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...she was born Cristiana Agnelli in Turin, a sister of “L’Avvocato” Gianni, long-time scion of the founding family of Fiat Industrial SpA – but her home emanates a sense of her formidable character, with Cecil...
...They include Lady Amanda, which Comair bought in 2017 and named after his wife (for unknown reasons, it used to be called Revenge II)....
...In 1561, Elizabeth privately backed Mary’s claim to the English succession, against Cecil’s favoured Protestant candidates, says Guy. Cecil believed religion came first and dynasty second....
...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...Significant influences wind through the story, from Cecil Beaton, the subject of Sir Roy’s famous exhibition at the Portrait Gallery, to the reclusive poet and garden maker Ian Hamilton Finlay at Little...
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...“But that involves inviting an unknown force into your lair and asking them not to bite you.” Things can always get worse....
...Though other companies, such as Cecil Rhodes’ British South African Company, acted as Pied Piper in the march towards exploitation and empire, the EIC’s conquest of India almost certainly remains the supreme...
...Of the cast of around 60 models, 48 were non-white, and many names, Naomi Campbell excepted, were totally unknown....
...And where were the vegetable vendors, the curio sellers, the side-of-the-road pedestrians, striding to unknown destinations?...
...lent by her sons from the family collection, as well as portraits by Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn....
...It was against this backdrop that the University of Oxford became embroiled in a fierce row last year over a statue of Oriel College benefactor and colonialist Cecil Rhodes....
...He began his first half solo set with a crashing full-pedal rumble that brought to mind the iconoclastic jazz avant-gardist Cecil Taylor, and later delivered an elliptic take on the dense harmonies and walking...
...The exact location of Field’s printing press has long remained unknown....
...Though Tsinghua has educated the president, Xi Jinping, and many of China’s ruling elite, it remains largely unknown outside its country....
...Close study has now confirmed that several unknown artists were involved. They were aware of conventions in botanical art, but were certainly not professional fruit painters....
...Might Gigi have been high on the Guk on the night he entered the unknown movie house? It’s only one more of the unknowns....
...As the poet Cecil Day-Lewis said: “There’s a kind of release/And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.”...
...Dudley’s rival William Cecil spread rumours that Dudley had Amy murdered so he could wed the queen, and Elizabeth herself was said to be implicated....
...Theobalds, meanwhile, remains virtually unknown except as a much-loved park and romantic landscape adorned with fragments of the Elizabethan garden walls and palace buildings....
...While Tradescant the elder never journeyed to the New World, unlike his son, he invested in the Virginia Company and, through it, imported further plants unknown until then in England....
...The Ends of the Earth Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford Granta Books £25, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £20 A hundred years ago the Arctic and Antarctic were vast blank spaces, unknown and...
...The Who’s Who of desert island castaways includes Julie Andrews, Peter Ustinov, Margot Fonteyn, Cecil Day Lewis, Noel Coward, Vera Lynn and John Betjeman....
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