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...“Rediscovering the Pacific Ocean” came next, a reference to the Spanish conquest and the indigenous music culture that was, we were told, impossible to score....
...The John Robinson Youth Chess Trust provided free entry for many other juniors....
...“Europeans arrive in a wave of disease and conquest, destabilising the place, and take from it commodities....
...President John F Kennedy’s bold vision for space exploration began as a propaganda ploy, designed to display American might....
...In the words of Archbishop John of Sultaniya, he had “the Tartar countenance and a white beard a l’espagnol”....
...In one image, they float peacefully in a stream, like two Ophelias from the John Everett Millais painting....
...John the Baptist is not the only ghost on this old road....
...Having given Ukraine the means to stop Russia’s conquest, are they now ready to promise that if it were to happen again, their troops would be fighting and dying too?...
...Like other revolutions, it started out with idealism, advanced amid turmoil and conquest, and consumed many of its children....
...Still, the Dutch statement showed the way — and, in the process, indirectly highlighted the fact that a war of attempted imperial conquest, or reconquest, is going on right now in Ukraine....
...“I think where we are is: a lot of questions and not a lot of answers,” John Kirby, the US National Security Council spokesman, said this week in an interview with CNN....
...John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said the US had not known of the call in advance, adding that “if there’s going to be a negotiated peace it has got to be when President...
...Putin, flanked by uniformed soldiers, complained about traitors, western lies, neo-Nazis, plots to split Russia apart and the conquest of Russia’s historical territories”....
...The British historian John Hale argues that the name “Europe” also replaced “Christendom” during the Renaissance....
...Ford is pitching cars and trucks to appeal to customers new to the brand, what the industry calls “conquests”....
...“The best, or perhaps even the only, way to explain the direction of Kim’s nuclear weapons development is that the North Koreans are seriously preparing for a second round of the Korean war and conquest...
...China’s 12-point peace plan released last month, which includes a ceasefire, was “effectively the ratification of Russian conquest,” Kirby said....
...Gunpowder underpinned vast new empires such as Suleiman’s or his Spanish rivals, whose astonishing conquests felt like harbingers of a new age....
...Britain was then an imperial superpower, with conquests from America to India, but while it had one eye on beating its recent enemy France to trade routes, Wallis was primarily there to explore....
...It has taken his total conquest of domestic football to show how much rigour and seriousness (and petro-wealth) underlies the surface glitter....
...Similarly, ordinary Russians will not benefit from the conquest of Ukraine or ordinary Chinese from the conquest of Taiwan. But this truth did not preclude conflict....
...John Plender is an FT columnist. Illustrations by Bill Butcher....
...“Every day, we see the resolve of the allies and partners worldwide who are helping Ukraine resist Russia’s illegal, imperial and indefensible war of conquest,” the US defence secretary said on Thursday....
...As one leading technologist told a government minister at a Founders Forum event last week, Brexit has resulted in the biggest loss of sovereignty since the Norman conquest of 1066....
...This article has been amended since first publication to make clear the city of Kherson sits on the right bank of the Dnipro river, not the left bank Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London...
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