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...“Head of Julia II”, downward-glancing, is radiant, lovely, self-effacement achieved through inner strength....
...This aim was written into William Wilkins’ gracefully restrained, modestly scaled neoclassical building, speaking authority without intimidation....
...Both also ignited what may be 2024’s biggest trend: “cowboycore” western fashion. One question stuck in the mind: since when did US fashion become so self-referential?...
...As Jennifer Williams reports, only about 31 per cent of the pot has been spent to date....
...Enlightenment by Sarah Perry (Jonathan Cape)The bestselling author of 2016’s eerie, gothicky The Essex Serpent and 2018’s Melmoth returns with a new story set again in eastern England, following a pair of...
...The Icelandic composer’s doomy 2018 Metacosmos imagines a journey through a black hole, while 2021’s Catamorphosis ponders the climate emergency....
...Mariquita is one of the world’s most celebrated vintage yachts, an elegant 19-metre beauty built by William Fife III of Scotland and launched in 1911....
...The S&P 500 is up 10 per cent from its lows of two weeks ago, and 5 per cent above where it closed last Thursday....
...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....
...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...
...Then the Queen arrived, to be greeted by Number 10's present tenant......
...This week, to mark her platinum jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II gave a tell-all TV interview....
...William Hurt had a dark-star twinkle and the looks of a preppy fallen on moments of self-doubt: blond, lean and broodingly handsome....
...Dated 1920, it actually depicts a structure for outdoor sleeping erected 10 years earlier by President William Howard Taft....
...Sri Lanka – as my friend the architect William Smalley recently examined in HTSI – lays claim to Geoffrey Bawa. Oscar Niemeyer is Brazil, as far as some aesthetes are concerned....
...“One designer we’ve worked with,” reveals William, “relies quite heavily on his matches to light a joint.”...
...But on Monday, SoftBank finally dropped its S-1 filing with plans to raise up to $604m through the blank-cheque listing....
...Williams came to set decorating from a career in photography....
...Foppish Charles II, frightened James II and the more politically restricted courts of William III and Anne could not attract such foreign talents, and there was as yet no native school....
...Imperial Brands is the FTSE 100’s biggest faller at pixel after cutting the dividend by a third, which everyone had expected, albeit not yet....
...(ii) For the average citizen, I expect them to feel the same as today....
...The operator that still has the most upside is William Hill, in our view (Buy, 230p TP)....
...The company has announced an interim dividend of $101m ($0.9531 p/s) and is launching a new $67.3m share buyback today....
...(ii) such a property wealth tax would lead to inefficiency in investment behaviour....
...Collison was previously a managing director at William Blair. Anil Jhingan has joined Discovery Communications as executive vice-president of corporate development, Emea and Asia-Pacific....
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