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...In the smallest, on the first floor, you’re met with a vast Akari H paper lantern by Isamu Noguchi, setting the confident tone that runs throughout....
...and White’s h pawn queens. Chess 24581 Bh1! Kf4 2 Kg2! Ke4 3 Kg3 mate. Chess 24572457 1 Bb5! Resigns....
...consumer confidence survey Spain, flash Q4 GDP data US, December personal income and spending data Results: American Express Q4, Charles Schwab winter business update, Chevron Q4, Colgate-Palmolive Q4, H&...
...Fox Weber met Josef and Anni Albers, the married Bauhaus artists, when he was 22 after a mutual friend introduced them. Josef was a painter, Anni a textile artist....
...From the first two of those postings the son had indelible first-hand experiences of the rise of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin’s notorious purges....
...Room is almost literally a chamber drama: four imprisoning walls in which a mother (Brie Larson, superb) and five-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay, more superb) live, confined by a Josef Fritzl-style abductor...
...He was quoting from “September 1, 1939”, a scathing attack on the government policies and social attitudes of the 1930s that W H Auden, a British poet, wrote on the outbreak of the second world war....
...Produced in the early 1930s, these “H” series armchairs are made by the leading Czech designer of the period Jindrich Halabala....
...You heard me talk about M*A*S*H. Do people think they can do better than M*A*S*H? Or The Twilight Zone? Or Hill Street Blues?” But something clearly changed in television, I say....
...No stranger to an endorsement, he has since appeared in campaigns for labels including H&M, Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana. Next up: Belstaff....
...It was a big day out for the couple, but a relatively unofficial one, and therefore without the obsessive security that had accompanied Franz Josef’s visit to Sarajevo in 1910....
...Veste, a medieval fortress dominating the town, where Luther stayed for six months; the great baroque Schloss Ehrenberg, with its Hall of Giants where the widowed Victoria met the Austrian emperor Franz Josef...
...Josef Bucher, head of the BZÖ, a right-of-centre opposition party, has accused Mr Stronach of trying to buy influence, a charge Mr Stronach has denied....
...She studied at architect Josef Hoffman’s Wiener Werkstätte and had a good eye for a line....
...He did apparently once read a telephone directory in a hotel room in Seville instead of the Bible, and got as far as H. He was an anthropologist at heart....
...H/T reader AO UPDATE Here, to add some clarity, is Greg Fuzesi from JP Morgan… Last week, the ECB cut its deposit facility rate by 25bp to zero....
...(H/T Dealbreaker) Related link: Ackermann whiplash – FT Alphaville...
...Nielsen was taken private in 2006 by six private equity firms, including KKR, Thomas H Lee Partners, Blackstone and the Carlyle Group....
...-based Tesla Update: Some more information on Schuster (H/T mc24_7). A quick biography: Dr....
...Composer anniversaries are well spent exploring neglected works, and Franz Josef. Haydn, who died 200 years ago, supplied a treasure trove....
...Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank 97. Nelson Mandela 98. Gough Whitlam, Australian PM, 1972-75 99. George W. Bush 100. Fidel Castro...
...“Any growth from retailing in Germany is so hard to come by – only the discounters, Zara and H&M can manage it but most retailers find it very tough – but this will give them new sales.”...
...Karl H. Bröhan, a Berlin industrialist, handed his entire collection of art nouveau furniture and objects to the Berlin state government when he reached 60, turning from collector to curator....
...In The Food of the Gods (1904) H.G. Wells imagined an “iron curtain” falling between a scientist and “the outer world’’....
...Barquet (544 West 24th Street), Donzella 20th Century Gallery (17 White Street), Johnson Trading Gallery (490 Greenwich Street), Galerie Patrick Seguin at Sonnabend Gallery, (536 West 22nd Street) and Magen H....
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