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...Castel del Monte was built by the brilliant Holy Roman emperor and king of Jerusalem, Germany, Italy and Sicily, Frederick II (1194-1250), known as “Stupor Mundi”, or Wonder of the World....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Britten, England’s most feted composer after the success of Peter Grimes, has nine months to complete the opera in time for a gala to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II....
...In 1968, the Californian abstract painter Frederick Hammersley was at an impasse....
...For reference, here is what it looked like this time last year: Our impression is that after not caring about this ranking for a long time, Griffin started really caring about it a lot....
...Smart reads ‘Dumb money’ Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin isn’t happy about how he was depicted in the new GameStop film. Puck digs into his behind-the scenes legal fight with Sony Pictures....
...In eastern Europe, a Bulgarian party led by former king Simeon II and named after himself stormed to electoral victory in 2001....
...The sign still reads “Sunset Sandwich Bar II: Hot & Cold Food to Take Away”, but a cursory look through the window of the tiny 7ft by 12ft shop, overlooking Smithfield Market in London’s Farringdon, will...
...She also refers to George Frederick Kunz, Tiffany’s first chief gemologist, as “the founding father of American luxury”....
...That’s evident in a large scenic painting of St James’s Park dated c1745 — one of the few to show a multitude of social classes mixing together — where sailors are conversing in trousers, and Frederick,...
...Queen Elizabeth II was only 5ft 3in tall, but she was unmissable in a crowd....
...Through a farm gate to a field behind his studio, a sculpture similar to “Pacific Red (II)” — this one featuring frosted white glass encasing a smaller red box — sits on a concrete base....
...Hayden Griffin’s sets and costumes for the act one village grape harvest are a loan from the Birmingham Royal Ballet Giselle and the act two forest glade belongs in BRB’s production of Frederick Ashton’s...
...Hedge funds take aim at UK asset managers Hedge funds from Ken Griffin’s Citadel to Steve Cohen’s Point72 are betting that a tumble in the shares of UK fund management groups, including Abrdn, Ashmore and...
...What A two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment on the 20th floor of the 25-storey Vistal II tower with floor-to-ceiling windows giving a panoramic view of the city....
...II in Sicily, until the mid-13th century....
...Find the names of the obscure Cayman Islands entities SoftBank uses (in this case, the apparently Arthurian legend-themed Gawain II 2022 Holdings Limited, Valiant I 2022 Holdings Limited and Valiant II 2022...
...Abigail Cruttenden brings a wry sense of humour and quiet scepticism to the upright young Queen, while Marion Bailey is very funny as the older, more worldly-wise monarch; Naomi Frederick’s pinched young...
...The photographic safari became a book project when Roberts encountered the Frederick II Foundation, a Sicilian cultural heritage foundation established in 1997 in Palermo, and named for Frederick II – one-time...
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...and Ken Griffin’s Citadel have plugged ahead....
...In his testaments, emperor Charles V advised his young son — who became Philip II, head of the great Spanish empire in the 16th century — never to identify with only one faction at court or make decisions...
...How did Ken Griffin build Citadel Securities into “the Amazon of financial markets”, which touches a quarter of US equity trades and is itself on the brink of a stock market listing?...
...And he had lived through World War II. So for him, it was all war. Life was war. PHILIPPE SANDS: He saw a country that had not come to terms with its own historical past and, effectively, its demise....
...home to Stanley Baldwin and Henry Ford II....
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