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...Even Augustus lived pretty simply and, apparently, liked to cook himself. Roman elegance is in proportion and standards....
...Augustus John once predicted that “in 50 years’ time I will be known as the brother of Gwen John.”...
...Bunting evokes all those English seaside rituals, from the inevitable tea and fish & chips to amusement arcades and saucy postcards, the organised fun of holiday camps, the unwritten class structures of...
...In February 1637, at the peak of tulip mania, a single bulb of the red-and-white-striped Semper Augustus was valued at 10,000 guilders....
...The star should at least feel at home in a packed tea room of English character actors....
...There used to be this wonderful English cricket commentator, Brian Johnston-- INTERVIEWER: I remember him well....
...They took Scotland and marched as far south as Derby before — to Charles’s horror — his Highland chieftains, far from their supply lines and worried by the failure of support from the English, insisted on...
...Also of high value is an English gold penny, authorised in 1257 and depicting an enthroned Henry III....
...From his 1752 portrayal of the naval captain Augustus Keppel striding clear of a storm, he projected noble purpose on his subjects....
...He set off from his home overlooking the ancient Forum of Augustus, dodging city buses, cyclists and street musicians, crossed the millennia-old Ponte Sant’Angelo, and finally made his way down the Road...
...This family archive holds powerful tales, not least the journey of Augustus Thomson — enslaved name, Caesar — from Jamaica to London to confront his owner with an account of his unjust treatment, including...
...fed a sense of resentment over “English” repression that retains more than an echo in today’s push for Scottish independence....
...The needle drop — the use of song on screen — is a well-worn art, but Lovers Rock is on a different level, each slice of Augustus Pablo or Junior English both self-contained pleasure and segue, part of a...
...In the past year, Boris Johnson has dropped into ancient Greek during a speech to the UN, told the radio station LBC that his favourite politician was Pericles, and referenced the Roman emperor Augustus...
...Each time he had a new novel out Shields says he would take up a prominent position in the English department office and sit there smoking and drinking coffee all day, expecting that some of his colleagues...
...“That’s why there were statues of Augustus looking identical put up all over the Roman empire....
...It treats that very English subject, a scene from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, with charm and vivacity....
...Upon the death of Augustus, his superbly named cat, VS Naipaul took out a notice in The Times to inform the world. This biographic detail would be too twee to mention if it were about anyone else....
...(Naive foreign visitors were astonished at what they thought was native English dress code.)...
...But it was not until 1870 that an English architect, John Turtle Wood, re-discovered the Artemision’s remains after seven years of searching....
...Nor are British artworks: he already has one by the “very great portrait painter” Augustus John. Artefacts from China and Cuba are also off the list....
...His is the best English-language history of Chernobyl so far....
...The perfect English day out embodied in one piece of public design....
...I think the guy was the original English gentleman. He had great vision....
...White & Case and Linklaters gave advice on US and English law to the company and its banks. Finsbury, the City PR firm, acted for EN+, while Portland once represented Mr Deripaska....
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