Yesterday, following the official welcome at the king’s Palace Square, the visiting Japanese dignitaries visited City Hall and Parliament, ending the day with a traditional state banquet at the Palace of Laeken.
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Marta Martínez Tato,
Vanity Fair,
24 June 2026
One album has pictures with everyone from stars like Christian Pulisic, Mohamed Salah and James Rodriguez to foreign dignitaries like former Hungary President Viktor Orban, to friends alike.
No government endangered one of humanity’s greatest cultural monuments.
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Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Only in the late 19th century did the United States and Mexico demarcate the international line with small stone obelisks that looked like miniature Washington monuments.
Brick pillars are embedded with bronze plaques listing the players and manager from each of the franchise’s three World Series championship teams.
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Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
Personalized treatments are built around three pillars—energetic renewal, conscious longevity, and stress management—and integrated with the landscape and architecture of the property and the regional cuisine.
There are plenty of notables on the Directing ballot, too.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
20 June 2026
The week after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and a delegation of 45 other Chicago notables met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican, another Chicago politician got to meet the pope too.
As detailed by Zachary Folk of Forbes, Brunson signed with the Knicks in 2022 for more than $104 million—a bargain for a future Finals MVP when superstars like Nikola Jokic were signing contracts worth up to $276 million.
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Adam Zagoria,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
The league is planning to begin play in January and has already attracted other WNBA superstars, including Nneka Ogwumike, Alyssa Thomas and Jonquel Jones.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 June 2026
Eximious had a royal warrant, a seal of approval issued to those supplying goods to royal personages, from then-Prince Charles.
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Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2026
Good historians and talented fiction writers can tease out human qualities from such personages while acknowledging their fundamental distance from our own time.
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Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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