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...William Zeckendorf Sr, who preceded Trump as New York’s flamboyant developer king, bought 40 Wall Street in 1959 for $18.15mn in an 87-round auction held in its 26th-floor Wall Street Club....
...She was the oldest child of Martin Luther King Sr, a Baptist preacher, and Alberta Williams, a teacher. King was born 16 months after Farris....
...For Memphis, a majority-Black city of 630,000, the incident has revived memories of the infamous assault of Rodney King by Los Angeles police in 1991....
...Sterling Ruby’s one-off handcrafted pieces (for his brand SR STUDIO LA CA) are considered part of his catalogue raisonné: his Death Angel T-shirts ($3,500) are juxtaposed with the covers of some of his favourite...
...Unlike Succession’s Logan, Obama Sr was not visible on every TV screen and every newspaper, but he still shaped his son’s outlook....
...Mr Warnock is the fifth senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King, Jr preached with his father, Martin Luther King, Sr, until his assassination in 1968....
...Much like The Sun King, David Dimbleby’s series about the Murdoch empire, Hunting Ghislaine makes for an illuminating and highly unsettling listen....
...The father of Alexander the Great, King Philip, won a great battle in Thessaly in northern Greece in the year 352BC on a site called the Crocus Field....
...“They shot my son seven times,” his father, Jacob Blake Sr, told reporters on Tuesday. “Seven times. Like he didn’t matter. But my son matters. He’s a human being, and matters.”...
...Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...Nicholas de Roumanie (aka Nicholas Medforth-Mills) is the grandson of Michael of Romania, who sat on the throne for a few years as a young boy and then reigned as king in the 1940s before being forced to...
...A former US ambassador to Jordan, he glosses over King Hussein’s failure to join the US-led coalition against Saddam Hussein after the invasion of Kuwait (even Assad Sr of Syria signed up)....
...Louis XIII, Marx has close relations with the highest secular powers in Europe: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker ECJ rules Le Pen Sr has to pay up...
...John D Rockefeller Sr was one of the wealthiest men of all time, with an estimated net worth of $340bn in today’s terms....
...He played with Frank Zappa, won praise from BB King as the bluesman’s favourite new guitarist and was invited to join the Rolling Stones....
...The assailant, who instead shot Floyd Sr in the calf and so spoilt his boxing career, was the boy’s uncle....
...A lot has changed in the decades since Martin Luther King dared to dream in public....
...I would have been lot cockier in an earlier generation, said Bradlee Sr. Back in those days, the family had two double E’s to their name....
...In a 70-year career, Robert Trent Jones Sr (1906-2000) designed or remodelled more than 400 golf courses....
...That union ended in divorce but produced two sons, both of whom also entered the property business; they survive him along with his second wife Nancy King, a former ballerina....
...One can discount any return of radical ideas such as the 1931 plan for a rooftop set of runways at King’s Cross in London....
...She resembles Lon Chaney Sr in drag. The rest seems a little faint by comparison....
...According to Arc, GCR is the largest credit ratings agency in Africa by market share; Care is the second biggest in India; and SR is the third largest in Brazil....
...The King of Sweden came for dinner. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor came for a week....
...His “human billboard” protagonist is partly a bust generation’s Buster Keaton, partly a mid-city, mid-life-crisis King Lear....
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