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• Bring on the Vegas glitz! How Roma families are defying their persecutors with bling palaces

  22-10-2024 16:59
  Keen to show off their newfound riches, and to kick back at a society that suppressed them, Roma families are filling rural Romania with exuberant symbols of wealth – boasting gilded turrets and gleaming staircases that lead to nowhereIn the village of Hășdat in the heart of rural Romania, geese roam the dusty streets, bonfires burn in back gardens, and the houses are not quite what you would expect. Not at all. One sports a pair of golden Versace Medusa heads and Rolex crown emb
  
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• David Bowie collection among draws at vast V&A archives in east London

  22-10-2024 15:23
  
  V&A East Storehouse in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will give public extensive access behind the scenesIt looks like the Hangar 51 store room from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark: row after row of boxes and artefacts kept in climate-controlled conditions. The V&A East Storehouse is not off limits, though. The team behind it hope 250,000 people a year will visit and gain access to archives such as its recently acquired David Bowie collection.Delayed because of the pandemic, the storeho
  
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