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...German action.” Says Professor John Oxford, a virologist and expert on influenza. He believes the outbreak of flu it began in the Army camps on the Western Front; the biggest one being Etaples. “They had everything there that we now know could engender a new virus, a new bird virus to appear. And it was a bird virus, it was overflown by migrating ducks and geese, and...

...German Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, who famously declared "less is more", and put his dictum into practice with his seminal Barcelona Pavilion in 1929. Imagining a new world One year prior to Barcelona, with the nascent Movement determined to win over a doubting public and architectural establishment, the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) had met for the...

...German U-boat radio operator to the hero. In another corner are the boomerang-throwing Potawantamies. Mamet, of course, is not referring specifically to the British Museum here but the 'weight' that is now conferred upon major museums is due in no small part to the path-breaking role of the British Museum, which recently celebrated its two hundred and fiftieth birthday....