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...Arguably far more important, as Carl Henrik Knutsen notes in a 2019 briefing note for the V-Dem Institute, the outcomes of autocracy show much higher variance....
...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....
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
...The judge, Christina Snyder, agreed....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...I was judging an illustration thing at the V&A and I thought, ‘I’ll get there early because they’ve got one box of jewellery that’s been found.’”...
...Historian Timothy Snyder argues in a recent essay that digital addiction represents the wiring into our lives of psychologist BF Skinner’s experiments with conditioned behaviour....
...Snyder sliced into the canvas and sewed some of the flaps back together, evoking the wounds that go with womanhood....
...It is an image from the 1920s of a woman, Ruth Snyder, in the process of her execution by electric chair. The composition is strange: too much foreground and awkwardly angled....
...And I think actually when you look at the big picture the whole election, obviously number one is Labour v Tory, as always. Yeah....
...Readers familiar with the last instalment in the series, Batman V Superman, will know we begin in a state of grief — Superman is dead, and a power vacuum has opened without him....
...In fact, as the show’s curator, the V&A’s head of furniture, Christopher Wilk, points out, there is nothing new about plywood at all....
...Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice begins in an alarm-clock world for both characters and viewers. Are we actually awake? It must be groundhog day. Or groundhog day plus a century....
...For Prof Snyder the divergent interests of the various constituencies is one pressure....
...Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' was hailed for revitalising the Caped Crusader as a dark icon of intimidation, yet the trailer for the upcoming 'Batman v Superman' film, directed by Zack Snyder, has...
...The anti-tax message in that 1992 decision, Quill v North Dakota, is not as clear-cut as Amazon’s friends let on....
...First came the British Museum’s Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, then the V&A’s Maharaja, followed by the Saatchi Gallery’s contemporary Indian art The Empire Strikes Back and the Whitechapel...
...(Moore has chosen to be uncredited for Watchmen, and has disowned previous films from his work, including From Hell and V for Vendetta....
...As Dennis Skinner, grand old man of Labour’s backbenches, aka the beast of Bolsover, was heard to say: “It’s like looking for two million needles in a haystack.”...
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...This summer, the press had announced a number of games that were supposed to be historic “battles”: Netherlands v Germany, Portugal v Spain, England v France, Denmark v Sweden....
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