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...Grandmasters have played in the match, the latest being the all-time No2 woman Hou Yifan, a Rhodes Scholar in 2018....
...Casting off, gingerly passing superyachts from Monaco and Rhode Island, immediately life seemed better....
...Beit provided Rhodes, not Barnato, with an introduction to Nathan Rothschild. In any case, Beit’s family had become Christian (as did those later captains of De Beers, the Oppenheimers)....
...“This is a very unique trip where we have 20 scientists on board and a mix of captains of industry, writers, artists, film directors, technology experts,” says Fretwell....
...The island, which was granted to the Gardiners by royal decree from King Charles I, is where Captain Kidd famously buried the bounty back in 1699....
...Letter in response to this article: Pakistan’s new PM must prioritise the economy / From Rizwan Rawji, Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium...
...After serving as a student representative at Sydney university, he came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1998....
...He is selling a refurbished captain’s house, complete with an Ottoman-era mezzanine family room, for €500,000....
...Mr Khan, Pakistan’s former cricket captain, spent the weekend negotiating with potential coalition allies after winning 115 seats — 22 seats short of a majority — and overturning decades of dominance by...
...Seated in the slot occupied by Queen Victoria in the Buckingham Palace monument is the roguish figure of a sea captain, alongside a tree stump from which a noose hangs in an ominous reference to a lynching...
...“I once said something about ‘corporate welfare’ [a phrase Reich coined] and Rubin said, ‘We can’t denigrate captains of industry,’” recalls Reich....
...The Blackstone chief also launched a scholarship in Beijing, modelled on Oxford’s Rhodes scholarships....
...A four-bedroom 17th-century captain’s house in Lindos town with roof terrace and sea views is on the market with E&V for €1.95m....
...of a sports team, an elected leader of their class, or recipient of Harvard’s backing for a Rhodes Scholarship and other graduate honours....
...Born to academic parents in Kingston, Jamaica — former West Indies cricket captain Jimmy Adams is a cousin — he grew up on the island “in the midst of an economic tailspin”....
...A former army captain and Rhodes Scholar, Kristofferson would become a successful actor and singer, but in the late 1960s he was jobbing as a studio gopher in Nashville as he tried to make it as a songwriter...
...The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project has known for some time the ship was scuttled in Newport Harbour in 1778....
...For a former Rhodes scholar at Oxford university, Mr Abbott displayed a predilection for using the wrong words – and at times no words at all....
...The captain, a tall, taciturn Pole in an immaculate uniform, was clearly happier on the bridge than hosting the welcome cocktail party, and I liked that....
...Eleonora is a replica of the yacht Westward, which was launched in March 1910 at the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, Rhode Island, and went on to become one of the best-known racing schooners....
...Tourism on Kefalonia is usually sustained by UK visitors drawn to the island by Louis de Bernières’ classic best-seller Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, set during the Italian occupation in the second world war...
...And then visits to see people like Zandra Rhodes, all yellow hair and everything, that was definitely outside our comfort zone. But I am glad we did it.”...
...► Jonathan Island, Rhode Island, US, $1.5m Where On the western side of Narragansett Bay, about 14 miles south-west of Newport Harbor, 25 miles from Providence and a one hour drive away from Boston Logan...
...In 1968, the first British tourists were led ashore by the naturalist Sir Peter Scott, son of the captain....
...Marvel movies now loom large for Disney over the next two years, with sequels to Thor and Captain America in production and slated for release. A sequel to The Avengers is also in the works....
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