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...Letter in response to this article: Let down by the theatre of the House of Commons / From Michael Wade, London SW1, UK...
...For Michael Dell and Silver Lake’s Egon Durban, the stakes were arguably even greater....
...Redgrave, by Augustus John....
...government meetings with prayers, had lashed out at accusations of corruption at the highest levels of the BVI government and collusion with drug traffickers levelled by Rankin’s predecessor as governor, Augustus...
...So governor Augustus Jaspert’s decision last year, just before leaving the role, to exercise colonial-era powers to appoint a commission of inquiry from London to investigate allegations of high-level corruption...
...The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI, by Michael Wooldridge, Pelican, RRP£20, 416 pages For a more down-to-earth assessment of how artificial intelligence is going to affect our world, this book...
...Adam Low film director Akram Khandancer and choreographer Ayelet Waldmanwriter Augustus Casely-HayfordDirector V&A East Prof Carl GombrichLondon Interdisciplinary School Caryl Churchillplaywright Cate...
...In the past year, Boris Johnson has dropped into ancient Greek during a speech to the UN, told the radio station LBC that his favourite politician was Pericles, and referenced the Roman emperor Augustus...
...Or it is from the time of Octavian Augustus when, to celebrate the Roman New Year, women and men wore something red to represent power, heart, health and fertility....
...As historian Michael Grant notes: “The future political leadership of the empire lay with Italy and Rome, as Virgil a few years later unequivocally pronounced while paying tribute at the same time to Greek...
...Augustus Gloop, that great big greedy nincompoop, was sent up a pipe by Roald Dahl’s Oompa Loompas to be turned into fudge. The dreadfully spoilt Veruca Salt was thrown down the garbage chute....
...Tite Street was laid out after the creation of Chelsea Embankment in 1874 and was home to John Singer Sargent, James Whistler and Augustus John....
...Some of the famous people that have visited the café and have coffees named after them include Augustus the Strong and Robert Schumann....
...According to Michael Grant in his History of Rome, Caesar Augustus “felt and encouraged a new patriotic feeling for Italy, echoed by Virgil’s insistence on the country’s identity”....
...Looks like something that might have been produced at the Slade School, in the vein of Augustus John, although not by him.”...
...Happy Money: The New Science of Smarter Spending, by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, Oneworld, RRP£10.99 This book is different from the overwhelming majority of books about money....
...Michael Blogg, analyst at Investec, said: “It is a business that has had some rough years – this is a legacy of joining together two disparate businesses in the first place.”...
...When Augustus died, his Roman successors piously preserved his simple country furniture; but Nero’s house, they buried under a public bath....
...Eventually, he lights on the grandfather of the lot – Augustus. “I know it’s ridiculous but he was the first....
...According to the author Michael Grant, “Augustus felt and encouraged a new patriotic feeling for Italy, echoed by Virgil’s insistence on the country's identity.”...
...Sir, Michael Gove’s distribution of King James Bibles to schools is not as bizarre as Chris Cook suggests (“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Gove”, May 19)....
...There’s no shortage of witty lines, especially those of Augustus Gloop as he falls into the chocolate river, but Donald Sturrock’s libretto is otherwise short on sophistication and poetry....
...Boy soprano Michael Kepler Meo sings Charlie with due innocence, and bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch is imposing as Wonka....
...The Houses of Parliament, the neo-gothic masterpiece designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, present a glorious façade in the midday sun....
...DresdenSaxony and Denmark An alliance between Saxony and Denmark was established in 1548 when Duke Augustus, the future Elector of Saxony, married Danish Princess Anna....
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