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...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...FT commenter Patnaik K V: Are central banks better prepared now, in terms of ammunition at their disposal, to respond to the economic fallout of this pandemic than they were in 2008?...
...Another thing worth noting perhaps is Mr Ghribi’s involvement with the MENA division of Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, the Italian private hospital operator that has a tie-up with BRS Ventures Investment...
...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...
...The first half of 2018 saw the $6.55bn final close of the Carlyle Asia Partners V fund, the second-largest ever raised for emerging Asia, behind only the $9.3bn collected by KKR last year....
...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...
...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....
...at this year’s European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in Maastricht in March, with three dealers offering pieces by the remarkable Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), for instance, court sculptor to Charles II and Philip V...
...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....
...He worked for Saul Bass and for Fortune magazine and then returned to Britain to found Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in 1958....
...The list reads like a Who’s Who of the emerging markets business kaleidoscope: Atul Punj, founder of Punj Lloyd, a $3.5bn Indian engineering company; V-Nee Yeh, co-founder of Value Partners, a leading Hong...
...In addition, “the web gives people the ability to deliver a much more personalised experience”, says Saul Klein, partner at Index Ventures....
...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.”...
...KALOOKI NIGHTS by Howard Jacobson Jonathan Cape ₤17.99, 480 pages V.S. Pritchett once identified in the novels of Saul Bellow a strain of comedy tinged with “fatality”....
...MAGIC SEEDS by V.S. Naipaul Picador £16.99, 304 pages I found V.S. Naipaul by process of elimination....
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