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...The Getty was the obvious international candidate; the family has given tens of millions to museums, including Britain’s National Gallery, and J Paul Getty II became a British citizen and was knighted before...
...Author Roland J Green addressed a primarily female audience: “The cultivation of flowers is an appropriate amusement for young ladies....
...David J Bentley, Oldham, Greater Mancs Dept of Speculation, by Jenny Offill On the face of it, this is a story of marriage and motherhood in modern America....
...Its star was Andreas Gursky, who became the world’s most expensive photographer when his enigmatically blank landscape “Rhein II” sold for more than $4m in 2011....
...It is a view shared by Thomas J. Reese, a Jesuit author and expert on the modern Church. “The current Curia is not even a 19th-century bureaucracy....
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...Their shortcomings led millions of people into dire poverty and created a fertile environment for World War II....
...Both the US and China are among the countries that are in the process of implementing Basel II....
...As J A Wheeler put it, “Reality is defined by the questions you put to it”....
...reconstruction of the conflict between Henry II, the 12th-century English monarch, and Thomas Becket, his Archbishop of Canterbury....
...Howard Marshall II, her geriatric husband-to-be (Alan Oke), hymns the elixir of oral sex. There’s a part for her lawyer-cum-lover Stern (Gerald Finley) that never quite takes off....
...Last year I gave my chefs Thomas Keller’s three books, as his food is really inspiring, but I also often give my own book, Personne Ne Me Volera Ce Que J’ai Dansé (Editions Cherche-Midi)....
...A landmark was Mondrian’s “Tableau Losangique II”, bought for $8.8m in 1990, which announced the rigorous, cerebral nature of his taste....
...For some these new “Solvency II” rules for insurers bear too much similarity to the Basel II rules for banks that played a key role in the financial crisis....
...Thomas Meyer’s latest book (co-authored with Pierre-Yves Mathonet) is J-Curve Exposure...
...Gerard Dykstra and Partners were responsible for the latest J Class build, Hanuman, a replica of Sopwith’s Endeavour II, launched at the Royal Huisman shipyard in the Netherlands in March....
...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...
...It was made to honour the memory of the heroes and heroines of the tea world and decorated with figures including Sir Thomas Lipton and Catherine of Braganza, the wife of Charles II who is credited with...
...It is one of a pair that was owned by Marsden J Perry and William Randolph Hearst; its companion is now in the Untermeyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art....
...The earliest recorded royal charter was awarded by King Henry II to the Weavers’ Company in 1155....
...Diary of a Bad Year By J.M....
...THE MESSIAH MYTH: The Near Eastern Rootsof Jesus and Davidby Thomas L....
...David J. Graham of the FDA’s Office of Drug Safety. Graham has been an outspoken critic of the FDA’s regulatory policies for new drugs....
...• January 17 Captain Donald J Reece suspended as commander of 372. General Karpinski given memorandum of admonishment....
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