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...Hugo bought 20 Hauteville, which he called Hauteville II, for his long-term mistress Juliette Drouet in 1863....
...Victors set the rules and write post-conflict legal codes. They decide what justice looks like....
...The hapless tsar, Nicholas II, appointed himself as his successor and so contributed to the doom hastening towards him....
...No one could pretend that either Tokyo or Nuremberg were other than victors’ justice, and the British, French and Dutch empires were (for that moment at least) among the victors....
...“If I hadn’t gone to the castles of Ludwig II in Bavaria when I was eight — and I lived and still live in Paris in a district built by Haussmann — maybe some things would have been different.”...
...Website; Directions Children’s corner Nano Bleu Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 15, 20122 Milan This toy store is where Santa Claus buys presents for my children....
...“Then you suddenly see Russian soldiers grabbing cell phones off Ukrainians on the street, raiding repair shops for sims,” he said. “This is not sophisticated stuff. It’s quite puzzling.”...
...Abdullah, who died in 2021 aged 85, was posthumously inducted into the QIPCO British Champions Series Hall of Fame, joining a small, select human and equine group that includes Frankel and Queen Elizabeth II...
...Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his personal possession in 1885, and it was a Belgian colony from 1908 until independence in 1960....
...Eisenhower vs Adlai Stevenson II in 1956 — the original victors not only won again, but increased their margin of victory....
...The Nigerian authorities — including the current Oba, Ewuare II — have long campaigned for their return....
...For decades, the late Queen Elizabeth II attended daily, along with hundreds of thousands of visitors wearing their best clothes and most ridiculous hats....
...It arose from a fear, whipped up by ambitious politicians, pamphleteers and peddlers of fantastical lies, that a vast, terrifying plot existed to kill King Charles II and return Protestant England to Roman...
...Whoever emerges as victor, I’ll have plenty to say in this space over the next few days....
...This crypto-as-baseball-cards argument has been made in court and, this February, was slapped down by New York district court judge Victor Marrero....
...The pub is named in honour of Charles FitzRoy, who was the first to lay out this section of the capital during the 18th century and whose father was an illegitimate son of Charles II....
...When Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, the Commonwealth in its current form had been in existence for only three years....
...Installed in the central courtyard, this group of figures — “Walking Man” I and II, “Standing Woman” I and II, “Large Head” (all 1959-60) — are an astonishing testament to an artist who excavated his art...
...to be cheek and jowl with youthful Simons enthusiasts as well figures such as Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, the stylist Olivier Rizzo or the photographers Willy Vanderperre and David Sims...
...A short walk from the Place de l’Odéon, the building containing the gallery was originally commissioned in the 16th century by King Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers....
...“I don’t think the Conservatives have anyone to put in that I would trust,” said Victor Molyneaux, 63, a HGV driver....
...“Imagine if [people] said Queen Elizabeth II is going to go bankrupt?” said a top executive at a Spanish bank. “She isn’t. Barcelona has intangible assets which will never disappear.”...
...Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in Paris, Guy Chazan in Berlin...
...In today’s newsletter: China’s IPO overhaul pays off (for now) Revlon’s bankruptcy woes Disney under fire Chinese IPOs leave Wall Street in the dust The ultimate victor of a shake-up in China’s IPO...
...LIV chief executive Greg Norman, who was known as “the Shark” in his playing days, offers an alternative to the US PGA Tour, the dominant force in a game that was once banned by James II, King of Scots,...
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