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...Like those of many post-industrial English communities, Barnsley’s town centre is still graced by the relic of a bygone municipal era — a handsome Grade II-listed town hall, from which its local government...
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...We think so highly of CFA that applicants to our finance masters do not have to take a standardised test if they have Level II,” he says....
...Letter in response to this article: Feeling let down by FT coverage of Harry’s book / From Anna Wood, London N1, UK...
...year in 2015, opening 11 stores around the globe, collaborating with brands including Veuve Clicquot, Ladurée, Havaianas, Marvel and Mac cosmetics, being seen on the feet of personalities from Michelle Williams...
...The 5,000-acre estate originally belonged to a branch of the Wynn family, and the present house was built for William and Kathryn Wynn in 1616....
...The two-storey, two-bedroom apartment, clad in polished, ginger-hued maple wood, has all the chic of a sleek 1920s cruise liner....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...Sep 8 Death of the QueenThe death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 brought to an end the longest reign in British history — over 70 years....
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...(who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...Stanley Stewart Pata Lodge, Patagonia, Chile You arrive through enchanted woods....
...Sri Lanka – as my friend the architect William Smalley recently examined in HTSI – lays claim to Geoffrey Bawa. Oscar Niemeyer is Brazil, as far as some aesthetes are concerned....
...It is edited by art historian Jon Wood and has a foreword by Nicholas Serota, chair of Arts Council England and the previous longtime director of Tate....
...While Estelle Manor’s Grade II-listed, 1908 neo-Jacobean Hall is about as grand as they come, the nothing-to-prove maxim will hold here, too....
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...Routes for Russian oil to reach export markets were a concern for Tsar Nicholas II, just as they are for President Vladimir Putin....
...Their historic, Grade II-listed mansion in Gloucestershire had made headlines years earlier when the couple sought to build a Palladian-style chicken coop at an estimated cost of £150,000....
...But Williams’ recurring form, for example in “Tribal Mark II” and “Sun and Earth II”, is particular: a bonelike claw, an element in Warao Amerindian imagery that the artist knew from the Guyana rainforest...
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