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...King concludes: “This is perhaps why the single-handed voyage story is so compelling to so many of us — in its madness, pluck, pride, and in its ‘do not go gentle’ journey of solitude before existential unknowns...
...Rare treasures: Two previously unknown portraits by Rembrandt have been found after 200 years in one family’s private collection....
...Additional reporting by Sarah Neville and Ian Johnston in London...
...Normally a glance at the GPS would pinpoint a sailor’s position, but the retro Golden Globe competition tries to emulate the conditions of the original 1968-69 race, when Robin Knox-Johnston relied purely...
...It is the subject of a recent book, Expeditions Unpacked: What the Great Explorers Took into the Unknown, by Ed Stafford, a former British Army captain and survival expert who holds a Guinness World Record...
...Mr Kipling cannot rely on nostalgic appeal in a market where its products are unknown....
...Among them were a few writers (George Johnston, Charmian Clift, almost forgotten now), and a young, unknown poet and singer named Leonard Cohen, who met his muse Marianne Ihlen there....
...“Because cannabis is still relatively unknown in the UK for wellness purposes, no one understands what they are taking, buying or even how to use products,” says von der Forst....
...backing, coupled with a lack of accountability for working out bad debts, spawned a toxic culture that would over time help create a breed of unruly, but financially competent, investment bankers previously unknown...
...“When I first started coming to China in the late-1990s, China was [hardly] involved in [deep-sea mining],” says Michael Johnston, chief executive of Nautilus Minerals....
...In the US there is political turmoil and the prospect of tax reform, while abroad the impact of Brexit on the UK and continental Europe’s consumers is an unknown....
...Travel groups reassure as Article 50 triggered; Saga dividend up; ads down at Johnston Press. FT Opening Quote, with commentary by Matthew Vincent, is your early Square Mile briefing....
...The crew’s identities are largely unknown but researchers from Swansea and Oxford universities hope to glean hints about their age, health and even occupation from the interactive, photorealistic models...
...The Tories were then in the depths of despairing opposition; an idea produced by an unknown political aspirant at such a time has a single sperm’s chance of survival....
...Gerald Finley’s resonant baritone led a decent quartet of soloists (Ailish Tynan, Jennifer Johnston and Toby Spence) but the glory of the performance was again the choral singing....
...Ms Yingluck, incoming prime minister, is a largely unknown quantity. Until three months ago she was a low-profile businesswoman running a successful family-controlled property development company....
...News of Mr Arrigoni’s abduction broke on Thursday, when a previously unknown Salafist group released a video showing the activist bound and blindfolded....
...But some of the other portfolios have been given a lukewarm reception: such as the appointment of the largely unknown Charnchai Chairungruan as minister of industry, and the selection of Pornthiwa Nakasai...
...Mr Johnston on Friday said that Foster’s would complete its strategic review before the end of 2008....
...Kirin Mattu, unknown EC: The US does have big problems, particularly in power because of the age of much of its infrastructure. But it would be completely wrong to say its position is uniquely bad....
...For example, in the US, where flat panel TV prices have been falling by more than 25 per cent a year, the leading flat panel TV maker, Vizio, was virtually unknown two years ago....
...Though unknown in Gaza, the group’s name has been used elsewhere in the region by organisations linked to al-Qaeda....
...The BBC and British government on Monday sought clarification on the fate of the kidnapped journalist Alan Johnston after an unknown Palestinian group in Gaza claimed it had killed him....
...I think we can be sure that the savings rate will rise by more, the greater the fall in house prices fall, but how much is a big unknown....
...Oil analysts say that was an extraordinary amount for a previously unknown entity with no expertise in the field....
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