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...Additional reporting by Alistair Gray in New York...
...Napoleon Hill was one of the founders of the American self-improvement movement....
...But in 2014 it came under the aegis of Gordon Campbell Gray, the celebrated hotelier behind One Aldwych in London, Carlisle Bay in Antigua, and Le Gray in Beirut....
...He attributes his concern for the environment to a radical Englishwoman Patience Gray, who lived nearby....
...The top price was given for Gustave Le Gray’s albumen print “Bateaux quittant le port du Havre (Navires de la flotte de Napoleon III)” (1856-57)....
...’s “Bateaux quittant le port du Havre (navires de la flotte de Napoleon III)” (1856-57; estimated $300,000-$500,000), and Eugène Atget’s 1923 “Notre-Dame” (estimated $60,000-$80,000)...
...That doesn’t make it “right,” it just makes “right” a whole lot more gray than “Xiaomi-are-copycats” complainers are apt to admit....
...It is amazing to be able to look at the pale pink flowers of Gray’s Invincible, a variety bred by a London head gardener in 1824....
...And there was a moment of great galleries – people like Rhona Hoffman, Donald Young, Richard Gray and the Randolph Street Gallery....
...Napoleon in Egypt: The Greatest Glory By Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape £20, 480 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Napoleon’s inglorious dry run for his disastrous invasion of Russia was aimed at the conquest...
...Napoleon kept one in the bedroom of his home in Elba. Mark Twain used his on the porch....
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