Some of Conrad's experiences in the Congo and the story's historic background, including possible models for Kurtz, are recounted in Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost.

In King Leopold's Ghost ( 1998 ), Adam Hochschild argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspects of Heart of Darkness while scanting the horror of Conrad's accurate recounting of the methods and effects of colonialism.

However, there were international protests particularly in Britain and the United States in 1903-04 spearheaded mainly by Edmund Dene Morel and British diplomat / Irish patriot Roger Casement, whose 1904 report on the Congo condemned the practice, as well as famous writers such as Mark Twain ( who wrote King Leopold's Soliloquy ) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

* 1998: The river's history is discussed in the 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost ( by Adam Hochschild ).

* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.

With the opening of the railway line between Brussels and Mechelen on 5 May 1835, one of King Leopold's fondest hopes — to build the first railway in continental Europe — became a reality.

Adam Hochschild devotes a chapter of his book, King Leopold's Ghost, to the problem of estimating the death toll.

Supporters included American writer Mark Twain, who wrote a stinging political satire entitled King Leopold's Soliloquy, in which the King supposedly argues that bringing Christianity to the country outweighs a little starvation.

It should be noted that, as Hochschild describes in King Leopold's Ghost, many of Leopold's policies were adopted from Dutch practices in the East Indies, and similar methods were employed to some degree by Germany, France and Portugal where natural rubber occurred in their colonies.

After Leopold's carriage passed, Rubino fired three shots at the King ; the shots missed Leopold and Rubino was immediately arrested.

After the King transferred his private colony to Belgium, there was, as Adam Hochschild puts it in King Leopold's Ghost, a " Great Forgetting ".

He was long suspected of being the illegitimate son of either Empress Carlota of Mexico ( by General Alfred Van der Smissen ); or of her brother Leopold II, King of the Belgians, and Leopold's Polish mistress.

Lilian also saw the King in 1939 at a garden-party organized in honor of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and later at the golf course at Laeken, where she was invited to lunch by Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, King Leopold's mother.

During this period, the Belgian royal family lived in exile in Prégny, Switzerland ; King Leopold's younger brother, Prince Charles of Belgium, was made Regent of the country.

Due to the controversy surrounding King Leopold's wartime actions, and, in particular, his second marriage, Lilian was widely unpopular in Belgium.

* " King Leopold's Soliloquy ", 1905 pamphlet by Mark Twain.

Opponents of King Leopold's rule stated, however, that the administration itself was to be considered responsible for the spreading of the epidemic.

Twain's King Leopold's Soliloquy was a biting, sarcastic satire aimed at King Leopold.

* Adam Hochschild's 1998 popular history book King Leopold's Ghost and a 2006 documentary with the same title, directed by Pippa Scott.

King wrote a musical play with John Mellencamp titled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.

* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold ’ s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Mariner Books, 1998.

* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold ’ s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Mariner Books, 1998.

The Iron King became the most productive mine in the Bradshaws, and produced $ 100 million in gold, silver, lead and zinc before its closure in 1968 L. Spude, Central Arizona Ghost Towns ( Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1978 ).

Deserted buildings in the Gold King Mine and Ghost Town, northwest of Jerome.

The Shadow appears as Fritz in at least 23 Shadow novels: " The Living Shadow ," " Hidden Death ," " The Ghost Makers ," " The Crime Clinic ," " Crime Circus ," " The Chinese Disks ," " The Dark Death ," " The Third Skull ," " The Black Master ," " The Voodoo Master ," " The Third Shadow ," " The Circle of Death ," " The Sledge Hammer Crimes ," " The Golden Masks ," " The Ghost Murders ," " Hills of Death ," " The Hand ," " The Racket's King ," " The Green Hoods ," " The Crime Ray ," " The Getaway Ring ," " Masters of Death ," and " The Crystal Skull.

* Ghost of King Henry VI

* King Leopold's Ghost

* Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan ( 1999 ).

In his history book King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild suggests that Leon Rom was one of the inspirations for the Mr. Kurtz character, citing references as the heads on the stakes outside of the station and other similarities between the two.

Taking on the name King Snake ( after a snake known for its immunity to other snakes ' venom, and a habit of eating other snakes ), he found willing soldiers in the Ghost Dragon Chinese youth gang of Macau, Kowloon, and Hong Kong.

However, like the Indian routine, the Chinese do not always use a large final production, such as the routine performed by 王鬼手 ( Wang Gui Shou, or King of Ghost Hands ).

* 1999-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

* Coral " Trixie " King, part of The Trio, a villain from the comic book Ghost

He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet, " King of the Wild Frontier ".

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

The popular General Lafayette, as captain of the National Guard of Paris and confidant of the king, took his oath to the constitution, followed by the King Louis XVI.

The murder of the Archbishop gave rise to a wave of popular outrage against the King.

As one of the oldest and most popular world pastimes, coin collecting is now often referred to as the " King of Hobbies ".

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

Child-oriented dramas also became more popular with titles such as The Lion King ( 1994 ).

Although chips were already a popular dish in most Commonwealth countries, the thin style of French fries has been popularized worldwide in part by U. S .- based fast food chains such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Arby's.

Since King Kong was seen as the bigger draw ( at the time, he was even more popular in Japan than Godzilla ), and since Godzilla was still a villain at this point in the series, it led to the decision to not only give King Kong top billing, but also to present him as the winner of the climactic fight.

The Genus III edition of the popular board game Trivial Pursuit had a question that asked " Who wins in the Japanese version of King Kong vs.

The film was originally written for King Kong ( called operation robinson crusoe: king kong vs ebirah ), but Toho switched Kong with another popular character at the time, Godzilla.

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

While tensions remain ( for example, with Muslim immigrants and in the Basque region ), modern Spain has seen the development of a robust, modern democracy as a constitutional monarchy with popular King Juan Carlos, one of the fastest-growing standards of living in Europe, entry into the European Community, and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Instead a young Danish Prince became King George I. George was a very popular choice as a constitutional monarch, and he agreed that his sons would be raised in the Greek Orthodox faith.

In this year, Purcell also composed a march and quick-step, which became so popular that Lord Wharton adapted the latter to the fatal verses of Lillibullero ; and in or before January 1688, he composed his anthem " Blessed are they that fear the Lord " by express command of the King.

The story of the Grail and of the quest to find it became increasingly popular in the 19th century, referred to in literature such as Alfred Tennyson's Arthurian cycle the Idylls of the King.

Using a full blues band, he became a popular act in the South with his daily broadcasts on the ' King Biscuit Time ', originating live from Helena, Arkansas.

This criticism did not match the typical idealized, romantic view of Richard the Lion-Hearted that was popular when Scott wrote the book, and yet it accurately echoes the way King Richard is often judged by historians today.

He wrote numerous books, some of which, such as King Solomon's Ring, On Aggression and Man Meets Dog became popular reading.

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus ( 535 – 496 BC ) was the legendary seventh and final King of Rome, reigning from 535 BC until the popular uprising in 509 BC that led to the establishment of the Roman Republic.

Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong ( 1933 ), Little Women ( 1933 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

Several popular franchise-series, including Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, were released for the platform.

In the late 19th century the Cymru Fydd movement recreated him as the father of Welsh nationalism, revising the historical image of him and joining him in popular memory as a national hero on par with King Arthur.