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...The Abbey Library of St Gall, Switzerland The first record of a library being used at the St Gallen Abbey was in 820CE, making this one of the oldest library collections in Europe....
...What at first glance appears to be a single slim townhouse on St James’s Square is actually seven, knocked into one reading and writing emporium....
...Mr Schwartz has made Guggenheim Securities into a formidable M&A player — ranking 11th in revenues among US advisers from 2014-16 — but not without paying a very pretty penny to certain prized new hires....
...Nonetheless the fallow’s rise over roe and red deer had to wait till major imports by the Normans in the 11th century....
...Transcontainer, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, will announce on Tuesday plans to raise about $400m in an upcoming London listing, while O’Key, the St Petersburg-based grocer, said last week it would float...
...“As a result of industrialisation, a population of about 2,000 swelled to 60,000 to 70,000 by 1900,” says Mr Trett....
...One Busch Place St....
...Virtuoso writer that he is, Schama casts clod-hopping chronology to the winds, whisking the reader from – in the case of chapters nine to 12 – 1864 to 2008 to 1900 to 1944....
...Volume was relatively low at 1.4bn shares, while data showed that foreigners were net sellers of Japanese stocks for the 11th session out of 16 since the Nikkei reached a nine-month high on March 11....
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