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...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...Memorabilia in the V&A’s exhibition includes racing driver Jackie Stewart’s helmet with its Royal Stewart tartan band; weird personal objects include a Hillman Imp car with entire tartan interior and matching...
...It transpires that the person who played Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy was convinced he was inherently sexless: “boring, prosaic and pedestrian”....
...FURTHER READING: Complaint, Orlando Police Pension Fund v....
...It was subject to an export ban in 2004, which is how it ended up in the V&A, and that is testament to the craftsmanship of the London workshops.” She continues with barely a breath....
...A V-shaped recovery? More like a two-fingered gesture. At the top of this obnoxious pile stands the man whose name should be given to this current market....
...After the Dow Jones index rallied 27 per cent in seven weeks from its March 23 low, John Cassidy of The New Yorker asked: “Have investors . . . lost their minds?”...
...V. A month in, the occupation in Zuccotti Park — or Liberty Plaza — was becoming more permanent. Problems were emerging too....
...This story has been amended since original publication to correct the placement of Tofino on the map of Vancouver Island Details Stanley Stewart was a guest of Hastings Overland....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...“An initial ‘V’ shape in the recovery — and by initial we mean a few months — is inevitable as people are allowed to return to work and the shops,” Mr Wood added....
...Then, in 1974, came the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v George Foreman....
...It is no coincidence that all the business’s founders have worked, at one time or other, for Martha Stewart....
...And I found a lovely 17th-century Moghul carpet from a friend, antiques dealer James Graham-Stewart, that just happened to fit perfectly. jamesgraham-stewart.com An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to...
...Burgundy v the rest — some favourites These are the wines I scored 17 out of 20 in the Berkmann tasting, complete with suggested drinking windows....
...The planning application attracted more than 250 objections, including from judges, local notables and Sir Patrick Stewart, the actor....
...In his account of the decision, John Cassidy writes that a third of workers in the public sector are unionised, against just one in 12 workers in the private sector....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...Sign up for our Weekend Email here Photographs: Alastair Levy; David Stewart; Tamasine Osher...
...In a memo last month Stewart Jeffries, a Google lobbyist, wrote that the bill “has the potential to seriously jeopardise the internet ecosystem” as he urged lawmakers not to support it....
...Stewart Brand, high priest of the Valley’s counterculture movement, had even suggested that computers might become a new LSD, helping to open minds and reform society....
...Crowe builds it up, stitch by stitch, and Stewart Laing’s cleverly pitched production keeps you guessing until near the end....
...“They were English majors who wanted to reinvent civilisation,” says Stewart Brand, founding editor of the catalogue....
...“The SEC is going to want to know exactly what they knew and when they knew it,” Stewart Baker, a partner at law firm Steptoe & Johnson and a former National Security Agency general counsel, said....
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