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...It was in the foothills of these mountains, at the Olduvai Gorge, that Louis and Mary Leakey found evidence of the planet’s earliest humans, including their 1959 discovery of the famous “Zinj” Australopithecus...
...Instead of the tax savings being £150,000 it would be in the region of £29,000 to £47,000, Robbins said....
...“This is the most desolate place in the world,” wrote Mary Shelley in 1816, standing on the same spot, Montenvers, and looking out over what was now known, thanks to Windham’s description, as the Mer de...
...And there are few historical insights to glean, unlike with Henry VIII’s Mary Rose, which yielded a Tudor time capsule when it was raised from the depths in 1982....
...Margaret’s daughter Mary died at 22; her son Hugh Angus succumbed to appendicitis aged just 13. By the 1920s, fishing was in decline and other jobs had dwindled....
...Rather than the snowy Himalayas, we look across at the peaks of 30 St Mary Axe and 22 Bishopsgate, the deep valleys of Houndsditch and Commercial Road. We start with a glass of champagne....
...His death drew tributes from colleagues, competitors and fellow business leaders including GM chief executive Mary Barra and Cisco chief Chuck Robbins....
...It recruited the 40-year-old polymath to compose scores for Moana, Mary Poppins Returns (in which he also starred) and the forthcoming remake of The Little Mermaid....
...After providing charts for Amy Johnson’s solo flight to Australia, a miniature atlas for Queen Mary’s doll’s house at Windsor — and a map of Dartmoor for Dr Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles — the...
...It was designed by architects Leslie Graham Thomson and Arthur Davis, the latter known for his work on the Ritz in London and the ocean liners Aquitania and the Queen Mary....
...“This,” wrote Mary Shelley, standing on the same spot on July 25, 1816, “is the most desolate place in the world.”...
...Helicopter transfers from Land’s End airport (near Penzance) from £215 return; islesofscilly-travel.co.uk Compiled by Joanne O’Connor, Gemma Bowes and Tom Robbins....
...Robert Dorrien-Smith, who owns the island of Tresco, is leading a group of investors who will bankroll a new service, flying to the islands of St Mary’s and Tresco....
...From £519 for three nights. landmarktrust.org.uk Southampton The Queen Mary 2, flagship of the Cunard Line, set sail from Southampton to New York last week on its first departure following a £90m refit...
...But there is speculation that Mary Jo White will not remain in post as chair....
...Two portraits by Mary Waters dominate the lounge, and a light installation by Gerold Tagwerker hangs in the stairwell....
...currencies and commodities have backfired on a number of hedge funds this year, confounding some of the industry’s highest profile investors such as Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, Glenview Capital run by Larry Robbins...
...Peston was a beneficiary of the postwar push towards greater social mobility, going on to study economics at the London School of Economics under economist Lionel Robbins before winning a Fulbright scholarship...
...Glenview Capital manager Larry Robbins, whose fund is down 17 per cent this year, has now offered existing clients a chance to put new money into a healthcare-focused side fund, with no fees of any kind....
...Tom Robbins was a guest of Fir Chlis and The Cabin and Visit Scotland (visitscotland.com) Hip Hebridean hideouts An Airigh, Galtrigill (near Glendale), Skye Sleeps two, from £650 per week; anairigh.co.uk...
...Clearing Dawn is rascally and warm – a Jerome Robbins celebration of youth but in the argot of today....
...Peter Frankopan Author of ‘The Silk Roads’ I absolutely loved Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile). It is a sparkling book that brings the past to life....
...Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, by Charlotte Gordon, Hutchinson, RRP£25 / Random House, RRP$30 Although the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter...
...But it’s carnal and satirical and American enough to be heartier than camp — it’s Ivy Compton-Burnett crossed with Mary Karr....
...… The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, by Mary Elise Sarotte, Basic Books, RRP£18.99/$27.99 The fall of the Berlin Wall was the defining event of the revolutionary year of 1989....
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