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...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...There's a Norfolk seat they're very, very focused on. There is. I think it's Norfolk and a bit of Suffolk....
...Michael Collins (Catholic)....
...His apartment is “a micro-V&A” of eclectic religious artefacts and exotic antiquities....
...There’s a reason “David v Goliath” has become the favoured Oscar narrative over the past 10 years: it exactly reproduces the contours of an industry that has itself bifurcated between studio spectacle and...
...Iridescent kingfishers skim the green river and a dog-sized coypu cuts a long V as it swims across....
...Lord Burlington met “Kentino” in Italy, as did Thomas Coke of Holkham Hall, Norfolk, which Kent would eventually rebuild as a vast Veneto villa with a thumping Roman heart....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Bonner cites a ruling by the United States Supreme Court in another case, Herrera v Collins, in which conservative Justice William Rehnquist chillingly writes that Federal courts “sit to insure that individuals...
...George V, the present queen’s grandfather, was the last British monarch to visit Ireland, in 1911 when it was approaching the end of seven centuries of English colonial rule....
...Liberatum stages discussions between cultural figures from architecture, music, literature and fashion – such as the writers Gore Vidal and V.S....
...Cape Grace (www.cape grace.com; doubles £408) on the V&A Waterfront is a hotel that belongs to Cape Town. Following an overhaul by local designer Kathi Weixelbaumer, it is packed with period antiques....
...More Than Just A Game: Football v Apartheid by US academic Chuck Korr and British writer Marvin Close (Collins, $31.77) is billed as “the most important football story ever told”....
...: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change, by Louis V Gerstner ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....
...This summer, the press had announced a number of games that were supposed to be historic “battles”: Netherlands v Germany, Portugal v Spain, England v France, Denmark v Sweden....
...Even so, the list reads a little oddly: Paris (the Georges V, indeed), Provence, Budapest, Dublin, Istanbul, Milan, Prague…and Farnham....
...The Tories have gained Milton Keynes and Gravesham from Labour, while the Lib Dems unseated Tory Tim Collins in Westmoreland....
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