Wonder walls: inside a colourful Kent cottage Serena Fokschaner
Look out for my car, it’s quite unusual,” says Lizzie Montgomery, giving directions to her home in a village in Kent. The designer has a knack for vivacious, colourful textiles, so I’m expecting, at the very least, a fuchsia pickup. The reality is more interesting. Montgomery’s runaround is a curvy Nissan, custom printed with one of her cheerful, polychromatic patterns.
There’s an equally exuberant feel to the house she shares with her husband, Patrick, and their Bengal cats, Oscar and Hilda. Montgomery, whose clients include the Victoria & Albert Museum and Brabantia, bought the Arts and Crafts-style house in 2017. Since then, this self-confessed “pattern obsessive” has steadily transformed the interior, layering print and texture with intense colour, like a collagist tweaking a composition.
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No new COVID-19 cases found on February 18 morning
No new COVID-19 cases were detected from 6pm on February 17 to 6am on February 18, keeping the national count at 2,329, including 1,430 community infections, reported the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
At present, a total of 144,071 people who had close contact with confirmed COVID-19 patients or entered Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are being under quarantine nationwide, including 577 in hospitals, 14,325 in state-designated establishments and 129,169 others at their residences.
Since January 27, when the pandemic broke out in northern localities, 737 new cases were detected in the community.
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We often hear that Indian rulers throughout history never invaded other countries – never established colonies in foreign lands. The above statements are made, no doubt, to extol the virtues of our Hindu/Buddhist civilization – its emphasis on high philosophy, a penchant for peace, and deep-rooted spiritual (as opposed to materialistic) values. History generally bears out the validity of these statements. There are, however, some very notable exceptions.
The earliest example of foreign invasion (to Lanka) comes from Ramayana, whose historicity is, at best, questionable. But we cannot deny that the ethos for foreign invasions clearly finds favor in Ramayana. Of course, gods like Rama are judged differently from mere mortals like us. Then, there is in a famous Bengali poem, the legend of Vijaysingha, a prince from Bengal, subjugating the same Lanka (a favorite whipping boy, it seems) and rechristened it Simhala. A similar legend, I am told, exists in Sri Lanka that
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The three artists soundtrack for the 1987 film will be available on vinyl for the first time in more than three decades
Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, and Cong Su s score to
The Last Emperor is being reissued this March.
The Bernardo Bertolucci-directed film, released in 1987, tells the story of Pu Yi, the last monarch of the Chinese Qing dynasty, prior to the republican revolution in 1911. Its score sees Sakamoto, Byrne and Su aim to emulate the musical traditions of Imperial China with the use of traditional percussion instruments and Erhu – a two-stringed bowed fiddle. You can listen to the film s main theme above.
You might not find this one in history textbooks.
Here s What You Need to Know: Korea would not finally establish a treaty with the United States until 1882.
Seventy-nine years before American troops launched the landing operation at Inchon during the Korean War, U.S. troops were involved in another amphibious assault in that corner of Korea. The Korean Expedition of 1871 sought to open trade with the insular Asian nation and avenge the destruction of an American ship crewed by kidnappers and pirates. Fifteen American sailors and marines won the Medal of Honor in the brief war, the first such medals awarded for service overseas. Though their actions were skillfully executed, the lamentable political context of the conflict may explain why their deeds are not exactly celebrated in the history textbooks.