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...Her response was to create eight replicas of those same vessels, which are arranged on the shelves behind us....
...on billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...Ukraine began the switch to Nato-standard artillery last summer with the first deliveries of US howitzers....
...There is still a murmuration over the road bridge of Mérida, a city in western Spain littered with magnificent Roman architecture....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...“It is important to show the Russian leadership who expect us to be scared of their [nuclear] blackmail.. it would be a very powerful message that we don’t care.”...
...“There was an overriding feeling for all of us that continuing and showing was the right thing to do, and to honour Her Majesty in some way felt absolutely appropriate.”...
...Norge Cedeño’s Hybrid features a cast of 10 dressed by Celia Ledón in the sort of Greco-Roman stretchwear favoured by 1960s TV sci-fi....
...The bulk of Luhansk territory seized by Russia was taken soon after the invasion began in February, said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank....
...In time, the long-range rockets that Ukraine has repeatedly asked for and that have been promised by the US and UK will arrive at the frontlines and be manned by Ukrainian troops trained to use them....
...Oleksandr V Danylyuk, a defence and intelligence adviser to the Ukrainian government, said Russia had intensified its artillery strikes on the front lines to try to exhaust Ukraine’s supplies....
...Reports of basic supplies running low failed to worry us: we had our own flour, our homegrown veg, a freezer full of food....
...“They understand they are heading toward us.”...
...Discussions included the reversal of Roe v Wade, there was a talk on stress and gut health and a sound bath was held. There was also yoga, snorkelling and a shamanic blessing....
...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....
...science at Northwestern University in the US....
...In the lesser-known polychrome terracotta “Virgin and Child”, the half-figures — the infant clinging to Mary’s neck, turning his back on us or restlessly trying to break away — are mesmerisingly lifelike...
...But the beginning of this month saw the unveiling of something rather different — an injection of Roman high life on the Avenue Georges V in the form of the new Bulgari Hotel Paris....
...Emperor Charles V, by 1521 the lord of a transcontinental realm that stretched from Mexico through Spain and Italy to Austria and the Netherlands....
...V, E, S, P, A: five letters with the power to summon a tourist-brochure-perfect Italy....
...Peoples moved into, rather than out, of the Roman empire. The Kushan empire (roughly 80 BCE until the third century CE) opened up trade routes through India and then across the Indian Ocean....
...The artist charged with putting V-A-C on the map is Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson....
...The gallery staff were just horrified at us.”...
...The mercenaries in theory work for Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, but after a long campaign they are fighting only for a way to get paid....
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