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...For 700 years the Stone of Destiny, also known as the Stone of Scone, sat under a throne....
...In the Texas border town of Eagle Pass one Saturday in December, volunteers planted 700 crosses on the riverfront in memory of the lives lost crossing into the country in the past year alone....
...Art experts were quick to notice Canaletto’s 1744 view of Venice as the backdrop to the accession of the UK’s new monarch, King Charles III, in London’s St James’s Palace last weekend....
...It currently employs 6,400 people in the UK, but said it had added nearly 700 positions in the past year and currently had 165 open roles....
...More than 700 military personnel took part in the funeral proceedings....
...“There are thin pickings but at £1,200-£1,300 per sq ft such a town house is more affordable than [in] Marylebone at £1,700-£1,800 per sq ft.”...
...A third painting, of London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, also sold above estimate for £880,000 (£1.1m with fees, 1927)....
...Lydia Marie Hicks tells me how Lela G Wilson named some of the streets here for black cities that she hoped people would visit Idlewild from — Chicago, St Louis, Tampa....
...developer Charles Kearley in 1989....
...Citadel Securities will pay a fine of $700,000 under the terms of a settlement with the regulator without admitting or denying the claims....
...Mr Griffin “recently purchased 3 Carlton Gardens in St James’s”, according to Julie Andreeff Jensen, his spokesperson....
...Furloughed staff (nearly 12 per cent of about 1,700) will not see their salaries topped up, while all remaining employees have an equivalent 20 per cent pay cut, until June 1....
...By the time we met, Sebastian was 45, exhausted and well worn, having walked 8,700 miles in 11 months....
...His replacement will be Mark Allan, who is currently chief executive at St Modwen Properties, the property group which specialises in brownfield regeneration....
...He enjoyed an exquisitely made dry martini every night and, long before he died in 2015 at the age of 90, estimated he had drunk 8,700 martinis in his life....
...Charles Schwab launched its first smart beta funds 10 years ago, but investors began piling in after the strategies developed a track record, says Jonathan de St Paer, head of product strategy and development...
...A good example of this is Plynk, a payment and messaging app aimed at young people, which was co-founded by Charles Dowd and Clive Foley in 2015, a year after Mr Dowd left Facebook....
...St Mary’s Cottages, Elgol, Isle of Skye, UK, £1.25m Four traditional self-catering thatched cottages and a five-bedroom owners’ house on 2.6 acres in the secluded fishing village of Elgol....
...Valuations were looking “rich”, said Shannon Stemm, an analyst at Edward Jones in St Louis, Missouri. But some said the sell-off could have further to go....
...He gushed over Hitler and handed the slogan on to Charles Lindbergh’s campaign....
...This looks suspiciously like a Lucy Kellaway column, with some Charles Dickens thrown in for good measure; maybe even 93 per cent of a Lucy Kellaway column....
...He later turned St Regis into a high-end chain and launched W Hotels in 1998....
...Away from the river and marina, prices can be as low as £700 per sq ft, again cheaper than comparable inner-city areas. “The area was always undervalued and I still think it is,” says Taylor....
...What A house with four bedrooms and five bathrooms covering almost 4,700 sq ft....
...When you are in a school you think of it in different ways: the Roman walls, the Lord Mayor’s show and St Paul’s.”...
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