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...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...After van der Weyden’s “The Descent from the Cross”, look to your left for a small panel on wood from 1438. It is “Saint Barbara” by the Flemish-School master Robert Campin....
...The pub is named in honour of Charles FitzRoy, who was the first to lay out this section of the capital during the 18th century and whose father was an illegitimate son of Charles II....
...George W Bush said he could “get a sense of his soul” and found Putin “straightforward and trustworthy”....
...But Fflur Roberts, head of luxury goods at market research provider Euromonitor International, says big royal events do boost sales....
...American minimalist counterparts include Agnes Martin’s trembling grids, Donald Judd’s gold-hued stacks, Robert Ryman’s white paintings....
...Letter in response to this article: Feeling let down by FT coverage of Harry’s book / From Anna Wood, London N1, UK...
...The two-storey, two-bedroom apartment, clad in polished, ginger-hued maple wood, has all the chic of a sleek 1920s cruise liner....
...The games console comes with 60 pre-loaded, from the marvellous (eg, Golden Axe II, Phantasy Star II) to the not-so marvellous (eg, Night Trap, widely acknowledged as one of the worst of all time). amazon.co.uk...
...Stanley Stewart Pata Lodge, Patagonia, Chile You arrive through enchanted woods....
...or country-specific create the same issues with respect to conflicts of interest and criminal insider trading that individual stocks do,” says Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for the George W...
...Lee, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods....
...The encaustic tiles, hand-carved wood furniture and bath amenities are all produced locally....
...Queen Elizabeth II was the rock on which modern Britain was built. Our country has grown and flourished under her reign. Britain is the great country it is today because of her....
...“Feedback from investors has centred a lot around those investments and just understanding what are the returns,” said Robert W Baird research analyst David George....
...The granddaddy of all papers on this topic is W. Brian Arthur’s “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business,” published a quarter century ago....
...There are copies of World War II for Dummies and American Revolution for Dummies on the shelves....
...Her degree project, School of the Seven Bells, featured 14 of her friends and was the result, she says, of “a manic Robert Bresson phase we all went through”....
...John Roberts, the chief justice appointed by former president George W Bush, who has become a pivotal voice on the divided court, focused on the concept of “viability”, signalling he could be open to tweaking...
...From Bloomberg: Cathie Wood is exiting Chinese stocks as Beijing’s crackdown on private businesses sows uncertainty across markets . . ....
...When we visited, there was a “warm and welcoming” reception promised inside the wood-panelled pub, which, in colder months, features a fire....
...Replacing London’s Mayfair district as the most salubrious spot in the original Monopoly is The Terrace View, referring to a platform on Richmond Hill with a sweeping view of the Thames meandering between woods...
...When you get to Charles II Street, enjoy the view of John Nash’s flamboyant Theatre Royal (1821). Cut through to Pall Mall, turn left and then right on to Waterloo Place....
...Roula Khalaf FT editor There are several superb books to recommend to readers this summer, including John Preston’s Fall, the fascinating tale of the rise and fall of Robert Maxwell, and The World for...
...Modest, locally run lodges and guides suffered what one of them, the Tanzanian Robert Chekwaze, described to me as “the brute force” of the virus....
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