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...It became an irresistible salon for leading cultural figures, from Walter Benjamin and Max Ernst to Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau....
...Claiming to be “An Englishman’s Friend” was astute, for the line between pirates and privateers such as Sir Francis Drake, who boarded Spanish vessels with official sanction, was blurred....
...Drake would become a co-producer of a reboot, one that became a reality with the backing of Netflix....
...and lace that takes up more space than his own raffish features; and a more careworn but also recently knighted Francis Drake was portrayed by Hilliard just months after his triumphant circumnavigation...
...He painted and became friendly with his fellow West Countryman, Francis Drake. He knew John Donne and painted Walter Raleigh and Francis Bacon....
...The strongest desire of Willa Drake, Tyler’s heroine, is that her children grow up taking her for granted....
...Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake to plan settlements for their own sake....
...Mr Guthrie’s article has the tone of Mr Hannam on a bad day and avoids those strengths of character, resolve, enthusiasm and risk-taking which I can only describe as a modern-day Francis Drake or Walter...
...Catholic priests taught me all about Drake, the battle of Plassey and the railway engine....
...“People are getting into the habit of eating out more,” says Charles Ind, managing director of Bowmark Capital, the private equity group behind restaurant chains Las Iguanas and Drake & Morgan....
...Black Arts, by Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil, David Fickling Books, RRP£12.99, 496 pages The first in a series about magic in Elizabethan London, Black Arts pits young pickpocket Jack against sinister...
...There are two pinnacles, “The Poison Tree” and “Ah, Sun-flower”, the chill tension of which Finley and Drake capture to eerie effect....
...Drake’s instincts were proved right....
...Elizabethan England, in particular, became “the age of adventure”, of Walter Raleigh and Francis Drake and the trouncing of the Spanish armada....
...In the interim, Mr Drake ran the UK pensions desk at Morgan Stanley Global Capital markets....
...Walter Bagehot, economist and journalist, born in Langport, Somerset. Laid down the doctrine for handling banking crises. 4. Sir Francis Drake, admiral and privateer, born in Tavistock, Devon....
...Just as vacationers flocked to Argentina and Chile following Walter Salles’ portrayal of Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries, the motion picture version of Márquez’s novel looks set to focus international...
...God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead Atlantic £25, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Walter Russell Mead adds religion to the mix of Anglo-Saxon virtues...
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