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...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....
...Rewind to the 2014 Oscars when Pharrell Williams — who this month will make his runway debut as creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton — wore a tuxedo shorts suit....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...But others are young and have decided to leave politics: notably Dehenna Davison, the 29-year-old who became the first ever Tory MP for Bishop Auckland....
...Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, president of...
...Frank van Lerven New Economics Foundation, London, UK Adam Tooze European Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, US Stephanie Kelton Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Stony Brook University...
...It is based on “Manchester from Kersal Moor”, an 1852 watercolour by William Wyld — a forest of distant, smoking factories marching toward a bucolic idyll....
...In 2017 the game’s creators handed curation over to artists, asking Frank Ocean to create a radio station for GTA V....
...Welby described his application to succeed Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury as a “joke”, because he had only been Bishop of Durham for seven months....
...“Cast your mind back to 1215,” he says wistfully, recalling it was the hereditary peers and bishops who forced King John to make his Magna Carta concessions at Runnymede....
...FT family quiz Round One Jenny Agutter (The Railway Children) George V (Edward VIII and George VI) Christopher Robin Milne (son of AA Milne) Loving and giving Five (at home) The Diary of Anne Frank/The...
...“The hardest thing to do was marry the protected facades with the interior floors and halls.”v The residences open in mid-September, the culmination of years of work at Lamela’s company....
...Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword 16,320: Robert Holloway, Paris, France; Michael Shipster, Winchester, England; S Fisher, London, England Polymath 1,047: Nicholas Hartley, Belgium Crossword 16,314: A Dixon...
...For all the legacies of Christopher Wren and William Mulholland, neither underwent a rationalisation as total as Haussmann’s of Paris, or Pope Sixtus V’s of Rome....
...Why The drawing room overlooks the lake and has an original marble fireplace by William Kent, the 18th-century architect of Chiswick House and Houghton Hall....
...The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave, by Patrick Bishop, William Collins, RRP£20, 291 pages Anthony Quinn’s most recent novel is ‘Our Friends in Berlin’ (Cape) Join our online...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Anthony Fitzsimmons opted for On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman Dixon, “because it applies timelessly to incompetence everywhere, not just in the military”....
...Williams’ agency recently sold a home for “just shy of £6m” on the Fields. On nearby Roseleigh Avenue, Knight Frank is selling a three-bedroom flat for £1.15m....
...When the financial downturn of 2008 arrived it did not affect Mallorca as badly as mainland Spain, says Mark Harvey of Knight Frank, because of its lack of available stock and land....
...are sprinkled with yellow Swarovski crystals, bringing both decoration and practicality to the table. artedona.com Antique sterling silver nutcracker by Collins & Co, £1,145 A pair of antique George V...
...The V&A stages at least three large-scale exhibitions each year and numerous smaller ones....
...Levete’s design for the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter is a courtyard, a space rather than an object....
...And in Johannesburg, artist William Kentridge launched his privately funded Centre for the Less Good Idea to encourage experimental art....
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