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...game: picking a crew of rogues, deftly manipulating the complexities of sail and ship’s wheel, grappling your way on to brigantines, swashbuckling with whoever gets in your way and scouring the hold for treasure...
...“I love that this is one of those slightly hidden treasures that you could find off the beaten track, whether it be in Paris, in Milano . . . in Italy or in France, places where people have a craft that...
...“I was always interested in stories of this clandestine, illegal treasure hunt that happened at night,” she says....
...(Another being S’Estaca, now the holiday home of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.)...
...Tony Blair’s Labour government lobbied for a treaty to share the Parthenon marbles with Greece in 2003, accusing the British Museum of “blinkered intransigence” over the contested treasures....
...This was a policy failure so great that it ultimately led to 2003’s spectacularly misguided American-led invasion that left hundreds of thousands dead and Washington’s greatest strategic rival in the region...
...Shares in offshore wind giant Ørsted — the long-term treasure of green-minded investors — dropped by a quarter after it abandoned two US projects....
...As for levelling up, NG200’s “National Treasures” will send a dozen core paintings travelling. Caravaggio’s “The Supper at Emmaus” (1601) goes to Belfast, shown with Cornelia Parker’s films....
...The S&P 500 did not fall by more than 10 per cent, but climbed over 20 per cent (though driven mostly by just seven tech stocks)....
Set to be 2023’s Capitals of Culture, these overlooked gems are rich with Roman temples, medieval streets and Renaissance palazzos
...Here’s how his personal use of corporate aircraft spending has stacked up over recent years, according to JPM’s proxy filings (these refer to the prior year, so eg the 2021 edition covers 2020’s flying):...
...In Borris House, without social distancing but with two “R” s, I spoke on gardening at the annual Carlow Garden Festival....
...If time is pressing, push on — greater artistic treasures await....
...We all wished for something better than 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and for the first hour at least, this fifth entry in the franchise, directed by James Mangold, rewarded...
...A walk through Zürich today reveals numerous modernist graphic design treasures alongside older and more traditional (and sometimes comfortingly kitsch) offerings, as well as more playful and, at times,...
...The people and shows I want to see but don’t, because of the hours taken up by my job(s)....
...“Pelé has died, if indeed Pelé can even die,” read the front cover of daily newspaper Estado de S. Paulo....
...Its macabre treasures included the briefcase the hangman had taken on his postwar trips to Germany. “The rope he used is still inside, with the special ankle straps....
...That sense of fondness with reservations sums up how many customers feel about the retailer, which has seen its national treasure status take a well-documented dip, as well as tens of millions in financial...
...It showcases the group of British artists that included Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews and Frank Auerbach with a treasure-trove of works — some well-known, some loaned from discreet private...
...In contrast, Winehouse’s slender body of work while alive, just the two albums, has been joined by only one compilation of previously unheard recordings, 2011’s Lioness: Hidden Treasures....
...s=20&t=hF2t_8xQQpmCESKnHCgpXQ Maybe Arthur Miller had it right. The Fed is a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom. Until, of course, there is....
..., who in Hackney last year created the first public memorial to the Windrush generation — cast sculptures of breadfruit, custard apple and soursop, carrying memories of her native Montserrat — won 2022’s...
...It follows Elisabeth, formerly the most decorative treasure in the Austro-Hungarian empire, as she turns 40 and has to contend with relentless scrutiny of her fading beauty....
...John Berger, who eulogised the lifestyle of subsistence farmers in the French Pyrenees in 1979’s Pig Earth, would have appreciated the rhythms of village life as it still was in the early 2000s: the set-in-stone...
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