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...Back in venal St Mark’s at Espace Louis Vuitton, in Je est un autre, 82-year-old French street artist/existentialist provocateur Ernest Pignon-Ernest, precursor of Banksy, displays exquisitely drawn torn...
...On May 29 1453, Mehmet II conquered Constantinople. Its ancient walls, barely breached in eight centuries, were overwhelmed by the sultan’s army....
...Some of Maidwell’s hardships, such as sleeping in the same sheets for two weeks, may have been harder for Spencer, because he, a godson of Elizabeth II, came from luxury....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...The UK has been generating nuclear waste since the 1940s, with the world’s first full-scale commercial power station, Calder Hall, opened in Seascale, Cumbria, by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956....
...“English Food: A People’s History” (William Collins) is out now Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his personal possession in 1885, and it was a Belgian colony from 1908 until independence in 1960....
...Jewson, who was taught by the architect-designer Ernest Gimson, adorned even the lead rainwater drainpipes with beaded foliate beauty....
...By evening, she ventures out to the riotous “every man’s land” that was Montparnasse in the 1920s, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ossip Zadkine and Ernest Hemingway in the grand cafés....
...Ernest Garcia II has a chequered history in business....
...As first Charles II and then his brother James II embraced Catholicism, the old wounds of religion and politics created yet another revolutionary moment....
...Three years later, the historian Ernest Barker commended English queuers for their knack “of ‘fitting in’ neatly on a little space”. Both Orwell and Barker conflate Britishness with Englishness....
...Scissor maker Ernest Wright has a museum above its factory, while Stuart Mitchell offers knife-making classes in Portland Works, the Grade II-listed building known as the birthplace of cutlery....
...The crew travelled to the wreck site aboard a South African-owned icebreaker Agulhas II. “This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I’ve ever seen....
...oak Jupiter’s chair, £6,990Mac Collins first came to my attention when he won the Belmod award for his Ikawa chair in 2018....
...The company traces its roots to a rental car business called the Ugly Duckling, which was founded by Ernest Garcia II, a businessman who in 1990 pleaded guilty to bank fraud and is the father of Carvana’...
...The company has an equally unusual land-based home, too — in the form of the Cambridge Gin Laboratory: a distillery and bar inside a Grade II-listed building....
...Cal Flyn is the author of ‘Islands of Abandonment’ (William Collins). Entry to Seljavallalaug is free; it is about two hours’ drive from downtown Reykjavik....
...The estate still belongs to Lascelles’ distant relatives, David and Diane Lascelles, Earl and Countess of Harewood, and was once home to Queen Elizabeth II’s aunt, Princess Mary, who married into the Lascelles...
...Queen Elizabeth II was upheld as the Caribbean island’s sovereign, but African Jamaican historical figures who had been denigrated or ignored by the British administration — the rebel Baptist preachers Sam...
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...Yet when she took the throne in 1952, Elizabeth II started out as queen of a much wider range of places: while she missed out on becoming Queen-Empress of India by five years, she was at various times Queen...
...They alleged that 11 Wendel executives and three board directors, including the investment company’s heir and former chair Ernest-Antoine Seillière and then chief executive Jean-Bernard Lafonta, benefited...
...The first strikes sparks off the careers of the stars from the late 1960s: it opens with a home demo from Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, recorded in 1964, and includes an eerie field recording from her...
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