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...In the 1820s, hundreds of Gregor MacGregor’s fellow Scots ploughed their savings into his semi-scam of a territory, Poyais, on the coast of Nicaragua, or opted to settle there....
...In 2018, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor visited a revolutionary art space in Bogotá, Colombia, called FLORA ars+natura....
...Rob MacGregor, national officer at the Unite trade union, said staff were concerned that the plans for further restructuring could lead to job cuts....
...Making the announcement at London’s Guildhall, Peter Florence, the chair of this year’s judges, said of the initial refusal to accept the jury’s decision: “We took it as a starting point for further discussion...
...Among them is a letter to Peter Brookes, secretary of state for national heritage, pushing him to allow the sale of the government’s huge art collection....
...In 1968, the sociologist Peter Berger wrote an article for the New York Times in which he confidently stated that the world was going secular....
...Joanna MacGregor, 58, is head of piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a professor at the University of London....
...“We assumed that the rest of the world was moving in step with us,” MacGregor says....
...In a lyrical introduction to the album, Neil Macgregor describes Heimat as a “movingly performed Anglo-German love story”....
...Abernathy MacGregor, a US corporate communications firm, has hired Carl Folta as senior counsellor....
...Sir Peter Bazalgette, former chairman of Arts Council England, said: “What we need are leaders in the arts and Tristram Hunt has every potential to be a good one....
...Peter Chema, chief executive of the Scottish Grocers Federation, said the measure “completely ignores the efforts taken by the soft-drinks industry to reformulate their products, promote low- or no-calorie...
...Peter Frankopan and Stephen King Changing Global Order and the Rise of the East April 1, 4pm Sheldonian, £12.50-£15 Historian Peter Frankopan and economist Stephen King talk about the rise of economic...
...Mr MacGregor has a special regard for the German arts....
...declared Peter Nagy of Nature Morte, exhibiting Pakistani artist Seher Shah....
...MacGregor, to his credit, disdains any phrase that uses the word “diplomacy” to describe what he does....
...The savings group, which we assume has never met Peter Stringfellow, has named a new financial planning wing “1825” after its own year of establishment. A track record that long is an achievement....
...Peter Henlein, a clockmaker in the same city at the same time, is said to have invented the pocket watch....
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...This now-familiar technique, pioneered by the museum’s director Neil MacGregor in his A History of the World in 100 Objects, serves a clear purpose here....
...royalacademy.org.uk, 020 7300 8000, to January 25 … Christian Boltanski, Modern Art Oxford In 1973, Boltanski, then 29, organised an exhibition in which Peter Ibsen, formerly director of Modern Art Oxford...
...Peter Wilding, director of the pro-European British Influence lobby group, said the UK prime minister must reassure Ms Merkel that he does not want the upheaval of European treaty change....
...This magnificent show, curated by British Museum director Neil MacGregor and accompanying his just-finished series on Radio 4, recounts Germany’s history in 600 objects, from Gutenberg’s printing press and...
...Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, reportedly told a Heritage Lottery Fund event earlier this year that as a “private citizen” he was opposed to independence....
...Above ground, Steel brings in many of the chief players to sketch in the context and strategies – hardline chairman of the National Coal Board Ian MacGregor, conflicted Conservative minister Peter Walker...
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