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...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...Having spurned suitors including Philip II of Spain and Francis, Duke of Alençon, heir to the French throne, for many years, Elizabeth’s favourite was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester — who was already married...
...And I interviewed the Earl of Devon, whose family have been sitting in Westminster since, I think the 1200s, and he argues that political fads come and go, but actually there’s a sort of continuity....
...Our orders placed, we pick up the Oppenheimer discussion. Despite the heavy subject matter, the film races along like a thriller, I say. “I viewed it as the ultimate kind of heist movie,” he says....
...This is not quite the revival of the cubicle, created in the 1960s by Robert Propst at design company Herman Miller....
...This is not like the liberal era of the Warren court in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chief Justice Earl Warren shaped his court with landmark decisions on issues such as school desegregation, prisoners’ rights...
...In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and a growing awareness of the history of slavery and colonialism in Britain’s historic country homes, the trust knew it had to do more to confront Harewood...
...Trefgarne likes to take a long view in these matters....
...Ruaha National Park, Tanzania Sophy Roberts In September, I travelled to Tanzania and discovered a stowaway in my bag: a slim volume by the Japanese novelist, Junichiro Tanizaki....
...James McCann, deputy chief economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments, described the delicacy of the Fed’s movements like this: “[Jay] Powell’s job at the moment is like trying to turn a cruise ship in a...
...dealings with Earl Spencer and Diana, Princess of Wales”....
...Once you’re in, you’re in for life, which means in addition to new work, it has lucrative estates such as those of Burt Glinn and Robert Capa to license and sell....
...As Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote, “For things to stay the same, everything must change” (see Earl Grey’s triumphant showdown with the British aristocracy and his abolition of the slave trade in the...
...The Earl of Birkenhead, in 1916, as attorney-general had successfully procured the death sentence for Sir Roger Casement....
...Melniks had no experience running a casino, so he enlisted the help of Robert Walker, a smooth-talking veteran who had started in the industry in the 1980s....
...Perhaps he was relying on the clause stating: “No Earl or Baron in possession of a soft-play centre may be compelled to close the climbing area, ball pits or the plastic slides, or be ordered to clean it...
...“That idea of the Whole-Foods/Equinox-member – that was theirs from the beginning,” says Cabot of founders Robert Rosenheck and Cindy Capobianco; he ran a creative agency, she was a glossy magazine editor...
...In a phrase that has echoed down the generations, the Victorian historian John Robert Seeley wrote in his 1883 book The Expansion of England that the British had “conquered and peopled half the world in...
...But it could be that the biggest challenge the Trust faces in the months ahead comes from another source entirely: those days in June when Black Lives Matter protests led to the toppling of a statue of the...
...Born in Russia, but raised in Germany from the age of eight, he is also a passionate European....
...The incident will, however, reignite one of the big sporting debates in England. It has to be a matter of regret that umpiring of this calibre is no longer available on terrestrial TV....
...Paytm faces a problem that has become common in the unicorn universe: threats from newcomers. The company has spent nearly $600m in a matter of months on expanding its business....
...Here’s what we wrote then: According to two people familiar with the matter, the discussion over a listing change was prompted in part by efforts to narrow the gap between Mr Nawana’s pay at his former...
...She divides the year into five seasons. She calls the early autumn of September “Blush”, which is when she makes fig and Earl Grey jam....
...It matters if you like eating pork in China. It does not really matter to the rest of the world.”...
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