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...Hubert Humphrey, his vice-president, squared off against Robert F Kennedy until Kennedy’s assassination in June....
...Fox anchor Tucker Carlson released an interview with Vladimir Putin making the case better than anyone else could that Trumpians adulate Russia’s autocrat; and news broke that the Biden special counsel Robert...
...The latter, Decolonised Structures (2022-23), recreates seven public statues from around London of imperial-age figures ranging from Sir Robert Clive, the first British administrator of Bengal, and Earl...
...It was the seventh Earl of Elgin who procured them. Lucy FisherBeautifully read. Robert ShrimsleyVery good. (Laughter) Stephen BushSorry....
...Smart reads Miami mogul Property developer Marc Roberts is seeking to reshape Miami’s seedy side into a miniature Las Vegas, the FT writes....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...Having spurned suitors including Philip II of Spain and Francis, Duke of Alençon, heir to the French throne, for many years, Elizabeth’s favourite was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester — who was already married...
...And I interviewed the Earl of Devon, whose family have been sitting in Westminster since, I think the 1200s, and he argues that political fads come and go, but actually there’s a sort of continuity....
...Our plates are cleared and we decide to skip dessert, but Nolan orders more Earl Grey. I ask for an espresso....
...Elizabeth I appointed the Earl and Countess custodians of the captive Mary, Queen of Scots in 1569....
...The John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, who having retired from his candy-making family business set about saving America from a red takeover....
...Sometimes she stayed at Chatsworth, another of the Earl’s properties, and she summered for a while at Buxton spa, in a suite built for her by the Earl....
...Humphrey Ker, actor, comedian, scriptwriter and now executive director of Wrexham AFC, is on a cigarette break in the stadium car park....
...Mindful of his own monarch, Shakespeare couldn’t extol the Yorkists; Ashley D Gayle is a loutish braggart as King Edward (Henry VI’s on a break), while the juvenile Henry Earl of Richmond (Elizabeth I’s...
...discovery there’s gambling going on at Humphrey Bogart’s joint even as he collects his own winnings....
...Follow Robert on Twitter @robertshrimsley and email him at robert.shrimsley@ft.com Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...In 1902, William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, sixth Earl Fitzwilliam, died. He left a legacy worth more than £3bn in today’s money....
...The composition belongs with the style most widely known nowadays from works by Robert Adam after his travels to Rome and the late Roman palace at Split....
...In Robert Hastie’s production (first seen at Sheffield Crucible), that shocking moment becomes even more upsetting, as in this staging Hero is deaf....
...Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, took the job in 1812, when he was also 42 years old....
...Key to the couple’s plans is the offer of two artist studios and residencies in the sweeping grounds of Cortachy, the former home of the Earl of Airlie....
...Fellowes reaches back into a nearer past than the 1920s and recycles his Oscar-winning 2001 script for Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Hollywood invading an English country house....
...Robert Bly, a leading mythopoetic figure and author of the surprise 1990 bestseller Iron John, believed some men were violent because they were suppressing their emotions, particularly anger and shame, and...
...It came from acorns brought back by the Earl of Powis, whose son was probably one of Robert Darwin’s patients and later, certainly, his debtor. Gardening and doctoring often go helpfully together....
...Any time Roberts swings with the liberals, Thomas will usually enjoy this important prerogative....
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