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...Its roughly $200mn redevelopment has created a vast engine of research, development and manufacturing. It has the same hum that imbued the postwar research labs of the San Francisco Bay Area....
...Most recently, the Old War Office building on Whitehall, from which Winston Churchill led the defence of Britain against Hitler, has become the Raffles OWO hotel where bed and breakfast starts at over £1,000...
...In 2016, he said, the Russian historic archives were abruptly moved from its ministry of culture to the direct control of the presidential office. This was highly irregular....
...I was immersed in the dramatic events of 1921 as part of my research for a novel when Ireland suddenly went into pandemic lockdown....
...But the sheer audacity that newly-public court documents reveal about the actions of V Ashok, the chief financial officer of Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, is something else. Here’s the backdrop....
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...to London’s V&A....
...by funding the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust....
...Like Mountstuart, Sir Alcon seems to have met an eclectic range of important figures of the 20th century, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Sir Winston Churchill, science fiction writer Arthur C...
...“We’re trying to do the same thing [as Amazon] but I want to bring 5,000lb of bullets, batteries or water [to a marine in the field],” says Max Snell, head of the programme at the Office of Naval Research...
...The way I chose to regard planning was as highbrow market research....
...Other pieces of interest will include a rocking chair made from aluminium, naval rope and embroidery by Brazilian designer Nicole Tomazi, and Edward Linacre’s bamboo veneer pendant lamp, designed to resemble...
...David Thomson is author of ‘The Big Screen’ (Allen Lane, £25) ‘Hollywood Costume’ is at the V&A, London, October 20-January 27 2013, www.vam.ac.uk...
...In the absence of a substantial archive, research is largely from public records, collections of private papers, the published memoirs of those who dealt with the service and, very importantly for the early...
...In 1911 Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, made the historic decision, in his words, to base Britain’s “naval supremacy upon oil—that is, to convert the battleships of the Royal Navy from...
...“It was only the V&A’s research that uncovered the full story.” The exhibition shows that the Iron Curtain was, as Pavitt puts it, permeable....
...After signing the Official Secrets Act, she worked first for the War Office’s military intelligence research unit – MI (R) – where she helped to draw up instructions on sabotage for allied agents in case...
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