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...Chaucer describes how birds tweet on Valentine’s Day and choose their mates. I am a Robin, last Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, but I am not a bird. I was in my garden, pondering, not tweeting....
...Adapted from Charles M Blow’s 2014 memoir of the same name about his experiences with race and masculinity, in 2021 the three-act opera went on to become the first production staged at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Frazier’s narrator, Valentine “Val” Montgomery Welch, is an artist with a commission for his times....
...Thank you to all of you who shared about your Advent preparations — “Christmas creep” appears to be a real concern, alongside sightings of Valentine’s Day cards and other assorted pink merch in shops on...
...The best gift I’ve given recently was to my wife on Valentine’s Day. It’s a sculpture – a torso in marble from the first century....
...Formed in Milan at the beginning of the decade, it was led by Ettore Sottsass, the flamboyant designer renowned for his blood-red Olivetti “Valentine” typewriter....
...Good morning on this rather gloomy Valentine’s Day. There is very little love lost between Russian president Vladimir Putin and his western counterparts, as the FT writes today....
...But Fincher is more interested in why, unpicking the script’s famous revenge on press baron William Randolph Hearst (Charles Dance, glowering). The first irony of Mank is obvious....
...During a London sojourn with her daringly liberal aunt Emmeline, Jane passes the hours by “losing herself” in her host’s library of Charles Dickens....
...Tooki loves to be brushed and Seven is a climber and always bats the ball back to owner Denise Valentine....
...He sent a chunk of his own salary to a Chinese consulting firm to do his work so he could surf Reddit, trade on eBay, update Facebook, and watch cat videos, according to a blog post by Andrew Valentine of...
...Charles de Gaulle airport is 30km away. What An apartment with four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a double reception room with parquet floors and corniced ceilings....
...New Statesman Stable instability — Germany’s grand coalition by Jasper von Altenbockum in the Frankfurter Allgemeine (German) Cognitive neurology and the dangers of excessive faith in science — Yves Charles...
...The brainchild of Alibaba, Singles Day turned the anti-Valentine’s Day on November 11 into the biggest frenzy of consumption in the retail calendar....
...“Bring your Valentine to San Francisco,” Judge Charles Breyer told the court last month....
...The business faces tough competition from companies such as SimCorp, Bloomberg and Charles River....
...Though the November 11 Singles Day was created by college students in 1993, Alibaba launched it as a shopping event in 2009 as an “anti-Valentine’s Day” where single people buy something for themselves....
...Singles Day, named after the numerologically auspicious double 11 date, traces its history from a casual holiday started in the early 1990s as China’s “anti-Valentines Day” — a holiday to celebrate being...
...The shopping day is known as singles day for its “double eleven” date, and billed as the “anti-Valentine’s day” where customers buy something for themselves rather than for a partner....
...Here in Hsipaw we were in Mr Charles’ River View Lodge, a selection of newly built bungalows in a rural setting just outside town, with the calm presence of the Myitnge river on one side and the chanting...
...Valentine Place with modern one, two- and three-bedroom apartments and fancy penthouses, sets the tone for the area....
...He and Grung chat affably about the prospect of an “obscene taxidermy” class to coincide with Valentine’s day, before he sweeps out again....
...According to the lore, the custom of Singles’ day began in 1993 when students at Nanjing University chose the portentous date as an answer to Valentine’s Day, and unattached singles could buy things for...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan and Charles Clover...
...Even so, the project is opposed by a group of local Tory MPs including Sir Nicholas Soames, Sir John Stanley, Charles Hendry and Crispin Blunt....
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