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...As on the album, the evening closed with Alexander Argov’s magical waltz lullaby “Shir Eres”, here played as the encore, and there was a wistful remake of Duke Ellington’s “Azalea”, from the album Louis...
...As a favoured son of Condé Nast – one of his first jobs in New York was as assistant to celebrated Vogue art director Alexander Liberman, and he still holds the record as the magazine’s longest-standing...
...Pick the reference you saw within: David Bowie’s Thin White Duke? The icy perfection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s ’80s society portraiture?...
...The Duke of Sussex was asked to wear that rather than a military uniform, showing up in his capacity as the monarch’s son....
...“I was surprised to see that in 1767, the Duke of Orléans shaved all his body hair off the day before his wedding so as not to frighten his young wife-to-be, who had perhaps never seen a naked man.”...
...Overuse and resistance When British scientist Sir Alexander Fleming gave his acceptance speech for winning the 1945 Nobel Prize for discovering penicillin, he warned of the dangers of rising resistance....
...Alexander McQueen appeared with Sarah Jessica Parker, both rather awkwardly swathed in yards of tartan, at the Met Gala in 2006. And so much more....
...Alexander Courtney, a history teacher at The Perse School, Cambridge, believes the letters “will keep historians busy for years, and help them rewrite parts of Mary’s biography”....
...Magnificent Rebels recreates the shining moment, between roughly 1794 and 1806, when these figures congregated in Jena — a university town in the tiny Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, whose duke Goethe served for decades...
...Last year I wrote on the grotto of the poet Alexander Pope and the plans for its restoration, to be headed by the Heritage of London Trust....
...“In the 1930s all the royal family stitched, including the King and the Dukes of York and Gloucester....
...In the Regency period, the heiress to the Tylney fortune, Catherine, married the charming but dissipated William Long-Wellesley, a nephew of the Duke of Wellington....
...Parallel drawing rooms play host to chubby velvet-covered banquette sofas inspired by the ones designed for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor by Stéphane Boudin for their Paris home: everything comes with...
...The Passengerby Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, translated by Philip Boehm, Pushkin Press £14.99/Metropolitan Books $24.99 Vibrating with rage at the murder and betrayal of German Jewry, The Passenger recounts...
...For more than 20 years I have worn a navy blue corduroy dinner jacket modelled on one I saw in the wardrobe of the Duke of Windsor....
...In the 1920s, Edward, Prince of Wales – the future Duke of Windsor – was a trendsetter whose golfing trews were so exaggeratedly baggy that Diana Cooper dubbed them his “plus twenties”....
...A little further along (Nos 45-46) you will encounter another jewel, Ernö Goldfinger’s office block of 1955-7, a miniature test piece for his giant Alexander Fleming House in Elephant and Castle....
...Leo Hollis tells the story of an heiress whose patrimony lies at the root of a modern accumulation of a vast landed fortune, the Grosvenor Estate of the Dukes of Westminster, an inheritance that has flowed...
...after the distinguished economist Kenneth Alexander was appointed in 1976....
...Father Christmas Alexander Gilmour, FT Food & Drink editor It’s my job to think about things like Christmas hampers from at least July. It’s not such a burden, as it goes....
...I wouldn’t recommend mixing grape and grain, so if you had wine at dinner, I’d suggest a Brandy Alexander: Brandy Alexander Add all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake vigorously and strain...
...“He could remember the duke and the duchess coming in and designing, picking the stones, arriving with jewels. He mentioned that the duke was extremely involved, loved gemstones, loved jewellery....
...The house was occupied by Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, from 1816-34 and then by Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, until his death in 1904....
...Alexander von Humboldt was an amazing polymath who explored the Americas at the end of the 18th century....
...The Perimeter, 20 Brownlow Mews, London WC1 (theperimeter.co.uk); 25 Sept – 8 Jan Cecily Brown presents new work at the Duke of Marlborough’s Blenheim Palace that is inspired by its collection....
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