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20 de may. de 2024 · Leopold and Loeb were the two infamous Chicago murderers of 1924 who confessed to the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks for an ‘intellectual’ thrill. Pleading guilty, Leopold and Loeb were defended in a bench trial by famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, who secured them life imprisonment rather than execution.
24 de abr. de 2007 · History of the Latin and Teutonic nations from 1494 to 1514 Includes bibliography
The Leopold Museum, with more than 8.300 works, houses one of the world’s most important collections of Austrian art from the second half of the nineteenth century and Modernism. As a couple, Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold created this unique collection over the course of five decades. Their extraordinary passion for art enabled them to collect artists like Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt ...
Leopold von Ranke, who was born in 1795, is considered to be one of the founders of the modern practice of writing history. This collection of his writings, edited and introduced by Georg G. Iggers, was first published in 1973 and remains the leading collection of Ranke’s writings in the English language.
Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fourteen languages and has sold more than two million copies. [1]
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 ...
7 de dic. de 2022 · Meaning & History. Derived from the Old German elements liut "people" and bald "bold, brave". The spelling was altered due to association with Latin leo "lion". This name was common among German royalty, first with the Babenbergs and then the Habsburgs. Saint Leopold was a 12th-century Babenberg margrave of Austria, who is now considered the ...
