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...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
...Objet wood Ionic salt and pepper mill, £397, farfetch.com Proenza Schouler ice-dyed velvet shirt dress, £1,715 Næstved Møbler 1957 teak and fabric bench by Ejnar Larsen and Aksel Bender Madsen, £5,350,...
...Asked how APC’s relationship with L Catterton is developing, Touitou describes it as “fruitful”....
...When I share my reservations about the support of my new strapless bra by Dora Larsen – bought purely for aesthetic reasons – she tells me to wear it anyway....
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...Margaret Thatcher 2. Winston Churchill (while his full name does not have two “t”s, his last name does) 3. Tony Blair 4....
...the end of last year “there was a general sense that there was saturation in certain parts of the market, particularly in primate-themed profile pictures”, said Nadya Ivanova, chief operating officer at L’...
...The hotel had arranged for guide Margaret Raneri to take us around the amphitheatre, and she was full of entertaining stories about the site....
...Both Princess Margaret, modelling a plastic bonnet at the Equestrian Games in Stockholm in June 1956, and Vogue’s cover in August 1962 featuring a model in a high-fashion bonnet, showed they were a fashion...
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...Margaret Howell cotton shirt, £395. Paul Smith cotton trousers, £260. Birkenstock suede leather mules, £120. Falke wool socks, £20. Bennett Winch leather Weekender bag, £1,450....
...Then came the Margaret Thatcher era. A wave of privatisations, strikes and recessions, depicted in the 1997 film The Full Monty, ensued....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...and Petrushka Bazin Larsen offers classic flavours alongside unique creations inspired by the couple’s midwestern and Caribbean backgrounds, as well as Harlem itself....
...One omission, however, had to be Chanel’s Camélia secret cuff watch, which would have performed spectacularly with Margaret Qualley’s Chanel ensemble. Another time, another place, perhaps....
...Underwater “Phantoms” hover on a pink seabed painted by Rita Kernn-Larsen, Danish student of Fernand Léger....
...She describes herself as “two-thirds [Angela] Merkel and one-third [Margaret] Thatcher” and says she gets things done. “My opponents call me the Iron Lady,” she told the Financial Times this year....
...“The traditional gaming industry’s goal is to maximise the value extraction from players,” says Aleksander Larsen, co-founder of Sky Mavis, developer of Axie Infinity....
...This is a point that former lingerie buyer Georgia Larsen, who launched Dora Larsen in 2016, is attempting to offset with her colourful, comfortable bras fashioned from recycled lace and organic, OEKO-TEX...
...l fully support the argument made by Ciaran Cuffe (Letters, November 21) that living above the shop would restore soul to neighbourhoods....
...The 2020s will be the decade when the maxim from Alexis de Tocqueville, writing 165 years ago in L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution, rings true: “There is scarcely any public matter that does not arise from...
....£13 The Real Wine Co Dom de l’Idylle, Vieille Vigne 2019 Savoie 11.5%Light, fresh and just the right side of watery because there is so much delicate fruit, with a hint of alpine flowers....
...A photograph records the balding, reticent Magnani showing Princess Margaret, lively in polka dots, his Filippo Lippi “Madonna and Child”, with its ornamental trompe l’oeil marble effects....
...It also contains precious things from my own childhood bedroom – the carved wooden angels above her cot and a picture by Margaret Tarrant....
...architecture mark the eras of urban sprawl: crowded Victorian terraces give way to gracious suburban villas and the sort of art deco apartment buildings that one can imagine in television adaptations of Dorothy L...
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