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...In 1713, in his fine poem about Windsor Forest, Alexander Pope admired how “interspers’d in Lawns and opening Glades/Thin trees arise that shun each others’ Shades”....
...Now read these Taboo breaker: As Pope Francis laid his predecessor to rest, our Rome bureau chief explores the end of an unprecedented experiment in coexistence between a reigning and a retired pope....
...The greatest pope of his age, Gregory VII, had obliged an emperor to kneel before him in snow....
..., Tankan large manufacturing index (AM local time) Turkey, March consumer price index (CPI) and retail price index (RPI) inflation rate data Mark Parker becomes chair of Walt Disney, succeeding Susan Arnold...
...Since leaving the ECB, where he was widely credited with saving the euro from the region’s sovereign debt crisis in 2012, Mr Draghi has been appointed to a Vatican think-tank advising Pope Francis on social...
...On the eve of the anniversary, Pope Francis called for a “decisive” commitment to end fighting and rebuild the nation. (Reuters) What else we’re reading Hydrogen-powered planes: pie in the sky?...
...My FT colleague Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson reports that Pope Francis has joined a new coalition of investors trying to redeem capitalism....
...As the Italian death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic reached grim new heights last Sunday, Pope Francis broke strict quarantine rules to visit the church of San Marcello in central Rome....
...There’s been the soulful Hopkins playing the piano to his cat Niblo in his Malibu home; the goofy Hopkins doing the Drake dance from TikTok; the mimic doing Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger accents...
...WHAT TO READA-Z of Staffordshire Dogs by Clive Mason Pope...
...Aurally, these pebbles are partly Matthew Arnold — the surge and sough of social history’s littoral — and partly Demosthenes....
...The Pope, who met oil industry leaders and investors earlier this month, will next week host a gathering of environmental officials and activists....
...Facebook faced criticism after the election for providing a platform for the spread of fake news stories, such as the Pope endorsing Mr Trump....
...Mr Zuckerberg will make a series of visits during the year, including road trips with his wife and fellow philanthropist Priscilla Chan....
...Arnold, Bishop of Salford, one of the 16 dioceses to have switched....
...bad-debt portfolio UniCredit announced a drastic restructuring and capital-raising plan to restore Italy’s biggest lender by assets back to health amid tough times for the country’s banks, writes Martin Arnold...
...Arnold Toynbee, the British historian, recognised this nearly 50 years ago....
...In the opening act of six performances this month, brothel owner Priscilla told her audience that she was blessed with a good front office – pointing to her bosom – and a top notch back office....
...are some findings from a “Google Trends” report on the tournament: ● After Argentina’s Angel Di Maria scored against Switzerland, he racked up four times more global Google searches than his compatriot Pope...
...Alexander Pope considered the water a “translucent wave”; Samuel Johnson called it a “silver flood”, and Joseph Conrad knew it as “a sea the colour of lead”....
...Australian director Stephan Elliott (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) follows four laddish loudmouths from London to Sydney where one is to marry a millionaire’s daughter....
...Pope Benedict XVI 24. i) Ted Hughes; ii ) Thomas Hardy 25. Lucian Freud; Eli; “Portrait of the Hound 2011” 26 i) They’re both about the silent film era; ii) 3D 27....
...The book contains woodcuts from July 1530 of Charles V’s entry into Bologna to meet the Pope. “This was a poster given to a few people and as a result it was ephemeral and disappeared....
...10 Which novel links pop stars Kate Bush and Cliff Richard with filmmakers Andrea Arnold and Luis Buñuel?...
...Further evidence can be seen in the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former actor who had no political experience before becoming governor of California....
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