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...Renaissance lairds, Scotland’s landed gentry, often considered fortification of their residences mainly a matter of pride or aesthetics....
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...Greer also has to engage in a bit of sleight-of-chronology by having all her characters assume the presidential election is to be Clinton v Trump even months before the party conventions....
...So Shakespeare wrote a speech for another play in that year of 1599: Henry V, in which the day of Crispin and Crispinian is reclaimed for God, for King Harry, England and St George....
...In the meantime, it cannot afford to fall out with the deceptively cuddly-looking grocer to the gentry....
...Indeed, the v-shape that results from a diamond position might even make it uncomfortable for your back, with two symmetrical bits of hollowness on your spine, thereby making the cushion not quite fit for...
...In the first two days, we would visit the surviving gentry houses of Stamford and the great palaces of the plutocrat nobility outside York, including Beningbrough and Castle Howard....
...Fisher and James V. Koch, argues otherwise. It reasons that a substantial proportion of entrepreneurial behaviour is genetically determined....
...“There was an agrarian reform here in 1948,” Riso told me, as he worked on the habiliment of a Saint Anne, “but many of the grand houses in Lecce are still owned by the descendants of the old landed gentry...
...The graphic novelist Alan Moore took his name off V for Vendetta, and who can blame him?...
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