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...(FT) Historian Richard Evans on how the cholera epidemics of the 19th century gave birth to modern state responsibility....
...“He’s really pushing the boundaries of the material,” says LDF director Ben Evans, who sees the festival’s longstanding programme of installations in the V&A as “adding layers to what is already there”,...
...(FT) Cushman v the cleaner Last year, Sonia Mercado took an $18-an-hour cleaning job with Cushman & Wakefield in New Hampshire....
...A dead baby was found discarded on a beach in Kerry; another buried at a farm in the same county....
...He makes dozens of model Klansmen and locks them up in jails like miniature churches or in boxes like coffins. He ties them up, herds them....
...After writing ‘J’accuse’, his front page newspaper article lambasting the French establishment for the Dreyfus Affair, he fled without even a suitcase to escape jail for libelling the French state....
.... £12,000 www.lyonandturnbull.com ii Fall-front desk American This desk was made around 1800 in Berkshire county, Pennsylvania....
...My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography By Harold Evans Little, Brown, £25 Amid the gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans’s memoir lifts the spirits....
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