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...I am taken along a passageway from the church to the refectory, a whitewashed L-shaped room with limited but tasteful religious decoration....
...The right-bank bargain has blood and guts.£19.95 Lea & Sandeman Loom, Long Yarn Pinot Noir 2021 Adelaide Hills (13.5%)Unlike many Pinots, this one is savoury rather than sweet....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...When Elizabeth Howard (raised in the architecturally magnificent Castle Howard) moved to the existing Charles II manor house on marriage, she was deeply underwhelmed....
...Marble Hill was built in the 1720s by Henrietta Howard, mistress of the future George II, as the then Prince of Wales started planning for her retirement....
...The latest boutique winery to enter the scene: Cobble Hill Vineyards, just outside Burnham Market....
...Early the next morning we rode through rundown Albion (pop 5,637), where we learnt that Charles Howard had established a school for aspiring department store Father Christmases in the 1930s....
...‘Will l be allowed a cleaner, or a driver?’ Life after sanctions for a Russian oligarch Petr Aven says his business has been destroyed after the UK acted over his alleged links to the Kremlin....
...Mai’s island of Raiatea, with its coral reef and green hills thrusting out of the Pacific Ocean, was the holiest, home to the sacred temples of Taputapuatea....
...But that’s Tom Cruise: a tiny splinter of granite, chiselled straight from the rock of L Ron Hubbard, he’s never stinted in his commitment to serve the multiplex....
...Escorted by a military band, it was carried through the grounds of L’Echangeur, a tower built in 1974 as a monument to Lumumba....
...Atop a granite hill, it’s enveloped in the same silence that followed me throughout the cruise, surrounded by the same almost-surreal views....
...Joe Biden’s latest move to roll back Donald Trump’s restrictive immigration policies has enraged Republican lawmakers and exposed Democratic divisions on Capitol Hill, even as business groups press for more...
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
...These were major undertakings: a colossal bust of Ramesses II, nicknamed Young Memnon, was manoeuvred down the Nile and across the seas to London only through the genius of the great Giovanni Belzoni....
...Paris has its Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration; Melbourne has the Immigration Museum; Halifax in Canada has Pier 21; Cologne will soon have the Haus der Einwanderungsgesellschaft, recently given...
...“Sitting at the top of Scafell Pike, when all you can see are just hills on hills on hills – it humbles you and it’s hard to feel stressed.” The Lake District, he says, “just gets under your skin”....
...Job moves Makinson Cowell, the UK advisory group led by Bob Cowell and Howard Coates, is set to become a part of Lazard from December....
...Foppish Charles II, frightened James II and the more politically restricted courts of William III and Anne could not attract such foreign talents, and there was as yet no native school....
...Marble Hill in Twickenham is an early 18th-century Georgian masterpiece, built for the Prince of Wales’s mistress, Henrietta Howard....
...Available through Notting Hill Genesis. Long & Waterson, Hackney, east London, £865,000 This two-bedroom new-build flat at the Long & Waterson development is available through Savills....
...Table 1 starts with RR’s u/l EBITA in 2022E and then deducts the utilisation of cash provisions, the excess of investment over D&A, then interest and tax....
...(ii) such a property wealth tax would lead to inefficiency in investment behaviour....
...The piece was the Spaniard’s direct response to the earlier “L’homme au nez cassé” by Auguste Rodin, who has no fewer than nine pieces on this roster....
...K&L Gates has added David Owen as counsel to its asset management and investment funds practice. Owen joins from Allianz Global Investors....
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