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...Batteries require cobalt and unregulated artisanal cobalt mining in the Congo is finishing off the job King Leopold started....
...Its leaders, Prince Rupert Loewenstein and Alexis de Redé, fixed upon Leopold Joseph — founded in 1919 by a German-born journalist-banker whose family was out of heirs....
...She pulls out her iPhone — “Augustus Leopold Egg; isn’t that a great name” — to show me his 1862 painting “The Travelling Companions”, of two nearly identical women seated in a train, the spark behind the...
...The book forensically recounts a day in the life of protagonist Leopold Bloom....
...Alongside Smoot on faculty is the novelist Leopold Lens, a famous womaniser who bears a teasing resemblance to Philip Roth, plus other usual suspects: “There was the winner of the Bancroft Prize who had,...
...RIP, Leopold Bloom, you would have loved the coquette trend. You would have loved the 2023 “bow-pocalypse”. You would have loved Sandy Liang and Simone Rocha SS24....
...(He also built Leverville in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the brutally violent and extractive reign of Belgian King Leopold II.)...
...Opening on January 13, co-founders Leopold Thun and Angelina Volk have secured the Clerk’s House, a 1735 building so quaint that its address is 118½ Shoreditch High Street, next to St Leonard’s church....
...s fungi-headed Girl in Blue (2013) sold for $730,800 (over an $80,000-$120,000 estimate); at a Christie’s charity auction in New York a year later, the elegantly altered Portrait of a Lady (After Louis Leopold...
...Most historians agree that a minimum of several million Congolese died at the hands of Leopold, but visitors are not to leave the building thinking in millions....
...Balenciaga leather Glove tote, €3,400, denim baggy trousers, €1,800, and glitter fabric Leopold flats, €750. Alex Eagle cotton top, stylist’s own Gucci metal-fringed acetate sunglasses, £1,830....
...The hotel is now part of Orso, a French group that owns seven properties in the capital, including the charming Hôtel Leopold in Montparnasse....
...Breton renamed the work “Luncheon in Fur”, referring to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s sadistic novel Venus in Furs....
...Sembène’s Xala (1975) was a ripe satire of curdled independence, arriving as Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor was well into his second decade of rule....
...Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his personal possession in 1885, and it was a Belgian colony from 1908 until independence in 1960....
...Friday Belgium National Day, marking the date in 1831 when Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld took the oath as first king of the Belgians....
...“Li Galli must be the most magical place in the Mediterranean,” said the London-based gallerist Leopold Thun, son of architect Matteo Thun, who first visited the private island in his teens....
...Sancho Panza, Emma Bovary, Leopold Bloom, these artefacts, conjured out of words, can seem more real to us than the person sitting opposite us at the breakfast table. What could be stranger?...
...I know Mr Leopold Bloom’s relish for “the inner organs of beasts and fowls” is not shared by everyone but I, while not an indiscriminate lover of offal (you can keep your chitlings and andouillettes), have...
...But despite what Owolade believes, the fact that former Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor died in France and had a white wife tells us absolutely nothing about the merits or otherwise of pan-Africanism...
...Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa has been through a major refit to reflect in a very different way on the racist legacy of King Leopold II’s Congo....
...Best known for his 1998 book King Leopold’s Ghost, which introduced many western readers to the horrors of Belgian rule in what is now Congo, Hochschild has developed something of a speciality in delving...
...“Twenty-five years ago this wasn’t a nice area,” explains Christophe Ysewyn, owner of the minimalist, 17-room Hotel Pilar that sits on a corner of the leafy Leopold de Waelplaats square that fronts KMSKA...
...The then-King Baudouin of Belgium spoke first, saying that the independence was the result of “the genius of King Léopold II”....
...Soon after, Belgium’s parliament launched a commission to examine its exploitation of the country under Leopold II and colonial rule....
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