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This year’s Oscar winners have been announced. The films vying for success at the 91st Academy Awards included Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix drama Roma, the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga musical A Star is born and Greek Book, which stars Viggo Mortensen and ...
Inside the machine-crammed Mouhtarides factory near the Greek-Turkish border, Ioanna Pistola deftly spins a silk thread in a loom, ignoring the deafening noise around her. “I’ve been working in this hall for 20 years,” the ...
The fashion world is mourning after Chanel’s iconic designer, Karl Lagerfeld has died. The German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer and caricaturist left behind an extensive legacy. One of his biggest achievements was to ...
Tesla’s dominance over the global electric car market is about to disappear, as industry veterans like Volkswagen, BMW, Ford and General Motors enter the next stage of their slow shift from internal combustion to electrification. ...
Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon stories, such as Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, seem to come to life in this 19th-century church in Barcelona. As a matter of fact, Chapel Torre Girona is ...
You can easily imagine Pope Francis and opera singers Maria Callas and Andrea Bocelli wearing exquisite garments made of silk, some of which were created on the centuries-old looms of a little workshop, tucked away ...
Australia’s last remaining piano maker has decided to expand the instrument into a world first: it has 108 keys. Completed in September 2018 by Stuart & Sons in their workshops in New South Wales, this ...
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