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...Luckey named Anduril’s system “RoadRunner” after the classic Looney Tunes bit in which the bird is always quicker than the coyote trying to catch it....
...It wears an enormous headpiece like a theatrical curtain, all topped off with a golden bird in flight. Hogg was born in Paisley into a family with little money, though her parents were supportive....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...For many, the influx of headlines, about, say, some weird nesting bird rediscovered in the Pennines, are a welcome reprieve from the relentless drone of misery and malcontent....
...From the vases, birds and leaves that flow across columns and capitals to the Turkish rugs draped over balconies and the tail of the peacock — its golden feathers a fabulous excess — perched on a pediment...
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...“There is no way we are going and killing these satellite-tagged birds of prey.”...
...Here, in Paris’s “golden triangle” between the Champs-Élysées and Avenue Georges V, the impeccable stone facades breathe the silence and calm of orderly luxury....
...The farm submits bird and butterfly surveys, and he longs for the nightingales of his youth to return....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...England v Scotland was not much better, as the English spurned try-scoring opportunity after opportunity....
...It begins in the late 1970s, a time that many would consider to be well past the golden age of protest....
...“The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man” was a trophy, acquired by 18-year-old Prince William V, last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and a passionate collector since childhood....
...At the V&A, the first gallery treats us to a dazzling panoply of Buddhist banner paintings....
...One moment a saint, the next a 15th-century lady, a bird, cat, Christ, a heraldic swan, that blue hat. An encyclopedia of medieval life unfolded in a city now eager to reclaim its venerable past....
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...Everything in the house shouts “good taste”; even the lamp stands, with a base made of golden duck legs and webbed feet....
...To Arthur’s energetic, hand-wagging stage direction, I did Crispin Crispian from Henry V, or “All The World’s a Stage” in the living room while my mother fried the gefilte fish....
...For the Penguin Classics, launched in 1946 with E.V....
...This is Filippo Lauri and Filippo Gagliardi’s busy canvas “The Carousel for Queen Christina of Sweden”, a bird’s-eye view of the party the Barberini family threw in 1656 to welcome Christina, who had converted...
...Reserved for the best furniture, it displays a subtle purplish-brown over golden-brown figuring that was said to resemble the wings of phoenix birds. $3,000....
...Badges for the civilian ranks are always birds, such as an egret, golden pheasant and crane. If you want to collect one of each, there are therefore 18 to look for....
...“But the bigger the better was the golden rule for royalty,” says Simona Blau....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
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