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...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...There’ll be a subterranean spa across four floors of the hotel’s huge basement, a 22-metre pool and its restaurant will be the first outpost of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s ABC Kitchen outside New York....
...April 24 to 30; further information and tickets here Sport London Marathon The mammoth run weaves around the capital, taking in such landmarks as Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge....
...Or a monk in a tower drawing some illuminated manuscripts....
...“We’ve been very happy in the tower but the way we work has changed.” Reed Smith has said its new office could generate modest cost savings over the long term....
...In other depictions, Columba sails alone, cresting the summits of almighty waves in a cowhide coracle, not a lot bigger than a kitchen sink....
...Smith and Morrill Worcester have attended the same church. Smith’s wife has played piano in the tip land chapel. I wonder aloud about the scale of the flagpole, the unrelenting patriotism....
...I wrote each day in a cloud of cushions in a kitchen-sitting room with sides open to the flitting butterflies....
...Flats for 2012’s temporary Olympic migrants were built without kitchens — a design flaw anticipating eat-out hipsterdom....
...There are many roles both in the kitchen and on the floor which require a high level of training and extensive experience — eg, sashimi chef, sommelier, floor manager....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...“There’s a sense that you’re part of something with history and with soul,” said co-founder Blaise Trigg-Smith. “We didn’t just clean it up completely....
...The crenellated towers look down over a park of grazing fallow deer, with the ground falling away to the Exe estuary beyond. The family has everything you could want from the English aristocracy....
...White and purple-blue crocuses on the slopes below the Round Tower of Windsor Castle used to be my benchmark of the start of spring....
...(Its designer was the Parisian Jacques Garcia; its kitchens originally overseen by the Swiss chef Daniel Humm.)...
...“They’re beautiful,” says Smith, “but even the most religious people might not want Jesus on a crucifix in their kitchen window.”...
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...a theatre, spa, billiards room, library, demonstration kitchen and residential art curator....
...more by kitchen table economics than ideology may turn on him....
...Even as a ruin, the tower, built in 1545 for Murdo Mackenzie, a gentleman of the bedchamber to Scotland’s King James V, is an impressive sight....
...In some kitchens, the space is so small that even a spare metre is hard to find....
...An essay by Zadie Smith, “What do we want history to do to us?”...
...(Vanity Fair) How Grenfell survivors came together — and how Britain failed them A look at a remarkable group of survivors of the London tower block fire that killed 72 people....
...Their light and dark V-necked playsuits (I suspect mother-made) are poised between school gym slips and men’s evening clothes....
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