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...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....
...The king’s speech was followed by an uncontroversial address by the new Congolese president, Joseph Kasavubu....
...As the 20th-century economist Joseph Schumpeter noted, the essential fact of any economy is innovation, or what he termed the “gale of creative destruction”....
...He was encouraged in the delusion that Mexico would welcome a Habsburg monarch by his wife Charlotte, better known as Carlota, the daughter of King Leopold of the Belgians....
...Its elegant decor is by Joseph Dirand, whose work I revere. And the view from our table on its verdant terrace had the Eiffel Tower dead centre. But the food. Mon Dieu!...
...Raoul Peck’s sombre, four-part documentary takes its title from the order given by the insane Colonel Kurtz at the close of Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness; it’s also the title of Sven Lindqvist...
...The old version was arranged by Austrian-born Leopold Weninger, a former member of the Nazi party who also made popular arrangements of the party’s anthem, the Horst-Wessel-Lied....
...The more traditional Kunsthistorisches Museum has interesting exhibitions too – though I prefer the Leopold, a private collection of 20th-century work by artists like Kokoschka and Schiele, who seem very...
...And after returning to Kinshasa full time from 2003 he developed a reputation as one of President Joseph Kabila’s most courageous and consistent critics....
...Since the assassination of his father in 2001, Joseph, still only 47, has run the country....
...The outcry over “red rubber” was also stoked by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, with its phantasmagoric depictions of the horrors of colonial rule....
...Many of the plants there today are of Leopold II’s original specimens....
...In 1988, she met Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, who founded the company in 1851, on a flight between Zurich and New York....
...The country has been horribly misruled since it became the personal colony of King Leopold II of Belgium in 1885....
...For more than 20 years, until 1908, it was run as the personal fiefdom of King Leopold II of Belgium....
...The Requiem, less problematic, relied primarily on long-familiar contributions by Franz Xaver Süssmayr and Joseph Leopold Eybler....
...Made in Germany in about 1760 by Austrian clockmaker Leopold Hoys, the remarkable decorations were probably sculpted by Bonaventura Joseph Mutschele....
...Colonial rulers included King Leopold II of Belgium who, from 1885, oversaw widespread and often violent displacement of local people to tap rubber for export....
...King Leopold II of Belgium gobbled up the greatest slice, while Portugal and France made do with the rest....
...There she was five, and playful; now she is a composed eight-year-old, and Velázquez’s glittering portrait, commissioned for her fiancé, Emperor Leopold I in Vienna, reflects her double life as treasured...
...The art historian Joseph Koerner said that Vienna “created the modern world by scandalising it”. Freud studied the psychosexual, Klimt drew outrageous nudes....
...The boxes produced by the surrealist-inspired Joseph Cornell evoked not only the contents but the physical appearance of the compartmentalised collectors’ cabinets produced in Augsburg and Antwerp in the...
...“In King Leopold’s day men fought over rubber and ivory in Congo; today it is gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt and coltan (columbite-tantalite, used in laptops and mobile phones)....
...He joined American stockbroking firm Bache & Co and then bought the merchant bank Leopold Joseph, which is when he was approached by a friend in late 1968 asking if he would take a meeting with Mick Jagger...
...Frank Leopold Jessica: Hello Frank....
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