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...As we leafed through the book, a framed portrait of Romolo Bulla Sr watched over us sternly, high up on the wall. Romolo Sr was, by all accounts, a difficult man....
...I loved the column by our Delhi bureau chief John Reed on whether we should now be calling India “Bharat”. We have not heard the last of this....
...During Marcos Sr’s two decades in power, he plundered billions of dollars worth of state assets, according to Philippine officials who have tried to recover it after his 1986 ouster in a popular revolt....
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...But it was Chaumet’s connection to the Empire, and specifically Joséphine, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, that cemented this relationship....
...Erin Meyer, co-author with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings of No Rules Rules (shortlist, 2020), recommended Made to Stick (2007), Dan and Chip Heath’s “entertaining, practical guide to communication”, and...
...The exercise has put the Marcos name — notorious for many years because of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr — back in the headlines....
...Highlights of the collection toured Hong Kong in November and arrive in London on February 21 before rolling on to Los Angeles, Beijing and New York, where lots as diverse as decoy ducks and Napoleon’s sugar...
...Napoleon III is often criticised as being both authoritarian and ineffectual....
...Photographs: National Army Museum; Paul Reed/Getty Images; Anne Gilbert/Alamy; Alamy; The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman...
...Mr Shaath said, contrasting what he described as the Obama administration’s willingness to support Israeli negotiating demands in the talks with tougher stands taken by former US presidents George Bush Sr...
...John Reed is the FT’s Jerusalem bureau chief...
...… Napoleon’s hat – a bicorne which he wore en bataille, its points above his shoulders and not perpendicular to them – comes up for sale in France this weekend, estimated at €300,000-€400,000....
...The British are not a nation of shopkeepers, as Napoleon said, but rather one of property speculators....
...Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume 6: 1966-1976, edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, Boydell Press RRP£45 The sixth volume of Britten’s letters covers...
...“The first thing that goes when people get in trouble is the toys – the Ferrari, the Lamborghini,” says Tom Hartley Sr, a specialist dealer based in Overseal, south Derbyshire, who buys and sells new or...
...Attacked and threatened many times, by Napoleon, Cromwell and Hitler among others, the island has a rich historic landscape. Fancy staying in a wartime German observation tower?...
...STEPS TO THE OVAL OFFICE August 4 1961 Born in Honolulu to Ann Dunham from Kansas and Barack Obama Sr from Kenya, to which the father returned two years later....
...Bill Sr, once a powerful influence on the company, is 82 and has taken a back seat, having retired from the Ford board in 2005....
...Prizes were also offered in France for a functional water turbine, and for a method of preserving food for Napoleon’s armies....
...Golf de la Martinique is a testing course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. on land once owned by Napoleon’s Josephine....
...It is said that around 200 years ago Napoleon warned that people should: “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”...
...This month EasyJet, the UK budget airline, awarded a 10-year contract to the Swiss-based SR Technics for maintenance support following a competitive global tender....
...Granoff, President and CEO, Pomona Capital Earl Graves, Sr., Chairman and CEO, Earl G....
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