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...In the central park of Tiraspol, a gleaming bronze statue of Catherine the Great, completed three years ago, stares at a statue of Alexander Suvorov, her general who founded Tiraspol in the late 18th century...
...What to watch today Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels. European Commission weekly college meeting....
...She hosts her appointments in the salon of her Rue Dauphine apartment in the 6th arrondissement, surrounded by midcentury furniture and books on couturiers such as Madeleine Vionnet or Alexander McQueen....
...“We’ve got a long-term problem [climate change] but we still look at investment in a pretty short timeframe,” explains Alexander....
...Art historians Catherine Lampert, 77, and William Feaver, 81, come weekly. “It’s human contact now, as well. I spend all my time totally alone.”...
...Dance company Junk Ensemble welcomes Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria” (c1615-17) to Birmingham by performing tableaux mirroring her compositions....
...Gaultier himself watched the show, seated alongside Catherine Deneuve. “I was slightly worried that people would not understand that it is Gaultier,” Ackermann says....
...Catherine, the Princess of Wales wore a Ferrari-red Alexander McQueen trouser suit at an event in January and for the King’s Coronation Concert in May; the prominent roped shoulders and asymmetric hem stood...
...The fashion followed suit, with Princess Catherine’s glittering headpiece leading the charge....
...And Catherine the Great.” This history won’t be over even if Ukraine regains every square metre of its sovereign territory, including Crimea....
...chocolate ganache tarts ribboned with foamy waves of Chantilly cream that are (almost) too good to eat. ursaminorbakehouse.com Sara Semic Rye Bakery, Frome, Somerset On a narrow side street just off Catherine...
...On Wednesday the agency’s barrister, Catherine Collins, said: “The money was spent, and spent rapidly.”...
...Round on the Links The link was people known as “the Great” Danny Alexander Alfred Pompey (Portsmouth) Lynne Frederick Blue Peter Susannah Constantine Philippa Gregory Catherine wheel Miley Cyrus...
...Artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri was inspired by Catherine de’ Medici, an Italian who, via marriage to Henry II in 1533, entered French royalty....
...Hollywood proposed idealistic historic epics around the lives of Queen Christina, Catherine the Great and Marie Antoinette; even modernism in interiors was eschewed in favour of styles emulating the scrolls...
...I was once a student at the Jacobsen-designed St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and the details at this hotel were nostalgia-filled for me: the architect designed every detail of these two massive projects...
...She relied on her long-standing trio of trusted British brands: Alexander McQueen, Catherine Walker and Jenny Packham....
...Trooping saw the return of the white Alexander McQueen coat dress worn last year when she attended the G7 reception....
...These houses are connected by geography rather than ideology: ask any of the designers about Parisian style and you don’t get visual references – no beret and no Catherine Deneuve....
...Its pieces have sparkled on the wrists of Catherine Deneuve (the Reine) and Amanda Seyfried (the secret Feuille), as well as Hikari Mori and Italian actress Cristiana Capotondi....
...For Vladimir Putin’s extraordinary meeting with his top security officials on Monday, he chose the Kremlin’s ornate Hall of the Order of St Catherine....
...The deepest and most fascinating square-off detailed in the book is the one between Catherine the Great and America’s founding fathers. Both used debt to purchase grain and fuel empire-building....
...The oligarchs don’t even dare voice any open dissent, as the remarkable scene of acquiescence in the Kremlin’s grand Hall of St Catherine demonstrated....
...Alexander Prigarin, an ethnologist at Odesa national university, said that as Russian forces took control of Crimea, there were many in the city who wished their city would be next....
...In the Regency period, the heiress to the Tylney fortune, Catherine, married the charming but dissipated William Long-Wellesley, a nephew of the Duke of Wellington....
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