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...The ETS price was more influenced by the gas the EU had been able to store, mild weather and weak economic growth in the region....
...When Tennant and Beaton et al were having their elaborate costume parties, elegance as much as decadence was everything....
...Most interesting were clinging tops with plissé drapery that were less reminiscent of the pumped-up bodies of Greco-Roman statues than the soigneé dresses of Parisian couturier Alix Grès, and intersected...
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Ultimately, Raine whittled it down to a Qatari group led by Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani and Monaco-based British billionaire Ratcliffe....
...The Ancient Greeks and Romans used it to decorate their walls, and in China it was used for garments and to wrap precious gifts. William Morris called it the “noblest of the weaving arts”....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...Europe is in schism, even brushstrokes are accused of taking sides, and at the abbey San Benedetto al Po, a great cosmopolitan centre of learning south of Mantua, Andrea Asola is in a fix....
...Expect many versions of young Naomi, Linda, Christy, Amber et al, as well as Hollywood icons along the lines of Charlotte Rampling and Nicole Kidman....
...Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko are not natural soulmates. The Russian president finds his fellow autocrat in Belarus a wilful ally....
...The move by Lukashenko to capture activist Roman Protasevich triggered widespread condemnation and vows of retaliation from other EU leaders....
...Thinking about it now, I am struck by similarities with the Belarus incident, for which President Alexander Lukashenko invented a bogus terrorism threat....
...Ancient Romans were raised in less of an honour culture than Dana White....
...Trump et al v....
...Taking note of test flights by Branson et al, Ghesquière revisited space for his Louis Vuitton resort 2022 collection, with futuristic quilting and prints featuring sketches of planets and sci-fi landscapes...
...Parmensis’ “scabrous satire” about Octavian’s past finds an echo in Trump’s snarling taunting of his rivals — Lyin’ Ted, Sleepy Joe, et al....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
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...billionaire Roman Abramovich....
...Until Syria’s Bashar al-Assad puts in a hostile bid for Southampton, there won’t be a clearer case. The issue has been festering since 2003, when Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...It was a different story by 1529, if we are to trust a report filed to London by Sir Nicholas Carew and Richard Sampson, two English envoys who travelled to Bologna for Charles V’s coronation as Holy Roman...
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