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LIVE AID II; EXCLUSIVE Franz Ferdinand to line up for new charity mega-gig.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England); 10/24/2004; 202 words
; Byline: BEN TODD Showbiz Editor FRANZ Ferdinand have been lined up as one of the headline acts for a second ... pounds 60million for Ethiopia's starving children. Live Aid II would be likely to benefit famine-stricken Darfur and will ... staged next summer at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. Franz Ferdinand have ...
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In civil action by finder against Ferdinand Marcos for converting gold plundered and buried by General Yamashita in Philippines during World War II, Hawai'ian Supreme Court rejects "act of state" defense since defendant failed to prove that Marcos had seized the treasure for other than private purposes.(Brief Article)
International Law Update; 1/1/1999; 45 words
; While he was working as a locksmith in Baguio City, the Philippines in 1961, Roger Domingo Roxas ran into two individuals who claimed to know where Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita had buried large amounts of gold and other valuables looted from conquered nations during World War II.
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Ferdinand of Tyrol (1529-1595). (The History of Mineral Collecting: 1530-1799)
The Mineralogical Record; 11/1/1994; Wilson, Wendell E.; 844 words
; Ferdinand II was born the son of Holy Roman Emperor ... Ferdinand's death in 1564 his younger son, Ferdinand II, was appointed governor of Tyrol and the ... pressures of directing an empire, Archduke Ferdinand II set immediately about the task of rebuilding ...
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Obituary: Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
The Independent - London; 10/3/1994; STEPHEN FROWEN; 1024 words
; ... Emperor, Wilhelm II, whom he greatly ... Frederick III. Louis Ferdinand was born in 1907 ... dedicated to Wilhelm II and the Empress Auguste ... War, Prince Louis Ferdinand had to flee with ... Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, was an exceptionally ... of his heir Louis Ferdinand, when 33, left a ...
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine.(Biography)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 6/22/2004; Komins, Benton Jay; 14269 words
; ... of the narrating Ferdinand and Celine becomes ... events of Journey--to Ferdinand's experiences immediately ... of Feerie I and II deal with the narrator ... hallucination (Louis-Ferdinand Celine 41). What ... Journey, Feerie I and II, and the wartime ... Guignol's Band II. Trans ... .
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Tempest in another time: Shakespeare, Greenaway, Celine.(William Shakespeare, Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
The Romanic Review; 1/1/2006; Hainge, Greg; 8147 words
; ... Prospero's Book and Feerie II are, then, heuristic ... With regards to Feerie II, Jane Carson, reading ... pour une autre fois I et II: un spectacle et son ... 1987. Celine, Louis-Ferdinand. Romans IV (Feerie pour ... Feerie pour une autre fois II [Normance], Entretiens ... Notice. Celine, ...
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Bric-a-Brac: a Rothchild's memoir of collecting: in 1897 the creator of Waddesdon Manor, Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, wrote a revealing and vivid autobiographical account of dealers and collectors. A major document for the history of collecting, it is published here for the first time.
Apollo; 7/1/2007; Hall, Michael; 17537 words
; ... its contents and its 22,000 acres of demesne, by the Duc d'Aumale, the news of whose death reaches me as I am writing. (64) The Duc d'Aumale (Fig ... Manor, Buckinghamshire. It appears to have been made from a manuscript by Ferdinand, but this has not survived. In the text as published here, a few ...
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Car Designer Ferdinand Porsche Jr. Dies
The Washington Post; 3/28/1998; 417 words
; Ferdinand Porsche Jr., 88, who helped his father develop the Volkswagen Beetle before World War II and later founded the sports car firm that bears his name, died March 27 at his vacation home in Zell am See, Austria. The cause ... into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will," he once said. The family ...
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[ Ferdinand Columbus ]
The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/11/2004; 1339 words
; Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539) is ... images its worldwide web. Ferdinand was at the forefront of ... vessels were lost, but Ferdinand proved a born sailor and ... American continent". But Ferdinand's life's work was to make ... published in Europe even for Ferdinand to have a sample of every ... The ...
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Ferdinand Porsche Jr., Car company founder
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/28/1998; 161 words
; Ferdinand Porsche Jr., who helped his father develop the Volkswagen Beetle before World War II and afterward founded the sports car firm that bears his name, died Friday at age 88. Porsche's family moved to Stuttgart, Germany, when his father, Ferdinand, became a board member and technical director at ...
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