Hints and tips:
...Muhammad Ali laughs as he enters the room. He’s taking in the V&A’s south Asian collection and the 16th-century Ardabil carpet on to which my brother and I have manoeuvred a low table....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...It has five finger holes, with a V-shaped notch for the mouthpiece....
...He spotted the piece at the house’s workshop in Ferrara, Italy – a marble-topped workbench used by Berluti artisans to hand-colour the signature Venetian leather shoes in their distinctive aged patina....
...Since Downton Abbey’s main character is Downton Abbey, the mountains must visit Muhammad. Cue King George V and Queen Mary bestowing a royal visit....
...Then, in 1974, came the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v George Foreman....
...To be fair, there would have to be a computerised fight, just as that in 1969 between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano. The computer determined that Marciano would knock Ali out in the 13th round....
...I do not normally move in the company of boxers, probably because of fear of a left hook to the kidneys, but I was fortunate enough to meet Muhammad Ali once....
...Before him, Celestine V established the right of a pope to abdicate, doing so himself in 1294....
...Now, I don’t know any of your soccer players or any cricket guys but I bet you’ve heard of Muhammad Ali.”...
...Mr Ferrara added the decision had taken papal succession “out of the hands of God and into the hands of the pope himself.”...
...… Mansha greets me in casual attire: a checked grey shirt, V-necked cardigan and denim slacks, with Asics running shoes peeping out below....
...They had names: The Fight of the Century (Frazier v Ali, 1971), The Rumble in the Jungle (Foreman v Ali, 1974), The Thrilla in Manila, (Ali v Frazier, 1975)....
...The London 100m was going to be the ultimate sizzler: the Champ v the Kid....
...The two other works are Sonate à trois (inspired by Sartre’s Huis clos ) and Webern Opus V ....
...First came the British Museum’s Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, then the V&A’s Maharaja, followed by the Saatchi Gallery’s contemporary Indian art The Empire Strikes Back and the Whitechapel...
...Twenty-Four Views in Hindostan in 1802-05, and William Orme’s work (some based on earlier oil paintings by Francis Swain Ward) showed the western public splendours both old and new – the dreamy spires of Muhammad...
...The dramatis personae of Obama v McCain included Joe the Plumber, Joe Sixpack and vice-president elect Joe Biden....
...Later, standing in the Palazzo’s forecourt, Morari told me that Federico and Charles V had played tennis here during the latter’s visit. “Can you imagine playing tennis with Charles V?”...
...In a reflection of tennis’s schizoid fortunes, the David Nalbandian v James Blake semi-final that followed felt like punishment, almost another sport....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Boxers, like actors, have long devised more billboard-friendly handles – Kid Gavilan, Fighting Harada, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard – but that was not why Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali of...
...As a child, my father listened to Jack Dempsey v Georges Carpentier on a "cat's whisker" radio....
...Michael V....
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