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...Northern counties such as Las Hurdes, the subject of Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Land Without Bread, and luscious La Vera, site of the Emperor Carlos V’s monastery-retirement home at Yuste, are best enjoyed...
...“It’s perhaps not surprising that some middle-aged white dudes sought to promote books about female slaughter one gender adrift from the male gaze,” Tremain notes briskly....
...After the continuous 10-minute slaughter, at least 379 lay dead and more than 1,000 wounded. Some estimates put the number of casualties much higher....
...I donated my net profits to Southern California Thoroughbred Rescue, which saves racehorses from slaughter and abuse....
...V J Paine Derwen, Denbighshire, UK...
...Among the menaces is Kill Your Co-Workers, a whimsical animation of robotic street slaughter....
...We emerge from the backstage spaces into the kitchen, built in a V-shape, pushing out into the dining area like the prow of a ship....
...In 1920, in the wake of extraordinary upheavals, four years of slaughter on the Western Front and a guerrilla war of independence in Ireland, Westminster returned to the complex and fraught issue of Irish...
...BoE v Treasury The FT splashes on in-fighting between the UK’s Treasury and Bank of England over the City’s access to the EU after Brexit....
...M & V Adriano 2016 Moscato d’Asti 5% £9.60 Vino Vero, Richard Granger Lightly sparkling and super-fruity. Very refreshing and whistle-clean....
...(Bloomberg) US v Gulf airlines The Gulf carriers — Etihad, Emirates, Qatar — are up in arms over a provision in the US Senate tax bill that would force them to pay US tax for aircraft time on the ground...
...But that was not the point of last Friday’s concert in Berlin’s Radialsystem V....
...England v Scotland was not much better, as the English spurned try-scoring opportunity after opportunity....
...In 1099 Godfrey led Walloon and Flemish forces on the First Crusade to Jerusalem where, his chronicler boasted: “The slaughter was so great that our men waded in blood up to their ankles and stirrups.”...
...Following Charles V, the 42-year reign of Philip II saw further expansion as well as consolidation of the empire....
...There are armaments everywhere – machine guns, field artillery, grenade launchers, a monstrous British Mark V tank that terrified German soldiers – alongside sober depictions of the slaughter they caused...
...Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1. Beenz.com TAKEOFF From a trade rag called Revolution, (June 9, 1998): “Don’t say loyalty, say currency,” says Letts....
...The writer is a partner at Slaughter and May...
...heavily criticised in the German press for the juxtaposition: was it right to celebrate a concept that epitomised the hard-won freedoms of European society in a place that had so recently witnessed mass slaughter...
...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...
...Unusually, some foreign journalists witnessed the aftermath of the terror and spoke to Lt Col Juan Yagüe Blanco, the commander responsible....
...The tactics in the battle of Daily Telegraph v George Osborne/Greg Clark over the planning system are the equivalent of trench warfare....
...He is awarded the Victoria Cross, the British empire’s most distinguished military honour, at Buckingham Palace by King George V himself....
...The “Holocaust” wasn’t even a word used about the slaughter....
...Paradoxically, the age of assembly-line slaughter in Flanders and of mass-produced entertainment and goods turned out to generate a craving for more, not less, mystique....
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