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...the others regarding their political power so much that it is reasonable to think that they are among the others as God is among men . . ....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...In 1738, the statue of Handel as Orpheus, now in the V&A, was unveiled at Vauxhall’s Spring Gardens in London....
...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....
...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....
...“There is a lot of false nostalgia about the martial law years — that they were golden years for the economy and for Philippine society,” said Mendoza....
...For Doran what really makes the play hit home now is the way the king gets hold of power....
...her bereaved school-age grandsons, William and Harry....
...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...
...Remember Prince William in his Union Jack-printed style?...
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...It has the power to carry as much as 100 tons into low orbit. “It’s game over for the existing launch companies,” says Peter Diamandis, a US space entrepreneur....
...Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was moved to reflect on the monarchy’s power to enhance the spiritual life of the nation....
...Perhaps that will develop as Williams begins to experiment with haute couture for his debut in January....
...petrol-powered two-wheelers since the age of six — and with a collection of 15 of them currently jammed into my garage — I can’t say I’m looking forward to the day when the mellifluous bark of my Ducati’s V-Twin...
...“How do you reform the House of Lords without taking power from the Commons?” he asks....
...William Gibson called it “the ugliest T-shirt in the world”, a garment so grotesque that it confounds surveillance cameras and renders its wearer invisible....
...Inflationary forces of the 1970s are no longer intact, not least because of declining labour bargaining power, changing demographics, high inequality and private debt overhang....
...“You can unlock the power of collections and reach people in places where you couldn’t previously.” It’s hard not to marvel at the possibilities of this technology....
...The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine have demanded an apology from Europe’s drug regulator for comments made by the head of the agency likening having the jab to “Russian roulette”....
...His own attorney-general, William Barr, has said there was no evidence of election fraud that affected the outcome of the vote....
...The EU is looking to create similar legal powers to block imports....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
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