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...The first three of these — Urban Oasis by Missoni and DaVinci Tower by Pagani in Dubai, and Sidra in Bosnia — are expected to be completed this year, with W Residences Dubai expected to complete in 2025....
...“During the building of the machine, we learned how to build the machine,” Thomas Klinger, director of the institute’s Greifswald branch since 2001, told the Financial Times....
...The historian Thomas Carlyle’s forthright wife went further, calling the queen “mean-natured and half-distracted”....
...Dickens adaptations arrive on TV with such frequency that viewers are seldom left hungry for more....
...Dickens is referenced more than once, and there are times when this compendious novel, with its gallery of eccentric supporting characters — such as Mitchel’s flamboyant colleague and rival Thomas Meagher...
...Touchet, who served as his hostess during his separation from his wife, once owned an autographed copy of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which became the most expensive of Dickens’ books when it was sold at...
...Saints or sinners, newsworthy names found a welcoming home between W&N covers....
...A Harvard graduate, Stefanik was initially seen as a moderate Republican, having worked in the George W Bush White House and later for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign....
...Thomas Hood created rows of spines with humorous titles (but no books behind) for the library at Chatsworth in 1831. Dickens did it too: fake books on his shelves included Cats’ Lives in nine volumes....
...Quoting actor Michael Caine, Sonders said the surprisingly buoyant S&P 500 now resembles a duck: “calm on the surface but paddling like the dickens underneath.”...
...Pimm’s isn’t Pimm’s, in the truest sense, without a scattering of borage – that starry-blue, cucumber-scented flower that Charles Dickens declared, “[made] a world of difference” to his meticulously crafted...
...For a loyal reader, it was like waiting for Dickens instalments in the old days. Here’s one of the final ones, but you sort of had to be there week in week out to get it....
...Simultaneously, London is also a place with backyard shanty housing and squalor that Charles Dickens would recognise....
...Both his father, the garrulous, often-drunken Henry, and his uncle Thomas were executioners for the British state....
...At a state banquet for then US president George W Bush in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Jiang belted out a rendition of “O Sole Mio” before twirling across the dance floor with first lady Laura Bush...
...Gabriella Dickens, UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, warned that the UK economy would continue to underperform other G7 countries....
...Thomas W Hodgkinson is a science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...MainFT’s Dan Thomas has the inside story here. It’s not often newspapers go up for sale, so we thought our readers (particularly the billionaires) might be interested in some of the numbers involved....
...(See excellent explanations of the context by my FT colleague Helen Thomas and longtime Trade Secrets favourite “Big Sam” Lowe.)...
...Letter in response to this article: Reforming Solvency II rules is not a free lunch / From David W Green, David Green Consulting, London NW3, UK...
...Gabriella Dickens, economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the rise in savings could reflect homeowners preparing “to pay off a chunk of their mortgage when they come to refinance”, or...
...Either way, a sign above the alley invites the traveller to “rest and refresh yrself” in an “ancient tavern” enjoyed by luminaries such as Charles Dickens and Samuel Butler....
...But it was also in Whitechapel where Thomas Barnardo, founder of the homes for boys, trained in medicine....
...Back in its heyday, The Prospect of Whitby was visited by historic figures and celebrities: Turner and Whistler both sketched views of the Thames from the pub, and Charles Dickens dined there too....
...In 2020, the aquilla was reportedly offered (but not sold) for a seven-figure price through the dealer Thomas Heneage at the Winter Show art fair in New York....
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