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...Manitas de Plata (literally: “little silver hands”) was a flamenco rock star, a regular face on the old TV variety format and feted by everyone from John Steinbeck to Picasso....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...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+!...
...Drawing parallels with the highlife music that plays throughout the video, Turner points to the words of Ghana’s “king of highlife”, ET Mensah....
...Beside it is Netscher’s still life — almost a portrait — of a plump pineapple from England’s first crop, planted on Decker’s Richmond estate and served to King George I....
...It was home to John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 show, and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, known for the Doctor Who theme tune....
...When Denzil Lush was a child, his grandmother was about to throw away a mass-produced coronation beaker with a portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. “This was the early 1960s,” he says....
...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....
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...Courtney Love, musicianDesperate Characters by Paula Fox; King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, Recollections of My Non-Existence and Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit; Ways of Seeing by John Berger [Desperate...
...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....
...In 2019, the well-respected Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security assembled an international team of experts to compile a “Global Health Security Index” (GHS)....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...“It has changed considerably over the two decades I’ve been involved,” says Filippa Lentzos, a biosecurity expert and associate professor at King’s College London, who works on biorisk management and biological...
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...begins unpromisingly, with an exhaustive catalogue of what feels like every single mention of oil in ancient and early modern sources, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to the sailors voyaging with Hernando de Soto...
...In fact it is such a polite garden that John Chapple, the palace beekeeper, informed the royal bees of the Queen’s death, tied black bands around the hives and explained that King Charles is their new boss...
...The No1 seeds are led by Michael Adams and Nigel Short, supported by the experienced trio of Mark Hebden, John Emms and Keith Arkell....
...Article V invoking a collective defence response from other Nato members would be triggered. Moscow would risk a devastating nuclear retaliatory strike by the US....
...Royal figures in attendance will also include Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium and King Harald V and Queen...
...Nigel Short famously lost to Garry Kasparov in 1993, Michael Adams was beaten in the Fide world final in 2004, while Keith Arkell missed the 2014 World Senior crown on tie-break....
...For those of you leaving: we’re very sorry to be taking this step and John and I are fully responsible for the decisions leading up to it . .....
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