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2 days ago · The July Crisis[ b] was a series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914, which led to the outbreak of World War I. The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian ...
Aug 2, 2024 · When: May-September 1924. What: Leopold and Loeb devised a plan to commit the “perfect crime,” kidnapping and killing 14-year-old Bobby Franks. About 100 feet ahead of Hartman was his neighbor, Robert “Bobby” Franks, 14, the son of a wealthy businessman, heading home after umpiring a baseball game in the yard of Harvard School for Boys.
4 days ago · The museum was named after Rudolf Leopold, an ophthalmologist and passionate art collector. He co-founded the museum with his wife, Elisabeth Leopold. Leopold began collecting art in the 1950s, focusing on Austrian modernism, particularly the works of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Oskar Kokoschka.
Jul 29, 2024 · Fine Art Censorship. The Leopold Museum houses a unique collection of Austrian art and Modernism. They have the big names like Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. But there’s a problem, according to media giant Meta. They don’t want these spectacular and important artworks shared with the world.
Jul 27, 2024 · One of the most outrageous evils of the 19th and early 20th centuries was Leopold II of Belgium’s rape of the Congo. The story is well told by Adam Hochschild in King Leopold’s Ghost. King Leopold was effective at using state power to achieve his ends. His position as king enabled him to get funding from the Belgian government, to use ...
1 day ago · Franz Joseph I on the invention of the phonograph. Recorded 1900. Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I ( German: Franz Joseph Karl [fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈkaʁl]; Hungarian: Ferenc József Károly [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈjoːʒɛf ˈkaːroj]; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of ...
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Jul 23, 2024 · Leopold II (born April 9, 1835, Brussels, Belgium—died December 17, 1909, Laeken) was the king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. Keen on establishing Belgium as an imperial power, he led the first European efforts to develop the Congo River basin, making possible the formation in 1885 of the Congo Free State, annexed in 1908 as the Belgian Congo and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
