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...Big-name thinkers such as Erasmus were revealed to be as self-fashioned and indebted to canny PR as Yuval Noah Harari and Malcolm Gladwell today....
...Restoring it themselves, the couple uncovered a frescoed nave and, incredibly, the only surviving painting in England of Noah’s Ark. Take on a ruined church when you retire, Bob advised visitors....
...Noah cotton shorts, £205. Alden leather loafers, £795. Bunney rings, Julian’s own. Claridge’s umbrella, Julian’s own. George wears Fendi wool jumper, £620. Gucci leather boots, £1,400....
...Yuval Noah Harari is right to ask us to plan for the long term as we think about what kind of planet we will inhabit after Covid-19 (“The world after coronavirus”, Life & Arts, March 21)....
...Specialist Noah Davis, who oversees Christie’s online-only sales, notes that more “accessibly priced” works have been available through the auction house for a while, but it’s a case of getting them “out...
...“We look at it as a kind of Noah’s Ark — from an initial population of 15 devils, there are now 80,” Ian said. “There are no vehicles or dogs to kill them, and there’s plenty of food.”...
...Soon, Jane’s husband Bill (Noah Emmerich) staggers home, the gunshot wounds in his back the work of the Bishop boys, notorious thugs with whom the couple have unfinished business....
...“Everyone’s a little bit on edge because of Boston,” says youth minister Jon Bishop from Watford, cradling nine-month-old son Noah and preparing for his first London Marathon....
...In David Lean’s film, Magwitch’s attempted escape from this “wicked Noah’s ark” was filmed on Hoo’s smallest island, Bishop Ness, barely more than a patch of mud in the river, just past what is now the jetty...
...I could have told the militant scientific atheists that I was roundly ticked off for my godlessness by no less a personage than the Bishop of London....
...Some of them are well-known: Samuel Johnson with his great dictionary (1755) and Noah Webster with his patriotic American dictionaries in the early 19th century....
...In a neat reversal, he compares creationists with Galileo, with scientific fact on his side, “persecuted by short-sighted and dogmatic bishops”....
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