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...“Potters who couldn’t afford clay would often steal it from the Roman roads as they were built on top of a heavy layer of clay, causing deep holes in the road surface.”...
...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....
...He also updated the first-floor private apartments and modernised the powder rooms with the help of the famous British royal plumbing firm George Jennings....
...Working clay in 43-degree temperatures is new territory for the Fenland potter. But she perseveres....
...Perhaps the only applicable definition is akin to Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of pornography: “I know it when I see it.”...
...“George: A Magpie Memoir” is out now from Profile Books Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...I haven’t got George I, but I think I’ve got every monarch after that.”...
...But Phoenix’s performance, swinging between clenched rumination and neurotic energy, nails what the historian Georges Lefebvre thought was Napoleon’s mainspring: the mercurial, dynamic temperament....
...The restaurant’s menu showcases a mix of millennia-old techniques, such as roasting kangaroos, and recipes passed down through Bero’s family, which she learnt from her father, George, who raised her as a...
...The darker elements of the story are played down, except when Michael Mayes cuts through the sweetness as George’s nemesis, Henry F Potter....
...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....
...A sale of 13 plates by the late Sussex potter Quentin Bell at Ewbank’s last month made a serious dent in my savings — expecting to win none I instead won three, of which my favourite is a little pink fish...
...The “Tiffany brand” of American film, it has been called: home of Stanley Kubrick and Humphrey Bogart, the money behind Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, the Harry Potter films, The Matrix, Bonnie and Clyde,...
...George Clooney and his buddy Rande Gerber, husband of Cindy Crawford, reportedly did even better from Casamigos tequila. Bob Dylan is the co-creator of a whiskey called Heaven’s Door....
...Same as my [George] Cleverley shoes; they call them Mr Chow shoes. The last thing I bought and loved was Peter Blake’s last painting. I’ve always liked Picasso’s last portrait. He looked terrible....
...It has been two years since the police murder of George Floyd on an otherwise unremarkable street corner in Minneapolis, and still the protesters come....
...Pianist Edward Simon’s “8’46”” marked the death of George Floyd; Potter composed “Can You See” the day after the Capitol Hill riot....
...The studio points to recent deals with George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, M....
...Even galleries such as Philadelphia’s Moderne, specialists in the venerated studio craft of George Nakashima (who died in 1990 and whose rough-edged walnut tables can fetch $300,000), is mixing in fresh...
...The Story of Babar (£365, edition of 750) features a reproduction of Jean de Brunhoff’s original maquette alongside rarely seen archive material; facsimiles of Beatrix Potter’s original hand-written and...
...“He was always looking forward,” says his son, architect George Batterham, who considers the exhibition a source of inspiration for the next generation of potters rather than a retrospective....
...The unintentional reference to Room 101, the torture chamber located within the Ministry of Love in George Orwell’s 1984, wasn’t lost on Kelleher....
...The shooting occurred mere miles from where former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial for murdering George Floyd in 2020, an act that sparked racial justice protests throughout the world...
...Nor will readers find characters in whom they see themselves or their own experiences, such as the schoolchildren in the Harry Potter books....
..., five figures), or the Harry Potter series (a particularly rare example of which recently sold for $471,000)....
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