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...Pinner has short, dark hair, a cheeky smile and the kind of sturdy build you’d expect from a butcher....
...être obligé d’en pleurer”?...
...Until a decade ago, I’d assumed that some civic engagement in a person was better than none....
...The US Capitol is engraved on the top, and on the sides are the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the Smithsonian and so on....
...“Whenever people left they’d try to get Hank’s folder to take wherever they were going.” “You could tell he was on to something even before he started the account....
...It’s no arbitrary marker, either, as there are several reasons why barns that predate Lincoln retain both cachet and value. First, consider the wood....
...Abraham Lincoln signed the act into law on July 1 1862, and its effects remain stamped on maps today. And from whom did the US government take this land?...
...jemima.kelly@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Trump’s humour and a comedy of unawareness / From Charles D Collins, Rochester, NY, US Did Lincoln read ’em and weep with laughter?...
...In conditions of domestic pandemonium, Abraham Lincoln, the American Bismarck, strengthened the federal government....
...As Simon says, films like Lincoln didn’t perform very well. But, you know, this year - this is the third big historical movie of the year....
...So they estimated how much money policyholders would need to withdraw before life insurers need to worry about raising additional liquidity: On an industry aggregate basis, in a given year we’d need to...
...Finally, I’d like to thank David Hindley for expertly steering the Week Ahead guide for the last fortnight....
...Americans have been wagering on presidential elections since George Washington and doing so in organised markets since at least Abraham Lincoln....
...“We had a Shadow in that’d done 200,000 miles – it was like new,” he says. Annual service costs are a modest £600-£1,200. Kate Moss bought her silver 1979 Shadow in 2006....
...During the making of All the President’s Men, shot on location in Washington DC, she captures director Alan Pakula and Robert Redford deep in conversation with their crew, with the Lincoln Memorial standing...
...“If those macro effects weren’t there you’d probably still have streaming services spending more and more,” said Tom Harrington, analyst at Enders....
...He tells me the UK government’s R&D budget is approaching £20bn a year, and that private-sector R&D now exceeds public money roughly threefold....
...We thought we’d have it done in a year,” he says. “Now it looks more likely to be two or three.” Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...It was good to be reminded of Walt Whitman’s 1865 poetic elegy to Abraham Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom’d”, and be introduced to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay “The Consolation of Water Lilies...
...For the international acclaim and fest berths it got, you’d think Friends and Strangers would be making a lot more noise locally....
...“I’d never done it before, and I haven’t really done it a lot since, although I think it does fit into my larger approach with encores in general.”...
...spanning just over a month, this year’s Dresden festival is impressively inclusive, offering soprano Joyce DiDonato, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kent Nagano conducting Wagner and Wynton Marsalis’s Lincoln...
...Received letter of thanks from John Nicolay, Lincoln’s private secretary”....
...The philosopher Grant Tavinor, of Lincoln University in New Zealand, traces them back centuries, to the development of perspective techniques in painting....
...The circular Round Robin bar at the Willard InterContinental has watered everyone from Mark Twain to Abraham Lincoln....
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