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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1906: German Count Marries Plebeian
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International Herald Tribune
09-11-2006
NEW YORK: In a humble boarding-house at Ossining to-day [Sept. 10] a good-looking German, who said he was Count Jean Ferdinand von Hochberg, nephew of the Prince of Pless, married Miss Louise Carow, the daughter of a Berlin workman. Count Ferdinand is employed in an automobile factory, and his friends assert that he was exiled and disinherited by his father, Count Jean Henry Bolko von Hochberg, because he refused to give up his pl...
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The Independent - London
; Nina Verchinina enjoyed a long and varied career in Russian ballet and was particularly notable for the modernistic trend she contributed to the classical dance. She made annual appearances with the De Basil Ballet Russe at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, throughout the Thirties, and may
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Anniversaries
The Independent - London
; Births: Franz Commer, organist and composer, 1813; Thomas Henry Weist Hill, violinist, 1828; Edouard Manet, painter, 1832; Ernst Abbe, physicist and industrialist, 1840; Benoit-Constant Coquelin, actor, 1841; Hans Heinrich, Graf von Hochberg, comp oser, 1843; Antoinette Sterling, contralto, 1850;
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Former Olympic vice president dies
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Former Olympic vice president dies From Journal Sentinel wire reports Sunday, June 16, 2002 Count Jean de Beaumont, a former vice president of the International Olympic Committee who helped build support for sports in the developing world, died. He was 98. Also a journalist, businessman, politician
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Asahi Kasei buys Dorlastan elastane fibres business from Lanxess
Technical Textiles International : TTI
; ON I MARCH 2006, Asahi Kasei Fibers (AKF) Corp announced it had finalized its purchase of the Dorlastan elastane (spandex) business from Lanxess.The sale includes production facilities at Dormagen, Germany, and Bushy Park, South Carolina, USA. In acquiring Dorlastan, AKF says it is able to
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Lanxess announces divestment of textile processing chemicals
Technical Textiles International : TTI
; FROM ITS BASE in Leverkusen, Germany, Lanxess has announced it is divesting its interests in textile processing chemicals. All the activities of theTextile Processing Chemicals (TPC) business unit outside of North America are to be acquired by Dutch investor Egeria and the TPC management. The
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Raine 4 Wayne
The Sunday Telegraph London
; ... quietly be building bridges with Raine, Countess Spencer, after their divorce almost a decade ago, but Mandrake has dispiriting news for the Gallic charmer. The effervescent stepmother to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, now has eyes for another man: Wayne ...
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Deaths of note
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; Count Jean de Beaumont, a former vice president of the International Olympic Committee who helped build support for sports in the developing world, died Wednesday in Paris. He was 98. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin expressed his condolences Saturday, saying in a statement that "an
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Regal Raine is out for the count again.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; Byline: ADAM HELLIKER THE marriage of Raine, Countess Spencer and the impoverished Count Jean-Francois de Chambrun lasted just months before ending in an embarrassing divorce. But now the stepmother of the late Princess of Wales is, surprisingly, allowing herself to be wooed by the nobleman again.
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(movie review)
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: CHRISTOPHER TOOKEY Just Visiting (PG) JUST VISITING starts from a potentially hilarious premise - an arrogant medieval French count (Jean Reno) and his smelly servant (Christian Clavier) are accidentally transported by an incompetent wizard (Malcolm McDowell) to modern Chicago. The basis
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Raine's ex out of the picture.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: NIGEL DEMPSTER AFTER reverting to the title of Raine, Countess Spencer, Princess Diana's former stepmother now appears to have forgotten completely that she was ever wed to third husband, French Count Jean-Francois de Chambrun. 'She has banished all signs of the marriage from her home in
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