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...She explains that in the 1685 recipe by English chef Robert May, the inclusion of live frogs and snakes was a “form of entertainment”. Other recipes chose sparrow’s brains to “create lust”....
...Or you might look at the amazing Hardwick Hall (1590-97), always attributed to Robert Smythson but hugely influenced by its patron Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, or “Bess of Hardwick”....
...But they are hard to come by, with only four known 19th-century cookbooks in the category, including Robert Roberts’s The House Servant’s Directory (1827), which is currently listed on Abebooks at £5,956...
...The new signatories join a list including Bill Ackman, Michael Bloomberg, Carl Icahn, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, who have committed to donating much of their fortunes either during their lifetimes...
...Priscilla Chigumba, head of the election commission, said the presidential result might not be announced until Saturday....
...In a recent valedictory speech, retiring senior judge Robert Tang warned of the wider battle ahead, calling for the public to defend the rule of law so “it cannot be taken from us easily”....
...Mr Mawarire said after the court’s ruling that if Mr Mnangagwa’s government “do to us what Robert Mugabe’s government did to us, we will do the same thing to them that we have done to Robert Mugabe”....
...Robert Aguirre, a former electronics engineer, is homeless again. Now in his sixties, he refers to the condition, with a philosophical shrug, as being “unhoused”....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...Peter Hulsroj Vienna, Austria Letter in response to this letter From Robert Denham / The rich not paying tax has consequences...
...Why Elvis and Priscilla Presley spent their honeymoon here following their Las Vegas wedding in 1967....
...For John Roberts, chief executive of AO.com, the FTSE-listed electrical retailer, it all comes down to family values....
...Two years ago, Robert Connolly, the Australian director and producer renowned for films such as 2009’s East Timor-set drama Balibo, was finding it “incredibly hard” to source backing for his newest, unlikeliest...
...They are Cornelia Bargmann, David Botstein, Lewis Cantley, Hans Clevers, Napoleone Ferrara, Titia de Lange, Eric Lander Charles Sawyers, Bert Vogelstein, Robert Weinberg and Shinya Yamanaka....
...Australian director Stephan Elliott (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) follows four laddish loudmouths from London to Sydney where one is to marry a millionaire’s daughter....
...Robert Plant, rock singer. Paul Potts, executive chairman, Press Association. David Roberts, Paralympic swimmer. Finlay Scott, chief executive, General Medical Council....
...Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, deputy secretary of the Mutambara faction, has refused to say whether her party would accept cabinet posts in a new administration....
...Some modern art – think Priscilla Bracks’s recent Bin Laden/Jesus Christ holograph – might be a little “out there” for the average office....
...Robert Condon, chief executive, is convinced there is a viable market for 802.16d as an alternative access technology for enterprises and small businesses in developed markets....
...Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, on Friday filed a motion that begins a countdown to a first vote on Tuesday: on whether to approve Priscilla Owen, nominated by President George W....
...The Senate on Tuesday agreed to end debate on Priscilla Owen, nominated to a federal appeals court in New Orleans, and move to a vote on her nomination, as guaranteed by Monday night's deal....
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