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...Even Darwin’s extensive writings on evolution are, he vouches, examples of long-form awe, studded with references to wonder, vastness and mystery....
...Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill and William Makepeace Thackeray all invested in railways, either directly or through their families. So did three future prime ministers....
...A scrupulously maintained daily garden diary for The Mount recorded the triumphant production in 1832 of a first hothouse pineapple, and the annual crop of a “Mr Charles Potato” discovered on Darwin’s travels...
...Immediately, their quiet local woodland footpath became a thoroughfare for surrounding townies seeking the countryside for their hour of permitted daily exercise....
...And so just navigating that process, you know, it hits you on a daily basis because we’re so used to taking these things for granted in the west to even think about it....
...Since these intellectuals were heavily influenced by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, and part of an imperialist power structure, their analyses were usually overtly racist — to the enduring shame of...
...I arrived home, my daily lockdown exercise over....
...His physician and the waterman who ferried him daily had both died, and Pepys decided to make a will....
...Dechert, the law firm, has hired Robert Darwin as a partner. He joins from Hogan Lovells....
...Scientist who scrambled Darwin’s tree of life Obscure microbiologist Carl Woese fundamentally changed the way we think about evolution and the origins of life....
...I need my daily fix of ghoulish excitement....
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...(FT) Xerox calls off $6.1bn sale to Fujifilm Xerox has axed its controversial $6.1bn sale to Japan’s Fujifilm after reaching a truce with Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, who together own more than a tenth...
...The octogenarian activist and fellow large Xerox shareholder Darwin Deason late on Tuesday succeeded in unseating most of the incumbent Xerox board as well as Jeff Jacobson, chief executive, with a roster...
...At the same time, activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason took control of the Xerox board (read the FT's analysis on how Icahn beat Fujifilm here)....
...Longtime Xerox shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason alleged that Jeff Jacobson, the Xerox CEO, raced to get the deal done to save his job (he is the combined company's new boss)....
...They are familiar with his metaphor of “the invisible hand” and know that it is “not from benevolence” that the baker provides our daily bread....
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...(Guardian) The day ahead New UK bank note A new £10 note enters circulation in the UK, complete with an image of Jane Austen (who replaces Charles Darwin)....
...(FT) Turkish schools drop Darwin Turkey’s new school curriculum drops the theory of evolution and adds the concept of jihad as patriotic in spirit....
...They illustrate a world of metaphors, myths and rites while remaining a part of daily life....
...Like many early Christian hermits, he was in reach of daily passers-by and although he grew some of his own food, he could send his laundry into town....
...(FT) Conquering the art world at 73 Her great-great-grandfather was Charles Darwin, her grandfather was physician to Queen Victoria, and she was related to entrepreneur and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood...
...She points to a green plant on a rock and explains that it is watered daily at 4.30pm. When she took over, the plants were arranged by place of collection....
...Darwin Tu, founder of 51credit.com, China’s largest credit card marketing website, told FTCR that average credit card approval rates by banks are just 30-40 per cent....
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