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...How we engage with the prospect of its death is the core of Joseph Wright’s eerily compelling “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” (Room 34)....
...Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass Pan Macmillan, £30 / Knopf, $46, 912 pages Bill Emmott is a former editor-in-chief of The Economist and chairs the...
...Brothers Anton and Joseph Hemmerle established the company in 1893, after purchasing an existing goldsmiths that completed orders for the Bavarian royal court....
...The interiors were recreated to Mackintosh’s original design during a restoration of the Grade II*-listed house, completed in 2003....
...In the left-hand panel, Joseph (we think it is him) crouches over a meagre fire, drying the nappies....
...to be the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II....
...In that era, the future pope was known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a talented scholar who for almost a quarter of a century served as the intellectual architect of John Paul’s papacy....
...Who can forget when the late Queen Elizabeth II, a devoted brooch-wearer, wore a pin in the shape of a snowflake for Donald Trump’s first presidential visit to the UK?...
...in fits and starts since Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953....
...But I am reminded of Joseph Schumpeter’s observation: “Pessimistic views about a thing always seem to the public to be more ‘profound’ than optimistic ones.” DR Myddelton London W9, UK...
...The statue has been Grade II listed by the government, blocking its removal....
...Wilhelm, former crown prince and son of Wilhelm II, the last German emperor, is a similar story. True, the monarch’s militarism and erratic behaviour contributed to the outbreak of the first world war....
...Benedict, formally known as the pope emeritus, became the first German pope in 1,000 years when he was elected to the papacy in April 2005 following the death of the popular Pope John Paul II....
...During Joseph Stalin’s ascendancy after Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin kept a sharp eye on those who expressed concerns about him....
...The then-King Baudouin of Belgium spoke first, saying that the independence was the result of “the genius of King Léopold II”....
...Article II of this convention is unambiguous on the subject....
...It is January 1923, a century ago. A worried dealer, Joseph Durand-Ruel, visits Giverny to find a studio “crammed with Monet’s last garden series....
...Monday Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and five well-known members of the Democratic Front are due to appear in a court in West Kowloon, accused of failing to properly register a humanitarian fund...
...“If I hadn’t gone to the castles of Ludwig II in Bavaria when I was eight — and I lived and still live in Paris in a district built by Haussmann — maybe some things would have been different.”...
...Honours have flowed his way: he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017 and made a member of the prestigious Order of Merit last November by King Charles III....
...“Europe has a great deal of art, and America has a great deal of money,” said Joseph Duveen, the legendary art dealer who in the early 20th century sold many Old Masters in Britain to US millionaires....
...curve was paired with Enignum II Locus chairs, overlooked by a gigantic ribbon-like sculpture....
...II of Spain) because of his unusual reinterpretations of religious scenes....
...Kate Josephs, the former head of the government task force responsible for Covid rules, also apologised on Friday for holding a leaving party in the Cabinet Office that broke restrictions....
...Management said after a month of full integration, ii saw a 17 per cent increase in revenue and 47 per cent increase in adjusted operating profit, based on a 2021 run rate....
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