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...In his choreography of the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in 1822 he gave the country tartan as its motif — even persuading the portly king to wear a mini kilt....
...John Gibson Lockhart, Walter Scott’s son-in-law and biographer, was at first sceptical about the central role of kilts and bagpipes in the royal visit....
...“You’ve got to give it to Trump, he pulled out the IV and tapped into the vein. But slowly, people are saying that it’s not what he sold us on,” he says....
...A snapshot of his shelves runs from Amos Oz to Isabel Allende by way of Steinbeck, Márquez, Jürgen Habermas (on Europe, of course) and di Lampedusa’s The Leopard ....
...(Bloomberg) The last nomads The Pintupi Nine were the last family of nomads to roam the territory around Lake Mackay between the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts of Western Australia....
...But “advising is not as new as one might think”, Westreich points out, noting that Velásquez counselled King Philip IV of Spain on his acquisitions in the 17th century....
...In 1822 Scott went further, stage-managing a splashy pageant for George IV (who wore an extra large kilt over his fleshy legs) in an identification of Scotland with the bagpipes and tartan from which it...
...As Shakespeare taught us, every Prince Hal grows up, at some point, to become Henry IV: tormented, judgmental, capricious, unpredictable....
...“The UK is the most expensive place to develop games in the world today,” says Rick Gibson, co-founder of Games Investor Consulting, a backer of the Games Up campaign....
...Parts I, II, III, IV and V (“This boy sold $60m to an ailing state pension fund.”): Related links For you, CDO, ze war is over – FT Alphaville...
...When the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto IV was launched in the UK last week, sales of PS3 consoles increased 127 per cent, according to Chart Track, the research company....
...From the released documents, I have now learned that the Gibson Dunn law firm was hired by PW to review the arrangements that had already agreed between PW and SR....
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