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...By the time he started writing Strandings, his research had got out of hand and, like Captain Ahab, Riley lost control. He began to fear the whales. He’d see them in dreams....
...Heart-rendingly, Poland devotes its pavilion to Ukraine collective Open Group’s “Repeat After Me II”, about the war’s everyday cacophony....
...Christie’s has a leaf from the esteemed Fraser album (commissioned by the civil servant William Fraser in the 1810s), a compendium of flora and fauna, estimated at £60,000-£80,000....
...Much like Pharrell Williams’ menswear shows at Louis Vuitton, Beyoncé’s presence is a reminder of fashion’s growing intertwinement with pop culture and the pressure to create a “moment” that cuts through...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...The following year, in November 1978, Schwartz was due to be in Rome to photograph the new pope, John Paul II....
...Taken together, the three Wales children — with George in red, Charlotte in white, and Louis in blue — made up the colours of the Union Jack flag....
...Race Capital II, LP . . . Lifelike Capital [ridiculously minimalist website award winner] . . . ....
...Sep 8 Death of the QueenThe death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 brought to an end the longest reign in British history — over 70 years....
...Prince William’s marriage to Kate Middleton, who became the Duchess of Cambridge, also provided the three who rank highest among her great-grandchildren....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...This was not destined to be the case for Elizabeth II....
...This week, to mark her platinum jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II gave a tell-all TV interview....
...She points to a portrait by William Dargie titled Wattle Queen, which shows Queen Elizabeth II resplendent in a mimosa-yellow gown, a sprig of wattle at her shoulder, painted to mark her 1954 Australian...
...Critics viewed Charles’s foreign policy as too friendly to Louis XIV of France, Europe’s most powerful Catholic monarch....
...An animated Louis returned on Sunday, joining the family in the same spot for the pageant....
...William Hurt had a dark-star twinkle and the looks of a preppy fallen on moments of self-doubt: blond, lean and broodingly handsome....
...I’m particularly charmed by the image of our model, Emmanuel Adjaye, wearing Louis Vuitton, and how it conjures the same attitude as William Owen’s portrait of Captain Gilbert Heathcote, painted in 1801-...
...The artist patriotically offered the picture to George II — who rejected it as a mockery of his army....
...The third was July 27 1794, known under the new republic’s calendar as 9 Thermidor of Year II....
...XIV and Louis Armstrong – is a glitzy new fusion restaurant in Covent Garden....
...After Diana’s death in a car accident in 1997, Philip concentrated on protecting his grandsons, William and Harry....
...The interiors were finished by the Wyatts and added to by Smirke and later (1839-41) Charles Barry, the architect of nearby Bridgewater House, and are in an elegant Louis XIV style....
...So far, one retired police captain has been killed in St Louis, while several protesters have been killed or maimed by the police....
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