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...The later Timurids — dubbed “the Oriental Medici” by the 20th-century travel writer Robert Byron — transformed themselves into refined connoisseurs of painting, poetry and calligraphy....
...His witness William Pitt (then prime minister) became too emotional to sign the register....
...Dark afternoons of spirit-raising and ether-taking with their glamorous neighbour (Lord Byron) and his handsome doctor (John Polidori) led to storytelling....
...If Herman Melville, Byron and Patrick O’Brian took inspiration from the Wager’s story, so did William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies Grann cites in his epigraph....
...“She moves along a wall of pictures, some unattributed and others by William Hogarth or Thomas Gainsborough, gesturing at the changes in skirt shape....
...But then he’s off to Pisa, where he joins the bed-hopping society of Shelley and Byron....
...Serena Williams, the retired tennis star, is also joining as a senior adviser....
...While the meetings have stretched for hours and Schwartz has arrived with detailed questions, his conclusions are unknown, people familiar with the matter told DD’s Antoine Gara and William Louch....
...Archie Byron’s tender bas-relief “Anatomy I” (1987), with limbs emerging as though from a sand dune, is made of sawdust and glue....
...Next up, BDT Capital Partners, the merchant bank led by Goldman Sachs veteran Byron Trott, cooked up a deal to take grill maker Weber private at $3.7bn....
...Today, the person providing PR advice for the Greek prime minister is Ed Williams, boss of Edelman in Europe....
...Later, in Port Byron, another historical marker solemnly informed us that a local man, Amos S King, “gifted a bible to Pres Abraham Lincoln in 1861....
...It was the morning of June 22 1741, and two young Englishmen, William Windham and Richard Pococke, set out with their retinue from Chamonix in search of glaciers....
...William Blake was his in-house engraver, while Henry Fuseli decorated the wall of his dining room....
...But the book doesn’t back up the optimistic resemblances made in the introduction by its editor, the poet Paul Muldoon, to WB Yeats, Lord Byron and McCartney’s “fellow lyricist” William Wordsworth....
...However, Byron (who lived a couple of doors along) was fiercely critical of the whole enterprise, referring to the display as “a general mart, for all the mutilated blocks of art”....
...We trace the spread of his renown, the mixed feelings he stirred in Keats, Byron and other Romantic acolytes who often “revolted against their father”....
...Philosophers, political thinkers and authors of the 18th and 19th centuries who criticised aspects of British imperialism, including Edmund Burke, Lord Byron and John Stuart Mill, may have thought they were...
...The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer’s engrossing history of Nazi Germany, certainly left me paler than my friends....
...Very hard to leave.” 10 William Street, Paddington (10williamst.com.au)....
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Knopf, RRP$30 Letitia Landon or LEL as she styled herself,...
...The person I rely on for personal grooming is Byron at Aveda, in Covent Garden, who cuts my hair....
...The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their Year of Marvels, by Adam Nicolson, illustrated by Tom Hammick, William Collins, RRP£25, 390 pages Miranda Seymour is the author of ‘In Byron’s...
...“That said, I want William Street to be really accessible,” she adds. “I say it’s open ‘by appointment or chance’....
...Food writer William Sitwell’s The Restaurant is a history of eating out spanning two millennia (Simon & Schuster RRP£20, April)....
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