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...There’s a terrific sense of being in the presence of the wily old pontiff, known as the “Warrior Pope”....
...One day, she asked Mary Magrath, the director of Lismullin, “Miss Mary, where does all the money go?”....
...left, a wooden passageway leads to a light-flooded lounge decorated with a Sarah Lucas mobile, Richard Prince piece and original midcentury furniture by Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé, Niemeyer and “the pope...
...Trump, as ever, is the Hail Mary that Putin is seeking. edward.luce@ft.com...
...Fugger was the banker to emperors and popes. Artzt was the daughter of a high-ranking Augsburg patrician. Their union was less one of souls than of power and wealth....
...He offers not a mass trawl of Weidenfeld’s thousands of titles but selected episodes framed by 19 landmark books, from Nabokov’s censorship-busting Lolita to Antonia Fraser’s best-selling Mary, Queen of...
...Additional reporting by Mary McDougall in London...
...Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...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....
...At an early exhibition outraged visitors even tried to make the supine pope stand up....
...The Pope will leave a floral wreath at the base of the 19th-century column of the Virgin Mary in Piazza Mignanelli at 4pm....
...By the time of the Hollywood era of Bette Davis and Mary Pickford — who in 1919 was the only woman among the founders of the United Artists production company — a new narrative was being presented....
...Alexander Pope’s Thameside grotto at Twickenham, rescued from dereliction by the trust, exemplifies the natural look....
...Now the greatest threat to her future is her dead son’s widow, Mary Queen of Scots, who makes no secret of her desire to rid herself, and France, of her calculating mother-in-law....
...This is an audio transcript of the Tech Tonic podcast episode: ‘Superintelligent AI — The Doomers’ [MOVIE CLIP FROM ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ PLAYING] John Thornhill In the novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley...
..., which was condemned by the Pope....
...Ditto with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the tale that helped birth the science-fiction genre, which has grown ever more preoccupied with depictions of rogue AI....
...And as he likes to joke, only two people in Europe have better quality real estate portfolios than he does: the British monarch and the pope....
...The people working there said the only time it had previously been that quiet and deserted was when the Pope came. Not to sound woo-woo, but it really was life-changing....
...“Going the government route is kind of a Hail Mary,” says Hasseltine, referring to a last-gasp, hopeful long pass in American football....
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April the 21st 1926. The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...While Pope was crafting his grotto and garden, his neighbours included Jonathan Swift, who was writing Gulliver’s Travels, John Gay, who was writing The Beggar’s Opera, and my literary pin-up Lady Mary Wortley...
...His Twitter feed sprinkles retweets about Catholic feast days and audiences with Pope Francis among legal matters....
...The pope does wear a skull cap and gown even for take-off....
...Some are sending digital prayers for each other and photos of the Virgin Mary....
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