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...The attack drone is made by Anduril Industries, a defence company founded by a 31-year-old Californian inventor called Palmer Luckey....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, from 2 May to 20 August Simon Palmer: Observation of Landscape at Yorkshire Sculpture Park As a child growing up in Bromley, south-east London, Simon Palmer recalls being...
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...readers brief flashes of hope — for example, when Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind and issued a ringing dissent defending the right to unpopular political opinions in Abrams v...
...Those in on the hoax at Modern Painters magazine, where Boyd was on the editorial board, included the musician David Bowie, who hosted a launch party while Boyd himself created Tate’s art....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...simmering conflict between Muslim and Christian powers on land and sea resolved into a stand-off between Suleyman — heir to his father Selim I’s string of conquests — and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V,...
...However, the “monarchical bragging rights” go to Norway’s Harald V, under whom GDP per capita has increased by 3.8 per cent a year on average since he ascended to the throne in 1991....
...Photographer’s assistants, Ivano Pagnussat, Charlotte Ellis and Rob Palmer. Stylist’s assistant, Ady Huq. Hair assistant, Yuri Kato. Set design assistant, Rufus Wilkinson....
...Harry Palmer, the Len Deighton creation first canonised by Michael Caine in 1965, has been reborn in a new ITV dramatisation of The Ipcress File....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Peter Davidson’s haunting book, The Last of the Light (2015), offered a marvellously imaginative study of how artists, from Caspar David Friedrich to Samuel Palmer, have made use of twilight....
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...Adam Palmer, chief operating officer of Centre Pass Entreprises, whose COVI-PASS system is built on the V-Health Passport, said that the system was built to minimise the risk of surveillance....
...Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd...
...(Boyd is a trustee of Stanfield’s charity, the Hebridean Trust, which supports island communities)....
...She has also produced a Hummingbird necklace exclusively for the V&A....
...He wanted to apply VTOL technology used by military aircraft such as the V-22 Osprey to the civilian sector....
...The former involved Boyd contributing to the V&A’s Pink Floyd exhibition — he was the first to promote the group at the pioneering psychedelic UFO club he co-founded, then produced their debut single — alongside...
...Maija Palmer: Banking’s fintech fears Bankers are becoming worried about upstart fintech unicorns Martin Wolf: Where cash stills matters Digital payments are increasing rapidly but quick demonetisation...
...This month marks a century since the Order of the British Empire was created in its modern form by King George V for those who had served in non-combatant roles in the first world war....
...Chief executive Andy Palmer has said this business may one day account for as much as half of the company’s revenues....
...In It’s Complicated, Boyd writes, “Teens turn to, and are obsessed with, whichever environment allows them to connect to friends....
...Gus has summoned his adult children — nicknamed Pill (Richard Clothier), Empty (Tamsin Greig) and V (Lex Shrapnel) — to tell them he intends to take his own life....
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