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...“The only Mayan thing about the train is its name,” said Pedro Uc, a Mayan poet and activist. “It’s a shot through the heart of the peninsular Mayan culture.”...
...The isthmus railway will eventually connect to López Obrador’s $30bn Mayan Train loop around the south, aimed at tourists, and an $18bn new oil refinery as he seeks to spread wealth via government mega-projects...
...The author once asked some female friends in fashion which brand they’d least like their boyfriend or husband to wear head to toe, and they unanimously said Rick Owens....
...Among his top priorities: a tourist train around the Mayan peninsula and a $14bn new oil refinery....
...With less than 18 months left of his term, López Obrador is ramping up his push to finish projects, some of which are running behind schedule, such as his $15bn “Mayan” tourist train in the south....
...To reach Peter Nygard’s 6-acre property in the Bahamas, with its smoking volcanoes, Mayan temple and pools where a glass barrier once reputedly separated swimmers from sharks, guests needed to take a road...
...The sauna at the Parliament Hill Lido in London is “struggling to cope” with the influx of newcomers during the past year, a manager said....
...Property Mérida, the capital of Yucatán state, has preserved its colonial-era architecture and boasts proximity to beaches and Mayan ruins....
...Guardincerri’s initial view of muons, she said, not without irony, was that they were a distraction from her real research....
...“This time there are references to Mayan temples, but it varies for each round. I think of them like geometric paintings.”...
...Jaguars, jaguarundis and tapirs, though rarely glimpsed, are among the wildlife, and there are even the remains of 27 ancient Mayan cities, notably Muyil, which has a 17-metre-high pyramid....
...There will also be five installations by artists exploring these concepts, including a “space-time capsule” by LA-based Beatriz Cortez, inspired by Mayan and spiritual sculptures; a rewilding of a wildflower...
...My father said he would love to have this house, so over a cup of tea it was done....
...But what got the Mayans was their environment changed and their civilisation collapsed,” said Prof Bowman. “We need to understand this is an existential threat to the Australian way of life....
...That said, since my air travel has been curtailed by Covid, I have been pestering Alexander Mavros to make one of his signature bangles in gold to wear with it....
...“Prouvé said there was no difference between building a house and building furniture,” Seguin says. “He was a visionary and he said, ‘The home of my dreams is built in a factory’.”...
...But the pandemic was clearly what the Mayans were referring to. We knew fact-checkers would try to shut us down....
...The Foreign Office, which oversees MI6, said it “would not comment on intelligence matters”....
...“There is no other event that compares to it,” he said. Not in Mr López Obrador’s book....
...The unprecedented seaweed surge is set to hit Tulum, known for its beaches and Mayan clifftop ruins, and the coast as far south as Belize....
...Onyx Lorenzoni said there would be no rise in a financial transaction tax, hours after the new president said there would be....
...This week he also announced a public referendum on the future of the Mayan Train, an infrastructure project designed to connect the various tourist sites across the Yucatan peninsula....
...His former environment minister drew derision when she professed to believe in “aluxes”, a kind of Mayan leprechaun....
...Most of our Mayan collections have been invisible,” he said. “It would be absolutely criminal if in them becoming digital they stay palpably invisible.”...
...Mayan heads are not welcome: the quota has been exceeded. Nor are British artworks: he already has one by the “very great portrait painter” Augustus John....
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