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...Founded in 2018 by chief executive Merck Mercuriadis and Nile Rodgers, HSF was a big winner as investors turned to alternative investments, including song rights, during the era of low interest rates....
...Last week government forces re-entered Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city across the Nile....
...Papyrus, planted long ago, is a reminder of Egypt and the Nile, and, as in Roman pools of antiquity, a symbol of imperial reach....
...It is easily the most delightful place on the Nile. I stayed in the comforting embrace of the Old Cataract Hotel. Built in 1899 by Thomas Cook, it shares the Sudan’s retro charm....
...Thomas Brooman was one of the founders of the festival, having impressed Peter Gabriel as a “likely lad” when he interviewed him for the Bristol Recorder, a local music magazine....
...His capital market days have featured his high-profile friends and partners such as Nile Rodgers of Chic and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi....
...The musician Nile Rodgers talked about the rise of disco. The scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock talked about space....
...flirted with the idea of epidemic forecasting for several years, harnessing the computing power of the Los Alamos National Laboratory to predict the spread of flu and mosquito-borne illnesses such as West Nile...
...I reject the temptation to nick Holbein’s scheming Thomas Cromwell, aware that my lease on the gallery of dreams is nearly up....
...But it was reading Thomas Pakenham’s book The Scramble for Africa (1990) and understanding that, in marching to Bagamoyo, Livingstone’s companions unwittingly facilitated Africa’s colonisation, that convinced...
...Thomas Niles Stamford, CT, US...
...Letter in response to this editorial: Merkel has cause to tell US envoy to pack his bags / From Thomas Niles, Stamford, CT, US...
...Still more important, the old adversaries would never go to war again; the closest they came was the pumped-up “Fashoda crisis” over claims to the Upper Nile at the end of the century....
...The Egyptians used census records to calculate the labour required to build the pyramids, and to apportion land after the flooding of the Nile....
...It is, he says, “sort of like a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, but instead of 30 years compressed into three hours it [is] seven years compressed into seven minutes”....
...Sir, Thomas Niles (Letters, April 22) must be thanked for offering clarification on Boris Johnson’s sovereignty arguments on the same day that his country’s president clipped his coupon with David Cameron...
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...The writer is a US senator and chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services Letter in response to this article: Taliban is still a potent force thanks to Pakistan / From Thomas Niles...
...He also says the construction is being personally supervised by Thomas Barrack, chief executive of Colony Capital, one of the world’s largest real estate private equity funds....
.... ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: EU should make Greece a footnote country again / From Thomas Niles...
...The runners-up were Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust — set amid Kenya’s 2007 electoral turmoil — Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady of the Nile, which takes place in a Rwandan girls’ boarding school on the eve...
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