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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....
...Like the rest of the hotel, the kitchen — under the purview of chef Eduardo Gutiérrez — takes its cue from mixing the old and the new, serving traditional Spanish dishes with a contemporary, cosmopolitan...
...Everyone from the Pharaohs to the Romans mixed tin with metals such as lead, copper and bismuth to create everyday objects for the table....
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...on billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...“The Russians’ strategy is to show it is much more resilient to casualties than Ukraine,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank in Kyiv....
...There is still a murmuration over the road bridge of Mérida, a city in western Spain littered with magnificent Roman architecture....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...Most interesting were clinging tops with plissé drapery that were less reminiscent of the pumped-up bodies of Greco-Roman statues than the soigneé dresses of Parisian couturier Alix Grès, and intersected...
...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....
...Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank, said capturing a large number of Russian forces would in itself be a big prize for Ukraine and a psychological blow...
...The resurgence of tapestry can be attributed to a renewed interest in traditional crafts, says fashion historian and co-curator of the V&A’s recent Fashioning Masculinities exhibition, Marta Franceschini...
...There, they met a group of conservators from the National Museum of Beirut, painstakingly reassembling Roman glass vessels that had shattered in the Port of Beirut explosion of August 2020....
...Somewhere, near the bottom, is an imperial Roman commercial outpost. If this unsentimental place has a hero, it is Dick Whittington, four times mayor of London....
...The bulk of Luhansk territory seized by Russia was taken soon after the invasion began in February, said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank....
...“There is not a problem of morale for regulars from the armed forces … they are holding up and executing orders, but they want to kill the enemy and not sit in position as cannon fodder,” Oleksandr V Danylyuk...
...Oleksandr V Danylyuk, a defence and intelligence adviser to the Ukrainian government, said Russia had intensified its artillery strikes on the front lines to try to exhaust Ukraine’s supplies....
...Contemporary culture is thin on the ground, but there are notable exceptions: the festival of classical theatre held every summer in the Roman theatre at Mérida and the spectacular new art museum in Cáceres...
...“Our formation in Donbas is the most capable part of our forces,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, a security and defence adviser to Ukraine’s government, and veteran of the 2014 battle to recapture Slovyansk....
...Discussions included the reversal of Roe v Wade, there was a talk on stress and gut health and a sound bath was held. There was also yoga, snorkelling and a shamanic blessing....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...“There are bound to have been many many, more attacks over the years that we don’t know about and that have left malware embedded in systems ready to be activated,” said V S Subrahmanian, professor of computer...
...Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who is selling up in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine....
...Dos Santos chaired the state oil company in Africa’s second-biggest crude-producing country under her father, José Eduardo dos Santos, until he left power in 2017, and once had sprawling business interests...
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