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...Britain has only one important Renaissance painting from Spain, Bartolmé Bermejo’s “St Michael Triumphs over the Devil” (Room 15), and its dynamism and glowing, Manichean theatricality demonstrate how brilliantly...
...Many rooms look over the White House itself and others on to historic St John’s Church. A few smaller rooms are tucked away at the back off the street for those who want quiet....
...Adding to the incongruity of Killer Mike’s presence in this unexciting suburban town on the edge of London is the venue for his gig — an Anglican church with a flag of St George flapping stiffly from a pole...
...It is at once a local Italian and an upscale eatery, the quiet neighbour of long-established St John and nearby Quality Chop House....
...It was responsible for dozens of attacks following the fall of Kabul, including a suicide bombing at the city’s airport in 2021 that killed at least 175 people, including 13 US troops....
...He attended Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where his history tutor was Hugh Trevor-Roper, and gained a first....
...stages peppered across the city....
...The permanence meant the city didn’t fall foul of the Church’s edicts against usury, ie, loans with unfair terms, so the innovation was quickly adopted by other Italian statelets....
...The Baths of Diocletian were abandoned until Michelangelo transformed part of the complex into a church in the 16th century....
...Liverpool’s city centre docks are today one of the country’s biggest tourism and cultural sites....
...The company says Michael Palin’s recent UK television series on Iraq has generated significant interest....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...views over the church of Santa Engrácia to the Tagus river....
...Visitors roaming Punchdrunk’s new show The Burnt City – a retelling of the fall of Troy – can visit a Dewar’s whisky bar serving “Kykeon” cocktails inspired by a Greek drink mentioned in Homeric texts....
...The following address was delivered by Martin Wolf at the Service of Thanksgiving and Celebration for the life of David Gardner at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London on December 1 2022....
...“To borrow an ancient image, the Church is like Noah’s Ark,” writes Vian, “containing animals of all kinds.”...
...We took our drinks to the newly opened terrace at the rear in the shadow of the Gothic church of St Mary Aldermary, another of Wren’s fabulous creations....
...It’s a street that’s just off of St Nicholas Avenue and goes up to Morris-Jumel Mansion....
...St Michael Cornhill to soothing classical guitar or jazz in St Stephen Walbrook....
...one of Canada’s most striking examples of Gothic Revival church architecture....
...Hollie Moore and her partner bought their first home — a new-build, three-bedroom, semi-detached house — in the ancient, riverside town of Maldon because of its proximity to the rail line....
...St James’s Park station, and you’ll immediately arrive at the enormous, brutalist block which houses His Majesty’s Ministry of Justice....
...Pottery workshops and concerts, conversations, music and tea ceremonies, all heralded by the ringing of a huge bell rescued from the now demolished Catholic church of St Laurence back on Chicago’s South...
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