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...He befriended Joseph-Désiré Mobutu — “the most sincere US friend in Congo” — who took power in a coup, and handed his once-friend Lumumba to the Katangan secessionists who, ultimately, pulled the trigger...
...Undeterred, his parents decided to “meet AMERICA™ half-way”, changing their first names to Joseph and Linda....
...In 1986, two-thirds of the painting was gifted to the Nelson-Atkins museum in Kansas City by local collectors Joseph and Ethel Atha....
...The Lamb family sold the house to local banker Francis Bellingham in 1893....
...At 19, he reproduced a 1933 photo of Joseph Goebbels as a large-scale drawing of the man with mouth agape, his fulminating shout distended into a howl....
...If you doubt that anyone really falls for The Great Historical Algorithm that predicts The Very Big Thing That is About To Happen, I suggest you read Francis Fukuyama’s review of Neil Howe’s “The Fourth...
...Put it right in the living room and your guests will have plenty to talk about. theberkelworld.com The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly by Joseph B Bates, £100I go to the tremendous bookshop Sotheran’s any...
...Francis expects new measures to be introduced in the UK in 2024. “Housing is rising up the political agenda....
...Alfie Stirling, chief economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said that for many in less secure industries, “the worst may be still to come” as higher interest rates prompt companies to cut jobs....
...The son of a rural policeman, Joseph Alois Ratzinger was born on April 16, 1927, in Marktl am Inn, a small settlement in the southern German state of Bavaria....
...Previously known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict had until then been the head of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which set guidelines for the world’s 1.3bn Catholics....
...This story has been amended to correct Joseph Byrum’s job title....
...Francis Stories also has a lovely cashmere and fine wool mix for those who always feel the cold....
...The requisitions were carried out in parallel with Joseph Stalin’s policy of forced collectivisation....
...It’s the title of a quite brilliant book on east-central Europe since the second world war by the American scholar Joseph Rothschild....
...I would work out with the trainer who helped Boris Johnson bounce back from Covid, and eat a seven-course £195 feast inspired by Sir Francis Bacon and cooked by a celebrity chef from Argentina....
...And yet, as Francis points out, a vast literature of illness barely covers the latter....
...Francis Breedon: The inflation outlook remains highly uncertain....
...Then there is Vyacheslav Nikonov, grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin’s foreign minister and a man with much blood on his hands during the mass Soviet repressions of the 1930s....
...Letter in response to this article: Preserving UK shipyard jobs should be a priority / From Rodney Reid, London W5, UK...
...It will be 79 years next Sunday since Joseph Stalin died, but Uncle Joe’s totalitarian principles are alive and well in the fatherland. Is there hope?...
...The broker was dealer Joseph Duveen, who recognised in American new money and European Old Masters a marriage made in heaven, especially when the new-world economy boomed and British aristocrats buckled...
...John McCauley, director of the World Influenza Centre at London’s Francis Crick Institute noted that if and when cases do rise it will have been 18 months since the last significant outbreak....
...It is very rare to settle a case for more than the damages that we originally pleaded,” said William Reid IV, an attorney for the plaintiffs whose estimate of Renren’s liability was about $240m....
...They have day jobs teaching or doing charity or social work, emulating the life of Francis of Assisi, their founding saint....
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