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...Its official recorded appearance dates back to 1983, when an American named Ken Nelson drove to the Mexican border and tracked down the Sonoran Desert toad....
...Action Office desk (1964) George Nelson designed the Action Office desk for Herman Miller high enough to use while standing up, to promote concentration and creativity, long before the ergonomic benefits...
...The limits of free elections When South Africa goes to the polls in the middle of this year, it will be 30 years since Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress ended white rule by winning a commanding...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
...Photographer’s assistants, Mitchell O’Neil and Connor Wieczorek. Stylist’s assistant, Léa Sanchez. Production, Elsa Puangsudrac at Farago Projects...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...“Africa fashion, rather than African fashion,” asserts Dr Christine Checinska, curator of African and African diaspora fashion at the V&A and lead curator of this exhibition....
...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....
...It has taken 11 years to get to the launch pad — almost twice as long as the Saturn V — and, according to a Nasa auditor, will have cost US taxpayers $29.5bn by 2025....
...And she outlived my grandmother, surely one of the few people who could actually remember meeting the princess when she was merely the granddaughter of George V, and still only third in line to the throne...
...Nelson Lee, public health professor at the University of Toronto, predicted Covid would not become “a disease that’s constantly occurring in a community” and instead would surge once or twice a year, similar...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...“Intellectual property cannot be an obstacle to ending Covid-19,” said a document drawn up by the office of Pedro Sánchez, prime minister....
...Over the past year, Britons performed four times more Google searches for Klopp than for Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel; Guardiola got 39 times more searches than Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez...
...receive 24m doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...“It’s easy — and largely accurate — to present the 2021 commodity outlook as a V-shaped vaccine trade,” said Goldman Sachs in a recent report....
...He said he would still hold a scheduled call with Vladimir Putin on Monday morning to discuss procuring Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and bilateral ties....
...More significantly, their teaming-up is an attempt by the Netherlands’ Mark Rutte and Spain’s Pedro Sánchez to find common causes after relations between the frugal Dutch and southern Europe reached a breaking...
...Others to be used include the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and possibly Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...Credit Suisse prime brokerage heads to exit in Archegos fallout The two heads of Credit Suisse’s prime brokerage business, John Dabbs and Ryan Nelson, are to leave weeks after the bank reported at least...
...“He should have been the [Nelson] Mandela of Bolivia,” said Mr Mesa of Mr Morales, who rose from poverty as a llama herder to be the country’s longest-serving ruler. “But he wasn’t....
...Among the pressing questions from their clients, the shape of the recovery trade ranks highly: “Recovery trades are always V-shaped and led by cyclical stocks....
...Chart du jour: PMIs hit a V Europe’s economies may be heading for sharp bounceback in activity after the relaxation of lockdown measures, according to a closely watched survey of businesses....
...more than 90 per cent since March, and a V-shape recovery is no longer in the cards....
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