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...We have an incredible line up of speakers already confirmed, including Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis, Eagle Football chair John Textor, LaLiga President Javier Tebas and Newcastle United director...
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...The 16th-century artwork, nearly 3.5 metres tall, depicts Saint Jerome’s vision of John the Baptist revealing the Virgin and Jesus. It has a rich history....
...“There is not a problem of morale for regulars from the armed forces … they are holding up and executing orders, but they want to kill the enemy and not sit in position as cannon fodder,” Oleksandr V Danylyuk...
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...Before Zelensky’s announcement that the Donbas assault was under way, John Kirby, the Pentagon’s press secretary, said Moscow had been preparing the ground for the offensive, moving troops, heavy artillery...
...Contemporary culture is thin on the ground, but there are notable exceptions: the festival of classical theatre held every summer in the Roman theatre at Mérida and the spectacular new art museum in Cáceres...
...“There are bound to have been many many, more attacks over the years that we don’t know about and that have left malware embedded in systems ready to be activated,” said V S Subrahmanian, professor of computer...
...St John the Baptist”, derive from Donatello....
...The mercenaries in theory work for Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, but after a long campaign they are fighting only for a way to get paid....
...Aslet, a former editor of the quietly influential magazine Country Life, provides a knowledgeable and briskly witty backdrop stretching back to the Romans and their well-built villas....
...The first Baron Rothschild and John Pierpont Morgan rocked up on their yachts....
...If Roman Polanski were a scientist and had invented a vaccine for the coronavirus, would we refuse to use it? I hope not. John V Baldwin Cernobbio, Italy...
...There are pearls here and corals and Roman surgeons’ tools and a few medieval buckles and some scraps of worked metal that are obviously archeological, uses unknown....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...It has an incredible souk and the most extraordinary mosque built on a Roman Christian site....
...Pell is the most senior Roman Catholic Church official to have been convicted of child sex abuse....
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...To the historian Niall Ferguson, Brexit “most closely resembles Henry VIII’s decision . . . to leave the Roman Catholic fold”. The process was bitter, protracted and divided the country....
...subscribe to the same view of Britishness, as is evident every time a Monty Python-loving official professes sadness that the country should leave, or draws an affectionate parallel with the “What have the Romans...
...John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, in 1814....
...Improbable technology is transforming the gaming industry, writes our columnist John Thornhill....
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...Pairs of professors confer in alcoves below fake crumbling pillars and marble statues of Roman emperors....
...With its porcelain tiles and striking mix of modernity and historicism, the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter promises to be the most exciting piazza since St John Wilson’s British Library....
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