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...It felt good growing up in the glow of JPR Williams....
...By the time he started writing Strandings, his research had got out of hand and, like Captain Ahab, Riley lost control. He began to fear the whales. He’d see them in dreams....
...William Bligh, captain of the Bounty cast adrift with his 18 shipmates off the coast of Samoa in 1789, was a good man — the films are inaccurate....
...Charlie Williams of Athena Advisers, an estate agency that sells across the French Alps, says the savings can be significant....
...There, among the Arctic ice floes, Captain William Day is seeking Jesse Stevens, his former second-in-command who has gone missing along with his ship and crew....
...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....
...While many captains of industry have business savvy but lack a passion for their field, Engerer combines a love for distinctive wine with an uncompromising drive to fulfil his domaines’ potential....
...More recently, luxury yacht-maker Sunreef collaborated with Miami-based artist Alexander Mijares – whose fans include David Beckham and Pharrell Williams – on a ship-side mural that was shown at Art Basel...
...Gary Neville, a former United captain, said the club’s US owners had originally bought the “best club in the country, the best ground in the country and the best team” but since then had simply “extracted...
...Amid all the nonsense, prim spinster secretary Hester Leggett steps forward to help the team compose a letter from the fake officer’s sweetheart and, in the song “Dear Bill”, suddenly reveals her own wartime...
...After being cast adrift in a small open boat somewhere off the coast of Samoa on April 28 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 loyalists watched the Bounty slowly slip from view....
...“Molly & the Captain”....
...In crisply written pages, Davison explores the bearing of Edwardian folk music generally on Vaughan Williams, and finds in “The Captain’s Apprentice” a story of sexual abuse and unimaginable cruelty....
...There’s a drawing by Alex Tavoularis, the artistic director on Apocalypse Now – a styling reference for how Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen, should look in his fatigues....
...“We’re upbeat about it, but nervously thinking that it might not be as good without the Queen,” said Jerry Williams, a trackside bookmaker for Glen Graham Racing, on the opening day of Royal Ascot....
...Amnesiac assassins, renegade Soviet submarine captains, swirling conspiracies in the White House or in papal conclaves — like many readers, I love political thrillers that make you feel you’re “in the room...
...I must protest at the review of Caroline Davison’s book The Captain’s Apprentice and what it says about Morris dancing (“Vaughan Williams’ siren song”, Books, Life & Arts, August 20)....
...American buyers have become the fourth-largest group of buyers for Leggett Immobilier, a French estate agency, after French, British and Dutch....
...covered the various data stories around football’s World Cup in December, but perhaps the most engaging graphic on sports was Alan Smith’s look at the transformation of the England cricket team under new captain...
...When England football captain Harry Kane leads his team out next week for their latest international fixture, he won’t be alone....
...“I don’t want to be the captain or voice of this community. I don’t want people to remember me as gay but as a good player and a brave player.”...
...CIA chief William Burns also came and told the Bolsonaro administration not to mess with the elections....
...Its 32 signatories included nine presidents and former presidents, including Jimmy Carter; Nobel Prize-winning chemists and physicists, including Sir Anthony Leggett; creatives, including the musician Sting...
...There they were converted to Christianity, dressed in western clothes and presented to King William as a curiosity....
...Still more to Williams for sneaking through such a strong physical likeness between the film’s glowering, Ahab-ish captain and the company’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos. ★★★★☆ In cinemas now and on Netflix from...
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