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...Young V&A reopens on July 1, vam.ac.uk/young...
...Chess clocks were not invented until a decade later, so sand glasses were used for timing....
...Sands of Time, with its hourglass motif, crucifix and bullet, could be seen as a nod to Wilde’s altered sense of time in prison (and his lofty self-comparisons to Christ), while Household God V (Molière)...
...Back in the restoration wing, steadied on pouches of sand, sat a large, round allegorical painting by Goya, entitled “Commerce”....
...“Losing the shirt gives you a really clean V-section. It’s quite subversive but sophisticated. Showing a bit of skin in summer is about as racy as a man can get.”...
...Pressure has mounted for the return of objects that are seen to be an important part of the identity of countries in Africa and beyond, such as the Ethiopian treasures in the V&A or the Benin Bronzes scattered...
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...There are even morning gatherings for dancing in the sand. In a polarised world of uncertainty, coming together is, it seems, the greatest luxury....
...near-fixture is the “faux gras”, a lentil-based terrine without the ethical shortcomings of its duck-liver equivalent. gauthiersoho.co.uk Maxine Kelly Roots by Patina Maldives, Fari Islands These white-sand...
...Starliner was launched last Thursday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and docked at the ISS the next day....
...It has a small front yard, then a sand dune that rises up and an elevated footpath, then the beach....
...There was concrete we could crush in our hands, we saw [the wrong] sand substituted in concrete, shortcuts in construction....
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...As ever, reach out to us with your thoughts (imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com). Thanks, and happy reading....
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts....
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...Author in 1903 of the bestselling spy thriller, The Riddle of the Sands, in 1914, with Molly, his American wife, they had sailed their yacht into Howth, County Dublin, with a consignment of German rifles...
...But I get the impression that, just occasionally, really V, V, VIPs may be given a glimpse within....
...The Israeli company, which has more than 20m registered users, will combine with Fintech Acquisition Corp V, the special purpose acquisition company set up by banking tycoon Betsy Cohen, in one of the largest...
...In the village of Thulasendrapuram, a seven-hour drive from Chennai on the Bay of Bengal and the boyhood home of Ms Harris’ diplomat grandfather P V Gopalan, V Shivakumar is preparing for his second political...
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...As I admired his Desert Sand coat, Zed Run posted an apology. Few people had been able to buy. Due to yet more technical glitches, the remainder of the drop was postponed....
...As I get further out, my feet sink deeper into the thin, grey sand....
...Indian online education decacorn Byju’s said BlackRock, Sands Capital and Alkeon Capital have joined its $500m fundraising round....
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