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...“Head of Julia II”, downward-glancing, is radiant, lovely, self-effacement achieved through inner strength....
...Wander the British Museum for a while and you’ll come across the Franks Casket, a mysterious eighth-century box made from a stranded whale’s bone....
...What A Grade II*-listed, eight-bedroom house reached via a 500-yard-long tree-lined drive....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...The Bacon, once in the collection of author Roald Dahl, was reportedly sold last week by the hedge funder Pierre Lagrange, also believed to be the seller of Frank Auerbach’s “Head of EOW II” (1964), which...
...Indeed, ideas for Cork House II are now percolating. “Each time we work with cork we try to develop the system slightly differently,” he adds....
...This might explain why the overall share of bank lending has basically flatlined since 2009 despite the whole Dodd-Frank jamboree....
...Miami has been named by international estate agent Knight Frank as the location with the most new developments in the pipeline....
...“I found him to excel in the rational sciences,” reported one Arab ambassador, “and he is distinguished among all the Franks for his talents, his intelligence and his taste for philosophy, logic and medicine...
...The new Matterhorn Glacier Ride II, which is the highest cable car in the Alps, means you can now go from Cervinia to Zermatt on foot,” says Rollason....
...In The Virgin in the Garden, a novel set during Britain’s 1953 coronation celebrations for Elizabeth II, the writer AS Byatt introduced readers to two intellectual sisters....
...In 1665, Charles II belatedly made his one-time tutor and valued adviser the first Duke of Newcastle....
...Who Knight Frank House, Martin, £2mn Where In a west Hampshire village close to the Dorset and Wiltshire borders....
...Changes are afoot at Cromwell Place, the Grade II-listed, south-west London gallery hub that opened in 2020....
...The remarkably frank statement by China’s ambassador to France on the status of post-Soviet republics is not an aberration....
...Prime office rents in Singapore rose nearly 6 per cent last year while Hong Kong’s dropped more than 6 per cent, data from real estate company Knight Frank showed....
...Monday Germany: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Jordan’s King Abdullah II on a state visit to Berlin South Africa: five-day Africa Energy Week conference begins in Cape Town, where business executives...
...He is stretched out on a bespoke sofa designed by Tyler Hays’ design brand BDDW in the airy sitting room of the Grade II-listed house....
...Deep access is the luxury, which is where the shallow-draft Charaidew II comes in....
...These critics lauded Mifid II for forcing bankers and their clients into frank conversations around the value of research. “If you’re a low turnover shop, you don’t have a big commission wallet....
...For decades, the late Queen Elizabeth II attended daily, along with hundreds of thousands of visitors wearing their best clothes and most ridiculous hats....
...The experience in Europe — where Mifid II rules force research to be unbundled from trade execution — suggests that fund managers don’t value sellside research enough to pay much for it....
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