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...The interiors featured here are distinctive and carry with them a degree of resilience — but also pathos....
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...Poached egg on toast approaches this degree of gastronomic monomania. Egg yolk, a pointy-headed chef will tell you, sets at 64C, while the white begins to gel at about 80C....
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...But when I ask whether they had ever considered a degree of mechanisation in order to produce more, Markus nods towards the picture of Wilhelm on the workshop wall. “He’s watching that I don’t cheat.”...
...Anke Zschorn, director of research at Ivox Glass Lewis, said the ranking “to a certain degree reflects a German perspective on corporate governance”....
...They include Wilhelm Schacht in the 1950s and ’60s, once the personal friend and gardener of Boris, second-to-last king of Bulgaria....
...Interest in this phenomenon, which occurs when materials absorb light and produce sound waves, was further pursued by Lord Rayleigh and Wilhelm Röntgen (of X-ray fame) but then lay dormant for over a century...
...Given his background, those officials said, it was inconceivable that such activities were not conducted with a degree of co-ordination, if not outright direction, by Russian security services....
...Were there any uncertainty that the United States Supreme Court has become politicised to a disturbing degree, it was proved beyond reasonable doubt this weekend....
...After graduating from the University of Western Australia in 1995 with a degree in literature and fine art, Tan set about establishing himself as a commercial illustrator....
...It is indeed true that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a very different state to Nicholas II’s, and Angela Merkel is no Wilhelm II....
...Sanctioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm III, it became the symbol of a new, comradely patriotism....
...In 1958 Adenauer received an honorary degree from Leuven university....
...First, it gave him the freedom to experiment: “Once your reputation’s dead you can live without dread,” he says, quoting Wilhelm Busch, the 19th-century German wit....
...Her teachers included Wilhelm Kempff and Maria Curcio, favourite pupil of the legendary Artur Schnabel....
...Yet all this memorabilia gets shoved to the margins, suggesting the degree to which the power of antiquity has waned....
...“I am simply an employee and you cannot imagine the degree to which there is a culture of secrecy in this sort of organisation....
...Ulrich Wilhelm, Ms Merkel’s spokesman, insisted that the US carmaker would now have to repay €1.5bn in bridge financing provided by the German government....
...Wilhelm Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895, however, “completely unhinged” the photograph’s relationship to vision....
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