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...Benedict Carter, head of Islamic art at Sotheby’s, recommends starting with one school and honing one’s eye; also, keeping an exacting eye on provenance....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...There was a March release date given for Gran Turismo 7 and the unfortunate slippage of Grand Theft Auto V from November to March. Axios has more....
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...Disaster was narrowly averted following the uninvited intervention of Pope Benedict XV, whose message of goodwill for the talks to King George V elicited a response from the sovereign which seemed to confirm...
...This is in stark contrast to London, where eggs Benedict are gobbled up by many a power player at The Wolseley at 7.30am)....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...In the case of Great Britain, this runs from the stirring words in Shakespeare’s Henry V, through to the pangs of Brexit. KM Choy Singapore...
...Even that most bastardised adaptation of Conan Doyle’s detective tales, Sherlock, still finds Benedict Cumberbatch in a deerstalker....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...AMLO currently leads polls for the vote, with 48 per cent approval rating v 26 for Ricardo Anaya, the candidate currently in second place....
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...(FT) Pope v pope Ultra-conservative Pope Benedict XVI was expected to disappear from view when he retired and his more liberal successor Francis took over. Instead, he stayed....
.... ———————- Facebook v Snap Facebook | Snap Market capitalisation: $395bn | $31bn Funds raised at IPO: $16bn | $3.4bn Daily active users, 2016: 1.23bn | 158m Revenue, 2016: $27.6bn | $404m Profit, 2016...
...The great thing about Benedict Cumberbatch, according to the girl, is that he makes Shakespeare interesting....
...The Royal Shakespeare Company is planning its biggest visit to China next year, when the company will take Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, commemorating the 400th...
...Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983) remains a classic effort to explain nationalism’s durability and to come to terms with the passions it can unleash....
...’s Béatrice et Bénédict is directed by Laurent Pelly (July 23-August 27) and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is directed by Peter Hall (August 11-28). glyndebourne.com Photographs: Hugo Glendinning;...
...Producer: So I’ve optioned a real-life David v Goliath struggle from London, England, where an Average Joe stock analyst is battling Citi over the fate of mines and trading empire Glencore....
...But a theatre of saintly agony is also unfolding: in the background San Stefano is being stoned; St Benedict has flung himself into a thorn bush to vanquish his carnal desire; and in the predella below,...
...Mr Colvin adds: “The lack of liquidity, both in the securities lending and cash markets, suggests we have not seen much in the way of shorting reaction to Russian exposed companies.”...
...Benedict is more cerebral, a playmaker, the Pirlo of organised religion, clever but perhaps past his prime. And so it proves: Argentina put in an infallible performance....
...For many years it was always the same final – Ellerstina V La Dolfina – but last year we changed that, and made history. Is polo exclusive? I don’t think so....
...After that day’s fittings, Hart took friends and clients such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Stevens and fellow Downton actor Laura Carmichael to dinner at Musso & Frank, an old-school Hollywood haunt....
...Benedict is the first pontiff to leave office of his own free will since Celestine V in 1294....
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