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...Gamekeepers tell us their work is crucial for maintaining healthy moors. British shooting is not like that of any other country....
...In a minute or so, the foremost birds had formed a wide, V-shaped echelon, pointing their way northward up the coast....
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...I wish we’d had the magic carpet to float us from the cool, damp roadside to sunnier, warmer San Luis Potosí state....
.... ★★★☆☆ To May 27, donmarwarehouse.com Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial Ambassadors Theatre, London It’s daggers drawn in Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial too and, again, animosity...
...Luckey named Anduril’s system “RoadRunner” after the classic Looney Tunes bit in which the bird is always quicker than the coyote trying to catch it....
...The consultant from Serbia recently bought a three-bedroom apartment in the Šiška district — a central neighbourhood next to the Tivoli City Park, home to more than 100 bird species and three times the size...
...Sony a7R V, £3,999 @rhodri...
...This leads us into the final room and its subject, the architects’ plans for the huge and nearing completion Kinderspital (children’s hospital) in Zurich....
...While studying at university, V was faced with a choice — what to research: birds, amphibians or fish? V and a fellow student were sitting in a dormitory trying to determine their future....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...Following her death in 2009, her first major US museum exhibition in over 50 years is being staged at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art....
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...Reports of basic supplies running low failed to worry us: we had our own flour, our homegrown veg, a freezer full of food....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...When Daniel Wiegand was eight, he went on holiday with his parents to the bird islands of Norway....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...But given our small military, only the Ukrainian army is now protecting us from Russian aggression. I will keep donating to them....
...That its inhabitant is a lab rabbit complaining to us about his afflictions — inflamed eyes, skin lesions, tinnitus — increases the unease around its verisimilitude....
...Based on existing influenza vaccine technology and touted as being low-cost, ButanVac uses as a vector a genetically modified virus that causes Newcastle disease, which affects birds but not humans....
...Perhaps alarmingly, and very much out of line with that rapid recovery in US stock markets, faith in the longed-for V has been ebbing....
...“All Lies Matter” reads an image in Just Us with the “v” in ‘lives’ blacked out....
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