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...Later, while working for Norman Foster — himself a space enthusiast since he was charmed by the Dan Dare cartoon in the Eagle magazine as a boy — was involved with a study for a space station on Mars....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...There are the frail caravels, surviving waterspouts and tempests only to run aground at the place they called “Belen”, the Admiral and his boy reduced to surviving on the wrecked platform of planks that...
...Benjamin Britten : A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, £30, 688 pages Letters from a Life : The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume Six, 1966-1976, edited by Philip Reed...
...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...
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...Some plays have been specific responses to Shakespeare texts, such as Rona Munro’s The Indian Boy (which was inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream)....
...E is for Eagle No Winter Olympics preview is complete without mention of British ski jumper Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, the most hapless athlete in Winter Olympic history....
...Getting your burger bar in V Festival will cost £6,000. They know people are desperate to get any business they can.”...
...But new toys for gardening boys come at a price....
...The wardrobe of the boy emperor Peter II forms the centrepiece of this historic show....
...Spacefaring by the mid-1990s couldn’t be such a stretch: hence Dare, the “pilot of the future”, who each week thwarted malign Venusians in the pages of the Eagle, the boys’ comic launched in 1950 by Marcus...
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