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...Reid takes her book’s title from a 1972 interview, held in the archives of London’s Imperial War Museum, with Christopher Bilney, who saw action in Russia as a seaplane pilot....
...Job moves Meta has added Broadcom chief Hock Tan and billionaire philanthropist and former Enron trader John Arnold to its board of directors....
...being too expensive, the problem, argues Christophers, is that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable....
...On January 12, rebellion broke out in Sicily against the reactionary Bourbon monarch Ferdinand II. On February 24, the King of the French, Louis-Philippe, was toppled by a rising in Paris....
...Johnny Depp awarded $15mn by jury in Amber Heard case A jury found that Amber Heard defamed Johnny Depp by claiming that she was a victim of domestic abuse in an opinion piece, a victory for the Hollywood...
...Now Grade II-listed, Clendinning’s 1960 station at Oxford Road, Manchester, was based on a lightweight timber shell....
...During the brief regency of Philippe II, duc d’Orléans (1715-23), a Scotsman named John Law urged the French monarchy to adopt his “System” of public credit and paper money....
...Meanwhile, a smooth voiceover talks us through the plot so far: “Previously on Edward II . . . ” For this is a serialisation of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century tragedy, mischievously packaged to resemble...
...Christopher Plummer was quite a stage prodigy. I saw him play King Henry II in Jean Anouilh’s Becket in 1961 for the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was 14. He was 31. He was spellbinding....
...John Evelyn was a diarist, botanist, intellectual and landscape gardener — and this monumental cabinet is commensurate with his manifold roles....
...In fact, we repeatedly changed leaders during crises and think back to John Major or Winston Churchill succeeding Chamberlain or Lloyd George in the first one....
...And at the Grade II-listed Middleport Pottery, Burleigh celebrates its 170th anniversary this year....
...(ii) For the average citizen, I expect them to feel the same as today....
...But the Baroque did find visual genius in 17th-century England — in its architects: John Vanbrugh at Castle Howard and Blenheim, Christopher Wren at St Paul’s, Nicholas Hawksmoor’s rhythmic yet disquieting...
...In 1966, John Lennon gave the journalist Maureen Cleave a tour of his home, Kenwood....
...Even more democratic is the State Drawing Room, which houses works by renowned Northern Irish artists such as Sir John Lavery, FE McWilliam, William Conor and Basil Blackshaw....
...The US shale war II could see US crude production peaking in May and not crossing the 13mb/d mark ever again (even by 2025). The call on OPEC could rise by 3mb/d by 2025....
...It soon picked up the king’s patronage; the diarist John Evelyn was already referring to the Royal Society in 1661....
...Christopher Martin , professor, University of Bath No....
...Wooden galleons are replaced by plastic; Long John Silver gets the Marvel treatment; and Robert Newton’s West Country burr gives way to the Keith Richards-inspired drawl of Johnny Depp....
...Yet, asLeslie Hook notes in a profile, an earlier programme of his, Blue Planet II, played a decisive role in mobilising public support for banning plastic straws....
...Christopher Ragan, chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, explained some of the complexities in the carbon tax that Justin Trudeau’s government plans to implement early next year....
...Volume II is due in May 2019 Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, who has described him as “amongst the finest tattoo artists”, also popped in....
...— John Harris in The Guardian ‘Game of Thrones’ Comes to Saudi Arabia — Elliott Abrams in The New York Times 100 years later, Bolshevism is back....
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