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[Book Review - High Financier - The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg - By Niall Ferguson - 31 Jul 2010 A biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg, who built his empire in London after his flight from Nazi Germany.... [Tobin search archaeologist disappointed not to find more bodies - 30 Jul 2010 ONE of the archaeologists who dug up gardens in Brighton in search of new victims of serial killer Peter Tobin, 63, has spoken of her disappointment at not finding a body.... [One Minute With: Simon Schama - 29 Jul 2010 Where are you now and what can you see'... [Mea culpa: top Vatican art historian shoots down Vatican paper's suggestion of new Caravaggio - 26 Jul 2010 The Vatican's top art historian on Monday shot down a report in its own newspaper that suggested a recently discovered painting was a Caravaggio.... [Orlando Figes to pay fake Amazon review damages - 16 Jul 2010 A leading historian who wrote anonymous reviews on the Amazon website praising his own work and criticising rivals is to pay libel damages and costs. Orlando Figes, a professor at London's Birkbeck College, was sued by fellow historians Dr Rachel Polonsky and Professor Robert Service....	[Second World War US bomber missing for 66 years is found in Adriatic Sea - 29 Jul 2010 An American man has found after a 27-year-search the wreckage of a Second World War bomber in which his air force pilot cousin was killed.... [250 WW1 heroes are finally laid to rest..but only one Brit can be identified - 20 Jul 2010 Their bodies had been dumped into mass graves by German soldiers - for years they lay unmarked, unnamed, unknown....	[Napoleon Perdis: Who's Grooming Who: Makeup And The Modern Male - 30 Jul 2010 How does the modern-day peacock navigate our post-metrosexual age' If the men's collections are any indication, with a full face of makeup. Painted faces turned...... [Queen Victoria liner promises to be majestic sight in the Forth - 30 Jul 2010 THE Queen Victoria cruise liner will sail along the Firth of Forth today as it continues on its historic tour of Great Britain.... [Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party - 27 Jul 2010 A fourth-grade Christmas pageant in Abraham Lincoln's rural Illinois hometown sets off a firestorm of controversy when it calls into question Abraham Lincoln's sexuality....	[Brainstem, spinal cord images hidden in Michelangelos Sistine Chapel fresco - 28 Jul 2010 Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, a new study reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator may explain long controversial and unusual features of one of the frescoes' figures.... [Aztec, Bank Millennium May Move: Central European Equity Market Preview - 27 Jul 2010 The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in central European markets. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names. Share prices are from the last close.... [Galileos Lost Fingers Join Medici Treasures in Florence Museum - 25 Jul 2010 Galileo Galileis right thumb and sinewy index finger reach skyward to the stars. They are shrunken with age and are reunited, after more than a century, with his right middle finger. They sit in a glass case spotlight, below a miniature bust of the great scientist.... [Who was Samuel Pepys' - 22 Jul 2010 It is 350 years since one of the UK's most famous diarists put pen to paper. But what was Samuel Pepys really like'...	[Rand Paul Likens Economic Decline To Fall Of Roman Empire, Warns Of 'A Day Of Reckoning' - 02 Jul 2010 What's Your Reaction' When Kentucky Republican Rand Paul took to the podium at a Tea Party rally in his home state Thursday night, the Senate hopeful compared the decline of the United States economy to the fall of the Roman Empire....


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