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...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Every corner of the city holds something – whether it’s the naka (curbside) workers who now gild for him, or a certain clay spotted on a street corner and used for a project....
...clay and addiction recovery” — as an example....
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...This ancient lost-wax casting technique, developed in the Ashanti region of southern Ghana, involves carving a model in beeswax that is then encased in a clay and charcoal mould....
...Heaps of soil, hardened mud floors, ground that has been polished into screens for projections, earth built up into walls and surfaces, clay made into bricks and blocks, the terracotta tones of tiles, piles...
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...Often a detail added to the enchantment, such as learning about the clay figurines found in El Greco’s inventory and how he used them to compose his paintings and choreograph the light....
...She uses clay and salts and the process of multiple dippings is a long, arduous one which takes several months....
...Every time the machine swallows a disc, a raw-clay platter emerges on the opposite side....
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...The challenges presented by clay as a material and artists’ persistent attempts to master it is a topic of continual fascination to de Waal, one he explored in his 2015 book on porcelain, The White Road:...
...Instead, keep it broken when carrying it, and only shoot when the bird — clay or otherwise — is above the heather. As soon as the bead on the barrel touches your target, shoot....
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...The archive lent to the V&A was “his personal classroom”, says the V&A’s Luffman, full of forms he repeated or changed gradually over time — a mug handle here, the shape of a dish there....
...But in the USA v USSR match in New York Averbakh arrived late for one of his games against Donald Byrne, lost their mini-match 3-1, incurred the wrath of his captain Igor Bondarevsky, and was removed from...
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
...And then there is Theaster Gates’s Clay Sermon....
...He sees the pavilion as part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project with past exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube, and a research project at the V&A....
...Fetterman added: “Send me to the US Senate, and I’d proudly vote to codify Roe v Wade into law.” Republican leaders largely embraced the ruling on Friday....
...Inside, cacti and tender plants were jumbled in big clay pots. Outside, pear trees and plum trees overlooked the sea: with a shock of recognition I realised I had been in such a garden before....
...Peter Barber’s clay and concrete model for a proposed housing development in the Thames Estuary makes it look like a kind of colourful kasbah....
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