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Leopold was active in the Natural History Society of Puerto Rico, traveling throughout the island to observe its birdlife. In 1963, he published Checklist of Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. While he spoke of his intention to write a book titled Reach for a Halo about his life following prison, he never completed it.
The Leopold Cafe and Bar is a restaurant and bar on Colaba Causeway, in Colaba area of Mumbai, India, located across from the Colaba Police station. [3] [4] It was one of the first sites attacked in the 2008 Mumbai attacks .
Mark Leopold’s Inside West Nile retells the history of the far north-west of Uganda. In particular the book describes how narratives of violence, imposed from the outside, have affected the lives of people in the region. Colonial officials, missionaries, politicians, international aid workers and, not least, anthropologists have associated ...
Vocabulary. On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession. Rather than control the Congo as a colony, as other European powers did throughout Africa, Leopold privately owned the region. (Colonizing other peoples, regardless of the justification ...
Leopold Ii (belgium), LEOPOLD II (1835–1909; ruled 1865–1909), king of Belgium and personal sovereign of the Congo Free State. Leopold II, King of the Belgians—as his coun… Colonialism, c. 1875 The boundaries of Colonialism, like those of many literary eras, are difficult to draw. The history of Colonialism as a policy or practice go…
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) was one of the most important and prolific German historians of the nineteenth century. His introduction to The History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations (1824), his notes on history and philosophy (1881–1888), and an excerpt from his lectures on world history (1854) are reprinted below.
Leopold II av Belgien (franska: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, flamländska: Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor ), född 9 april 1835 i Bryssel, död 17 december 1909 i Laeken i Bryssel, var belgarnas kung från 1865 till sin död 1909. Han var son till Leopold I av Belgien och Marie Louise av Frankrike . Leopold II skapade Kongostaten ...
