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...Charles Marville’s photos of Paris show the historic city and the new landmarks of Haussmann’s metropolis, including the everyday landscape of street furniture and lampposts....
...Monet’s teacher Eugène Boudin offered the Impressionists his gentle, sensitively observed pastel skyscapes; elderly Adolphe-Félix Cals sent his lively “The Old Fisherman” (1873), explaining he joined because...
...At Rhodes University in Grahamstown in the early 1960s, he started experimenting with pottery in an independent-minded and imaginative way, making pots that subverted the more conservative, Japanese-inspired...
...Talk to Chuck Last year, Charles Schwab weathered a banking crisis, lay-offs and a falling stock price....
...In the 1916 election, between Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes, the size of prediction markets reached the equivalent of $280mn in today’s dollars, according to a paper by the economists Paul Rhode...
...The great literary chronicler of the American South and West was born Charles McCarthy in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1933....
...Why It’s a short walk to Jardin du Ranelagh, a landscaped park created in 1860 by Georges-Eugène Haussmann. The 850ha Bois de Boulogne is also close by....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World by Eugene Rogan (Allen Lane)One of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East is vividly recreated in this...
...Dated November 3, 1623, it notes that a John Webb was paid for a year’s work as “instructor to the Prince”, the future King Charles I. All this history brings some insights....
...“Mme Berthe Morisot is French by distinction, elegance, cheerfulness, carelessness,” wrote collector Charles Ephrussi....
...schoolgirl-like Marc Jacobs ensembles for her 2002 trial on shoplifting charges, Naomi Campbell’s neat cream knit ensemble for her 2010 appearance at a war crimes trial against former Liberian president Charles...
...Others have been semi-serious, such as Charles Dow’s Dow Theory, which spawned modern technical analysis of chart patterns, such as moving averages, candlesticks, Bollinger bands and crosses both golden...
...The “antelope” will stare down Sir Edwin Landseer’s bronze lions and gaze on the figures of Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier, Victorian commanders of the empire’s wars and occupants of other plinths...
...Newport, on the rocky southern tip of Aquidneck Island off Rhode Island, has never taken lightly to change....
...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....
...Charles Calkin is a financial planner at wealth manager James Hambro & Partners...
...And I like a very low-key brand from Singapore called Charles & Keith. I don’t do skinny heels....
...Port St Charles, with berths for yachts up to 250ft, is a 10-minute drive away....
...Officials in St Charles Parish in south-east Louisiana, home to Royal Dutch Shell’s Norco oil refinery, warned residents they could be without power for at least a month....
...The person in charge of this dizzying agenda is Kathleen McLaughlin, a former Rhodes scholar and theology student who once envisioned a career doing development work in Africa....
...Clifford Chance has elected Charles Adams as the firm’s next global managing partner, succeeding Matthew Layton....
...(I had to look them up: they are George IV and generals Charles Napier and Henry Havelock, who both served in India.)...
...heard at this COP from corporate America is very different than what we in Congress hear from corporate America through corporate trade associations,” notes Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator from Rhode...
...In 1955, he went to Oxford university on a Rhodes scholarship....
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