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Take a look at the exterior facades and interior walls of your house. There's a good chance that you will see elements -- roof gables, classically styled columns, crown moldings, perhaps an arched Palladian window -- whose prevalence in American architecture can be traced to Andrea Palladio, a Renaissance architect.
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"Andrea Palladio 500," staged by the International Center for Architectural Studies at Palladio's Palazzo Barbaran da Porto in Vicenza, Italy, reveals that significant discoveries about Andrea Palladio, probably the most influential of all Western architects, are still being made.
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Adrian Woodford battles storms wedding parties and unmapped roads on a tour of Palladio's Italy.
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A major exhibition at the Royal Academy celebrates the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio this Spring. He is deemed the most influential of Renaissance architects but his reliance on Roman heritage may have been misguided.
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Growing dominance of Twenty20 underlined after Sri Lankan government reiterates players will honour IPL commitments ahead of next year's tour to England.
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A draft of a report by American intelligence agencies concludes Afghanistan is at risk of slipping under Taliban influence, and calls into question whether the government there can stem the rise of the group's influence warning of a "downward spiral",
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The "Picasso and the Masters," exhibition, being held simultaneously at three Paris museums, explores Picasso's talent for absorbing and transforming the art of his predecessors.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline....
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CWMGRACH, Wales (AP) -- Deep under a pine-covered mountain, men clamber into red overalls and heavy boots, strap on lamps and attach sensors that check gas levels....
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Built in 1879 as a group of model tenements, the Tower Buildings, at Hicks and Baltic Streets in Cobble Hill, may soon face substantial changes.
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In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline.
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On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows....
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An equities trader at Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank, lost the company about $10 million by placing unauthorized bets on the stock market just as it collapsed, the bank said Monday.
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On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows.
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Michael Mallett was one of the most original and productive scholars in the study of italian Renaissance history. His doctoral research at Oxford and formative periods at the British School at Rome and the Scuola Normale, Pisa, led to the publication of The Florentine Galleys in the Fifteenth Century (1967), a study of Florence's attempt to use the recently conquered city of Pisa to gain direct access to the trade of the Mediterranean. This early work reveals much of the character of Mallett's scholarship: respect for the sources, care in composition and a wariness of preconceptions.
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Planned naval exercises with Venezuela, plus big energy deals, get Washington's notice.
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Lawrence Dallaglio says Martin Johnson will instil a set of "non-negotiable standards" into the England set-up.
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With the Camerata Salzburg at Carnegie Hall on Monday night, Anne-Sophie Mutter demonstrated that she can play Bach with simultaneous nods to both the 18th and 21st centuries.
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Ukrainian News learned this from Kivalov's press service.
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The National and National Portrait Galleries have always made odd neighbours, much of the latter's collection belonging on the walls of the former. Every now and then, though, their dual existence makes sense, as with this week's (entirely unintentional) pairing of Renaissance Faces at the National and Annie Leibovitz at the NPG.
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The indefatigable Cloris Leachman has become a surprise hit on “Dancing With the Stars.”
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Oct. 20: Comedian Amy Sedaris cooks with the TODAY hosts and talks about her new cookbook, "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence." (Today Show)
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Some 10 years after the Northern Ireland peace agreement, Belfast is in the midst of a transformation. Perhaps nowhere is it more pronounced than in the revival of the city's music scene.
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There is a feeling that Napoli's regeneration after years of decline and debt is not just a fleeting moment.
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Russia is the biggest...
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Russia, the world's second-largest exporter, indicated ahead of a meeting between its President and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC) top official Wednesday that the country is considering forming an oil production reserve to influence global prices that have dwindled considerably since their July peaks.
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After Rosenborg BK lost four of their first six league games this term, few expected them to be challenging for European honours come the season's end - but that was discounting the reviving influence of coach Erik Hamrén.
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Walking around the National Gallery's exhibition Renaissance Faces last week I bumped into the art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon. Nothing particularly noteworthy in that, you might think, given that it was a press view. But what was unusual was that Andrew was hanging on the wall. He was in a painting by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, and appeared to be wearing a cloak of marten fur and gesturing at the viewer in an admonitory way, as if he was making a critical point in a BBC documentary. I wouldn't have mentioned this frankly trivial resemblance if two people hadn't also brought it up subsequently. "Did you see Andrew Graham-Dixon at the show?" they asked, and I knew at once what they were referring to. It was a coincidence which got me thinking about the irretrievably impure way in which we look at portraits.
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Factional leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Chief Ganiyu Adams, has described the recent Olokun cultural festival held in Badagry as a cultural rennaissance.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Almost three years ago, Sajjad Khan used to buy supplies for the Pakistani Taliban with U.S. dollars that he says came from al-Qaida....
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Even after the killer admitted that his gambling debt led him to smash the bookie's head with a hammer, L.A. Police Chief William H. Parker continued to link the crime to the Mafia. Clifford Rue was a man ahead of his time and behind on payments to his bookie.
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The caretaker of the hotel Nello Summertimes in Southampton says he has seen and heard ghosts on the property.
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