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...As Vaillant writes, the grim irony of the fire was that Fort McMurray, “an island of industry in an ocean of trees”, relies for its economy on Alberta’s tar sands nearby....
...A great wildfire was engulfing Fort McMurray, centre of the Alberta oil sands industry, prompting the immediate evacuation of 90,000 locals....
...Without sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium “normal life as we know it would disintegrate”, he says....
...As well as Slimani, this year’s Booker judging panel included lecturer and translator Uilleam Blacker, novelist Tan Twan Eng, literary critic Parul Sehgal and the FT’s literary editor Frederick Studemann...
...Heart-wrenching but brimming with life, Tomb of Sand won the International Booker Prize, and is a lasting joy....
...Saturday 25 March, 10am, Sheldonian Theatre, £7-£12.50 Chatwin, Patagonia, and the Bodleian: Searching for a NaziProminent international lawyer Philippe Sands describes his search for Nazi war criminal...
...Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...In north Palm Springs, Frederick W Noble felt that it was his patriotic duty to participate, shelving plans for a mobile-home park and erecting eight turbines here in 1982....
...Sir Frederick William Herschel, the German-British astronomer who discovered Uranus, first described the phenomenon in 1800 as “radiant heat”....
...Sands Capital Ventures has promoted Scott Frederick to managing partner....
...PHILIPPE SANDS: He saw a country that had not come to terms with its own historical past and, effectively, its demise....
...Toward the end of his book, Renton quotes Professor Frederick Hickling, the distinguished Jamaican psychiatrist, who died last year....
...Sarah Sands is chair of the Bright Blue think-tank and a board director at Hawthorn Advisors Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Seeger until it was purchased by the late industrial scion Frederick R. Koch (not to be confused with his Republican mega-donor younger brothers)....
...In 1991, the US was back to war in the Gulf, with President George HW Bush declaring: “The ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian Desert.”...
...Frederick Studemann FT literary editor Like many FT readers, lockdown has seen me taking refuge in the hands of old favourites — Simenon, the odd Wodehouse — while struggling to keep up with a constantly...
...Men such as Frederick Cook and Robert Peary clung desperately to their claims, often demonstrably false, even as they branded their expeditions indelibly with themselves....
...The pandemic has also dashed the hopes of Canada’s oil sands producers....
...Before qovunxonas existed, farmers would simply shovel up snow or sand and bury their melons deep underground, away from the chill....
...Part 1: Double Bubble View Part 1 Part 2: Built on Sand View Part 2...
...Frederick Studemann, literary editor of the FT City of Devils by Paul French (Riverrun, RRP£16.99/Picador, RRP$28) was a surprise discovery....
...Combine a dip with a visit to Sanssouci, Frederick the Great’s 18th-century summer palace, or the Barberini, an art gallery in Potsdam....
...Sarah Sands explores how views of masculinity change when women hold the camera, based on her experiences at a dinner celebrating the photographer Mary McCartney’s guest editorship of National Geographic...
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...He is best known as a zookeeper for Frederick II, but he also fabricated 530 “books” from the woods and twigs of more than 440 trees and shrubs....
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