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...While William Caxton was setting up his printing press in London, Lodewyk van Bercken of Antwerp was cutting the city’s first major diamond, a whopper of 137 carats for the bling-loving Duke of Burgundy,...
...He was inspired by the way musicians such as Pharrell Williams dressed, alongside the work of designers, such as Raf Simons....
...Other parts of the palace are used for performances too, not least the Hall of Mirrors, where Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas can be heard on April 20, and the Chapelle Royale, where Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart...
...After a sellout solo exhibition of work by Hedda Sterne in 2020, London’s Victoria Miro gallery now represents the estate of the New York School artist, alongside Van Doren Waxter in the US....
...“I’m continually surprised how many people I meet through B Lab who have some form of faith or spiritual life,” he says....
...As does BASF, the world’s largest chemical’s company, which under its wartime incarnation, IG Farben, manufactured Zyklon B for Nazi gas chambers....
...So you type in a sentence, anything from your imagination, say a pig in the style of Van Gogh....
...Additional reporting by Mehul Srivastava in Tel Aviv, Andy Bounds in Brussels, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe in London and Aime Williams in Washington...
...Why does the same company get an AAA score from one provider but a B from another?...
...Founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and his schoolfriend John B Young as a stationery and “fancy goods” shop in 1837, it soon became a destination for fine jewellery and silverware....
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035: Tony Mouler, Birmingham, England Crossword 16,242: Helen Hillier, Dorset, England; JP Bowman, the Netherlands; C Wren, London Polymath 1,034: Peter Van...
...John Van Reenen: It will not....
...Thus, when in 1634 Van Dyke made a double portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria displaying a modest bulge, he was showing a royal bride doing her job....
...Paul Hodges and Daniël de Blocq van Scheltinga publish The pH Report....
...John Van Reenen: Rise in unemployment to about 6 per cent....
...William Dalrymple was the guest of Steppes Travel....
...Jan van Eyck: ‘The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin’b. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: ‘The Day Dream’ c. Quentin Metsys: ‘The Moneylender and His Wife’ d. William Orpen: ‘Grace Reading at Howth Bay’e....
...We booked into Chilvers’ favourite B&B, Lince Casa Rural, with antique, sun-bleached chairs, a beautiful library and bedroom windows flung open to the sound of hooves and stables below....
...There are also updates from British Land, William Hill, Playtech and Hargreaves Lansdown. For more go to FastFT....
...There’s something I notice when I transcribe my interview with Sir Van Morrison, which is that often he doesn’t really answer questions....
...One of its residents, William Tozer, 80, paid £2,900 for his house in 1963, and challenged a visitor to name a better place to live....
...Trevor Williams, visiting professor, University of Derby No....
...But the 15-year-old heroine Dounia (Oulaya Amamra) would see herself more as a B-movie idol — a Scarface of the banlieues....
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