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...What A château with 208 hectares of land, believed to have been commissioned at the end of the 13th century by Pope Clement V for his niece....
...Think of the great English poets, the illiterate agricultural worker John Clare, the hunchback ostracised Catholic Alexander Pope, the office worker who wrote down the expense of every cup of coffee — that...
...In a parting shot, Opie shows the Pope waving from one on his papal balcony, as he does every Sunday....
...Zelenskyy met Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz, president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other officials a day after visiting Rome to meet Italian leaders and Pope Francis....
...What to watch today German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier begins a three-day visit to Kyrgyzstan Pope Francis hosts Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Vatican....
...At the same time he endowed the man, then in his early forties, with personality, dignity and a frank gaze that made him unique....
...The almost biblical queerness of the procedure was not lost on at least one fan: Pope Pius XII (whose wartime record might be most charitably described as not-infallible) was an early client....
...Frank Lloyd Wright designed what was perhaps the first island kitchen in the 1930s, but he only did it once....
...Sixty years later, Sir Frank Crisp of Friar’s Park, near Henley, put up a mini-Matterhorn made of thousands of tons of York gritstone....
...I visited Alexander Pope’s grotto beside the Thames near Strawberry Hill, Twickenham....
...Like all “eccentricities”, the grotto should be seen in context: it is a descendant of the poet Pope’s famous prototype in Twickenham about 30 years earlier....
...Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach were the postwar British artists who let paint do the talking....
...The technology, which is fielded in the Middle East, has been used at the G7 summit and to protect Pope Francis during open-air mass....
...According to Mike Tracy in Knight Frank’s Hampstead office, Hampstead is “the prime north London spot, a notch above Highgate”....
...The pope does wear a skull cap and gown even for take-off....
...To paraphrase Frank Zappa, rubbish isn’t dead, it just smells funny. Aime Williams and Claire Jones...
...It saw the Pope as the Antichrist and “popery” as a persecutory system....
...Somewhat improbably for a place dedicated to Latin American stars, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley are among them. “Elvis made me happy when I was young and I danced rock and roll,” Valdés says....
...In London, the V&A is undertaking the restoration of an interior by the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)....
...For all the legacies of Christopher Wren and William Mulholland, neither underwent a rationalisation as total as Haussmann’s of Paris, or Pope Sixtus V’s of Rome....
...gathers Manhattan-besotted photography by Berenice Abbott and Alfred Stieglitz; Walter Ruttmann’s bracing short film from 1927, Berlin, Symphony of a City; models for two unbuilt high-rises designed by Frank...
...Charles, king of the Franks, is undeniably one of the most important figures in European history....
...Even when, after joining the Catholic Women’s League in 1944, the princess met and married Frank Pogson, a British naval officer, they remained without an heir....
...Frank Dikötter, the authority on Mao’s rule, places the fatalities from the Great Leap Forward — Mao’s bid to collectivise China from 1958 to 1962 — at a staggering 45m....
...And The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy, which is like taking vitamins for anybody who’s a writer – the structure is a radical one for biography and the humour relentless....
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