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...Round on the Links The link was answers beginning with the last ten letters of the alphabet Quality Street Ruth Sudan (after South Sudan became independent) Tulips – in the Dutch Republic Umbria V-J...
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...The V&A wisely acquired Thomas Thwaites’s “Toaster Project” — a physical record of his doomed attempts to build himself a working toaster, starting with the search for raw materials....
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...In 1967 the US’s X-15 hit a speed of 4,520mph — 6.7 times the speed of sound — when Major William Knight piloted the rocket-powered experimental aircraft....
...The colour of Greenough’s V-neck stripe has gone from green to blue. “Going to plan?” I ask. “Errr no,” comes the reply. Mike Thomas, the race director, has a distant look in his eyes....
...“It’ll be very anecdotal, with stories about her father, but also her meeting Henry Moore, Dylan Thomas – all sorts of people, and all sorts of Welsh stuff....
...Jeffrey Toobin, another Supreme Court reporter, provided a further reason for Thomas’s quiet profile: “The truth is that [former chief justice William] Rehnquist and Roberts never trusted Thomas to write...
...“They can see how rough Turner was,” says Thomas....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
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...The King continues to dispute claims that he ordered the killing of the rightful monarch Edward V and his younger brother Richard, then imprisoned in the Tower of London....
...SitwellRestaurant Critic Ed ThawFounder, Leroy Alun ThomasSenior Partner, Thomas and Thomas Partners Simon ThomasChief Executive, Hippodrome Casino Simon ThomasHead Concierge, Lanesborough Hotel; Honorary...
...Objects from the Edward J Williams Collection — “Black Boy Eating Watermelon”, “All White Mammy Cookie Jar” — are juxtaposed with the Wedgwood “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” medallion....
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...Uptown in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, under the aegis of the Studio Museum Harlem, is an equally strong piece of public sculpture, unveiled in October but on show for a full year: Thomas J Price’s 9ft bronze...
...In 1898, J Corbet Anderson published a book called The Great North Wood: With a Geological, Topographical and Historical Description of Upper, West and South Norwood....
...Rodriguez-FuentesReader in Economics, University of La Laguna Jim JinUniversity of St Andrews Gabriele PastrelloUniversity of Trieste Thomas Lagoarde-SegotProfessor of economics and finance, KEDGE BS...
...William Tyndale printed his epoch-making translations of the Bible here. In 1535, a spy lured him out of the secure “English House”....
...“J’Ouvert is about young black womanhood,” says Friedman. “It’s powerful, physical, incredibly moving and very important . . ....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Complaint | Dismissal Name: Donald J. Trump et al v....
...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....
...“There is no policy fix for this,” said William Bain, of the British Retail Consortium, a trade body. “This is here to stay.” 3....
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