Banks paid millions of dollars by today’s standards to bring along a botanist, artists, servants, his greyhound and scientific equipment.
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Saar Shahar,
The Conversation,
12 Oct. 2026
The remains of these servants, or retainers, were first excavated from the funerary complexes at Abydos, eastern Egypt, which date from around 3000 BC, in the 1920s.
This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
1 Oct. 2026
Jackson was particularly vocal in her criticism of the show’s shallow scripts, which featured plotlines about them going undercover as French maids, showgirls, lifeguards and, perhaps most infamously, prison inmates.
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Michael Callahan,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Sep. 2026
Bayona also described enforcement hurdles that Miami code compliance inspectors must overcome, such as being denied entry into condos by front-desk attendants.
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Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2026
The assumed inference is that travelers rely on Google for their travel needs and that informative brochures and knowledgeable attendants are a quaint idea that has outlived its usefulness.
There was a procession to the church of white clad handmaidens (tärnor), star boys (stjärngossar) and gingerbread men (pepparkaksgubbar) with candle wreaths on the maidens’ heads – now battery powered rather than actual flames.
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Natasha Langan,
TheWeek,
29 Sep. 2026
Did Penelope, Helen of Troy, Athena, Calypso, and the rest of the Greek gals and goddesses deserve to be more epic than the attractive but flattened handmaidens even IMAX couldn’t enhance?
For now, its Muse assistants are actively helping people complete tasks on their computers quicker, such as responding to emails, booking flights, and surfing the web on their behalf.
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Emily Forlini,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2026
JPMorgan won't allow outside AI agents to operate inside the bank, Dimon said Tuesday, citing risks to the company and its customers as tech firms including Meta and OpenAI release autonomous assistants.
And in 2020, eight of his lieutenants in the Texas AG’s office accused him of bribery and abuse of office to upgrade a home of his mistress.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
30 Sep. 2026
Replacing Disney veteran Alan Braverman in the top in-house legal job, Gutierrez was one of few key Chapek lieutenants to keep his job when Bob Iger returned as CEO in late 2022.
Different characters — villains and helpers — pop up along his journey, as well as different tools and weapons.
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Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Sep. 2026
Guests to The Elf Experience will meet one of Santa’s helpers before entering Papa Elf’s storybook and heading to the North Pole to learn about the life of an elf.
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