Coffee for him but [a Tory bark] “a very large whisky for the priest” at 11 in the morning. I was meant to have two large whiskies because [GK Chesterton’s character] Father Brown did....
...For Peter the Great, Alexander II, the Bolsheviks and their post-communist successors, Russia was and is a European power, but a relatively backward one....
...Her white fur rustles against rough bark and her pearls tingle on silk....
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