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...On the Macedonians’ leftwing, led into battle by young Alexander, some of the Macedonian dead were cremated with weapons and breastplates....
...At the great site of Taxila, now in Pakistan, Alexander the Great and his army once took control of the city....
...You’re an expert in Alexander the Great. You wrote a book called The Invention of Medicine. I’m curious about, you know, you know so much about history. For centuries, we have kept beautiful plants....
...As a focal point on the main hillside, Le Nôtre planned a massive statue of Heracles, weary after his 12 labours, copying the one sculpted in the 320s BC by Lysippus, Alexander the Great’s favourite sculptor...
...In 1713, in his fine poem about Windsor Forest, Alexander Pope admired how “interspers’d in Lawns and opening Glades/Thin trees arise that shun each others’ Shades”....
...Before his battle Alexander’s beloved horse Bucephalas died. In his honour Alexander founded a city called Bucephala on the bank from which he crossed the river and won....
...White Fox by Owen Matthews (Bantam/Doubleday) The last in Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vasin sees him exiled to Siberia, to run a remote and brutal outpost of...
...Andrey Kelin is Russia’s ambassador to the UK, not Alexander Yakovenko...
...The blue light of a half moon illuminated the karakat tracks, and pawprints of a fox who trotted off in search of discarded fish....
...Obedient to Alexander I never eat bananas....
...Separately, Latham has hired Hogan Lovells’ Alexander “Stefan” Rieger as an M&A and private equity partner in Frankfurt....
...It was also the first under Gianfilippo Testa, who joined Alexander McQueen as chief executive officer last May from fellow Kering brand Gucci....
...At 20 she interned with Alexander McQueen. By 24 she was fashion director of arts and culture magazine BlackBook....
...In Morocco, I led the crucial breakthrough for Alexander during his great victory over the Persian army....
...Robin Lane Fox is the FT’s gardening columnist and emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...When I was writing my book on Alexander the Great in the early 1970s, parts of his route through Lycia, the main ancient name for this part of Turkey, were still an adventure....
...“Would Trian have preferred that a competitor own [Fox]?” asked one slide....
...When the garden was still a populated town, Pope Alexander III was crowned there in 1159 in one of the churches whose ruins still make a heavenly setting for roses such as Mermaid and White Rock....
...There is plenty of menace in White Fox (Bantam, £18.99/Doubleday, $28), the last volume of Owen Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lt Col Alexander Vasin....
...And his advisers then went out to Fox News and wherever and repeated, he means this. This is for real. This wasn’t misspeaking....
...Last year I wrote on the grotto of the poet Alexander Pope and the plans for its restoration, to be headed by the Heritage of London Trust....
...even on my university salary at the bottom of the ladder, with fees at a fortnight’s notice for writing on gardening for the FT and a promise of payments from publishers if I ever finished the book on Alexander...
...When an American viewer encounters an opinion he doesn’t agree with on Fox News, he can always switch to CNN. In Russia, viewers will hear there is no war, only a limited “special operation”....
...There was a row of funkily dressed clients and a clutch of celebrities — including a hooded Kanye West and new girlfriend Julia Fox — marking off looks for red carpet appearances....
...Stacey and the Trust are also leading the restoration of the poet Alexander Pope’s historic grotto in Twickenham, which attracted a surge of support from FT readers after I described it here this summer....
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