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...Which of the following was not a pre-bitcoin digital currency: B-Money, HashCash, Internet Money, Bitgold, Beenz?...
...In the meantime, the Americans and Chinese are each brushing up on the thinking of Alfred Mahan, the 19th-century military strategist and author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History....
...I was delighted to learn (“The Life of a Song”, Life & Arts, February 11) of other versions of “Sloop John B” in David Cheal’s history of the song, but was perplexed by his question: “Why would a British...
...The best gift I’ve given recently was giving Reece Yeboah the opportunity to collaborate with COS Stores and show his collection at Tate Modern....
...Other parts of the palace are used for performances too, not least the Hall of Mirrors, where Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas can be heard on April 20, and the Chapelle Royale, where Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart...
...One chapter looks at the significance of eggs in the household of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas....
...Round on the Links The link was Alfred Hitchcock films Vertigo Indian rope trick Rebecca Front The Birds The Notorious B.I.G Above suspicion Psycho Royal National Lifeboat Institution Sabotage...
...There were some rough edges in the ill-matched peasant pas de six but strong support from Elizabeth McGorian (as the heroine’s fearful mama) and Lukas B Brændsrød as the jealous old flame who triggers the...
...In between, the American vocalist visits Brecht, Weill and musicals and creates lyrics from a letter the photographer Alfred Stieglitz wrote to his wife Georgia O’Keeffe; the reflective, lute-supported lyricism...
...[4] The B round raised a billion dollars. Soon afterward came the “meme round”: $420.69 million from 69 investors. There’s a lot to unpack here....
...The studios of Alberto Giacometti, Alfred Munnings, Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Barbara Hepworth, Jackson Pollock and Vanessa Bell all have second lives as tourist attractions....
...The first voice to be heard on it belongs to Alfred Hitchcock, sampled from his 1958 spoken word record Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music to Be Murdered By....
...I’d hear Cardi B echoing from a car, Classic FM from a window, a cacophony of sirens....
...Along with DoorDash’s co-founders, Mr Xu retains control of the company through special class B common stock with 20 votes a share....
...The four voices in it are assigned only initials (A, B, C and M) and could be any age or ethnicity....
...Other honours and accolades have included a Bafta special award in 1990, the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh (1991) and, in the US, the Cecil B DeMille award at the 1996 Golden Globes....
...Long before Dadaists gleefully provoked the bourgeoisie and Surrealists glorified the absurd, irrational and scatological, Alfred Jarry scandalised Paris with Ubu Roi — a play so rude and anarchic that rioting...
...Jim Ratcliffe owns 60 per cent of the company, the remainder shared between co-founders Andy Currie and John Reece....
...Alfred Lion had begun the label in 1939, recording classic jazz at first, and modern jazz a few years later....
...She also directed more than 100 episodes of television series (including Alfred Hitchcock Presents)....
...Established by Alfred the Great, it was one of 30-odd defensive sites designed to defend England from Viking invaders. A pub has sat on The George’s site opposite the church since 1736....
...In Lawrenceville, McLeod, a Democratic party politician running for the state legislature, is telling Alfred Johnson, an African-American resident, that his vote is less likely to influence November’s election...
...Accommodation in college rooms, on a B&B or self-catering basis, starts from £35 a night; see universityrooms.com....
...For fugal variety there are also silver-voiced Brit Ralph Fiennes (butler Alfred), a plangently wheedling Zach Galifianakis (Joker) and Rosario Dawson’s mezzo-toned Commissioner Gordon, daughter of the old...
...According to W.B. Yeats, it was in fact Wilde’s fiercely nationalistic mother who told her son she would never speak to him again if he fled (and thereby evaded martyrdom in an English jail)....
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