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...As El País’s Rafa de Miguel reported recently, many Spanish scholars have had to change travel plans or switch to other topics of research....
...Troy, Persepolis, Pompeii may no longer be there but no major western city has perished in modern history....
...the Bones (2011) by Jesmyn Ward (which echoes the myth of Medea), Circe (2018) by Madeline Miller (a fabulous adaptation of The Odyssey) and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (2018) and The Women of Troy...
...In 2004, Miguel Rodriguez, owner of Swiss watch brand Festina-Lotus, bought the L Leroy brand and re-established it in Besançon....
...The itinerary will progress from explorations of Byzantine Istanbul and Bursa (the preserve of medieval Ottomans), along the Dardanelles and to the battlefields of Gallipoli and Troy....
...Gemini G.E.L. from Los Angeles mirrors our increased time spent at home staring at walls and windows with works from Roy Lichtenstein’s “Interior Series”, including “Venetian School I” (1996, $18,000)....
...Market participants received a glimpse last week of just how bad it could become, when Miguel Faria-e-Castro at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis released “back of the envelope” estimates for the second...
...Quichotte , his 14th novel, reimagines Miguel de Cervantes’ bumbling and chivalrous knight, Don Quixote, as a travelling salesman embarking on a quest across Trump’s America....
...The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street and A House for Mr Biswas were all set in Trinidad and had a gentle acuity and tenderness that he would later jettison....
...Nilanjana Roy Novelist and FT contributor “A grieving woman becomes the custodian of a Great Dane, also in mourning for his own reasons, in an apartment that doesn’t allow dogs.”...
...“Congratulations to Troy Balderson on a great win in Ohio,” Mr Trump wrote in a tweet on Tuesday evening....
...Two of my favourite translations of classics are, coincidentally, by women — Edith Grossman’s 2004 translation of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Arshia Sattar’s translations of The Ramayana....
...Photograph: Estate of Roy DeCarava...
...Wright Professor of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London Ray Barrell Professor of Economics, Brunel University Ben Ferrett Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Loughborough Roy...
...Of these by far the most moving was the veteran actress Fenella Fielding’s rendering of Hecuba’s lament over the body of her grandson Astyanax, hurled by the victorious Argives from the battlements of Troy...
...Roy Williams is an expert at writing about racism in sport: he has dealt with it among fans in his breakthrough play Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads and among football players in There’s Only One Wayne Matthews...
...The combination last week propelled spot silver prices in London to $15 per troy ounce, up almost 33 per cent since January, outperforming gold’s 8 per cent increase during the same period....
...The stronger dollar also hit gold, which slid 1 per cent to $941.50 a troy ounce, while silver slipped 0.9 per cent to $1,816.5 a troy ounce....
...There are, Roy Orbison warbled, “Blue teardrops in my heart”. This archetypal blues condition is the theme of Lorna Martin’s memoir Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown....
...In “The Sorrow of Love” and “No Second Troy”, he extravagantly compared her to Helen of Troy, as if a terrible, god-given beauty could not help but lead to the destruction of an entire city....
...Roy Keane was regularly des-cribed as irreplaceable, and so he has proved....
...Roy Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford. HOPE AND HISTORY: Making Peace in Ireland by Gerry Adams Brandon £8.99, 416 pages...
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