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...Alan Knight, Drax’s group director of sustainability, told analysts at Jefferies in March that the company would not renew or obtain such licences in future, citing bad “optics”....
...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...The Chief Arbiter ruled that they had prearranged the moves, which featured a knight dance around the board where the b1 and b8 knights ended up at g1 and g8, switching places with the other knight pair....
...You might be — as one of my friends was — the person who spotted the potential of Harry Potter while you could still buy all your nephews and nieces a first edition from Blackwell’s....
...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
...The Caruana v Mishra pairing in Monday’s penultimate round produced a classic Caruana victory, where his d5 knight dominated the black defences, and immaculate technique produced a winning endgame....
...“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...
...Moehringer, who has also written biographies of Andre Agassi, Nike co-founder Phil Knight and bank robber Willie Sutton....
...the colonial commissioner for Cyprus realised the island had been overlooked, he phoned the Empire Marketing Board on December 23 to demand that the pudding, to be ceremoniously delivered to King George V,...
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...Players continue to flock to GTA V a decade after it was first released, thanks to a steady stream of new content and add-ons from its developer, Rockstar....
...More traditional pastoral scenes ground Knight’s Tale, an original 1920s GP & J Baker design refreshed in modern colour, while Kemp’s Stripes collection includes the exuberant woven designs Runaway and Wild...
...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...But the most enduring is still found in the three films made by Nolan between 2005 and 2012 (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises), after pitching the studio a vision inspired, he said,...
...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....
...Burleigh, another heritage potter, is not producing coronation ware at all. But Emma Bridgewater is confident. Royal occasions are a big deal for its customers....
...Not everything has worked well — Robertson notes that their “phygital” sets, designed to bridge the gap between physical and digital play, have fared badly with expensive flops such as Nexo Knights, Hidden...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Richard Batterham: Studio Potter, which was published alongside a new exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
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