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...In 1882, he agreed that the new arboretum should be laid out by none other than Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscaping maestro of New York’s Central Park....
...Sharpless is only the fourth person ever to win two Nobel science prizes, following in the footsteps of Marie Curie, John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger....
...Frederick traces the history of the movement for socially responsible businesses back more than 50 years....
...Besides Black Mountain there is Warren Wilson College, which also teaches farming and craft; the fledgling Cabbage School, an experimental summer programme founded by textile artist Jessica Green; and the...
...Oklahoma), speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC, March 12 1976; Rose Mary Woods, secretary to President Richard Nixon, Washington, DC, August 10 1975; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Frederick...
...Frederick Studemann FT’s literary editor Singling out one book from the sacks that arrive daily at the FT’s offices is an almost impossible task....
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...Frederick Ballentine is charismatic as Sporting Life, the joker sent by the devil. Nadine Benjamin sang a warm-hearted “Summertime” ....
...Charities are right to look into the source of funds — letter by Tim Wilson in response to The fig leaf of charity can no longer excuse sleaze Merryn Somerset Webb argues for a cap on the total number of...
...“The language of reducing the deficit will continue,” says Chris Wilson from the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington....
...Until the new year, we wish you a very happy Christmas from Frederick, Jonathan, Sebastian, Miranda and everyone else on the FT’s comment team....
...Frederick Law Olmsted visited while on a tour of Europe in 1859, researching ideas for the design of Central Park in New York....
...Born Frederick August Kittel in 1945 to a white father and a black mother, Wilson grew up in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, where all but one of the Century Cycle is set....
...Casa Puglia is marketing a seven-bedroom 13th-century palazzo in the historic centre of Oria, which was part of the castle buildings of King Frederick II of Sicily, sometime Holy Roman Emperor....
...Painters now began to imitate photographers: Frederick Goodall’s orientalist fantasy “The Song of the Nubian Slave” (1863) takes its motif from Roger Fenton’s crystalline “Nubian Water Carrier” (1858)....
...The only time they failed me was when I was hunting for an obscure fictionalised biography of Frederick Wilson, a 19th century British deserter who established a timber empire in the foothills of the Himalayas...
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London Photographs: Daryl Balfour/Getty Images; Justin Slee; Samantha Gibson; Mike Goldwater; kumbulanursery.co.za; Tanzania Forest Conservation...
...Landour is named after a village in Wales and Rokeby after a castle that featured in a poem by Walter Scott; at one point the building came into the hands of Frederick “Pahari” Wilson, a deserter who became...
...While leading the SFO’s Mutual Assistance Unit she worked on many such cases including those involving General Sani Abacha, the late Nigerian dictator, and Frederick Chiluba, Zambia’s late former president...
...Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was a US mechanical engineer and founder of the (frightfully Victorian-sounding) “Efficiency Movement”....
...Wilson’s novel derives its power from the contrast its protagonist feels between the mortal invigoration of war with the doldrums of careerism....
...It failed, but Jonathan Wilson’s The Blizzard has since made the idea work in Britain....
...Like Frederick, they put a great deal of effort into perfecting their burgers....
...Lady Wilson’s memories of that “desolate place” are still vivid more than 60 years after her first trip there with her late husband, Sir John Wilson....
...Combating exclusion has been one of the core activities for Sightsavers since the organisation was set up in 1950 by Sir John Wilson, who was himself blind and fought to be included in mainstream society...
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