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...Bach’s Brandenburg concertos were the next to blow his young mind. Then a friend turned him on to the jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, and he knew right away that he wanted to start a be-bop band....
...William J. Stokes is a musician and member of art-pop band Voka Gentle....
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press RRP£24/$29.95 William Silber’s book is mostly about silver in American history...
...Brandenburg’s output per head improved to 89 per cent of the EU average by 2016, compared with 79 per cent in 2000....
...Clark selects four prominent figures for study: Frederick William, the Great Elector, who ruled Brandenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1688 and laid the foundations of its power; Frederick the Great, who reigned...
...Fed chair Jay Powell speaks in Zurich on Friday, while New York Fed president John Williams, Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren and St Louis Fed president James Bullard are scheduled to give remarks on...
...Tegel, completed in 1974, will be closed once the new Berlin Brandenburg airport opens....
...As “Heroes” reached its climax some of the East German crowd pushed towards the Brandenburg Gate, whistling and chanting, “Down with the Wall”....
...The brilliantly devious masters of American trompe l’oeil at the end of the 19th century such as John Haberle and William Harnett showed their work in pubs and modernists such as Kienholz and Warhol all...
...Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major Five most-picked Frank Sinatra tracks: 1. My Way 2. You Make Me Feel So Young 3. Well, Did You Evah! 4. One For My Baby 5....
...As Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg, he embodies Prussian rectitude, condemning his adopted son (the prince of the title) to death for winning the Battle of Fehrbellin but deviating from the elector...
...Built for the future Prussian king Frederick William II towards the end of the 18th century, it was later the home of another crown prince; Wilhelm, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II....
...William F Buckley, who died last year, was one of the US’s doughtiest anti- communists for half a century....
...The New Yorker cartoonist William Steig reputedly inspired a couple of the characters and situations, such as the cigar-chomping Groucho Marx type (Adam Hendrickson) and his domineering wife, and the “butterfly...
...“Expect fireworks over the Brandenburg Gate,” the US ambassador William Timken said yesterday at a press conference on the $130m new building, which is located next to the landmark gate in Berlin’s historic...
...The writer holds the William M. Scholl chair in international business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was US undersecretary of commerce for international trade from 2001-05...
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