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...V at the Empire Exhibition in London, and the first commemorative stamps being issued in Great Britain....
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...The tools students use today — the hammer or metal “chisel hardie”, set in to blocks of wood — have barely changed over the centuries....
...This Mughal chronicle was gifted to King George III as British power waxed in India. Some folios are by signed artists such as Murar, who portrayed himself in a corner....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...In a break from recent tradition, Camilla, Queen Consort has not commissioned a new crown for the coronation but will use Queen Mary’s Crown, made by Garrard for the consort of King George V in 1911, after...
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Upstairs in the restaurant, there is also a regular menu of main courses including sausages, beef burger, pie of the day and fish and chips....
...She partnered with Jean-Georges Vongerichten on The Dempsey Cookhouse & Bar, in the same barracks that holds Candlenut; London’s Dover Street Market is now in the one across from it....
...They both were friends of Jeffrey Archer, the disgraced former London mayoral candidate for the Tory party....
...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....
...One thing to start: The US Virgin Islands is demanding more documents from JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon in a lawsuit over the bank’s alleged decision to retain the late sex offender Jeffrey...
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...Peck uses music by Aaron Copland and collaborates with Choctaw-Cherokee painter and sculptor Jeffrey Gibson: celebrating American culture in all its finest forms....
...Tallinn, Estonia Found down one of the cobbled back streets of Tallinn old town, Restoran V is a cosy, wood-panelled spot that serves Baltic soul food with an exquisite twist....
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...It is followed by a fantasy room, an Orientalist fever dream of exotic tiles around a burbling fountain, overlooked by a pierced wood mashrabiya — a fragment of Damascus in Holland Park....
...Among the plethora of prints and portraits crowding the walls of the 18th-century colonial house is nary a mugshot of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie or other A-listers who graced the cover of...
...George HW Bush, then president, was under pressure to fill a court opening with a rib-rock conservative, and he promised that Thomas would be a “home run”....
...The book is rich in nostalgia, an old man looking back on his young self, when everything was new and promising and a whole world was unfolding, before he became, in the words of his biographer, Jeffrey...
...After all, a photo of Selassie’s coronation in 1930 showed King George V’s son on bended knee before him....
...BukhovCo-Founder, Burger & Lobster Restaurant Group Joel and Divia Cadbury Richard CaringChairman, Caprice Holdings Jean-Francois CasanovaCEO Dream International B.V....
...In November, the venerated Roman house will open in the City of Lights: the Bulgari Hôtel Paris has (naturally) a mint location on the Avenue Georges V – in the coveted Triangle d’Or – and its usual architectural...
...House and President Joe Biden’s administration has begun targeting private capital more aggressively than ever, an attitude that had many of the attendees, including Orlando Bravo of Thoma Bravo and Cathie Wood...
...LVS Decorative Arts is selling a very large and rare George I gilt-wood and gesso mirror that features a broken scroll arched pediment with carved eagle heads, cresting to a feathery foliate crown....
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