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...Last year, Britannia Financial sponsored the platinum jubilee Pageant, which marked the 70-year anniversary of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne....
...Heart-rendingly, Poland devotes its pavilion to Ukraine collective Open Group’s “Repeat After Me II”, about the war’s everyday cacophony....
...The new Matterhorn Glacier Ride II, which is the highest cable car in the Alps, means you can now go from Cervinia to Zermatt on foot,” says Rollason....
...Queen Camilla’s gown, designed by occasionwear designer Bruce Oldfield and made of a silk fabric called peau de soie, featured garlands of wildflowers cascading down from the shoulders....
...The bell was rung once on Thursday after the death of Queen Elizabeth II....
...Article II of this convention is unambiguous on the subject....
...Improbably effusive descriptions mount up, from the “wonderful mischief” of Pope John Paul II to the “superwomen” who were 1990s supermodels....
...“If I hadn’t gone to the castles of Ludwig II in Bavaria when I was eight — and I lived and still live in Paris in a district built by Haussmann — maybe some things would have been different.”...
...A blank cheque company called Horizon Acquisition Corporation II backed by Boehly’s holding company Eldridge Industries announced a merger with private jet operator Flexjet at a $3.1bn enterprise valuation...
...The British sporting world has responded to the death of Queen Elizabeth II with widespread postponements....
...Mark Hodges, the former chief of Aviva UK and British Gas and current chair of insurer RSA, has been named chair of MAC II — the latest acquisition company in the UK by London-based sponsor Marwyn....
...The future of the grade-II listed mansion — like other assets with links to Russian owners — is likely to rest in the hands of the UK government as it seeks to counter criticism that it has been too weak...
...Anyone in any doubt about the organic existence of Ukrainian as an independent tongue should read Timothy Snyder’s brilliantly illuminating essay on the two languages, published last month in The New York...
...The MP for the Outer Hebrides constituency Na h-Eileanan an Iar cited accounts of the 1314 Battle of Bannockburn — where Scotland’s king Robert the Bruce defeated the army of England’s Edward II — saying...
...One of those Spacs, Landcadia II, merged last year with Golden Nugget Online Gaming, a business owned by Fertitta himself....
..., Chester, Cheshire, UK Sharing sovereignty east of Suez is post-Brexit illusion / From Lord Wallace of Saltaire House of Lords, London SW1, UK There’s nothing nostalgic in UK naval deployment / From Bruce...
...I saw him play King Henry II in Jean Anouilh’s Becket in 1961 for the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was 14. He was 31. He was spellbinding....
...Tricia Bruce, a sociologist at the University of Notre Dame, said: “People presume Catholic voters to hold to the teachings of their faith....
...His first computer was an Apple II, which he told gaming site Gamasutra was good to learn on because “you had to do absolutely everything yourself . . . You learnt things the hard way.”...
...said the “next big question” was whether the board has “taken a decisive turn away from the Vernon Hill strategy” — referring to the bank’s eccentric former chair, who once appointed his dog Sir Duffield II...
...His expertly self-shot vlogs (Part I and Part II) offer an intimate look at quarantine, NBA-style....
...“Bruce Dunlevie, the cofounder of Benchmark Capital, and his partners have centre court seats in Uber....
...Purplebricks' big international push is being reversed, and founder and chief executive Michael Bruce is heading out too....
...Netflix’s Outlaw King is a fair stab — all puns intended — at the Robert the Bruce story....
...European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has been applying its curbs on retail CFD trading on a temporary basis in the form of emergency product interventions — new powers enabled by the Mifid II...
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