Hints and tips:
...In 1970, when a 45-foot-long sperm whale got stranded at Florence beach in Oregon, the state’s Highway Division, in consultation with the US Navy, made the convincingly American decision to blow it up....
...The Truth Detective: How to Make Sense of a World That Doesn’t Add Up by Tim Harford (Wren & Rook)With the help of a cast of characters from Sherlock Holmes to Florence Nightingale, the FT Undercover Economist...
...After much back and forth they finally settled on Tyrian by Edward Bulmer; known as the “purple of the ancients”, it chimes with the regal atmosphere of the space....
...Glamorous attendees included Princess Beatrice and Edward Enninful, outgoing editor of British Vogue....
...“I want so to see the Arno,” insists Lucy Honeychurch as she is confronted with the dismal vista at her Florence guesthouse in EM Forster’s A Room with a View....
...For an exhibition last year during Melbourne Design Week, Chee commissioned Ben Edwards and Nancy Beka of Studio Edwards to produce the squeezebox, a stool like a concertina that becomes a bookshelf....
...Uncovered: Florence B Price Catalyst Quartet (Azica) The time has surely come to discover the wonderfully enriching string quartets of Florence Price, the African-American composer who died in 1953 after...
...In 1891, Edward Freeman, regius professor at the University of Oxford, published a History of Sicily from the Earliest Times that invoked the same fundamental opposition between the island’s ancient Greek...
...When I was writing The Enchantress of Florence, which is 15, 16 years ago now, a lot of which is set in North India in the time of the Mughal Empire, I remember thinking, there's some really interesting...
...Both couples are accompanied by their baby daughters, Florence and Ophelia, born just 10 weeks apart. There are almost as many dogs as people....
...In Florence, just around the corner from the Pitti Palace, I bought a 19th-century painting of a sleeping ancient Greek mortal....
...West and the wonderful Amelia Edwards, novelist and arguably the mother of Egyptology....
...Jack Edwards highlights the power of recommendations: “reading a book is a big commitment. BookTok helps you get there.”...
...Cabana’s range of placemats is very good too — I like its printed Lime Tree design and bright yellow woven raffia versions, made in Florence, a lot. What else?...
...Last month, I was stunned into silence by a truly ravishing silver napkin holder plonked on our table at a bar in Florence: simple in shape, heavy, practical and incredibly beautiful in that way that is...
...Edward Luce responds Rana, I’d be sorely tempted to follow Brendan’s lead and ask the FT to pay me in real estate....
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-March....
...Gavin Edwards, senior national officer at the union Unison, says those reforms should include new national standards for care workers on pay, conditions and training....
...Edward Hisbergues, sales manager at PG Trips Association which cosigned the April letter to Johnson, said he’d written to the French authorities every two weeks all summer but not received any reply....
...Florence Barshall Model/student, studying English literature at St Andrews University T-shirt: West Side Story, opened 26 September 1957 at the Winter Garden Theatre, New YorkMusic: Leonard BernsteinLyrics...
...Edward Luce responds Sarah, you pose a great question to which I only have partial answers....
...Meanwhile, heavily-vaccinated Italians welcomed tourists back to the Uffizi gallery in Florence — if they were jabbed or non-contagious....
...In a 1998 lecture, Edward Said objected: “There are no insulated cultures or civilisations....
...If you like this idea, please go for something beautiful: I like Il Papiro’s, which have been made in a workshop in Florence for more than 40 years....
...Musician Pharrell Williams and stage designer Es Devlin discuss technology and the need to elevate black entrepreneurs; Tilda Swinton, Edward Enninful and National Portrait Gallery director Nicholas Cullinan...
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