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...Robin’s current bestselling book is Homer and His Iliad....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...Just as the show appeared to end, the lights dimmed and on the screen appeared Homer Simpson, desperate to secure something — anything — from the label as a birthday gift for his long-suffering wife, Marge...
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...The consultancy predicts revenues across Europe’s Big Five leagues will drop by €1.5bn this season, but make a V-shaped recovery next season....
...(FT) Baird has hired Eric Winn as a managing director from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Winn will join the investment bank’s technology team....
...Why Dylan Matters , by Richard F Thomas, William Collins, RRP£12.99/Dey Street Books, RRP$24.99 Homer, Ovid, Virgil . . . Dylan?...
...Many stereotypes about WWC men came together in the hapless cartoon character Homer Simpson. American progressives showed respect to ethnic and sexual minorities, not to the WWC....
...The British Museum this month staged a live reading of Homer’s Iliad in partnership with the Almeida theatre, during which actors including Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Manville declaimed the work in its...
...He talked to Goldman about Homer and the next thing we knew, he was on a boat in the Mediterranean reading The Odyssey....
...Marah Winn-Moon, HSBC’s head of cultural sponsorship, said that the bank carefully targeted events highlighting the arts scenes of emerging markets for business purposes....
...He quotes the former King Mohammed V as saying Morocco has its roots in Africa but breathes through its foliage in Europe....
...The first, Booth v the town’s old establishment, was a rout. The second, Booth v his business rival Leon Morelli, was long-lasting and either hilarious or horrendous, depending on your standpoint....
...A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years By Diarmaid MacCulloch Allen Lane, £35 The provocative title reflects MacCulloch’s claim that Christianity began with Homer and King David – and...
...Instead, he reread Homer’s Odyssey and used that as inspiration. What was the novel? 23....
...E.V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey was published in 1946 as the first in the Penguin Classics series. Over the next decade it sold an unprecedented three million copies....
...Henry V here is just the first invocated ghost to walk, first into his tomb and then out of it....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...In 1946, E.V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey was the first Penguin classic and a bestselling classic for 15 years....
...During the Renaissance, marble images of Homer and Caesar were unearthed from classical ruins, and so the value of a portrait became immediately evident to artists and patrons alike....
...When Homer wants to get a bet on he has to do it with a mate, a bookie's runner, just like Britain in the old days before 1962....
...Night for frankness Knight Frank scored a coup with its line-up for a “Europe v USA” debate on September 22....
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