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...Diallo was keen to include fashion creators in this shoot who may not be based in Africa, but whose heritage gave them an invaluable perspective....
...In this version of London, Soho House members club has turned Richard Rogers’ former Lloyds Insurance building into a multistorey, 24-hour nightclub....
...In 1891, Edward Freeman, regius professor at the University of Oxford, published a History of Sicily from the Earliest Times that invoked the same fundamental opposition between the island’s ancient Greek...
...Financial trading and insurance sprung out of coffee houses....
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...Asia Life reported a 3% beat to consensus estimates, driven by strong growth outside of Hong Kong, US Life (3% beat) was driven by favourable DAC deceleration and Eastspring (4% beat) driven by strong revenue...
...Asked if the smaller museums should regard themselves as underdogs, particularly after last year’s victory for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Mr Deuchar said: “The V&A were amazed to have won....
...For anything else unexpectedly impacting resale value there was insurance and/or customer liability....
...Luckett is the city’s mayor and, with the actor Morgan Freeman, owns Ground Zero....
...Historic Lincoln Trust, chaired by the politician and heritage campaigner Lord Cormack, championed a £22m campaign, the bulk of it from the Heritage Lottery Fund, to consolidate the forlorn masonry and to...
...By the end of his life, his collection of models was displayed in a specially designated “Model Room” on the second floor of 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields....
...This will remove over £1bn from the cost of providing motor insurance. We expect the industry to pass on this saving, so motorists see an average saving of £40-50 per year off their insurance bills....
...In an earlier life, David Hunt might well have spent his days covered in coal dust....
...He closed his Lincoln Center show on Tuesday with a capped-sleeve ivory organza confection that had the audience gasping with delight....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...These days directing from a wheelchair, the 73-year-old Bertolucci has spoken of seeing life anew – at ground level....
...Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP. Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of the World Monuments Fund Britain...
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...A flurry of books tracked the lives of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, born 200 years ago this year....
...It is a journey that takes us back to a time before most of us were born, long before the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, and Brown v....
...It’s a bit like sitting three rows ahead of Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin.”...
...A curator enters and plays Mrs Lincoln’s music box. Then ghosts from Lincoln’s day - splendidly realistic holograms - appear and spring into life....
...An annual study of Germans’ fears, conducted by the R+V insurance group since 1991, shows falling purchasing power, economic weakness and unemployment topping their concerns this year, with terrorism in...
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