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...The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry D Watson (Bloomsbury Academic) Sweden’s Nobel family, chiefly associated nowadays with the Nobel Prize, were...
...In January 1977, he appeared on a BBC chat show presented by Melvyn Bragg, along with guests who included the footballer Rodney Marsh....
...Then I’d buy some lemonade from a vending machine where you rinsed a glass after the previous customer and popped a coin into a slot. I’d get an ice cream too....
...that Surrealism achieved its disquieting icons: Salvador Dalí’s “Lobster Telephone” (1938), Luis Buñuel’s sliced eyeball in “Un chien andalou” (1929), Man Ray’s nude as a musical instrument “Le Violon d’...
...A gorgeous piece of modern American literature, and one of six or seven books I’d happily reread every couple of years for the rest of my life. £9.99, waterstones.com Scholl’s x Issimo linen Pescura heels...
...Asked by the FT about this, Farage, who confirmed that he’d paid off his Coutts mortgage early and declined to say whether he now met the bank’s threshold, said: “You seem to know more than me.”...
...But when he learned about the beating of Rodney King, it changed the course of his art. In March of ’91, Rodney King was arrested by the LA police department for drunk driving....
...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Princeton) An impressively evocative look at material life in the USSR, from gulags and the planned economy...
...Holes in the data Rodney Joffe made a fortune providing tech services to US federal agencies....
...As late as 2001, 20.3m people watched BBC One’s Only Fools and Horses Christmas special, in which Peckham traders Del and Rodney lost their fortune....
...Based on media coverage alone, you’d be forgiven for thinking Morrisons was something more than just the fourth-largest UK grocery chain by sales with a less-than-ambitious online footprint compared to its...
...Rodney Appiah, chair of Cornerstone Partners, an angel investing network for black and diverse UK founders, thinks that the internet opens the doors for black entrepreneurs....
...Continue down St James’s Street, and gasp at the full-on 1970s period piece that is No 66 (Rodney Gordon, 1979-82), before turning down St James’s Place....
...England managers trusted warriors like Butcher or Norman “Bites Yer Legs” Hunter over artists such as Peter Osgood or Rodney Marsh....
...The visionary idea I wish I’d come up with is the Green New Deal Resolution....
...He preferred to learn from books rather than school, and his mother let him skip whenever he wanted, knowing he’d be at home reading....
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...She was doing this trip with five clumsy stitches across a knee she’d recently slashed in a fall. It didn’t matter that she couldn’t scramble up to the puffin nests....
...“We were very anxious about how they’d react,” says Jon Cleborne, head of PAS. “But to their credit they were very confident about their value-add.”...
...“It’s the least of the problems for people across the country but it’s not quite what I’d anticipated.” He is working long hours, interspersed by irregular jogs....
...“Most new technology has its first iteration within the military,” said Rodney Slater, a former transport secretary under Bill Clinton, and now a partner at the law firm Squire Patton Boggs....
...With spectacular presumption, it attributes Armstrong’s reticence to his bereavement, as though he’d been out-bantering Rodney Dangerfield until his daughter contracted cancer....
...A Dutch magazine had sent her to Los Angeles to photograph the city after the Rodney King riots....
...When Browne, BP’s chief executive, refused to speak with Fridman for an entire year, Blavatnik conducted back-channel talks with Rodney Chase, Browne’s deputy....
...The message to anyone who was thinking of signing with us, is that you’d better get on with it.”...
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