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...Bid for lunch with Laura at London’s Noble Rot restaurant and raise money for the FT’s charity the Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign (FLIC)....
...Herz” (later recorded in English as “Yours Is My Heart Alone” by, among others, Frank Sinatra and Mario Lanza), Franz Lehár’s romantic operetta from 1929 traces the bittersweet love story of a noble Viennese...
...“When the big retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Laura Ashley started to do off-shore sourcing in the ’80s and early ’90s, that was the death of a lot of textile companies in the UK,” Woodhouse says....
...Look out for paintings of subjects traditionally deemed to be “male”, such as battle scenes and nudes. Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...case they’re open to foreign bribery....
...He wasn’t proposing to buy food or medical supplies; he was raising funds to buy three drones known as the Bayraktar TB2....
...“Now we’re starting to wake up to the fact that we’re slap-bang in the middle of things.”...
...As well as new dates in Porto, the festival will also head to Madrid for the first time this year....
...The themes of race and empire are also addressed in Accidental Gods (Granta, January), in which Anna Della Subin looks at men who have ended up being worshipped as divine....
...And then when it hit Pride and Prejudice, I was just like, Oh my gosh, Elizabeth Bennet, she is, she is an upscale Laura Ingalls. (Laughter) Brooke MastersAnd she’s smart and nobody’s fool....
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...Paul Lawson, a London entrepreneur with, by his guess, “probably the best Barbie collection in the UK”, boasts the holy grail: a first-edition Barbie known among collectors as “ponytail number one”....
...Back in the present day, the challenge of climate change unsurprisingly also figures prominently....
...Williams, 27, is speaking over Zoom from her temporary studio — which also doubles as her living room....
...“We’re still in the midst of the pandemic — what’s going to happen as we get to the other side?”...
...In many cases “there’s not much of a basis for saying they’re taking the risk of an investor; they’re not,” says Jon Moulton, one of the UK’s best-known private equity executives....
...Its curator, gallerist Laura Noble, notes that the theme isn’t confined to women of a certain age but that there is a connection....
...The recent weather developments in the US (Hurricane Laura) may pose some temporary risks in the Texas region....
...A hitherto little-known figure, he was fielded as a unity candidate by the opposition....
...He was also known for his RM Williams Australian cowboy boots and his habit of leaving a few shirt buttons undone during meetings, according to other colleagues and subordinates....
...It’s a particularly good match if you’re on the move, because travel — as the title suggests — is its organising principle....
...While Hillsborough Castle enhances HRP’s portfolio of royal homes, it also furthers a growing appreciation in Northern Ireland — as evident in the opening of other attractions in the province such as Crumlin...
...But it started small: back in 1974, an 18-year-old Gary Sinise (best known as Forrest Gump’s Lieutenant Dan) roped his high-school friend Jeff Perry into staging shows in a church in a Chicago suburb, Highland...
...He announced that the landlocked, rural nation in southern Africa would henceforth be known as eSwatini....
...PD: We’re on the Cycladic islands. Right now we’re on Naxos. It’s a traditional Greek house, mixed with a 1970s vibe as well, because I’m very inspired by the 70s....
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