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...Christie’s has a leaf from the esteemed Fraser album (commissioned by the civil servant William Fraser in the 1810s), a compendium of flora and fauna, estimated at £60,000-£80,000....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...He was in Steven Spielberg’s AI and made a mark in the deft political dramas Syriana and The Good Shepherd....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Burgundy v the rest — some favourites These are the wines I scored 17 out of 20 in the Berkmann tasting, complete with suggested drinking windows....
...Next up Italy vs Sweden 2pm ITV Czech Republic vs Croatia 5pm BBC Spain vs Turkey 8pm ITV If you were a betting man or woman Arda Turan is 18/1 to score first in Spain v Turkey at William Hill....
...After holding various legal positions in the Nixon administration, he moved to the University of Chicago when Jimmy Carter became president....
...Of course, in my youth it was Conan the Barbarian or John Carter of Mars. Where do you write best? For years it was in cafés....
...An expert on nuclear issues, Carter has taught at Harvard and Stanford....
...According to certain metrics, rates of actual violence are dropping, a phenomenon the neuroscientist Steven Pinker addressed in his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature....
...Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society” – said William Makepeace Thackeray, author of the social climbing satire and frock-fest Vanity Fair....
...It was Ethan Hawke standing on his desk to salute Robin Williams at the end of Dead Poets Society (1989). The market for such films has been judged by the studios too small to be worth bothering with....
...“The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man” was a trophy, acquired by 18-year-old Prince William V, last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and a passionate collector since childhood....
...… The Strangler Vine , by Miranda Carter, Fig Tree, RRP£14.99/ Putnam Adult, RRP$26.95 Carter’s rip-roaring debut novel takes us to the India of the 1830s, where the violent Thugee sect are at large....
...After The Looming Tower (the story of September 11) and Going Clear (on the scientology racket), he has now produced the wonderfully readable Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp...
...Friday night’s protest followed a visit by William Burns, US deputy secretary of state, and Commander of US forces in Africa Gen Carter Ham, who left the capital, Tripoli, earlier on Friday after meeting...
...Seeing Santa impaled by a Flying V guitar, as in the “Zombie Christmas” video, is some tongue in some cheek....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Nigel Andrews, FT film critic Travel One Man and His Bike, by Mike Carter, Ebury Press, RRP£11.99 Compared to the ever-more contrived quests that have become a mainstay of recent travel writing, Carter...
...Dispensing with such bonhomie, however, some fans viewed England v the US as something of a grudge match....
...This is what happened at No.1 reactor on Saturday. 0633 – Yukio Edano, chief cabinet secretary, now speaking to nation on Japanese television. 0607 – Some more information from Steven Kerekes: Steven...
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Liberally strewn with quotations from Walter Benjamin and Angela Carter, Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design brings together some strange and compelling things....
...v=RmBJG_H0PXQ[/youtube] * “Isn’t there something supremely ironic about being lectured about food waste by a prime minister who is passed his own sell-by date?” quipped William Hague....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
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