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• • 01 March 2012

  • Nominations for Marketing Academy 2012 Scholarships

  • 12 January 2012, London - Marketing Hall of Legends (UK), the non-profit organisation responsible for The Marketing Academy are delighted to announce the Nomination Portal for their unique Scholarship Programme is now open.
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• • 31 January 2012

  • Inside 80: Energy Is Wealth

  • To thank you for your commitment to our business and your life, we'd love to share with you how to prepare for a wealth of energy in 2012.
    
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• 24 January 2012

• Alfred's Blog:

  Famous Photographs Meet Their Creators

• The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.
  
  Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs
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