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...It was a particularly personal collection for Fletcher, with many references to his father, Peter John, who died late last year....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Jefferies, Dudley Polymath 1,028: John Clune, Ireland Crossword 16,200: Edward Cooper, Norwich R Winter, Worthing; Kate Lloyd-Williams, Somerset Polymath 1,027: Christina Dyall, Chadwell Heath Crossword...
...Supreme Court of the United States Clarence Thomas, 70, appointed by George H W Bush John Roberts, 63, appointed by George W Bush Samuel Alito Jr., 68, appointed by George W Bush Stephen Breyer, 79,...
...Our columnist Edward Luce wrote that Obama was holding up Clinton as “the only thing standing between America and a demagogic strongman”....
...Tenth of December , by George Saunders, Bloomsbury, RRP£14.99/Random House, RRP$26 Saunders sets this collection of short stories in a dystopian near-future, where human connection and empathy is undermined...
...In 1926 a local clergyman, the Reverend W Goodwin, persuaded the philanthropist John D Rockefeller Jr to bankroll the restoration of the oldest and most vulnerable buildings in the colonial capital of Williamsburg...
...In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr....
...Buckley Jr, founder of the influential US magazine, with helping to “move conservatism from the margins of American society into the Oval Office”....
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