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...The bank rose to fame in 1815 when Nathan Mayer Rothschild made a fortune buying British government bonds in anticipation of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo....
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...But for Turner’s contemporaries, the immediate resonance of “Cologne” was inescapable: the German city’s recent fate, occupied by Napoleon’s France from 1794-1814, was a lesson in the instability of nations...
...It did not involve restrictions saying Korean teens couldn’t import J-pop recordings, or Korean Americans couldn’t produce gochujang in the US....
...The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th Century Britain by Penelope J Corfield Yale, £25, 488 pages Ruth Scurr is author of ‘Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows’ (Chatto & Windus) Join our online...
...He is the very opposite of Napoleon. Napoleon believes that you can control the great forces of history and bend them to your will....
...@alternatepools – 19.8K followers“In a world where pools outnumber people” – @alternatepools is a trove of aquatic dreamscapes by Austin-born J Lee McClusky....
...In the US, the machinery debates of the 1920s and 30s began with labour secretary James J. Davis’s famous 1927 speech....
...What does Donald Trump have in common with Napoleon?...
...Be sure to read Lex, which compares Sorrell to a modern-day Napoleon (forced into exile but likely to come back)....
...Henry J Heinz began by selling bottled horseradish sauce from his grandmother’s garden when he was only eight....
...J Hunter Pearls Fiji, established in 1999, produces some new, very rare colours, including chocolate brown, peacock green, cranberry and pistachio....
...J’aime Paris!” Times change but stereotypes seldom do, and jokes are funny when they are a little bit true....
...Gerald Moloney Managing Partner, G J Moloney Solicitors, Dublin 2, Ireland Letter in response to this letter: Napoleon cared only for France and himself / From Jon Elster...
...Later, after Napoleon’s fall, a generation of artists ground down by imperial adventures turned their visions towards home....
...“J’aime les panoramas” says the banner on the J4 pier in Marseille’s Vieux Port....
...Until the 1990s, Tesco had been the cheap and cheeky rival to J Sainsbury, whose strategic dithering then allowed Tesco to steam past with such success that its dominance spawned an own-brand protest movement...
...The stark, sublime “Peace, Burial at Sea”, with fiery reflections in the calm water, is the signal exception, though its pendant, Napoleon before a garish sunset in “War....
...Counterfactuals are the kind of guessing game we play when we wonder what would have happened if, say, Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo....
...He nonetheless managed to write The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon and start his research for Das Kapital, while allegedly fathering a child by the family maid, Helene....
...And what a design it was: the black outline of Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous bicorn hat overlaid by a page dedicated to the emperor – except that his name has been scrubbed out in red ink by the furious composer...
...The International Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, October 21-27; www.haughton.com The Collections of Lily and Edmond J....
...As for M&S, it employs fewer people than Tesco, J Sainsbury or Wm Morrison and its market capitalisation is smaller than each of that food retailing trio....
...Nor does J.K. Galbraith, the American economist, in A History of Economics....
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