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...The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel, taking as its inspiration a trial that commanded public attention and provoked riots in the street: that of Arthur Orton aka Roger Tichborne aka Thomas Castro...
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...Another peculiarity is around the role of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury....
...In the 1960s Fidel Castro wore two at once. Those days are over. “The scarcity of our products is not a strategy on our part,” Rolex says....
...She saw little comparison to the tens of thousands of Cuban “Marielitos” who came to America in 1980, including many released by Castro from prisons and mental hospitals....
...Charles de Gaulle embodied this impulse....
...On the Algarve, eligible residential investments will be limited to non-coastal “territories of the interior”, including Alcoutim, Aljezur, Castro Marim and others....
...“Demagogues by definition over-reach,” Tye told me, pointing not only to McCarthy’s misguided attacks on the army but the Depression-era populist Father Charles Coughlin, whose anti-Semitic diatribes eventually...
...Cuba’s last Castro is set to leave the political stage on Friday when Fidel’s 89-year-old brother Raúl is expected to cede power to a younger generation at the start of the country’s Communist party congress...
...“This 17th-century furniture by André-Charles Boulle was brought from Paris....
...On issues ranging from healthcare and immigration to racism and climate change, Mr Biden faced assaults from Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator, and Julián Castro, the former Obama cabinet secretary who...
...Highlights included Richie Havens, Santana, Country Joe McDonald, Joe Cocker and The Who. They were electrifying....
...Posting pictures of Adolf Hitler, Fidel Castro and Mao Zedong, among other dictators, he added that “only dictators disarmed their people”....
...The weakest link is Amanda Castro’s Anita, adequate but lacking the spitfire sass of some of her illustrious predecessors. Peter J....
...Among sales at Charles Ede was an early Cycladic head (c2600BC-2200BC, £58,000) that went to a client originally introduced to the London antiquities gallery at Tefaf in New York....
...There was the “endearing” early promise of Fidel Castro’s triumph in January 1959....
...It can also count on the support of co-chairman Jose Antonio Castro’s Hesperia, holder of 9.2 per cent....
...(FT) Food for thought Soldiers told to ignore child abuse The US army is trying to retire special forces member Charles Martland....
...Before landing in the US he will spend three days in Cuba, meeting Raúl and Fidel Castro, the country’s current and former Socialist leaders....
...As well as Mr Filo, it is putting forward Mr Schwab, chairman and director of the Charles Schwab Corporation, the brokerage, and H....
...“Where we find rum, we find action, sometimes cruel, sometimes heroic,” wrote Charles William Taussig, who was president of the American Molasses Company – and an adviser to US president Franklin Delano...
...Among British royal family members attending commemorations, Prince Charles lays a wreath after a Glasgow Cathedral service....
...Among those joining the home teams are Italian colleagues Baccarelli Botticelli, Di Castro, Carlo Orsi and Walter Padovani. Some are also venturing into the city’s art fairs....
...Alicia Castro, Argentina’s ambassador to London, declined an invitation to attend the funeral, however, highlighting the continuing tension over the Falkland Islands....
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