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...Sea Legend was a previously unknown operator but this month launched a service using seven vessels to link Turkish ports, including Istanbul, with China via the Red Sea....
...Leonardo da Vinci sketched a wooden-framed parachute in the 15th century....
...His increasingly influential writing focused instead on the high-quality vini da tavola that emerged in the 1970s: wines such as Sassicaia, Tignanello and Le Pergole Torte that were defiantly produced outside...
...On Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach, bartender Luan da Silva Cruz said Jack Daniels — owned by US group Brown-Forman — and Johnnie Walker Black Label tend to sell well....
...The firm, which was unknown in the sports world five years ago, has snapped up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stakes in clubs stretching from Italy to Brazil and is now eyeing an investment in...
...His subjects also include Ann Davison, the first woman to sail across the Atlantic single-handed, the Filipino Florentino Das, Japan’s Kenichi Horie and black Americans Bill Pinkney and Teddy Seymour, who...
...All this means that the risk of derivatives — the wild beasts of finance or weapons of mass destruction — remains a “known unknown” in a future financial crisis....
...Wander and his partner Steven Pasko were unknown to the sports world when their Miami investment firm bought 15 per cent of Sevilla in 2018 but have since invested hundreds of millions of dollars in seven...
...Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed”, Salman Rushdie tweeted, while Indian author Indrapramit Das pointed out that the revisions raised questions about “the precedent of corporations altering...
...Pilita Clark So this is what is a great unknown, actually. And I don’t think it’s going to be easy at all to abandon a net zero pledge once it’s made....
...The term da bai has taken on a darker resonance in the context of China’s class system....
...Founded in 2006, when he was still at school, it became a significant platform for bringing unknown acts to a wider audience....
...The unknown becomes the unknowable. In this story, all interests are vested, and the most esteemed authorities can be — at best — winging it....
...That is, until an unknown, somewhat goofy band from Seattle shook everything up....
...In its place is a related sound piece: recitations of the servants’ names and occupations interspersed with global music — John Coltrane, baroque viola da gamba harmonies, Buena Vista Social Club....
...It is now valued between $20m and $30m, a huge jump, though below the prices that later Renaissance artists such as Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci can now command....
...‘Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown’ by Benedict Allen is published by Canongate Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Debate still rumbles over whether “Salvator Mundi”, which sold for $450m in 2017, is wholly the work of Leonardo da Vinci....
...Once at high school, he took art history lessons and learnt about artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh. “That is when everything opened up for me,” he told Galassi....
...Galleries and auction houses have created special NFT departments; leading artists — Damien Hirst among them — have jumped in with special projects; a legion of unknown names are launching NFTs each day....
...“A great recovery, but after that it is unknown.” Additional reporting by Carolina Pulice...
...That secretive wine bar, unknown to FT colleagues, near St Paul’s?...
...“Hell to Da Naw,” he emailed reporters when asked if he supported the proposals. Da 5 Bloods was not unaffected....
...The film itself — Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, with a breakout performance from the unknown Maria Bakalova — was much funnier than you might have feared....
...He was a serious mathematician and a friend of Leonardo da Vinci. But he’s best known today as the most famous accountant who ever lived....
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