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...Over at the Hyatt hotel lecture theatre, a self-described “architecture fan girl” is waiting for a presentation on Alfred Hitchcock’s “architectural infatuations” to begin....
...On the same day Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, will discuss with IMF’s Alfred Kammer the challenges that policymakers face in the era of Covid-19 and what a post-pandemic...
...One of those who participated in a Davey “séance” was Alfred Russel Wallace, who was utterly convinced that he had witnessed genuine supernatural phenomena....
...The FT’s Claer Barrett says it might not sound appealing, but it is a great time to do some Christmas shopping. (FT) May meets Macron A make-or-break visit for Brexit....
...“We chose a mantellisaurus because it is one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons discovered in the UK and it’s a nice medium-sized specimen that fits well into a bay,” says Paul Barrett, the museum’s...
...For Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the dawn of photography, the miracle was “the sense of nearness involved in the thing . . . the fact of the very shadow of the person lying fixed there forever!”...
...Alfred Herrhausen, 59, chairman of Deutsche Bank Herrhausen was assassinated in November 1989 after a terrorist bomb attack on his car which was initially blamed on the Red Army Faction....
...“In today’s statement, Balfour Beatty is talking about theoretical cost synergies; Carillon has already proved it can create synergies with its acquisition of both Mowlem and Alfred McAlpine, where it comfortably...
...Robb’s father, Alfred Myers, started the business in Stoke Newington in 1947, selling and servicing the sewing machines used in clothing factories across the East End....
...Pop Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head, by Rob Chapman, Faber RRP£14.99 Chapman’s biography digs beneath the romanticising of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett as crazed psychedelic Icarus to find a dreamy...
...WHY ALFRED BURNED THE CAKES: 1,100 Years of Myth and History by David Horspool Profile ₤15.99, 256 pages Another schoolroom story given the full treatment, restoring Alfred’s claim to the title “great”...
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