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...early British pewter ever to come to auction, one of the prize lots was an unusually large wide-rimmed charger from the mid-17th century, engraved with an elaborate hunting scene and the maker’s touch, “W.B....
...The atmosphere is part British Museum, part monastic B&Q....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...Recently it has recommended Timothy D Snyder’s Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary and Roger L Martin’s When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency....
...Last year’s edition made headlines with surprise performances from Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell, and this year is also set to be a star-studded affair, with the likes of Aimee Mann, Lana Del Rey, John Batiste...
...It was a brazen cross-pollination of genres that never quite clicked in: a Q-Tip remix alongside the latest Aimee Mann, a Silverchair ballad followed by a really loud Sugarcubes B-side....
...knew the answer was (b), compared with 86 per cent of those living in the best-off areas....
...Lyndon B Johnson once reminisced America’s greatest presidents were “remembered best for their successes in human rights”....
...But as highfalutin and academic as it all sounds, Green’s starting point is often surprisingly everyday: for his debut menswear show in London in 2013, he built human sculptures fashioned from B&Q fence...
...The Six Flags proxy contest launched by Mr Snyder that afternoon was his Plan B. RedZone had first hoped to acquire the company by purchasing it in a traditional buyout....
...Abloh, who DJs under the name Flat White, shares his deep understanding and love of hip-hop, house and R&B, and his thirst for new music....
...Take Campbell Soup borrowing more than $5bn in March to fund its acquisition of the snack foodmaker Snyder’s-Lance, CVS Health issuing $40bn in bonds to help pay for its acquisition of Aetna or the buildings...
...Before Campbell Soup sold $5bn of debt this month to fund its purchase of US snack-food maker Snyder’s-Lance, its chief financial officer told analysts that the company’s prized investment-grade status was...
...Robert B Todd, Bristol, UK A Catalog of Birds, by Laura Harrington, Europa Editions RRP$16 Harrington tells the story of a young soldier, Billy Flynn, returning from Vietnam in the 1970s....
...Alejandra and Marcela don’t use “the B-word”. They refer to the explosive devices their revolutionary group plants in the middle of the night as “cows” and “cheeses”....
...Their conversation also covers how Oster became interested in economics; some topics of her earlier research, including a 2005 study on the link between gender imbalance and Hepatitis B in China, whose findings...
...Unlike many MS sufferers, Henry did not have any visual impairments so staff at A&E concluded he had a vitamin B deficiency. They sent him for blood tests — which came back negative a few days later....
...I know that I experience a squeamish frisson watching Ruth Snyder, a housewife from Queens, sizzle in the Sing-Sing electric chair....
...For more on the night’s activity, you can scroll down through the #FTPubQuiz hashtag on Twitter, and be sure to listen to the vox-pop segment of this week’s Alphachat, in which producer Aimee Keane asked...
...of law which has not been foreclosed or otherwise enforced against the assets to which it applies; or… Next, found among the seemingly dull technical language on carrying out payments of the bonds: (b)...
...For example, latedeparture waxes lyrical about the aesthetic pleasures of London Heathrow Terminal Five’s B Gates satellite complex – “terminal with a view”....
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