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...A four-volume edition of John James Audubon’s celebrated Birds of America (1827-38) will be a notable rarity at this year’s Tefaf Maastricht fair, priced at $12.5mn, available through London-based rare books...
...Ecclestone stepped down as Formula One’s chief executive in 2017, ending his 40-year reign over the global motor racing series after Liberty Media, controlled by American billionaire John Malone, agreed...
...It doesn’t seem like full details were required, as some people signed on with pseudonyms (“John Doe” etc)....
...Htet Myat served 15 years in Myanmar’s military, rising to the rank of captain before defecting to the opposition months after Aung San Suu Kyi’s government was toppled in a coup....
...It joins a tradition of funny, affectionate dramatic pastiches of Jane Austen’s beloved novels....
...“To have John Mawurndjul’s bark work taken into the Tate collection is a monumental shift.”...
...One of these sketches, a portrait of “John Doe 1”, was soon identified by the owner of the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, where the suspect had stayed. His name was Timothy McVeigh....
...The shy look from beneath the fringe, the endless finishing-school legs, the enormous doe eyes, morphed from gauche and winning simplicity into flashlight fodder....
...And the defence “we’re doing it all for John and Jane Doe” will get a new lease of life....
...The leading men were everyman-handsome, not too pretty: Humphrey Bogart, Glenn Ford, Robert Ryan, John Garfield, Edmond O’Brien, Burt Lancaster....
...At school, he was a member of the choir and captain of the American football team....
...You just had to become a captain without having too many limbs blown off. Then you could capture enemy ships and receive prize money....
...You are Ms Jane Doe, aren’t you? I’m sorry to report that your bank account has been compromised, Ms Doe....
...It was his university tutor, Jane Atfield, who encouraged his reimaginings of chairs....
...Jason Hughes as the Captain and Sion Daniel Young as Ifan William likewise let slip their guard to reveal their own personal losses. All these characters are damaged and bereaved....
...Here it is joyful; later Molly and the Captain feel hemmed in by parental hopes, fears, love....
...Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Jane, 57, says: “I’m not working at the moment so I can have days when I don’t speak to people. We’re social animals. We want to come together to share something.”...
...The cloud created by the biggest bomb was analysed using, in part, techniques derived from the 19th-century art critic John Ruskin whose studies of the morphologies of clouds inspired the investigation....
...Kathryn Sutherland is a professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and curator of ‘Which Jane Austen?’...
...The captain of the Fitzgerald was relieved of his command after an investigation described the disaster as “avoidable”....
...Photo Jane Barlow/PA August 29: Migrants, mostly from Eritrea, jump from a crowded wooden boat into the Mediterranean to reach a rescue vessel about 13 miles off Sabratha, Libya....
...“If it had been Jane Doe, she would have been prosecuted.” His most famous moment came on the night of March 10 2004....
...In his novels, John le Carré also refers to the deep state....
...A feelgood factor was in short supply, which is perhaps why John Carney’s Sing Street literally had audiences dancing in the aisles....
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