Historic England is the country’s official list keeper of the most historically and architecturally significant places in England — places such as monuments, shipwrecks and battlefields. And pubs. Earlier this month, the heritage organization updated 11 English pub listings to reflect their cultural heritage and national importance, with one receiving a coveted Grade I designation.
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By stripping the Parthenon of at least half of its surviving sculptures in 1801, English nobleman and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Thomas Bruce had sparked a storm of controversy on the legal ownership rights of cultural artifacts – an issue which remains ongoing till this day. Taken illegally during the Turkish invasion, the Elgin
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Turntables have never looked so fashionable, thanks to a new collaboration between Supreme and Numark. The Supreme x Numark PT01 Portable Turntable is this season’s must-have accessory for DJ/producers and music lovers everywhere, as part of the Spring/Summer 2020 collection. You can’t exactly play a full set with this piece of equipment, but the classic logo look, compact plastic
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“With slide rules and pencils, Katherine Johnson’s brilliant mind helped launch our nation into space.” Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who calculated the flight path for America’s first space mission and the first moon landing among other mathematical achievements, has died today, February 24, 2020, at 101. Her accomplishments, and those of the largely unrecognized
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Mr. Nicola Andreatta, CEO of Roger Dubuis You may not be familiar with Nicola Andreatta as CEO of Roger Dubuis but he knew the company from the era of Mr Roger Dubuis and Carlos Dias – basically right from the company’s origins. A man with watchmaking in his blood, Andreatta has spent his entire career
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Warren Buffett David A. Grogan | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffett called out bank stocks as one of his favorite equity holdings in the U.S. market.  “I feel very good about the banks we own. They’re very attractive compared to most other securities I see,” Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box” on Monday. Banks
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Focus Features proved this weekend that Jane Austen’s classic of romantic misadventures and the humor that goes with it remains timeless. Emma, Autumn de Wilde’s visionary and fresh adaptation of the Austen novel, opened in five theaters in New York and Los Angeles to strong numbers, grossing an estimated $230,000. This brought the per-theater average
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As the major Hollywood studios, entrenched perhaps too much in the old ways, look to combat disruption caused by streaming services in the entertainment marketplace, there proves to be one thing that’s reliable: computer-generated animals. As The Lion King proved last summer, creatures doing exactly what filmmakers want without needing to be fed are a
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