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...“This ‘boom’ is not like the one of 2003-06, which was of the lower-to-middle end of the market and dominated by British buyers,” says Smadar Kahana of E&V....
...Last week, Mr Calabria’s FHFA issued a report laying out an array of proposals for GSE “recap and release”....
...Specialising as a satirist in vignettes of middle-class life, he moved freely in clubland and made a fashionable marriage in 1913 to Daphne de Sélincourt, goddaughter of the then Punch editor Owen Seaman...
...Of an estimated 50,000 jobs created by FDI in Italy since 2009, only about 400 were in the southern regions of Basilicata, Molise and Calabria....
...Between them, the V&A and the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection composed the only map of the place that I had in my head....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...A few survivors – such as the incomparable Bronzes of Riace (now in Reggio Calabria) – have been discovered on the Mediterranean seabed in recent years, jettisoned from ships that got into trouble in treacherous...
...He is awarded the Victoria Cross, the British empire’s most distinguished military honour, at Buckingham Palace by King George V himself....
...We learn that Cadbury’s Dairy Milk is Very Tasty is a good way to work out the order of calculations needed for turning a compass reading (C), subject to deviation (D) and magnetic (M) variation (V), into...
...For those who don’t know the story, a group of cheery and seaman-like child sailors are brought into conflict with the ultimate evil – a noisy motorboat full of “Hullabaloos” – on the Norfolk Broads....
...The collection is now moving to the V&A, which is itself opening its new William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery today....
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