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...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
...British monarch, George V at the Empire Exhibition in London, and the first commemorative stamps being issued in Great Britain....
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...A coffee table, made from a long chunky slab of black marble with thin white veins, features a brass magazine holder shaped like a “W” — a nod to the Wayne Enterprises logo....
...That was the confident view of George W Bush, the former US president, in the run-up to China joining the World Trade Organization in 2001....
...Nelson also gives DeSantis a pass on his reluctance to take on Trump more directly. “Who wins in a mudslinging contest, right?...
...The limits of free elections When South Africa goes to the polls in the middle of this year, it will be 30 years since Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress ended white rule by winning a commanding...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
...A focus on the politics of cloth explores wax prints and commemorative fabrics, including one made in the early 1990s following the release of Nelson Mandela....
...She then purchased the watches using her own credit card and supplied Rolex with a fake buyer’s name, “Phoebe W”. Finally, she hawked the watches online to foreign buyers at a massive mark-up....
...under George W Bush....
...Nelson, 71, was in a lucky minority. Most of those queueing alongside the river Thames last week had no direct experience of the Queen they adored....
...To James W: What none? Can you have another think? To James W: Phew....
...It was different to the 1960s when the US launched its Saturn V rockets within six years as it raced to put a man on the Moon....
...She was literally a rainbow, a symbol that brightened up a room: and whether that person was Nelson Mandela or Martin McGuinness, she had a magnetism that made all sorts of people smile....
...The capsule includes T-shirts, a blanket and a scarf, festooned with Stanton’s signature illustrations, and all the sale proceeds will be donated. acnestudios.com; visualaids.org W is for World Food Programme...
...A lawyer representing Bond-Nelson declined to comment and a lawyer for Taylor did not respond to a request for comment....
...Would it be V-shaped, with a rapid pick-up from the depths? Or W-shaped, with a succession of setbacks? Or would it take an L-shape, with us all getting knocked down, unable to get up again?...
...But he was a slow convert to the cause of reform....
...W Wind In club tennis, usually to blame for everything, even when it’s not blowing. X It turns out that nothing tennis-related begins with an X. Y Youth Not necessarily a disadvantage....
...Tutu opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, lobbying the White House and, nine years later, refusing to share a conference podium with Tony Blair, who had taken the UK into the war alongside George W Bush....
...Nelson Mandela, for instance, prioritised one-person-one-vote for South Africa....
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