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...Space-age design II Up 1 (1969) Created by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, this vacuum-packed foam chair came flat....
...More Staffordshire potteries are turning out Charles III-themed china....
...The collapse of the Banqiao, Machhu II and Hirakud dams and hydroelectric plants in China and India in the 1970s and 80s caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people....
...When protesters’ morale began to sag, Li announced that he and his girlfriend were going to get married in a symbolic public ceremony....
...Alongside sluggish demand from visitors from China and south-east Asia, Wolfe said the Tower of London had seen a drop-off in visitors from European countries....
...She was shy but fiery and had decided she wanted to be a chef....
...The reign of Queen Elizabeth II spans Britain's journey from empire to Brexit, from the wireless to the smartphone. She was seen by many as a figurehead able to hold together her people....
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...this month, the news made front pages and topped newscasts in India, before people quickly moved on to other things: the progress of the monsoon rains, talks on defusing a stand-off at the border with China...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Liz Truss’s government will host the largest gathering of foreign leaders and dignitaries in London for decades, as they arrive in the capital for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday....
...“Friends kept asking where they could buy decent chef knives that didn’t cost loads of money,” he says....
...Which means that Prigozhin’s latest outburst about the need to face up to the consequences of Putin’s disastrous decision to go to war had the potential to shake morale in the fighting forces....
...enhanced the reputation of Wagner or its owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a warlord, business tycoon and former convict with close ties to President Vladimir Putin - so close that he used to be known as “Putin’s chef...
...At the request of King George V, it mounted the 520-carat Cullinan I diamond, which is also known as the Great Star of Africa, in the royal sceptre....
...What it has inarguably done is give Ukraine a massive morale boost — to its own troops and to its western partners — while severely denting Russian confidence....
...The previous night she saw John Adams’s modern opera Nixon in China, but I have been dying to ask her whether it is true that she is a David Bowie fan. It is....
...“He was a bull in a china shop,” Robert Dall, Ranieri’s boss at Salomon for a time, told The New York Times in 2013. But what made Ranieri’s name was not his persona....
...Structural engineer Hanif Kara, founder of London-based AKT II, tells me “these look like failures caused by very basic constructional mistakes....
...The status of China’s BRICS Local Currency Bond Fund initiative is not clear,[v] but in any case its scale would be very small in relation to China’s reserves....
...Queen Elizabeth II visited Tai Pak in the 1970s on a trip to Hong Kong, when it was still a British colony....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...The inflation picture worsened further in the wake of the war in Ukraine and supply chain disruptions triggered by new coronavirus lockdowns in China....
...In his testaments, emperor Charles V advised his young son — who became Philip II, head of the great Spanish empire in the 16th century — never to identify with only one faction at court or make decisions...
...Tea drinking was to spread across the classes, becoming both a stimulant for gossip and national morale. Teapots grew in size....
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