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...And FT climate reporter Aime Williams has an item on investment opportunities in climate adaptation....
...“Head of Julia II”, downward-glancing, is radiant, lovely, self-effacement achieved through inner strength....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...I was amazed because it’s got such fantastic memories and such people in it: Queen Elizabeth II, Sir William Purves, who was the chairman of HSBC, Jim Clark and Graham Hill....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...wave of hype that small electric vehicles would reshape urban transportation....
...Sep 8 Death of the QueenThe death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 brought to an end the longest reign in British history — over 70 years....
...Butter-yellow walls rise up two or three storeys, entirely enclosing the baths complex in its urban oasis. The two indoor pools are kept at 38C and 36C....
...One is reminded of E Nesbit stories or perhaps CS Lewis’s Narnia adventures: this is the land of dragons, after all....
...With the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II last week, the Prince of Wales became King Charles III....
...William Dalrymple’s ‘The Company Quartet’ is published by Bloomsbury Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...While Estelle Manor’s Grade II-listed, 1908 neo-Jacobean Hall is about as grand as they come, the nothing-to-prove maxim will hold here, too....
...William Dalrymple Borobudur, Java My travel discovery of the year was unquestionably Borobudur in Java, the largest and most spectacular Buddhist temple in the world....
...Think of Eileen Gray’s E-1027 villa in France (1926-29) or Richard Neutra’s Los Angeles Lovell Health House (1927-29)....
...In a statement, Kwarteng noted the scheme would have had adverse impacts on a “very densely populated” urban area....
...But Williams’ recurring form, for example in “Tribal Mark II” and “Sun and Earth II”, is particular: a bonelike claw, an element in Warao Amerindian imagery that the artist knew from the Guyana rainforest...
...Baya Simons From E£60 (about £2.50) a year for Egyptians, E£330 (about £13.80) for non-Egyptians; bibalex.org Boston Athenæum, Boston Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenæum holds half a million volumes...
...Ó Riada wanted to create a modern idiom for Irish folk music, as Ralph Vaughan Williams had done with English folk....
...Lunch with the FT: Thomas Chatterton Williams In July 2020, Williams was one of the organisers of “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”, an open letter signed by 152 scholars and writers, published in Harper...
...This is a corner of London that is both modern and deeply traditional and which offers glorious parks and waterways alongside thoroughly urban pursuits....
...of urban industrialisation....
...Symbols matter, and Mr Ross might recall the fate of pillar boxes that were vandalised — even blown up — when “E II R” was embossed on them. (There had been no Elizabeth I of Scotland.)...
...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,...
...The stock trades at 21x FY22E P/E. During the lockdown, we have seen major brands, i.e....
...I can only imagine how much more frustrating this lockdown must be for those living in dense urban areas with little access to green....
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