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...After graduating with a degree in philosophy from Cornell, he studied music composition with Hall Overton — a composer who worked with Thelonious Monk and other jazz greats....
...Labour’s oldest peer is Lord Anthony Christopher, 98, while 78-year-old Lord John Monks, former head of the Trades Union Congress, jokes that he always liked to attend the upper house to make himself feel...
...In 2019 they were chosen with the approval of the courtyard’s designer, Christopher Bradley-Hole, and were planted as semi-mature specimens of varying height, some of which were sourced in Germany....
...Soane composed fantasies about previous inhabitants (including that one was a medieval monk) and imagined his house as a future ruin excavated by archaeologists in his odd book Crude Hints Towards an History...
...St Anselm, the great theologian and philosopher, is here as “monk”, but really his role is one of author....
...By 1391 only 11 monks and three lay brothers remained on a site designed to accommodate around 300....
...They are an enigma, thought to have been created as symbols of protection for monks during meditation....
...The author Christopher Isherwood, writing of his visit to the war-ravaged China of 1938, described stopping at a restaurant “where they were cooking bamboo in all its forms — including the strips used for...
...Christopher Wilson’s 10th novel asks for a sort of bilocation from its readers....
...Its rose window was blown out and its cloister mostly collapsed, and it is home to birds instead of monks, but its walls and columns still stand proud....
...While the monk can be credited with several advances that improved the quality of champagne, he did not invent the process....
...The history of wine is one of happy accidents: the forgotten pots of old grape juice found at the back of a cave, those French monks who bottled their Chardonnay too early and inadvertently invented fizz...
...Monk’s beard. I like that. This is the sage leaves that I want. And do you have sea bream carpaccio?” he asks the waiter, who is bouncing from foot to foot in anticipation of our order....
...Before my tour of Chillingham, I asked Christopher French, head of Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London, why people believe houses are haunted....
...All of the rugs are made from wool, silk or both, says Matthew Bourne, who oversaw the rug-making for Christopher Farr....
...Following Shakespeare and Webster, Christopher Marlowe is getting a little run out in this intimate theatre (his Edward II follows Faustus into the space) and director Paulette Randall makes fine use of...
...Southeast-Asia early-stage tech venture capital firm Monk’s Hill Ventures has made two new partner appointments as it expands its dealmaking in the region....
...Christopher Martin , professor, University of Bath No....
...They also draw support from “Just War Theory”, a strain of thought that can be traced back to the efforts of Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-century Italian Dominican monk, to distinguish between conflict begun...
...Christopher de Hamel is author of ‘Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts’ (Allen Lane)....
...One minute he is impersonating Christopher Columbus, the next Alexander Pushkin (using lines from a one-man show he is developing about the Russian poet, whose great-grandfather was a freed African slave...
...Online, social media users shared pictures of schoolchildren and monks sitting at attention as they watched blanket state media broadcasts of the speech....
...In Myanmar, Facebook suspended the widely followed page of Wirathu, a monk known for his anti-Muslim jeremiads, in January, 10 months after the country’s state-backed Sangha clerical committee banned him...
...Christopher Pissarides, professor, LSE I expect a very moderate rise in interest rates....
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