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...One person who attended the party joked that it was grander than a state banquet for King Charles III at the Palace of Versailles a week earlier, Will Louch, Sarah White and I report in this deep dive....
...It is not only the flag-waving faithful on the Mall; it is the republican protesters who were arrested in Trafalgar Square....
...When silversmith Colin Morrison-Ignatieff stood with six other craftsmen to present the new Elizabeth Sword to King Charles III in July, it brought full-circle a story which began over two centuries before...
...Planes add a ceremonial dash to the Mall, where they are lined up as neatly as soldiers on parade....
...The takeover comes a quarter of a century after Ted Baker floated on the London market and completes a corporate fall from grace that began with the allegations about Kelvin....
...Major things that changed my perspective were titles like Grand Theft Auto III. For the first time I could wander around in an open world and do almost anything....
...“The ‘1.5 to stay alive’ moto has long been the AOSIS rally cry,” says Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Pa’olelei Luteru, current chair of AOSIS, who is from Samoa....
...The action-packed pas de trois from Le Corsaire is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser....
...After Twickenham Bridge comes the charming bustle of Richmond and its lovely 18th-century bridge....
...Master planning is not a 20th-century innovation — witness Haussmann’s remodelling of Paris under Napoleon III (“Cruel demolisher, what have you done with my past?...
...By Act III’s red-and-gold Hungarian Grand Pas — introduced by a stylish corps de ballet — Gilbert was in full command of the Opéra Bastille, curling and uncurling her wrists with slow, dramatic grandeur...
...It was an embarrassing faux pas — misspelling the name of the world’s largest luxury goods company — that made some wonder if Tiffany was signalling its disinterest in the LVMH bid....
...The lease was signed by a company named BSREP III Nero LLC, a possible allusion to the emperor who was blamed for the burning of Rome....
...Luzhou Laojiao Sector: CONSUMER STAPLES / HQ: LUZHOU, CHINA Among China’s biggest makers of premium liquor, Luzhou Laojiao’s history stretches back more than four centuries....
...He went back to the drawing board for Act I and II, with a new libretto, but left the Act III Grand Pas to Burlaka. To both men’s credit, there’s barely any stylistic discontinuity....
...It's time to pay our annual visit to the offices of Hindsight Capital LLC....
...at malls and department stores....
...The mega-wattage of the shopping mall makes us ache for a secluded building with leaded panes and oak floorboards that creak as you cross them on Christmas morning.”...
...Koolhaas flips through the sheets, rapidly explaining things and getting irritated with his PA for not having printed out the exact pictures he wants....
...When Georges-Eugène Haussmann drove his boulevards through the alleys and slums of Paris in the 1860s, his task was not simply one of modernisation: his patron Napoleon III was using urban design to drive...
...Mime abounds and seeps into set pieces such as the wedding pas de deux, where Aurora spells out her feelings and tenderly rests her head on the Prince’s shoulder....
...Rising in a glorious three-tiered crown, the building is the fruit of a century’s striving....
...Simon Schama is a contributing editor to the FT Photographs: New York Times/Eyevine: Bridgeman Art Gallery; Getty Images; PA Images...
...For much of the 20th century, the city’s economy and identity were built on the textiles industry, with “Leicester clothes the world” the proud boast....
...The de Spoelbergh family’s Artois brewery was founded in the 14th century, although the family took control of the business much later....
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