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...Letter in response to this article: Starmer’s Lords plan falls short of meaningful reform / From James Robertson, Director of Campaigns, Sortition Foundation, Folkestone, Kent, UK...
...She pulls out her iPhone — “Augustus Leopold Egg; isn’t that a great name” — to show me his 1862 painting “The Travelling Companions”, of two nearly identical women seated in a train, the spark behind the...
...Job moves Disney has appointed outgoing Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman and former Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch to its board of directors....
...In February 1637, at the peak of tulip mania, a single bulb of the red-and-white-striped Semper Augustus was valued at 10,000 guilders....
...Prince Charles Edward Stuart, aka the Young Pretender, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, landed in July 1745 at Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, hoping to win back the crown his grandfather James II of England and...
...HMS Endeavour, captained by James Cook, followed the Dolphin two years later....
...Played by a swaggering James Norton, he’s an Apollo, with just a hint of Pan in profile....
...Still, Fonthill’s influence can be traced to such instances as the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, completed in 1860....
...Capri, Italy The Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius built villas here but it took until 1822 for a hotelier called Giuseppe Pagano to build a locanda on the island of Capri, the so-called “land of sweet...
...The portly figure of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, third son of King George II, is lodged in Scottish mythology as the “Butcher Cumberland”, or “Stinking Willie”, one of those characters whose deeds...
...Its cast of characters, among them deputy consul-general James Phillips and Admiral Harry Rawson, are worthy of the Ealing Studios — pith helmet and all....
...Founding partners Colonel Augustus Baillie and Carlyle Gifford’s first investment foray was a trust that lent money to rubber planters in British Malaya just as demand was exploding for rubber tyres with...
...Exile in five books Tristia and the Black Sea Letters by Ovid: the poet’s reflections on exile, and his plea to Augustus that he be allowed to return....
...A portrait of a 23-year-old Dylan Thomas by his friend and fellow Welshman Augustus John has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery....
...Cathay Pacific has replaced its chief executive Rupert Hogg with Augustus Tang, formerly group chief executive of Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company, as it faces mounting pressure from Beijing....
...Shown in pale dotted lines are the routes of British explorers — John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant and Collet Baker — while the Nile appears as a dark, kinking sinew waymarked with flagged “Government...
...A high proportion of domestic buyers is part of the explanation as it causes steadier demand, says James Morrison, who runs Savills’ Wimbledon office....
...The young emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus ordered it installed in a grand temple on the Palatine as a symbol of the sun god, Elagabal, replacing Jupiter in the pantheon....
...There are indeed some good pictures, including works by Augustus John, Sir William Orpen and Sir Alfred Munnings....
...A local priest, Father James Chesney, was widely suspected of involvement....
...Tite Street was laid out after the creation of Chelsea Embankment in 1874 and was home to John Singer Sargent, James Whistler and Augustus John....
...Perhaps it was a bit much to expect an American version of James Bond’s Q Branch, but the Apple “campus” is disappointingly… well… normal....
...Perhaps it was a bit much to expect an American version of James Bond’s Q Branch, but the Apple “campus” is disappointingly . . . well . . . normal....
...I’d also read recently about a Roman senator who had plotted against Augustus – all this just fell into place....
...Eventually, he lights on the grandfather of the lot – Augustus. “I know it’s ridiculous but he was the first....
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