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...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...Everyone from the Pharaohs to the Romans mixed tin with metals such as lead, copper and bismuth to create everyday objects for the table....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...The entrance lounge feels like a gallery for emerging artists, bustling and brazenly colourful; the murals of fantastical Roman gardens that adorn the walls behind the polished-mirror reception desks are...
...Group with United’s future after the US investment bank led the sale in May 2022 of Chelsea FC, achieving a price of £2.5bn in an accelerated process due to the sanctions imposed on billionaire oligarch Roman...
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...Additional reporting by Roman Olearchyk in Kyiv...
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...“The Russians’ strategy is to show it is much more resilient to casualties than Ukraine,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank in Kyiv....
...There is still a murmuration over the road bridge of Mérida, a city in western Spain littered with magnificent Roman architecture....
...“Female players cannot all go to play in a few clubs in Europe or the USA,” Infantino said....
...Chef Christophe Bellanca, Joël Robuchon USA’s former culinary director, gets to the essence of his ingredients....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...Most interesting were clinging tops with plissé drapery that were less reminiscent of the pumped-up bodies of Greco-Roman statues than the soigneé dresses of Parisian couturier Alix Grès, and intersected...
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank, said capturing a large number of Russian forces would in itself be a big prize for Ukraine and a psychological blow...
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...The Ancient Greeks and Romans used it to decorate their walls, and in China it was used for garments and to wrap precious gifts. William Morris called it the “noblest of the weaving arts”....
...There, they met a group of conservators from the National Museum of Beirut, painstakingly reassembling Roman glass vessels that had shattered in the Port of Beirut explosion of August 2020....
...Somewhere, near the bottom, is an imperial Roman commercial outpost. If this unsentimental place has a hero, it is Dick Whittington, four times mayor of London....
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