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...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...More than 700 spectators came to watch, including the then world top two Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort and the England No1 Joseph Blackburne....
...Liverpool, the other an exotic design in, of all places, Woking, aesthetically situated somewhere between Chambers’ folly and the Brighton Pavilion and commissioned by British orientalist and linguist Gottlieb Wilhelm...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Skjolden today looks pretty much as it did in 1913, save for the village’s only hotel, a later arrival, where I stayed in a room with spectacular views down the V-shaped valley of Lustrafjord....
...The project takes its inspiration from Bauhaus designers László Moholy-Nagy, Marianne Brandt and Wilhelm Wagenfeld as well as Bruno Munari’s photo essay “Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair” (1944)...
...The only note of insubordination was supplied by the four-year-old Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, later the Kaiser, biting the legs of two of his British uncles. But Britain had had enough of weeping....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Chess strategy has evolved considerably from the days of its first official champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, in 1886, to its latest, the Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen....
...They are one of only two families to have three generations of work represented in the Smithsonian (the other is the Wyeth family of painters)....
...What did the protagonists, including the three royal cousins – King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II – not do then that may have staved off the outbreak of war in August 1914?...
...A century ago it was the ascent of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II that unsettled the world; today a rising China is roiling east Asia....
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...Meanwhile here’s the DOJ’s sealed criminal complaint in USA v Martoma....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...For anyone who has been privileged to look at bronzes with a true master of the art – I cannot think of anyone to match the late Tony Radcliffe, the great authority on Renaissance bronzes at the V&A in London...
...www.tate.org.uk Wilhelm Sasnal October 14-January 1, 2012 Whitechapel Gallery Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal’s paintings mix historical references with pop culture, images from the internet and photojournalism...
...But the parallel interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II are more than that....
...Economists dispute the nature of the recovery – is it a bounce-back “v” or a double-dip “w” – while old market hands caution that the summer rally could eventually give way to a correction....
...It seems eminently sensible that there should be a greater emphasis on producing well-balanced wines rather than making a political statement about dry v sweet....
...Ian Sayer was born in Norwich in October 1945, only a month after V-J Day, and raised in Feltham, west London....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...The court will decide whether to shield drugmakers from many costly patient lawsuits, agreeing to hear Wyeth v Levine, a case that tests whether companies are protected from liability when federal regulators...
...Rauschenberg’s “Trophy V (for Jasper Johns)” evokes the artist by items – map, window frame, ruler – connected with him....
...‘Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939’ is at the V&A, London, from April 6 to July 23. Tel 20 7942 2211...
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