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...Unlike in Ray Bradbury’s 1956 adaptation, where the Hollywood Ahab — played by a salty Gregory Peck — re-emerges from the deep still harpooning Moby-Dick, crucified on his own tragic nemesis, Melville’s...
...Onboard, True North II’s purpose becomes obvious....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...Sophocles and Ovid considered these small nuggets the hardened tears of grieving maidens; others, the dried sweat of the rays of the sun, secretions of the sperm whale or even the solidified urine of lynx...
...The world around her had been changing, including the Catholic church: Vatican II, the great wave of reform announced in 1962, had led to deep ructions between conservatives and liberals....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...But I’m most excited about Nakhla, the standalone boutique of the eponymous jewellery brand, situated at the feet of the iconic statue of Rameses II....
...Frozen was soon the bestselling Blu-ray in US history. Follow the breadcrumb trail and you see how Disney came to stake so much on Disney+....
...By our estimation, that means that Citadel will now finally have leapfrogged Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater as the highest grossing hedge fund of all time. Not bad for a former computer nerd from Boca....
...Many of the pieces come with illustrious provenance (Savonnerie rugs designed for the Louvre; a sewing table made for Marie Antoinette; silver service commissioned by Catherine II of Russia), all of it arrayed...
...Beaton’s two assistants, John Drysdale and Ray Harwood, “hardly had time to look at her” as the Queen arrived for what became her most famous, and most regal, portrait....
...Whitehall secretary James Marwood suspects that the involvement of Charles II’s formidable courtiers Arlington and Buckingham points to some high-level skulduggery....
...Drinks on tap included Seafarers English ale, Dark Star’s Hophead golden ale, Stroud Brewery’s Budding pale ale and Fuller’s Golden Rays ale....
...The first was a mask-face, encased by an auburn wig, encircled by a spiky lace ruff, an allegory for the sun and its benevolent rays....
...A few years later I styled The Kinks’ video for Come Dancing and I put Ray Davies in it.” Did Davies love the suit as much as Hall? “Oh god, yes.”...
...New optics and instrumentation will produce more stable and sharply focused beams of ultra-bright light, from X-rays to infrared, for 38 experiments stationed around Diamond’s ring....
...Who would produce a TV with a cathode ray tube now?’...
...“The bond market is the most important market in the world,” says Ray Dalio, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater. “It is the backbone of all other markets.”...
...The chancellor made a long-awaited decision on revising the so-called Solvency II regime, which governs how insurers are run, including how much capital they must hold and where they can invest....
...Friday includes FTX’s US entity, Bankman-Fried’s proprietary trading group Alameda Research and about 130 affiliated companies… Bankman-Fried also resigned as chief executive and will be replaced by John J Ray...
...When the sun is shining, the rays create a honeyed backdrop for the abstract paintings and sculptures on display in the first-floor apartment-gallery belonging to Louis & Sack....
...You cannot fault the ambition from Aviva, which is targeting an annual capital generation figure of £1.5bn from its Solvency II position....
...EU rules still in place under Solvency II regulations are not working for Britain....
...But about 6 per cent are Grade II* listed and 2.5 per cent are Grade I listed, with far tighter regulation....
...Twickenham attracted a very different scrum, one of poets, a few noblemen and in the villa of Marble Hill, the mistress of King George II....
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