Hints and tips:
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...A quarter of a century later, in 1689, William III, representing himself and Queen Mary as anti-absolutists, brought members of the House of Commons into the Abbey by way of demonstrating that his would...
...That was the message behind Louis Vuitton requisitioning a bridge in the centre of Paris, gilding it, and marching the first collection of men’s creative director Pharrell Williams down the middle....
...The act creates a series of new offences, most importantly for our purposes that of “locking on”: locking yourself to, say, a bridge to disrupt transport, for instance....
...Mourners hoping to view Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state in London were facing 17-hour-long queues on Saturday evening, as King Charles III and Prince William made a surprise appearance to the thousands...
...After the service, the Queen’s coffin will be taken by gun carriage in a procession led by King Charles III from the abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, and then travel by hearse to Windsor for...
...A wobbly wire bridge is one of the features that make this garden great for children, as the then Prince told Alan Titchmarsh in Country Life: “You simply have to bounce on it.”...
...Charles III, the new king, is known to be more of a polo fan. Transition is something of a theme in this edition of the newsletter....
.../ From William Bigelow, Boylston, MA, US...
...The message due to go out from the Queen’s private secretary was “London Bridge is down”: code for the death of Elizabeth II....
...The centrepiece is the wonderful rhythmic complex that is Horse Guards, started by William Kent and finished by Wright, Robinson and Vardy in the 1750s....
...W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
...End-of-walk highlight: The astonishing Tijou Screen in the Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace was commissioned c1690 by King William III and Queen Mary II from the recently arrived Huguenot craftsman,...
...His wife Alma chose the pretty, metallic ice-blue Sunbeam Alpine Series III that Grace Kelly drove in To Catch a Thief, the masterpiece romantic comedy-thriller....
...He also acted as a vital adviser to George W Bush, during the disputed 2000 presidential election....
...Imperial Rome was carefully ordered — Lewis Mumford recorded its six obelisks, eight bridges and 11 public baths in The City in History (1961)....
...Designed by Ney & Partners and William Matthews Associates, the project has cost £5m, half of it funded by a donation from Julia and Hans Rausing....
...Second, the stimulus is directed right at the consumer this time and provides a bridge to the other side....
...A painting of William III hangs in the entrance to reflect the fact that the Prince of Orange spent several nights at nearby Hillsborough Fort before he gathered his armies on the Boyne in 1690 to defeat...
...He highlights the hubris of President George W Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, “the original sin” that sacrificed US influence in the Middle East....
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...Another surprise is a striking nude by Sir William Orpen, at Master paintings and drawings dealership Jean-Luc Baroni....
...In practice, the only successful instance, other than Nixon, of Americans removing a leader was George III....
...Palmerston himself had claimed more than once that these insidious ambitions had been made possible by modern steamships, which had “turned the Channel into a river” and “thrown a bridge across it”....
...It was designed in the early 1760s by Sir William Chambers, a widely travelled man of taste. He was backed and financed by Augusta, mother of King George III, whom he served as a drawing master....
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