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...The Hunterian Museum, located in a grand stone building on London’s Lincoln Inn Fields, contains more than 3,000 anatomical specimens....
...Most people have given up counting anniversaries and decades for the Rolling Stones: enough to say that both Mick and Keith have turned 80....
...Actors will impersonate Blackpool landladies, whose catchphrases (according to mythology) included “All rooms to be vacated by 10am” and “No hot water till four o’clock”....
...It’s a total trip risk,” said Labour councillor Maya Evans, pointing at several uneven paving stones and small potholes that have become symptomatic of the decaying fabric of Britain’s towns....
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...Among other standout guests will be Michelle O’Neill, the republican leader of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland and first minister-in-waiting....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Its most recent work was B.O.T. and the Beasties (2021), shown on the BBC’s CBeebies channel....
...Robert O’Brien, the former national security adviser who has continued to praise Trump, may well be in the mix for a top job....
...Anderson describes going to collect his guests from their scattered camps after the isolation phase, arriving to find “stone age” scenes....
...Company Q3 Wednesday Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, European Central Bank governing council member Gabriel Makhlouf, Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc, Bank of Ireland chief executive Myles O’...
...You’d think we would have figured this out by now.” — Angela Williams Letter in response to this article: Biden on AI — optimistic but cognisant of the risks / From Tim O’Reilly, Founder and Chief Executive...
...And then there is the looming presence of William Shakespeare....
...This year’s line-up includes James Blake, Cat Power, Simple Minds, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Take That and The National....
...A nearby hotel, where The Rolling Stones once stayed, was bombed; a heavily fortified police compound erected in its place was itself targeted with mortars....
...A long cedar boardwalk runs along a selection of subtropical plants, with Worthington’s “Fountain — Axe”, based on the shape of a Palaeolithic stone tool, set into a grouping of them....
...On the satin lapel of Michael B Jordan’s double-breasted Louis Vuitton tux, diamond birds alighted on two large pink and green stones. (The pins were Tiffany & Co’s “Bird on the Rock” style.)...
...At nine o’clock on our last night, Number 11 confirms that we can shoot; at six the next morning we are on our way....
...I have collections of rocks, fossils and seashells; tables made of slate, stone and agate with brass inlay; ceramics; rings. I could go on....
...William Dalrymple Borobudur, Java My travel discovery of the year was unquestionably Borobudur in Java, the largest and most spectacular Buddhist temple in the world....
...But they forged a friendship while both were working at tailors Donaldson, Williams & Ward, and recognised each other as kindred spirits creatively....
...Old stone floors encourage bare feet (Jeremias is fine with them, too)....
...And so I’m learning everything there is to know from regenerative farmer Tim Williams and his wife Claire, who is a compost guru....
...Meanwhile, a disappointed biographer named William Jaybey is tasked by Godley Jr to write his father’s biography....
...O’Rourke, who has died aged 74, had a career that spanned National Lampoon, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic and countless freelance assignments....
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