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...Events: Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visits China and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Vietnam. Corporate earnings: India’s Axis Bank and United Spirits issue updates....
...German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets with Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin in Bangkok....
...William Zeckendorf Sr, who preceded Trump as New York’s flamboyant developer king, bought 40 Wall Street in 1959 for $18.15mn in an 87-round auction held in its 26th-floor Wall Street Club....
...“We must not let in daylight upon magic,” wrote the constitutionalist Walter Bagehot....
...Musk Sr tells Isaacson he made roughly $210,000 from black-market sales of emeralds....
...As a former head of Scotch whisky group William Grant, Entain’s new interim chief Stella David should be familiar with the works of Walter Scott....
...Jean Walters takes the opposite view....
...“It is quite evident that a museum will . . . become useless to the world,” wrote William Henry Playfair, architect of the National Gallery of Scotland, in 1816, “unless its contents be arranged in a judicious...
...Sr Susan Francois, treasurer of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace, a Roman Catholic order based in the US and UK, said that whether it was through project financing or general corporate lending, Citigroup...
...It is telling, moreover, that rather than Mitchel expressing his guilt directly, Keneally has him write to Jenny that “I’ve given my father more grief than all the sisters and young William combined.”...
...With reel-to-reel machines becoming more common, artists from William Burroughs to The Beatles began manipulating the magnetic tape by cutting and pasting, playing it backwards, or shifting speeds....
...She was the oldest child of Martin Luther King Sr, a Baptist preacher, and Alberta Williams, a teacher. King was born 16 months after Farris....
...He was inspired by the way musicians such as Pharrell Williams dressed, alongside the work of designers, such as Raf Simons....
...face a partial shutdown of federal agencies Saturday Germany: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is expected to visit Berlin and hold talks with German chancellor Olaf Scholz and president Frank-Walter...
...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...The US currently has only one F1 driver — Logan Sargeant of Williams — and no American has won a grand prix since Mario Andretti in 1978....
...President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will give a speech in Berlin Friday UK: New lord mayor of the City of London, Michael Mainelli, takes office at The Silent Ceremony at Guildhall, becoming the 695th incumbent...
...Instead of any kind of technology being visible, there are a lot of cherished artworks by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Robert Tavener and Walter Hoyle and, in the kitchen, elaborately decorated ceramics....
...“Picasso was a phenomenon,” said its curator William Rubin. “There is virtually nothing in modern art that Picasso has not invented, practised or at least influenced.”...
...South Korea-Germany: German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea....
...He talks about buying “a Regency/William IV Mahogany Four-Poster bed (As Found)”, as the auction house’s catalogue described it....
...The show masterfully balances its sweetness with acidic barbs, most of them courtesy of inappropriate principal Ava (Janelle James) and mafia-adjacent Melissa (Lisa Ann Walter)....
...I’ve also got a Landseer of Sir Walter Scott, which is a very big picture. It’s worth more than all the others put together. I couldn’t do without my dogs....
...In 1874 a retired military officer, Major Walter Wingfield, began marketing a game he had designed, which we would recognise today as the modern sport....
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