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...In London for the first time is Hew Locke’s gorgeous “Armada” (2019), a flotilla of 45 intricately decorated miniature boats — galleons, fishing vessels, cargo ships, models of the pilgrim pioneer “Mayflower...
...In November, the grey fleet accounted for more than half of oil exports from western Russia for the first time, Kpler’s data shows....
...(Drake, incidentally, used fire ships in his most famous 1588 victory against the Spanish Armada, chasing the Spanish navy into the English Channel to meet its fateful destruction.)...
...“By the time Europeans arrived in Mexico and Colombia, they understood they were harbingers” of disease and death, but it was “seen in terms of divine providence”....
...Outside, a small crowd gathered to protest against the impact of new gas export facilities in US Gulf Coast communities — the same plants from which Brouillette and his contemporaries hope to send an armada...
...The novel’s opening passages, as an armada of spaceships fills the skies and the world spirals into panic, are spectacular — pure Wellsian widescreen drama....
...By 2021, the San Francisco-based company was a key contractor helping the US Navy to develop an armada of artificial intelligence systems to conduct surveillance in international waters, including the Arctic...
...Sempra hits the go button on Port Arthur LNG America’s liquefied natural gas armada is about to get bigger (again)....
...Her hand on a globe, her boned, pearl-studded gown stiff as armour, Elizabeth I in the Armada portrait (1588) is the most famous representation of female power in western art....
...“Policemen who investigate child-abuse imagery cases have an armada of psychiatrists and strict limits on how much material they can see,” she says....
...Reports at the time said the last-known asking price before the sale was €24mn....
...Garçon is a 67-metre explorer vessel designed to carry helicopters and an “armada of water toys”, and was built for Ukrainian billionaire Yuriy Kosiuk, who sold the so-called support yacht last year....
...“Now, if we do our job in a time of crisis . . . we ought to be able” to beat the markets....
...And Evercore hosted an Ibiza-themed dinner and cocktails evening at Soho House with a “summer white” dress code and a performance from Groove Armada. There was happier talk on the sidelines....
...An armada of American crude, gasoline, diesel and liquefied natural gas shipments are delivering record amounts of fuel to a world running on fumes....
...To be fair, Charles had a lot more time to prepare. He does have a longstanding capacity for screwing up....
...“I realised it was time to stop looking outward, thinking about who was going to do something about this. It was time for me to take some social responsibility.”...
...“For a long time these oligarchs had whatever they wanted. But all that’s changed now.”...
...“We expect an armada of vessels moving towards Europe again and that will have a bigger effect [than the Shanghai lockdown],” says Nagtegaal of Rotterdam port. “The quayside is only so large....
...At a time when English was a peripheral language in Europe, the Stuart establishment was populated by multilingual, worldly cosmopolitans. Their wives were all foreign Catholics....
...The top job has now changed hands 10 times in the past two decades and the newly-opened leadership race within the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) comes with the standard risk that its choice — good...
...The Siegals have joined a growing off-grid armada....
...“The armada of ships bringing Saudi crude to the US has arrived,” said Amrita Sen, a director at Energy Aspects, a consultancy....
...Despite the promises of an amicable split, each has assembled an armada of divorce lawyers....
...In 1588, a chain of signal fires along the south coast of England warned Francis Drake that the Spanish Armada had been spotted off the coast of Cornwall....
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