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.

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 Ghost, popular history book by Adam Hochschild

* " 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

The film was released straight to video in the United States in 1998 by Columbia Tristar Home Video as Godzilla vs. King Ghidora.

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment released Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and Godzilla vs. Mothra on home video on April 28, 1998.

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment released Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and Godzilla vs. Mothra on home video on April 28, 1998.

* Released: November 10, 1998, Double feature with Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

( 1998 ) Philip Augustus, King of France 1180 – 1223.

This was inspired by the attendance of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía at the June 12, 1998 celebration honoring the centennial of the Philippines ' independence from Spain.

It was reburied in Melrose Abbey in 1998, pursuant to the dying wishes of the King.

( 1998 ) " Coinage and Currency ," in King, Edmund.

( ed ) ( 1998 ) The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign.

( ed ) ( 1998 ) The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign.

( 1998 ) " The March and the Welsh Kings ," in King, Edmund.

( ed ) ( 1998 ) The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign.

* Holt, J. C. ( 1998 ) " 1153: The Treaty of Westminster ," in King, Edmund.

( ed ) ( 1998 ) The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign.

( 1998 ) " Continuity in Government ," in King, Edmund.

( ed ) ( 1998 ) The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign.

Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil ( 1985 ), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ), The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ).

Throughout the 1990s, Gilliam directed his Trilogy of Americana, The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ), which were based on scripts by other people, played on North American soil, and while still being surreal, had less fantastical plots than his previous trilogy.

In 1998, there was controversy over King's exclusion from a memorial to the Quebec Conference, which was attended by King, Roosevelt, and Churchill.

It was unfinished at the time of his death, aged 85, at 4: 30 a. m., on 8 February 1998 at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in the City of Westminster, London.

* Dimebag Darrell – lead guitar on " King Size " and " Riding Shotgun " from Stomp 442 ( 1995 ); " Inside Out " and " Born Again Idiot " from Volume 8: The Threat Is Real ( 1998 ); and " Strap It On " and " Cadillac Rock Box " from We've Come for You All ( 2003 )