Hints and tips:
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...Then you really want a low or western V cut....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...James’s response was to make a snow-hardy garden of 28 concrete structures, some to house his menagerie of an ocelot, a small monkey, parrots and boas....
...It is a good time of year for this, whether you are observing snow geese in the US or Asian cranes in Japan....
...As part of the museum’s new Imagine gallery, members of the Corntop and Snow-Warren rabbit families are displayed alongside a caravan and pony....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...Long before Yeti’s V Series stainless-steel cooler was being featured on Kim Kardashian’s Instagram, it was the brand of choice for fishermen in Texas and Florida because it “delivered a level of durability...
...In Max Webster’s pulsating modern-dress staging of Shakespeare’s Henry V, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow) at the helm, it becomes a piece about a leader gradually warped by power and calloused...
...At the request of King George V, it mounted the 520-carat Cullinan I diamond, which is also known as the Great Star of Africa, in the royal sceptre....
...There’s also Japanese camping brand Snow Peak, whose chunky knits and camping equipment – think collapsible coffee dripper – are favourites with the camper-van set, along with hand-embroidered cushions by...
...And there's a lot about it in our FT colleague Charles Glover's book about Eurasianism, Black Wind, White Snow, about the weird history books Patrushev reads....
...The EU envoy went beyond politeness to laud Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine — which has showed high effectiveness but has yet to be approved by the bloc’s medical regulator — as “good news for the...
...They obliged me with beautifully packed plants of anything growable, from C for campanula to V for vitaliana: they arrived within a day of special dispatch....
...The silt here wears a hard rime of salt that gives way as I lower my weight on to it, like sun-crusted snow. As I get further out, my feet sink deeper into the thin, grey sand....
...“An initial ‘V’ shape in the recovery — and by initial we mean a few months — is inevitable as people are allowed to return to work and the shops,” Mr Wood added....
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...The snow has been coming down in Moscow since first light, and the streets are thick with greying slush....
...The first five targets are elephants and lions in Africa, snow leopards and wolves in Nepal, and grizzly bears in the US....
...And he offered a relatable sound bite about his son: “saw snow for the first time the other day and thought it was bloody brilliant!”...
...At a hastily assembled parlay, the three explorers agreed to sail immediately for Spain that their king, Charles V, might determine who among them was the official discoverer of a place, roughly the size...
...Four unusual ski houses Troll Hus (above) by Mork-Ulnes Architects (2016) stands raised on concrete pilotis that lift it above the snow....
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