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...Mazda MX-5 Convertible (2005-2015) No car on this list exudes the astonishing value and bulletproof reliability of a Mazda MX-5....
...At Christie’s spring sales in Hong Kong, the Magnificent Jewels auction raked in $54.3mn, aided by some impressive figures for Bulgari including a 1970s diamond and ruby necklace selling for $355,384....
...Offerings of cakes and auspicious fruits such as oranges were made at his shrine in the kitchen....
...He also follows superstitions. “There are certain words that you should never say on boats,” he says. Like what? Thorbjorn looks at the deck. “I cannot say them.”...
...Major recent presentations have emphasised either dark Goya — the Met’s spring exhibition of graphic work, Goya for humanity in crisis — or the public chronicler, as in London’s 2015 portrait show....
...The destruction of the natural world at first strikes as a metaphor until you realise it isn’t at all....
...“In the past, due to the season, the price curve usually dropped somewhat at the beginning of the spring and summer months,” said the company, which has about 2m cars on its site....
...Toyota has also invested in Mazda Motor and Subaru, taking the Japanese auto empire’s annual sales up to 16m vehicles globally, at the time of the agreement....
...of the regime, sparking the Arab Spring and the downfall of several dynasties across the Middle East....
...Apart from Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage, Günter Grass aligned the 1640s and 1940s in his 1979 novella The Meeting at Telgte....
...We had all of the wizard’s powers and all of his laboratories and we traded them for gossip, superstition and lies. We no longer trust logarithmic graphs or pie charts....
...This spring, for the first time and by appointment only, visitors can explore parts of the Kentish ragstone house normally hidden from view....
...Cosin commissioned these pieces believing beautiful things could inspire devotion to God in spite of Cromwell’s ban on objects of “papish” superstition....
...Lights, Jane Phillips, Mer du Sud and Superstition that arrive over this month....
...Despite recent scares from Putinism and the Arab Spring, the long peace since the second world war keeps lengthening....
...Natural by Alan Levinovitz (Profile RRP£20/Beacon RRP$28.95, April) upends that idea and calls the unthinking worship of nature “our oldest superstition”....
...Shortly after Carlos Ghosn pledged to make the Renault-Nissan alliance “irreversible” this spring, an executive at the Japanese carmaker laughed off the idea that the 19-year-old partnership could collapse...
...The scandal intensified in the spring of 2013 after Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda recalled more than 3m vehicles worldwide....
...A new film law governing the industry came into effect this spring. It bans film content deemed harmful to the “dignity, honour and interests” of the country....
...If he serves his full term at the bank, Mr Draghi will remain in Frankfurt until 2019....
...Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman and chief executive of Hitachi, said he raised his worries about a so-called Brexit with David Cameron, the UK prime minister last spring....
...The chapel, built for a Christian hermit, and martyrs’ crosses were demolished as symbols of superstition and the flora of centuries was ruthlessly stripped away, although botanists salvaged specimens for...
...James Mackintosh explains why it is little more than superstition to look at records of the past and why we need to keep an eye on the future — indices are odd beasts. (FT)...
...James Mackintosh explains why it is little more than superstition to look at records of the past and why we need to keep an eye on the future – indices are odd beasts....
...In February, Goya: the Witches and Old Women Album at the Courtauld Gallery will present another vision of sorcery and superstition that is dark and unnerving....
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