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...In the words of Archbishop John of Sultaniya, he had “the Tartar countenance and a white beard a l’espagnol”....
...The Pope will leave a floral wreath at the base of the 19th-century column of the Virgin Mary in Piazza Mignanelli at 4pm....
...The Financial Times has a special magazine issue marking the anniversary of the war featuring essays by our Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller and academic Mary Elise Sarotte, alongside a powerful...
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...William Hurt had a dark-star twinkle and the looks of a preppy fallen on moments of self-doubt: blond, lean and broodingly handsome....
...Just outside Grenoble, the Col de l’Arzelier resort, for example, was founded in 1967 and by the 1980s had six lifts....
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...Randall WraySenior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute William H....
...The Reverend Dr Mary L Milano Rector, Saint Alban’s Episcopal Church,Chicago, IL, US...
...Letter in response to this article: A king, a parliament and America’s origin story / From The Reverend Dr Mary L Milano, Rector, Saint Alban’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, IL, US...
...I realised later that it was also one of the Desert Island Discs of my grandmother, the author Mary Soames....
...1,053: Martyn Haley, Conwy, Wales Crossword 16,350: PJ Morsan, Winchester, England; Andrew Palfreman, Hull, England; Richard Heaton, London Polymath 1,052: AJ Cullens, London Crossword 16,344: John Williams...
...The writer is an adjunct lecturer in the economics department at William & Mary As economists debate the letter-form trajectory of the recovery ahead, it is not too soon to identify the letter shape of...
...It dates from the era of William and Mary, who ruled England jointly from 1689 and brought the style with them from the Dutch Republic....
...She was elevated after the clumsy ouster of her boss, Geoffrey Berman, at the hands of William Barr, the US attorney-general....
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24/$29.95 Silber’s book is mostly about silver in America, rather than...
...This small show sets the orientalist production of the 19th-century Florentine ceramics factory of Ulisse Cantagalli in context, and in light of his friendship with the English potter William De Morgan....
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press RRP£24/$29.95 William Silber’s book is mostly about silver in American history...
...But for many, the chief contender is Emilia Bassano, an accomplished poet and musician, whom historian A.L. Rowse identified as the elusive Dark Lady in 1973....
...A new restoration of Bryan Forbes’s The L-Shaped Room (1962), playing at the BFI London Film Festival, reminded me of that, with its dingy Notting Hill lodging house and Bafta-winning performance by Leslie...
...I also love Charlottenhof Palace, the summer residence of Crown Prince Frederick William built in 1826 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel....
...One of my early assignments was to work on the book SX-70 Art (1979), a selection of images made with the famous Polaroid SX-70 camera, by photographers including Walker Evans, Mary Ellen Mark, Andy Warhol...
...William Tuttle, T-U-T-T-L-E, was the wonderful makeup creator. We looked really 1920s. “That vampish, ‘too much’ thing. That’s what the film was. A camp spoof on Hollywood. It was a camp and a spoof....
...Senator Richard L Neuberger argued that wilderness was priceless “as the last place where Americans can see what our country must have been like as the first white men camped there” and as a sanctuary from...
...He had also painted Protestant gentry such as Sir Peter Carew who, on the accession of the Catholic Mary, was involved in a botched rising....
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