Lord Byron News
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Since its founding in 1350, Trinity Hall, one of the University of Cambridge’s 31 colleges, has endured the plague and the English Reformation. Now it is taking on the banking business.
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If you’re looking for someone to blame for Lady Gaga , Madonna and Britney Spears , go back to 19th-century actress Sarah Bernhardt, who made headlines with her love life and traveled with a pet lynx.
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When a preternaturally intelligent girl asks her scrumptious tutor to define “carnal embrace,” he replies, unfazed, “the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.”
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In the theater, “caveat emptor” invariably means “as reimagined by...” Those words attached to a play’s title are a warning: Watch out. You’re entering Director World.
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A violin made in 1721 by Antonio Stradivari sold online for 9.8 million pounds ($15.9 million) to help victims of Japan’s March 11 earthquake, more than four times the previous auction record.
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Harrow International, an arm of the 439-year-old British school that educated Winston Churchill, will spend as much as HK$1 billion ($129 million) on a campus in Hong Kong, where school waiting lists are as long as three years.
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As I talk to Anna Somers Cocks on a terrace overlooking a trio of 16th-century churches by Andrea Palladio, a cruise ship the size of a New York City block floats surreally through the Giudecca Canal right in front of us.
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He bows, he sways, he’s No. 9 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and last night he danced with students of the School of American Ballet.
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I once knew a wine writer (always with a buzz on) who exulted that he’d tasted his way through 120 wines at an international exposition. Now, my job as a wine writer has its joys, but tasting my way through 120 wines, or even 80 wines, about par for a judge at a wine competition, is not one of them.
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In the winter of 1857, John Brown quartered the fighters he had recruited for his invasion of Virginia at a sympathetic farm community in Iowa. There, the men drilled at what they called their “War College.”
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