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...Castel del Monte was built by the brilliant Holy Roman emperor and king of Jerusalem, Germany, Italy and Sicily, Frederick II (1194-1250), known as “Stupor Mundi”, or Wonder of the World....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Britten, England’s most feted composer after the success of Peter Grimes, has nine months to complete the opera in time for a gala to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II....
...Two works of 43 were withdrawn prior to sale, by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Mark Bradford, while Bradford was also one of two artists whose works went unsold....
...The deal’s structure will not impact Generali’s Solvency II ratio, a key measure of insurers’ financial strength, because there is no upfront payment....
...In eastern Europe, a Bulgarian party led by former king Simeon II and named after himself stormed to electoral victory in 2001....
...The sign still reads “Sunset Sandwich Bar II: Hot & Cold Food to Take Away”, but a cursory look through the window of the tiny 7ft by 12ft shop, overlooking Smithfield Market in London’s Farringdon, will...
...She also refers to George Frederick Kunz, Tiffany’s first chief gemologist, as “the founding father of American luxury”....
...That’s evident in a large scenic painting of St James’s Park dated c1745 — one of the few to show a multitude of social classes mixing together — where sailors are conversing in trousers, and Frederick,...
...On January 12, rebellion broke out in Sicily against the reactionary Bourbon monarch Ferdinand II. On February 24, the King of the French, Louis-Philippe, was toppled by a rising in Paris....
...Queen Elizabeth II was only 5ft 3in tall, but she was unmissable in a crowd....
...Burberry’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection, presented this week after a delay owing to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, was his last for the fashion house....
...Spain’s Santander bought and rebranded Abbey National, Bradford & Bingley and Alliance & Leicester from 2004 to 2009, while TSB is owned by its Spanish rival Sabadell....
...II in Sicily, until the mid-13th century....
...What A two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment on the 20th floor of the 25-storey Vistal II tower with floor-to-ceiling windows giving a panoramic view of the city....
...Find the names of the obscure Cayman Islands entities SoftBank uses (in this case, the apparently Arthurian legend-themed Gawain II 2022 Holdings Limited, Valiant I 2022 Holdings Limited and Valiant II 2022...
...When the Kiln Theatre in north London began rehearsals for Moira Buffini’s Handbagged, Queen Elizabeth II was on the throne and Boris Johnson was prime minister....
...The photographic safari became a book project when Roberts encountered the Frederick II Foundation, a Sicilian cultural heritage foundation established in 1997 in Palermo, and named for Frederick II – one-time...
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...In his testaments, emperor Charles V advised his young son — who became Philip II, head of the great Spanish empire in the 16th century — never to identify with only one faction at court or make decisions...
...And he had lived through World War II. So for him, it was all war. Life was war. PHILIPPE SANDS: He saw a country that had not come to terms with its own historical past and, effectively, its demise....
...It was under Roger II’s grandson, the brilliant Frederick II (1194-1250), known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder of the World, that this exotic Indo-Arabic innovation became normalised throughout Europe....
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...George II’s obstreperous Rococo-loving playboy son, Frederick, the Prince of Wales who never became king, was an individualist collector — Filippo Lauri’s softly balanced caravan of figures in landscape...
...Who: Savills The Old Sunday School, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, £1m Where: In the heart of the historic market town of Bradford-on-Avon, the property is 10 minutes’ walk from rail services to Bristol...
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