Hints and tips:
...He is at home on the island; a smiley, wiry firecracker about to turn 61, he speaks for hours with the pep of a 20-year-old, even while fending off bronchitis....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...And has there ever been a more banal symbol than the yellow smiley face of rave culture?...
...The official title of emperor Charles V in 1521 goes on: “King in Germany, of Castile, Aragón, Léon, both Sicilies, Jerusalem, Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Navarre, Granada, Toledo . . . ” This is not even...
...Charles V counterpoints and instructs our current age, when many seem to be losing their faith in the European dream....
...A 10-bedroom palazzo with rooftop terrace, sea views, parking and garden is on the market with E&V for €8.5m....
...Surrounded by shiny apartment towers, the plazas are almost spookily spotless: clipped lawns, croony French music, a smiley-face toy-town police van....
...In the chapel Victoria, attired in black with a miniature of Albert pinned to her dress, looked down on the proceedings from the balcony-box “Royal Closet” built in 1510 for the doomed Catherine of Aragón...
...Smiley and quick to laugh, she is unable to describe why she chooses certain objects over others, except to say that “everything has a possibility for the future”....
...Dozens of Google’s pod-like car prototypes, with their rooftop sensors and smiley headlights, trundle around the Silicon Valley town every day....
...The quote is lifted from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, a prescient graphic novel about the rise of the security state in the face of terror; typically for Banksy, it is a piece of second-hand pseudo-wisdom...
...But there is still time to live the “V Dub dream”....
...Thanks to the rule of the French king René d’Anjou and his successor, King Alfonso V of Aragón, a cultivated humanist, the city had become a magnet for art from Spain, Provence and the Netherlands....
...It was also the year Alonso V of Aragon captured Naples. There’s probably an inquiry still going on to that too....
...I have also written history in the present tense (The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England) and day-by-day history (1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory)....
...At this rate, Google will be posting news of its exit with a few “lol”s and a smiley on Twitter....
...Fact v fantasy: How farfetched is it? “If you believe in spooks, clap your hands.”...
...Damian says I may be giving too much of myself and that it’s tweets not twits :-) See my smiley face. SourcesclosetoGordon@No10: Smith is for the chop. Gordonstayingput@No10: Followers 1,765....
...In 1486, Ferdinand of Aragón wrote of the lack of decent portrait-painters in the new kingdom he ruled jointly with his wife Isabella....
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