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...Phillips also joins the dots between these conflicts....
...(or Victory over Japan) Day William Walton Xanadu Yangtze Zara Phillips...
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...The horns-and-rhythm quintet Joy delved deep into the spiritual jazz, funky rhythms and Latin grooves that were being worked on contemporaneously in New York....
...I’d pair it with a brief description of the life of its inventor, Bill Phillips, who had more adventures than Indiana Jones....
...I once knew a boss who honed his goose speech to such perfection he even honked an air horn at key moments....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Then the tune starts up again, a gentle lollop that leads to a strange disturbance involving horns, guitar feedback and ringing cymbals....
...In 2009, in one of the most high-profile cases, later turned into the Hollywood film Captain Phillips, a US-flagged ship, the Maersk Alabama, was hijacked by Somali pirates....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...“This one’s for you, Rex,” he wisecracked to King George V during a royal command performance in 1932 in London....
...“It’s going to make us an institution that’s as well regarded as the V&A or the National Portrait Gallery for photography,” says Phillip Roberts, the man who has been hired as the Bern and Ronny Schwartz...
...The 1859 oil painting “The Evil Eye” by Scottish painter John Phillip was one of many works the artist created after a visit to Spain in 1851....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...Previously agreed Nato naval missions have included counter-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa to protect international shipping and anti-terror operations in the Mediterranean....
...Such artefacts would be at home in the V&A or the Smithsonian; instead, they make up Krishna’s family’s private collection of relics from India’s past, when the craftsmanship of precious jewels was at an...
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] The waters off Somalia and the Horn of Africa are a vital shipping route. But the area is also famous for pirate attacks....
...The message from the V-A-C Foundation, which runs the recently opened and vast GES-2 House of Culture museum in Moscow, is more muted....
...Chancellor Sebastian Kurz last week locked horns with EU leaders including Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron, criticising the bloc's sluggish vaccine rollout....
...Henry V would blush. If your truck is capable of more than 56 miles an hour, regardless of what speed you are doing, they can fine you. They love to check your tacho....
...Where so many large houses were being destroyed — more than 270 in the three decades after 1945 were documented in the 1974 V&A exhibition The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975 — Chatsworth confounded...
...Roy Strong, once director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and the V&A, has about 480 items from his former home for sale at Chorley’s Auctioneers in Gloucestershire on Tuesday....
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