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...The work is part of the so-called “Rosetta Project”, conceived by museum director Hartwig Fischer, which includes galleries focusing less on European history and more on artefacts from Africa and South America...
...argument — made consistently over the years — that it is a reliable custodian of items looted from other cultures: the great bronzes from Benin, the marble sculptures that once adorned the Parthenon, the Rosetta...
...This is Maria Barovier, glassmaker and inventor of the Rosetta bead. She’s in my next novel.” “Oh Lord,” Lobb groans. “Poor thing!” Pesel sighs. “Do you have to?” Anning rounds on me....
...This probably explains my fascination with it: to me, chemistry feels more like sorcery, the periodic table a Rosetta Stone that I will never truly decrypt....
...It was like a Rosetta Stone for how to do leveraged buyouts....
...When Blount sings on “The Downward Road” about an “old grasping ruler, thought he was doin’ mighty well” who finds out he has “made a bed in hell”, it resonates with William Gibson’s Jackpot trilogy, set...
...“Nobody has tried, well, forever,” Osborne has told colleagues....
...Later-than-average opening hours draw a post-dinner crowd as well as the usual MacBook-wielders, and pleasing clutter distinguishes the place from its modishly spartan competitors nearby. muddypawla.com...
...Furthermore, it has left us with a very strange notion of what it means to spend your time off “well” and, conversely, what counts as wasting it....
...To revisit after a time of closure and darkness, metaphorical as well as literal, is a moving experience....
...But anyone who’s squeezed their feet into stilettos on a regular basis might be inclined to agree with Rosetta Getty’s rather grisly description of fashion’s most commonly found footwear....
...“You can build value as well as having values,” one venture capitalist tells him. 4....
...The probe’s camera was active throughout, shooting the comet as well as retreating shots of Earth....
...“I was a PhD student, and he was a faculty member, and we got along well,” she recalls....
...The only baffling element is Feist herself, who is largely absent, save for a well-meaning if woolly introduction to each episode....
...Pyer Moss’s Kerby Jean-Raymond delivered a beautiful and moving performance, as part of an homage to Sister Rosetta Tharpe....
...Instead of being grumpy, he’s chatting about the time he brought his young son to see the Rosetta Stone, bemoaning hipster beverage choices (“Does no one drink tea any more?”)...
...She makes a well of flour and cracks a single egg into it. Pouring water over one hand, she whisks the egg and water and flour into a slurry with her fingertips....
...This era is not well known to most people since about the only things that have survived are ruins and tablets with cuneiform script....
...There is Warren Buffett, of course — his favourite holding period, “forever”, has served him well....
...Its cost, plus that of the Space Shuttles whose main purpose was to service it (though they have now been decommissioned), ran well into 12 figures....
...“It is sort of the Rosetta Stone for translating campaign themes into a coherent governing document.”...
...These particular cushions are in neutral tones, but she has brighter versions as well. I always bring back her simple, soft cotton loungewear as well – I wear these pieces as pyjamas....
...Although many cheered the final success, there was sadness as well as joy among ESA staff, some of whom have been associated with Rosetta since its early planning 30 years ago....
...The Spaceflight Bill would allow spaceports to be built and operated across the UK for the first time, as well as allowing satellites to be launched from British soil, the Department for Transport said....
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