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...As a young girl I studied with George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet Company....
...Despite the best efforts of Edison, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, manufacturing was still in the age of steam. Productivity finally surged in US manufacturing only in the 1920s....
...Former generations bought and sold the Codex Sinaiticus, two Gutenberg Bibles and, in 1998, the shop set a new record when it bought the first book printed in England — Caxton’s Chaucer — for a customer...
...“Germany: Memories of a Nation” has attracted much attention in Germany and includes a Gutenberg Bible, Iron Cross and the inscription from the gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp....
...George Lucas’s Star Wars owes a debt to Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress....
...But it’s important to remember there are other technologies (such as Gutenberg’s) that can pull you through in a pinch....
...“[King predecessor] Eddie [George] was sorry to lose the financial-stability role, but I don’t think Mervyn was initially very interested in it.”...
...- Mervyn had to write another letter to George. - Spain’s regions had some black holes. - The ECB went all-in. - Belarus gave its economy an A; we suggested an F....
...It’s as if, faced with the tsunami of the internet, the medium that threatened to turn readers into watchers is now making affectionate common cause with the aged children of Gutenberg in a late, doomed...
...They were old colleagues of Johannes Gutenberg, the pioneer of modern printing....
...For a similar sum, you might acquire Thackeray’s Vanity Fair; George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss and Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White. There are exceptions....
...An exceptional memory is helpful, but a freak ability in, say, mental arithmetic, such as that of the 19th-century wunderkind George Parker Bidder, is no guarantee....
...Between the US president's 9.45am landing at Frankfurt airport and his afternoon departure, the sleepy Rhineland town and birthplace of Gutenberg will turn into a steel fortress....
...(While in Mainz, Mr Bush is also expected to inspect the first Gutenberg bible.)...
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