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...She pulls out her iPhone — “Augustus Leopold Egg; isn’t that a great name” — to show me his 1862 painting “The Travelling Companions”, of two nearly identical women seated in a train, the spark behind the...
...took four) and interiors by Augustus Pugin....
...Ovid was sent to Tomis (now Constanța, Romania) by the emperor Augustus, while Shakespeare’s plays suggest Elizabethans greatly feared the penalty....
...“Hardly was his back turned when the merchant missed his valuable Semper Augustus, worth three thousand florins, or about 280 pounds sterling,” wrote Mackay....
...William, the Prince of Wales recently decorated her with the Royal Victorian Order for services to his family....
...There's a wonderful, I think a little bit apocryphal, quotation that is ascribed to William Faulkner....
...Then she bought another inn, The Angel, and turned it into a hotel, handsomely furnished from a shop, Augustus Brandt, that she has also acquired....
...Swan’s washout pal Augustus (Tom Riley) has a stern sister, Lavinia (Olivia Williams) who runs a refuge for the growing numbers of mostly nubile young women afflicted with the strange powers known as “turns...
...William Beckford was another writer of scandalous Gothic books, and another builder of grand follies. His house, Fonthill, was a fake medieval abbey in Wiltshire....
...The Beaumont, 8 Balderton Street, Brown Hart Gardens, London W1K 6TF St John, Spitalfields What The French House in Soho was for Francis Bacon, Augustus John and Lucian Freud in the mid-20th century,...
...The lake here, surrounded by woodland, was created by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in the 18th century....
...The portly figure of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, third son of King George II, is lodged in Scottish mythology as the “Butcher Cumberland”, or “Stinking Willie”, one of those characters whose deeds...
...Exile in five books Tristia and the Black Sea Letters by Ovid: the poet’s reflections on exile, and his plea to Augustus that he be allowed to return....
...The 20th century did its stuff, however, kicking over the traces as soon as the Victorian era ended in 1901 — the year Augustus John painted a full-length, almost life-size portrait of his wife Ida, peachily...
...Augustus, elector of Saxony, possessed a chest-like alchemical furnace....
...The report was written by William Higham, a behavioural futurist, and published by office-equipment maker Fellowes....
...Unusual, in the first instance, because although Williams shared the National Book Award in 1973 for his fourth and final novel Augustus, about the rise of the first Roman emperor, his fame has been largely...
...Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, owned a collection of coins featuring the greatest generals of the classical world, including Alexander the Great. King George III also kept a coin collection....
...Another surprise is a striking nude by Sir William Orpen, at Master paintings and drawings dealership Jean-Luc Baroni....
...There are indeed some good pictures, including works by Augustus John, Sir William Orpen and Sir Alfred Munnings....
...In Grasmere, in the Lake District, there is a fountain by a drystone wall dedicated to William Wordsworth....
...Even with tight confidentiality rules, the public must feel convinced that their data is safe, UCL’s Oliver Duke-Williams says....
...Roger Bootle, chairman of Capital Economics, in the Telegraph Hard numbers Consumer spending on credit and debit cards has fallen for the third month in a row, as Britons curb their shopping habits in...
...Set in the reign of Augustus Caesar — in Britain, Wales and Rome — Shakespeare’s play includes kidnapped babies and naughty heirs, a Roman invasion, a headless man and a thicket of competing plots....
...Neil Williams, chief economist at Hermes, says there is no doubt “consumers have frozen since the autumn”....
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