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...A century and a half later, Mary I, bent on restoring Roman Catholicism in England, secretly requested new oil to be made in Brussels for her coronation, rejecting the one used to crown her Protestant predecessor...
...Not much has been heard of Illyria, a pre-Roman civilisation in the Balkans, in the last two millennia, and our sense of them is somewhat hazy....
...strategic lawsuits against public participation (Slapps) — aimed at intimidating and silencing targets — from the days of James “Goldenballs” Goldsmith’s legal disputes with Private Eye in the 1970s to Roman...
...Everyone from the Pharaohs to the Romans mixed tin with metals such as lead, copper and bismuth to create everyday objects for the table....
...However, I do check in for an opinion from Dame Mary Beard, the rock star scholar of Ancient Rome....
...Caesars are also the subject of Mary Beard’s new book, Emperor of Rome....
...The final tally comprised 10 Roman coins including minims, denarii and a sestertius, two Roman brooches and a fragment of Roman tweezers; three Saxon buckles and a 7th-century cruciform brooch; a piece of...
...Additional reporting by Roman Olearchyk in Kyiv, Leila Abboud in Paris and Mary McDougall in London...
...This year, the Roman calendar is jam-packed with cultural happenings....
...On November 28, 1570, Mary Stuart — famously tall, auburn-haired, impeccably dressed and dangerously Roman Catholic — rode out of the gates of Chatsworth House in the central English county of Derbyshire...
...Afterwards he began to take more commissions involving the Virgin Mary and other religious themes. Then the bells start ringing....
...London’s Christians have a history of hospitality dating back to Norman times (the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Limehouse, just beyond the Roman city walls, has provided bed, board and worship since...
...Giovanni de’ Vecchi’s elaborate sketch “Christ in Glory” with six saints, for a Roman church, is more precisely orchestrated and was probably a presentation piece to a patron....
...Two months later, and against the express command of her brother, Mary married Brandon secretly in France....
...One day, she asked Mary Magrath, the director of Lismullin, “Miss Mary, where does all the money go?”....
...Legend has it that the nanny of a paralysed child in the Roman period prayed to the Virgin Mary and the result was this spring of healing water; the child grew up to become the Roman emperor Theodosius....
...The ancient Romans may not have known our columnar variety of cypress, but they certainly used branches of evergreen cypress at funerals and linked the tree with death....
...Writer Catherine Belton and publisher HarperCollins were pursued through the courts by the now disgraced Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich....
...This whole thing was a Hail Mary. We needed to keep our tongues in our mouths, our genitals attached, our eyes in their sockets, our brains boxed firmly in our skulls....
...“I will sharpen my dagger, listen to beautiful music, watch the setting of the sun, and go to my ancestors, like a Roman.” Suicide notes also tend to be brief....
...“You cannot tell me that every piece of Roman glass must be in a museum,” says Marinello....
...Venice pavilion “English Magic” and included within it a mural that spotlit the illegal shooting of a hen harrier on the Sandringham Estate, and an image of William Morris, socialist champion, hurling Roman...
...Liberty’s design director Mary-Ann Dunkley and her team travelled to Forquet’s southern Tuscan farmhouse to start work on the collection in the spring of 2021....
...Shellwork stretches back to antiquity, when it was used to decorate Greek and Roman pagan temples....
...Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
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