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...Cary Welch snapped many up, and, like Falk, helped promote their popularity in Europe and America via scholarly exhibitions at the V&A or the Met – which partly explains why the first two parts of the Cary...
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...But everything changed on August 2, 1990, when Iraqi troops occupied neighbouring Kuwait, immediately posing a threat to Saudi Arabia and its oil riches....
...With more than 2.8bn people flying each year — and by 2023 over half projected to be aged over 50 — the volume of problems is only set to rise....
...Letter in response to this article: Royal Over-Seas League always embraced equality / From Brian V Miller, Guildford, Surrey, UK...
...Studies subsequently found that more than 90 per cent of inmates relapsed after leaving the farm....
...The agency’s mission at the end of the war is to seize the Nazis’ unfired V-2 missiles and their creator, Wernher von Braun....
...Crime rates Murders per 100,000 inhabitants Japan 0.3 US 5.2 | UK 0.2 | Germany 0.5 Source: OECD 2016 — Although much of it remains hotly debated in the country itself, this is the outline of the Japan...
...In the past 18 months, Beijing has reclaimed 2,000 acres of land, converting several submerged reefs and rocks into fully fledged “islands”....
...In Catholicism, for example, Vatican V.2 is still to be adopted by Mel Gibson (allegedly). While in Bitcoin right this very minute the great BitcoinXT civil war is under way....
...Elsewhere, Dolce & Gabbana’s winter collection Baroque Romanticism, with its indulgent procession of golden embroidery and brocade in varying proportions, includes lace dresses (£2,700), velvet Mary Jane...
...So when I came across Charles Carter’s recipe for lemon salad, in The Complete Practical Cook (1730), I was instantly drawn to it....
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...Mouldering chateau, batty family, ancestral curse; ice queens or vice queens played by movie divae moving in on maturity (Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter)....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“Prius has become to hybrids what Kleenex is to tissue and Levi’s is to jeans,” said Bob Carter, head of Toyota’s US sales operation....
...Who: Carter Jonas, www.carterjonas.co.uk, tel: +44 (0)20 7298 1822 ………………………………………….....
...The first, Booth v the town’s old establishment, was a rout. The second, Booth v his business rival Leon Morelli, was long-lasting and either hilarious or horrendous, depending on your standpoint....
...Edward Bonham Carter, London LS: The probability of deflation is very high because defaults are vaporising bank equity....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...The Tories on Wednesday renewed their attack on Labour’s plans to build three super-prisons – each with a capacity for 2,500 inmates – arguing instead for a network of smaller local establishments as a way...
...As for BJ’s fitness to govern, think Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2, when Prince Hal, now King Henry V, greets his erstwhile friend, the roistering buffoon Falstaff, and says: “I know thee not, old man.”...
...inmates....
...One player, though, will have a more vivid personal recall of Blacks v Bleus tests at Eden Park....
...“It’s probably 2 or 3 per cent” of the NBA’s American sales. But Stern thinks he knows where the journey is headed....
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