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...The Roman College is a sprawling complex of villas. Cypress and pine trees rise above tiled terracotta roofs....
...stunning space, but then b) be surrounded by these incredible works of art, while you’re c) dining on some of the best sushi....
...A star of the inaugural Impressionist exhibition in 1874, the painting stars again in Paris 1874, next year’s blockbuster restaging of that show at the Musée d’Orsay and Washington’s National Gallery of...
...The authors of this fascinating book argue that it was a question faced by an earlier western hegemonic power, the Roman empire. It collapsed....
...The show then transfers to the National Gallery of Art, Washington (nga.gov) where it runs from September 8 to January 19 2025....
...the Roman Empire, which he hadn’t managed to finish at Oxford....
...The gala opening night of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, in 1971 had star quality to spare, presenting the premiere of Mass by Leonard Bernstein — an extraordinary, genre-crossing theatre piece, part...
...“The end of this [Supreme Court] term took a lot of the wind out of Professor Vermeule’s sails,” says Joel Alicea, an originalist scholar at Catholic University in Washington....
...Until this week Wilton Gregory, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, was probably best known outside religious circles as the man who lambasted Donald Trump for a photo-op stunt in June....
...FG springrestaurant-shop.co.uk Supermarket of Dreams, Holland Park, London One of the great successes of lockdown, this west London hotspot was the brainchild of dynamic Melbourne-born Chris D’Sylva, who...
...In one well known case, a superspreader in Washington state infected half of the 61 choristers who showed up for a practice in early March. Two of them died. So we can’t sing....
...of the protests in Washington....
...Victoria Woodcock retrouvius.com The specialists Lahandira, MarrakechHailed as the best carpet shop in Morocco, Lahandira is hidden away on the top floor of an old Roman Catholic church inside Marrakech...
...And something happened that I’d never seen before: my father began to cry.”...
...Dawkins, naturally, is d’Artagnan....
...Neither the presidential dandruff-check nor the local mangling of his name (“McCrone”) undid the French leader’s poise in Washington this week....
...A Catholic and a married father of three young children, Mr Duque ticks all the boxes required of a conservative presidential candidate in Colombia....
...blocks away with the attendance of US Secretary of Defence James Mattis....
...Two years after being fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency over his leadership style, the feisty Irish-American will become one of the most influential officials in Washington....
...The first Roman Catholic US president, John F Kennedy, met Pope Paul VI shortly after his election in the summer of 1963....
...But some analysts warn having Ms Jaresko, a former US diplomat, as premier risks playing into Russian propaganda efforts to portray Kiev as a puppet of Washington....
...But US interests are transactional as well: Britain has long been Washington’s point of entry into EU debates, frequently representing American interests around the table of 28 nations....
...Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, by Bettany Hughes, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£25 A historian and broadcaster tells the story of one of the world’s great cities through its Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman...
...“I originally thought he was like a Roman Candle [firework] on the fourth of July. I was dead wrong.”...
...On Thursday, renowned conductor Valery Gergiev led the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra in a classical concert in the ancient Roman amphitheatre of Palmyra, which was recaptured from Isis in March....
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