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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....
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...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...
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
...The writer is an MA student working on queer and gender studies “I wish I’d met you when I was younger”, Nick Nelson says to Charlie Spring, leaning against an arcade machine, “I wish I’d known then what...
...A focus on the politics of cloth explores wax prints and commemorative fabrics, including one made in the early 1990s following the release of Nelson Mandela....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Nasa administrator Bill Nelson called cost-plus contracts such as this “the old way of doing business” when he testified before Congress in May....
...DisneyWar author James Stewart dubbed the deal: a “strategic miscalculation unrivalled in recent corporate history”....
...She was literally a rainbow, a symbol that brightened up a room: and whether that person was Nelson Mandela or Martin McGuinness, she had a magnetism that made all sorts of people smile....
...Stewart Upson, Brookfield’s managing partner of infrastructure, said the group planned A$20bn in additional investment in Origin’s renewable capacity by 2030....
...This year’s programme is headed by the premiere of Awakenings, based on neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks’s moving account of lives rediscovered, by composer Tobias Picker, and a new performing edition of Stewart...
...FURTHER READING: Complaint, Orlando Police Pension Fund v....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...“It’s easy — and largely accurate — to present the 2021 commodity outlook as a V-shaped vaccine trade,” said Goldman Sachs in a recent report....
...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....
...Others to be used include the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and possibly Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...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....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...V. A month in, the occupation in Zuccotti Park — or Liberty Plaza — was becoming more permanent. Problems were emerging too....
...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...
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