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...“Now, that is Kaiser Chief,” says Kate Barnard, pointing to a giant taxidermy bust of a longhorn bull that dominates the grand vaulted entrance hall of 14th‑century Raby Castle in County Durham....
...Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto is classist misogyny at its ugliest; Richard Strauss’s score is seductive and bombastic in equal measure....
...by Richard Overy (Pelican)What leads humans to wage war?...
...It was not until 1917, when the Kaiser’s U-boat fleet resumed indiscriminate attacks on Atlantic shipping, that Wilson reframed the war as a struggle between democracy and tyranny and dispatched American...
...Richard Sharpe, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, believes the ultra-processed, high-fat western diet is the primary source of exposure to BPA and some phthalates....
...Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis is a biting satire, part cabaret, part opera, with the flavour of Kurt Weill....
...Fluent in the language and great admirer of German literature and culture, in the years before the outbreak of war Haldane overestimated the chances of a peace agreement with the Kaiser....
...The opera could have been written yesterday, but it was actually 1933 when composer Kurt Weill and playwright Georg Kaiser conceived it....
...“There is fear in the streets,” said Patrick Kaiser, portfolio manager for Brandywine Global Investment Management. “No one wants to have exposure over the weekend.”...
...“Kaiser gave Der Silbersee the subtitle ‘Ein Wintermärchen’ (‘A Winter’s Fairytale’), so it is his own description....
...(Kaiser What the Health, 46m) Epidemics in movies What do films like Contagion tell us about society’s view of epidemics?...
...The cast is uniformly excellent, especially Amanda Echalaz and Joseph Kaiser as the dinner party hosts, Sophie Bevan and David Portillo as the young lovers, and the nearly ageless John Tomlinson as the doctor...
...US soldiers gave their lives alongside European allies to help stop the imperial Kaiser’s march....
...The show included works by European and US artists such as Richard Serra, Michael Heizer and Joseph Beuys....
...But on the day war broke out, an exultant Kaiser told a crowd: “I no longer recognise any parties or affiliations; today we are all German brothers.”...
...(Kaiser) . . . and at home Domestic health spending was also hit, with reductions for the FDA; Medicaid, the health programme for the poor; the National Institutes of Health, which fund research; and other...
...“Anyone who likes him at all has a relationship with him . . . that’s just about as personal as any they have with the people they actually know,” Richard Hell, the punk rock pioneer, wrote in a recent collection...
...What was good for Edward VII was also good for Kaiser Wilhelm II in those heady days before the first world war, when the crowned heads of Europe were content to settle their differences in friendly competition...
...But as the Economist noted this week, there’s only so much that financial engineering — even by a master financial engineer like Richard Kinder — can do in the face of rising capital costs....
...A database of 25 million fans could be worth billions of euros, says Kaiser....
...The new series has as yet said nothing about the 350 years from the execution of Charles I to the accession of Elizabeth’s grandfather, George V, who kept his head and his job while the tsars, kaisers and...
...not the overall number but what is happening state by state – in reality we have 51 different market places – and this early, it is hard to draw any definitive conclusion,” said Jennifer Tolbert, of the Kaiser...
...So the Kaiser becomes, in this narrative, simply a buffoon, whom nobody could take seriously....
...In almost every respect, Angela Merkel, their chancellor, is the historical antithesis of Kaiser Wilhelm II: female, democratically elected, supremely cautious and almost comically circumspect when asked...
...On June 22 1916, Sir Richard Cooper MP demanded to know “on what evidence the Lords of the Admiralty formed the conclusion that the Hampshire struck a mine”....
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