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...“Mal Hombre” came next, first recorded by the Mexican-American singer Lydia Mendoza in 1934, delivered here in Spanish with a fine balance of theatricality and style....
...Last year’s victor, the Hepworth Wakefield, has a fine collection of works by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore and has mounted an inventive succession of exhibitions ....
...The Ottomans valued this metal greatly, Mendoza reported, as they were at war with Spain and other Christian powers, and “they cannot cast guns without it”....
...Had Emperor Charles V not thought it worth demanding that his Mexican viceroy Antonio de Mendoza construct an account of the Aztec civilisation, we would not have the Codex Mendoza: a once-in-an-epoch hybrid...
...Similarly, A Man For All Seasons (1966) depicts Sir Thomas More as a pious man of conscience trying to defend his religious principles against the corrupt and borderline psychotic Henry VIII....
...Very good value at this special offer price. 12.5% £8.99 Waitrose Henry Fessy 2008 Brouilly 16 Drink 2009-10 Very sweet and mellifluous with real lightness of touch – even if not much Brouilly texture....
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