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...the exuberant plasterwork found in stately homes and palaces that began to proliferate in the 16th and 17th centuries to the wooden boughs of foliage carved on to panelling by British sculptor Grinling Gibbons...
...Stuff I enjoyed this week I am still reading Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire....
...He could smell bullshit,” recalls John Mack, who was then head of Morgan Stanley’s fixed-income division....
...Previous owners include John du Pont, heir to the DuPont chemical fortune....
...Gibbons took his own life in 2013, days before a deposition in a patent lawsuit about the company’s technology....
...The howling of the gibbons in his menagerie triggered a feud with a neighbour whose house he then bought. Most strikingly of all, he gave his business away....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...It was hard, pausing in St John’s Wood to read this, not to shiver with a sense of London’s ruin ourselves. Yet Wells, having put the city on the verge of obliteration, had chosen to redeem it....
...The bank is now obliged to share further documentation linked to Johnson and other top US executives including Lester Pataki and John Gibbons....
...John Redmond, the leader of the nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party, saw partition as “unthinkable”. Others, however, such as St Loe Strachey, editor of The Spectator, set out the advantages starkly....
...Recent years have seen the release of eight black rhinos, 250 Javan langurs and gibbons, 11 bison and more than 60 western lowland gorillas....
...Thanks to their huge record collection, he spent his childhood in Iceland growing to love music from Gibbons and Byrd to Thomas Adès and John Adams....
...John Orna-Ornstein, director of culture and engagement at the Trust, estimates that the charity will lose £200m of income in 2020 as a result of the shutdown of its properties....
...Edward Gibbon, the 18th-century historian, asserted near the start of his Decline and Fall of the Roman empire that Croatia and Bosnia were “still infested by tribes of barbarians”....
...But you still see venture funds that have invested in more guys named John than women, so you’re up against a lot....
...Stefan Hoops is to replace John Gibbons with immediate effect, according to an internal memo to employees on Thursday seen by the Financial Times....
...“Before the financial crisis, it was not uncommon to find a nurse with £100,000 of unsecured debt,” says John Fairhurst, PayPlan’s executive director....
...Last week the bank announced that Stefan Hoops, a close confidant of Mr Sewing, had replaced John Gibbons as head of GTB....
...More and more global payments are executed electronically via fintech and online platforms,” said John Gibbons, head of global transaction banking at Deutsche Bank....
...In his blue bedchamber, lanky, pale, babyfaced Walpole himself stares out, in Restoration-era fancy costume, from John Eccardt’s portrait modelled on a Van Dyck painting....
...Sell: Stanley Gibbons (SGI) The market capitalisation of Stanley Gibbons was £120m in 2014; it has now shrunk to £14m....
...Stamp auctioneer Stanley Gibbons said on Monday it was inviting bids for the whole or part of the company, amid confusion over the status of a takeover approach....
...Stefan Hoops is set to become Deutsche Bank’s top transaction banker following the departure of John Gibbons, the FT reported, citing an internal memo....
...Nixey’s version espouses a narrative familiar to the readers of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Christianity is seen as a brutal force for philistinism and iconoclasm....
...The consumer sector has been driving this for many years,” said John Gibbons, Deutsche’s head of global transaction banking....
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