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...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...The pub is named in honour of Charles FitzRoy, who was the first to lay out this section of the capital during the 18th century and whose father was an illegitimate son of Charles II....
...The world around her had been changing, including the Catholic church: Vatican II, the great wave of reform announced in 1962, had led to deep ructions between conservatives and liberals....
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
...Robert Perowne’s 3.6-hectare vineyard was planted in 2016, and its first Bacchus vintage bottled in 2020; this year its sparkling rosé took accolades at the Wines of Great Britain national awards....
...Christie’s has secured Yves Klein’s three-metre-wide “Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124)” (1960), which it will offer for about £24mn on June 28....
...Beneath an early portrait of Queen Elizabeth II – a nod to Ghana’s colonial history – a doorman in a pillbox hat taps his toe in time with the music’s rhythm....
...des espèces II” by Yves Tanguy and “Le parc du vautour” by René Magritte, both of which come to auction for first time....
...Shot: NMC Health plc (“NMC” or the “Company”) notes the recent media speculation and confirms that it has received highly preliminary approaches from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P....
...Before accounting rules changed and forced companies to put equity compensation in the GAAP P&L, the underlying shares still appeared in the sections of securities filings that listed the details of stock...
...Gun control issues have come to the fore in Basel this year, most notably in Robert Longo’s “Death Star II” (2017/18), a work made with 40,000 full metal jacket bullets, approximately reflecting the number...
...Robert Rossmann at Süddeutsche Zeitung calls it a “colourless” solution that will only serve as a short-term fix for Berlin....
...A Manhattan art historian, Robert Simon, oversees a painstaking five-year restoration process....
...In the Tanks, visitors throw long blue shadows against blank walls in Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s light installation “Séance de Shadow II (bleu)”, while Robert Morris in his 1965 walk-round glassy mirrored...
...Nigel Wilson, L&G It is critical that we maintain the principle of a unitary board and the accountability of all board members....
...In the opposite corner hangs “Vierge à l’Enfant Debout” (1950), a lithograph by Matisse....
...Henry IV, Parts I & II, Barbican, London The best Falstaffs are generally the more philosophical ones, and Antony Sher’s performance falls excellently into this category....
...The only two books I’m sure I’ll take with me are L’arte di essere felici by Arthur Schopenhauer and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina....
...Gary Barlow, singer/songwriter. Rita Beckwith, co-owner and chief executive, City Cruises. Peter Bonfield, chief executive, BRE Group, the construction group....
...Entitled “E.O.W. on her Blue Eiderdown II” (1965), it is one of the celebrated cycle of oil paintings of Auerbach’s long-time lover and muse Estelle West....
...This three-month celebration will include more than 40 events, starting tomorrow with director Robert Wilson’s take on Bertold Brecht’s Threepenny Opera at the Théâtre de la Ville....
...Today only one, Portal Robert, survives....
...The Future of Islam, by John L Esposito, Oxford University Press RRP£16.99 This leading Islamic scholar explores the complex and wide-ranging futures and fates of Muslim practice, culture and politics,...
...L’Horlogerie....
...ARTICLE II DECLARATION OF COMMITMENT 2....
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