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...Roman legionaries hauled the game to the far corners of their empire. Early references appear in the Babylonian Talmud....
...Chrastil, a history professor at Xavier University in Ohio, provides a valuable military, political and social survey....
...The director general of the Sagrada Familia, Xavier Martínez, is one. The Barcelona basilica has been under construction since 1882, and consumed Gaudí’s life....
...In Rome, for example, 42 per cent of water is lost through sieve-like infrastructure that in some neighbourhoods dates back to the Roman empire....
...Paris is a forum for tycoons such as Bernard Arnault and Xavier Niel. Mumbai has more powerful dynasties than Ancient Egypt....
...Xavier Rolet, the former head of the London Stock Exchange, has stepped down as chair of Russian fertiliser group PhosAgro, after its chief executive was added to the EU’s sanctions list of businessmen close...
...the island that feels slightly removed from the present – a place where you can walk out of your bed, off your terrace, straight down into the sea and swim across a mirror-flat turquoise bay to ancient Roman...
...Xavier Rolet, PhosAgro Former London Stock Exchange boss Xavier Rolet joined the board of Moscow-based fertiliser company PhosAgro in 2018 and became chair in 2019....
...The mayor of Londongrad has left the building For years, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has quite literally made himself comfortable in London’s upper echelons of society....
...“Incredibly disappointing,” acknowledged Rabe, speaking to the Financial Times from a floor with views of the Teutoburg hills where Augustus’s Roman Empire stumbled....
...Two western board members at Evraz, in which Roman Abramovich is the largest shareholder — but who has not had sanctions placed on him — have now resigned....
...The first course arrives: a plate of cured meats and a trio of artichoke starters — fresh artichoke salad with slices of Parmesan, a whole cooked artichoke and a warm artichoke mousse with crispy, Roman-style...
...Today, Hollywood offers a rich trove of screen treasures, from arthouse DVD box sets of Béla Tarr, Xavier Dolan and Jim Jarmusch films, to Downton Abbey and Gomorrah....
...Inspired by the classical figures in the Roman poet Ovid’s epic poem “Metamorphoses” and regarded by Titian as his visual equivalent of poetry, the so-called “poesie” represent one of the artistic high points...
...What looks on paper like a sort of operatic I, Claudius is in fact a high-spirited satire of ancient Roman history, revolving around the Empress Agrippina and her Machiavellian attempts to put her son Nerone...
...decades on, with Berlin’s economic power now in the ascendant, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron renewed the vows of the Franco-German relationship in January, signing the Aachen treaty in a hall where Holy Roman...
...Xavier Rolet, the LSE chief whose group is now pursuing an independent future, was not. “It was just a private affair with friends,” one attendee said archly....
...Sign up for our Weekend Email here Photographs: Roland Halbe; Xavier Ansart; Christophe Viseux...
...Mr Roman is the latest in a string of French chiefs of UK-based financial institutions set to decouple from London this year, including Xavier Rolet of the London Stock Exchange and Jean-Pierre Mustier,...
...Manny Roman, chief executive of Man Group plans to drink deep of its waters. The hedge fund boss will spend much of this year stateside seeking takeovers....
...Xavier Rolet, the LSE chief executive, is also a member of the FT City Network, but he did not participate in the debate....
...Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 Serrano Rosado worked for Disney Live, a touring stage show, his Facebook page says....
...Johannsvorstadt 19-21 Ackermannshof, Basel This year sees the launch of Photo Basel’s Focus Series, spotlighting the work of Xavier Barral and Juergen Teller....
...The history of copies goes back to antiquity, with Roman artists making moulds of Greek sculptures....
...Richardson’s etching of his poet-friend, with thinning hair, looks like one side of a Roman coin....
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