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...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...Mournful dub infuses Jake Long’s “Crescent” and “Eloquence” is an odd, tempo-changing mix of samba-inflected vocals and rhapsodic piano from Matters Unknown (aka multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Enser)....
...That secretive wine bar, unknown to FT colleagues, near St Paul’s?...
...“Paris gardens are secret gardens: though famous, they hide mysterious corners, unknown to the general public, the shared secrets of the local residents,” writes Alain Baraton, the head gardener of Versailles...
...Coronavirus appears to have infected people in France weeks before the disease was detected in Europe and possibly before the first cases of pneumonia of unknown origin were announced in China in December...
...The names of the first three architects are unknown....
...In most farms, for example, abalone are fed on pellets, which are partly fish meal — in essence, feeding meat to vegetarians, with unknown long-term consequences....
...Emerging from under a blanket with a Cars motif, he picks up an inflatable Cars-themed mallet and breaks the egg open to reveal toys. Behind the camera, his mother whoops and commentates....
...Jyotsna Singh talks to the FT’s Victor Mallet about efforts to clean up the river and about his latest book, 'River Of Life, River Of Death'. Listen here. (9 mins) Can you help?...
...The father’s fate is unknown....
...Like other percussion instruments, each gong has various percussion points that emit different sounds when struck with a mallet — the harder the head of the mallet, the sharper the sound....
...victor.mallet@ft.com...
...Yet the origins of the disaster lie at the Bangladesh end of the transactions, where unknown cybercriminals managed to plant malware in the computer systems....
...“We have dared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the near impossible. I congratulate all Isro scientists as well as all my fellow Indians on this historic occasion.”...
...vans” with 55-inch screens to reach what organiser Piyush Sharma, a 24-year-old CAG member who has worked as a consultant in the Middle East, called the “dark zones” in remote villages where Mr Modi was unknown...
...Last year was the city’s worst on record for kidnappings for ransom – 173 were reported and an unknown number ended after secret payments....
...Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in New Delhi...
...“What is keeping investors out is the experience and the fear that we cannot implement a project on time in India, that there are too many unknowns during implementation,” he said....
...A caller claimed responsibility for the attack in the name of a previously unknown group called the Martyrs’ Brigade....
...(Reuters) COMMENT etc India: Modi’s moment (Financial Times, Mallet) Petro Poroshenko, a smooth-tongued, pro-western billionaire oligarch and the man leading Ukraine’s presidential race (Financial Times...
...His reply was worthy of Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary famous for his bons mots about “known unknowns” and other matters....
...The 41-year-old American vocalist’s rise has been rapid and recent: he was virtually unknown before the song “1960 What?” was a YouTube hit in 2011 and Grammy nominations followed....
...After all, this small nation on the Atlantic shore discovered most of the “new world” previously unknown to Europe, with the result that it became the richest nation in the west in the 16th century....
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