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    Robert Neil MacGregor (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to...
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  • player Neil Lumsden (born 1952), Canadian politician and football player Neil Lyndon (born 1946), British journalist and author Neil MacGregor (born 1946)...
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  • book by British historian and then director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor. The work was published in conjunction with his BBC Radio 4 series and...
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    presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor. In 15-minute presentations broadcast on weekdays on Radio 4, MacGregor used objects of ancient art, industry...
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    piece." In his October 2017 BBC Radio 4 series Living with the Gods, Neil MacGregor asked Cook ... so why would a community living on the edge of subsistence...
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  • Douglas Macgregor(born 1947), American military writer Elizabeth Ann Macgregor (born 1958), Scottish curator and art historian Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845)...
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    relatively enlightened approach towards cultural and religious diversity. Neil MacGregor, a former director of the British Museum, said that the cylinder was...
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    as a traditional Babylonian king while denigrating his predecessor. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, has stated that the cylinder was "the...
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    Berlin, 2005, p. 14. (Quotation translated into English by contributor.) Neil MacGregor, Germany: Memories of a nation, Penguin, London, 2016, pp. 112–130....
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    by a three-member management committee, chaired by founding director Neil MacGregor and also including the co-directors, archaeologist Hermann Parzinger...
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    History of the World in 100 Objects by the museum's former director Neil MacGregor. The palace room, where the relief was discovered in 1845–1847, was...
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    a central icon in the Western Church. In the words of art historian Neil Macgregor, "From [the 14th Century] on, wherever the Roman Church went, the Veronica...
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    Clan Gregor, also known as Clan MacGregor, is a Highland Scottish clan that claims an origin in the early 9th century. The clan's most famous member is...
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    enable the construction of the Sainsbury Wing. The directorship of Neil MacGregor saw a major rehang at the gallery, dispensing with the classification...
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    Florence where they were dismantled to make more contemporary objects. Neil Macgregor credits Henry Christy with gathering similar artifacts into the British...
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    been buried at this date by the owner fleeing from the fighting. — Neil MacGregor, British Museum Director, A History of the World The cup became a prized...
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    the two passengers – and not because of the status of the passengers. Neil MacGregor likens this vehicle to a Ferrari or Porsche amongst cars – fast and...
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    drei Aufzüge. ("E. Karoli," pseudonym). Iserlohn: W. Langewiesche. Neil MacGregor (2016). Chapter 25: At the Buchenwald Gate. Penguin Random House UK...
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  • presented to the author by Queen Camilla. The judges – the panel comprising Neil MacGregor (chair), Shahidha Bari, Helen Castor, M. John Harrison and Alain Mabanckou...
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    Irish Megalithic Art on Arxiv.org 19 March 2019. Here Comes the Sun Neil MacGregor narrates a BBC Radio 4 / British Museum programme describes the solstice...
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    History of the World in 100 Objects, presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor. The mosaic has two wings in its north-east angle set at about a right...
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  • Neil McGregor (rugby union), 1901–1973, New Zealand rugby player Neil MacGregor, (born 1946), British art historian McGregor (surname) MacGregor (surname)...
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    4 series presented by Neil MacGregor, a former director of the British Museum. It explores human societies and what MacGregor describes as "the connections...
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  • Hollinghurst James Kelman Doris Lessing Deborah Levy Penelope Lively Jon McGregor Rohinton Mistry Timothy Mo Brian Moore Andrew O'Hagan V. S. Naipaul Zadie...
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  • International Law The Caroline Incident during the Patriot War Obituary of Neil MacGregor, one of the Upper Canada militiamen on the raid The Avalon Project at...
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    featured in the BBC's A History of the World in 100 Objects, in which Neil MacGregor described it as "without question one of the supreme achievements of...
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    Geschichte und Gegenwart. Brandstätter, Vienna, 1984, ISBN 3-85447-028-2. Neil MacGregor. Germany: Memories of a nation, Penguin, London, 2016, pp. 112-130....
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    creating the official portrait of retiring British Museum director Neil MacGregor, which was subsequently acquired by the museum as the first photograph...
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    Financial Times on the occasion on the museum's reopening in 2006, Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, hailed "the most comprehensive display...
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  • (1918–2009). Sir James Lithgow, shipbuilder and industrialist; 1883–1952 Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of...
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