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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...Then, England were three times silver medallists behind the Soviet Union at the biennial Olympiads....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...“Silver gets all the glory but pewter has a beautiful softness that is still misunderstood.”...
...Manitas de Plata (literally: “little silver hands”) was a flamenco rock star, a regular face on the old TV variety format and feted by everyone from John Steinbeck to Picasso....
...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...Her 1960s silver gilt and pâte de verre cuff made by French jeweller Robert Goossens was inspired by a Syrian bracelet (late second to early third century AD) she saw at the Louvre in Paris, says Karol Burks...
...A long V-shaped fissure which cuts dramatically through the backrest, when seen from the front, reveals the silhouette of Batman’s horned mask....
...Back in the 1980s England were three times Olympiad silver medallists behind the Soviet Union led by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov....
...Raine was an adviser when Silver Lake invested $500mn into City Football Group, owner of Premier League champions Manchester City, in 2019, and on the sale of Olympique Lyonnais in 2022....
...The silver-plated “Reliquary Bust of San Rossore” is no idealised martyr but a character we might glimpse at a Florence coffee bar: animated face, dark eyes, tousled hair, furrowed brow, stubbled jawline...
...This architectural casket combines panels of opaque, milky and translucent amber with fine ivory carving and marquetry and engraved silver-gilt....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...The V&A show aims to reclaim the word by focusing on the power of star performances, where image is often key....
...Globe-trotter micro case with leather corners, £995 Loro Piana cashmere and silk pillow, £1,355 Albane Salmon ash and concrete Hoodoo side table, €2,750, galerie-philia.com Evald Nielsen 1928 hammered-silver...
...He refers to Harry Styles’s pearls and Paul Mescal’s character’s silver chain in Normal People as fashion influences....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...The original pieces, three of which are ceremoniously rolled into our room on a trolley, include a Chinese blue and white porcelain ewer with silver mounts from the 17th century....
...The V&A’s Africa Fashion also has works by Ami Doshi Shah (pictured top), of Kenya, including her necklace of brass, sisal and salt....
...“With silver it happens very slowly. Iron’s more reactive so you see it rusting very quickly.” Although less so, gemstones can be changeable too....
...Puzzle 2494 Magnus Carlsen v Sunya Ganguly, world rapid, Qatar 2016. Black to move and win. In the game, Black chose 1...Rxa4 and only drew. Click here for solution...
...If you have a shorter neck, choose an open-neck or V-neck style, and wear your hair up. Don’t fancy a tulle skirt?...
...A 1585 watercolour describes the recent founding of Potosí, Bolivia, and its silver mines, against a mountain background with llamas and herders....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
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