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...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...In 2017, a German appeals court in Hamm agreed to hear a case brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who claims that RWE should be held accountable for climate change, specifically the melting...
...Skjolden today looks pretty much as it did in 1913, save for the village’s only hotel, a later arrival, where I stayed in a room with spectacular views down the V-shaped valley of Lustrafjord....
...The departure of Anthony Kennedy from the US Supreme Court has set in motion renewed discussion of the future of Roe v Wade — the landmark 1973 ruling that legalised abortion nationwide....
...Making Facebook pay: Brittany Kaiser writes that “Facebookistan” is so large and powerful as to resemble a nation ruled by a kleptocratic regime — the former director at Cambridge Analytica believes the...
...This year, 21 teenagers will get a hearing in the California appeals court for their claim in Juliana v US that the government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty and property by promoting the...
...The only note of insubordination was supplied by the four-year-old Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, later the Kaiser, biting the legs of two of his British uncles. But Britain had had enough of weeping....
...She attended Temple University and married her brother’s friend, Saul Windsor, after graduating with a bachelors degree in 1950. The marriage lasted less than a year....
...In George V, the moment had met the man....
...Interview with Elizabeth Rosenthal of Kaiser Health News....
...The ruling, in a case known as King v Burwell, centred on a key tenet of the ACA: who should be eligible for tax credits that subsidise health insurance purchased by poorer consumers....
...The new series has as yet said nothing about the 350 years from the execution of Charles I to the accession of Elizabeth’s grandfather, George V, who kept his head and his job while the tsars, kaisers and...
...What did the protagonists, including the three royal cousins – King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II – not do then that may have staved off the outbreak of war in August 1914?...
...A century ago it was the ascent of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II that unsettled the world; today a rising China is roiling east Asia....
...The other nervous moment came at the end of the first world war when the crowned heads of Europe – the Tsar, the Kaisers, the Habsburg Emperor – began to be toppled....
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...The film was set in Paris, and so the producers shipped him over and put him up in the Hotel George V for eight months. Allen loved Paris....
...I have been saving Saul Bellow’s Letters for a rainy day – I received two copies of the recent hardback for Christmas – but I know when I read them he’ll become smaller to me....
...But the parallel interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II are more than that....
...He worked for Saul Bass and for Fortune magazine and then returned to Britain to found Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in 1958....
...In addition, “the web gives people the ability to deliver a much more personalised experience”, says Saul Klein, partner at Index Ventures....
...Fact v fantasy: How farfetched is it? “If you believe in spooks, clap your hands.”...
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...Tamino (Joseph Kaiser) runs through the Flanders trenches fleeing a serpent composed of battle smoke....
...You’re more likely to be on to something if you’re reading V.S. Pritchett, Saul Bellow … But any young squirt, you’re not going to read except out of a kind of sociological curiosity.”...
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