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...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...This week, the base, which is the headquarters of the US Army’s V Corps, was renamed Camp Kościuszko after the Polish revolutionary who crossed the Atlantic to fight the British (gee, thanks Thaddeus)....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...He counted as many as 19 explanations for the Gagauzians’ ethnic origins, the most common being that they are descendants of Christianised Turks....
...It’s sold and the Turks are perfectly content with the Russian documents that I gave them. The stuff you’re digging for — that it was in Berdyansk? — that’s all nonsense.”...
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...The laser-cut plywood stools are neat too, their V-shaped legs an echo of the stitching in the bellows, a detail picked up again in the delicately pierced patterns of the window shutters....
...second week featured 41 members of the National Youth Dance Company in a revival of Eyal’s Used to Be Blonde and last Sunday served up the fruits of a collaboration with the London indy record label Young Turks...
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...The largest group of buyers was from China, the research found, followed by Russians and Turks. Michaelides’ overseas clients are predominantly northern European and British, he says....
...That it happened to be the day I was visiting is a case of what Turks might call kismet, or fate....
...Rather than a V-shaped recovery, the private sector's high level of short-term dollar-denominated debts could pose added stress....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...Tusk v Turks The European Commission and European Council have called on Turkey to halt threats to EU member states after a stand-off between Ankara and Cyprus over a gas dispute....
...‘Game Plan: Board Games Rediscovered’ is at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London until April 23 Photographs: V&A; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge...
...In the past, social divisions were drawn along ideological (left v right, secular v religious), ethnic (Kurds v Turks) or faith-based (Sunni v Alevi) lines....
...(FT) In the news Turkey ‘losing hope’ on visas Volkan Bozkir, the country’s minister for European Union affairs, said he was losing hope of reaching a deal on visa-free travel for Turks within Europe....
...” seems a large one, and to suggest that Henry V’s darker machinations “reveal a latent ‘Turkish’ side to his character” is frankly specious....
...’s fantasy of carnage, which imagines the murderers as a mongrel army of centurions and turban-wearing Turks....
...Le Nôtre’s great gardens include many V-words, words such as Versailles or Vaux le Vicomte....
...to Constantinople), a monumental tapestry recounting the Habsburg victory at Tunis (the most expensive work of art Emperor Charles V ever commissioned) and many rare objects speaking of unlikely ideological...
...His descendants inherited this title and added more, then worked their way through the great European upheavals: wars in Italy, invasions of Turks, the Thirty Years War, more invasions of Turks, the War...
...Indeed, the v-shape that results from a diamond position might even make it uncomfortable for your back, with two symmetrical bits of hollowness on your spine, thereby making the cushion not quite fit for...
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
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