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...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...Born in Córdoba, southern Spain, in 1942, Francisco Peña Pérez was the seventh of nine children and grew up in poverty, sharing a rambling old house (and one lavatory) with 10 other families....
...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....
...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....
...“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....
...An image painted on a Roman street of Agnelli piercing a ball with a dagger went viral in the aftermath; the man who knifed the people’s game. The collapse of his career came the following year....
...There is still a murmuration over the road bridge of Mérida, a city in western Spain littered with magnificent Roman architecture....
...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...
...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 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....
...The bulk of Luhansk territory seized by Russia was taken soon after the invasion began in February, said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank....
...“There is not a problem of morale for regulars from the armed forces … they are holding up and executing orders, but they want to kill the enemy and not sit in position as cannon fodder,” Oleksandr V Danylyuk...
...Oleksandr V Danylyuk, a defence and intelligence adviser to the Ukrainian government, said Russia had intensified its artillery strikes on the front lines to try to exhaust Ukraine’s supplies....
...“Our formation in Donbas is the most capable part of our forces,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, a security and defence adviser to Ukraine’s government, and veteran of the 2014 battle to recapture Slovyansk....
...Contemporary culture is thin on the ground, but there are notable exceptions: the festival of classical theatre held every summer in the Roman theatre at Mérida and the spectacular new art museum in Cáceres...
...Discussions included the reversal of Roe v Wade, there was a talk on stress and gut health and a sound bath was held. There was also yoga, snorkelling and a shamanic blessing....
...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....
...“I learnt it was invented by the Roman empire. They made these huge crosses, and they hanged people from them in the sun without any water, without any shade, until they died....
...“There are bound to have been many many, more attacks over the years that we don’t know about and that have left malware embedded in systems ready to be activated,” said V S Subrahmanian, professor of computer...
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