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...White convinced Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III, brothers he knew from high school, to buy the struggling outfit for $2mn....
...But it was really lovely to find that you’d been successful; that the thing really had burned down and you hadn’t got caught.”...
...It was a final stage in the preparations for his legacy, which he’d begun almost 30 years earlier, when he had bought the house and drawn up the first plans to turn it into a museum....
...When I admire a 16th-century suit of armour, I am invited to try on the glove. It bends easily as I move my hand....
...The Earl of Essex had signally failed to defeat the Irish rebellion, and the rumours of a new Spanish Armada, launched by King Philip III, were serious enough for the militia to be mobilised....
...I’d like to state that on those occasions when I have lunched and dined with him in the White House and Downing Street, George W Bush has – as one might expect from the scion of what is as close to being...
...Almost every English monarch since George III. Useful for: Impressing overseas clients with Britain’shistorical magnificence....
...Almost every English monarch since George III. Useful for: Impressing overseas clients with Britain’s historical magnificence....
...Margaret becomes, as Joan became, a perilous woman who cancels her own femininity and dons armour to fight in battle, who brings ruin to England, who learns to kill and to curse her enemies....
...The police officers, deprived of sleep and sweltering in their body armour, barely paid attention....
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