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...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...The low temperature in Des Moines was minus 27C and almost 2 feet of snow had fallen on the city in the week before....
...I decided to try Poppy Royal Wedding, “the pick of the bunch”, from Thompson & Morgan, white with a dark centre, and their Calendula Snow Princess, with “flowers in 10 weeks from sowing” directly outdoors...
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...This month’s offerings include more tech stocks than earlier in the year, when the market was dominated by the $4.3bn spin-off of Kenvue, the consumer brands arm of Johnson & Johnson, which chose NYSE....
...Then you really want a low or western V cut....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...James’s response was to make a snow-hardy garden of 28 concrete structures, some to house his menagerie of an ocelot, a small monkey, parrots and boas....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...It is a good time of year for this, whether you are observing snow geese in the US or Asian cranes in Japan....
...As part of the museum’s new Imagine gallery, members of the Corntop and Snow-Warren rabbit families are displayed alongside a caravan and pony....
...Greetings from Davos, which is staging the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting this week — and has just been unexpectedly blanketed with a thick snow....
...What generation of Johnson to run Fidelity is Abigail Johnson? How many computer screens did AQR’s Clifford Asness admit to smashing during the financial crisis?...
...And didn’t he once package up a snowball and ship it to China, so the recipients could experience English snow? He admits he did, adding: “I once took a kebab to Italy for someone.”...
...“Gwyneth Paltrow looks like she’s on trial in 1987 for hiring a hitman to kill her husband,” tweeted comedian Jenny Johnson. “Why has she dressed as Jeffrey Dahmer?” read another tweet....
...Inside the package was a small transparent bauble filled with fake snow, a pair of socks, and a note reading: “Stand up for your values”....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
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