Leopold fervently believed that overseas colonies were the key to a country's greatness, and he worked tirelessly to acquire colonial territory for Belgium.

Leopold was born in Vienna, the third son, and was at first educated for the priesthood, but the theological studies to which he was forced to apply himself are believed to have influenced him against the Church.

While the media expected Leopold and Loeb to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, Darrow advised his clients to plead guilty, avoiding a trial by jury, which Darrow believed would most certainly have resulted in a conviction and perhaps even the death penalty.

A part of the Liberals, however, still believed in the possibility of a constitutional grand-duke who could be induced for a second time to join Piedmont in a war against Austria, whereas the popular party headed by Ferdinando Bartolommei and Giuseppe Dolfi realized that only by the expulsion of Leopold could the national aspirations be realized.

Leopold, age 19 at the time, and Loeb, 18, believed themselves to be Nietzschean übermenschen who could commit a " perfect crime " ( in this case a kidnapping and murder ).

Leopold Zunz believed that the Ashkenazi pronunciation was derived from that of Palestine in Geonic times ( 7th-11th centuries CE ), while the Sephardi pronunciation was derived from that of Babylonia.

By his contemporaries, he was widely believed to be an illegitimate son of the King of the Belgians, Leopold II.

During her tenure, Lehzen had the support of George IV, William IV, and another of Victoria's uncles, Leopold I of Belgium, who all believed that she was vital to the princess ' health, happiness, and continued resistance to Conroy's influence.

He suggests that the real father of Queen Victoria's husband Albert, Prince Consort, was King Leopold I of Belgium, Albert's maternal uncle, rather than Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as is otherwise believed.

Apart from overseeing the training of the European-style military bands of Mahmud ’ s modern army, he taught music at the palace to the members of the Ottoman royal family, the princes and the ladies of the harem, is believed to have composed the first national anthem of the Ottoman Empire, supported the annual Italian opera season in Pera, organised concerts and operatic performances at court, and played host to a number of eminent virtuosi who visited Istanbul at the time, such as Franz Liszt, Parish Alvars and Leopold de Meyer.

It explained Leopold ’ s belief that humankind should have moral respect for the environment and that it is unethical to harm it.

The man was King Leopold 2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better grab a colony while the grabbing was still good.

Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University.

The Dowager Queen Constance was anxious for her son's life and she escaped with King Ladislaus to the court of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria.

As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.

For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788 he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own ; and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association Internationale Africaine, a non-governmental organization.

Leopold was the sole shareholder and chairman.

The melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

He found her a publisher, and her book was reviewed by Aldo Leopold, Joseph Grinnell, and Jean Delacour.

The historic emphasis and poetic naturalist writings for protection was on wild places, from notable ecologists in the history of conservation biology, such as Aldo Leopold and Arthur Tansley, were far removed from urban centres where the concentration of pollution and environmental degradation is located.

The word ' ester ' was coined in 1848 by German chemist Leopold Gmelin, probably as a contraction of the German Essigäther-acetic ether.

By May 1683 the Ottoman threat to Emperor Leopold I's capital, Vienna, was very real.

It was at Leopold I's camp where Eugene arrived in mid-August.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in September / October 1697, the desultory war in the west was finally brought to an inconclusive end, and Leopold I could once again devote all his martial energies into defeating the Ottoman Turks in the east.

With the monarchy at the point of complete financial breakdown Leopold I was at last persuaded to change the government.

Also important was forester and ecologist Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the Wilderness Society in 1935, who wrote a classic of nature observation and ethical philosophy, A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949.

Leopold was, from 1765 to 1790, the Grand duke | Grand Duke of Tuscany

One possibility, frequently entertained by biographers, is that the marriage was blocked by Leopold, who liked having Nannerl at home as the lady of the house.

He frequently sent letters to Nannerl ( at least one per week ) that usually began with the sentence " Leopoldl is healthy ", (" Leopoldl " is " Little Leopold ") and offered a full report on the child.

Leaders of the party, who were dubbed Landesleiter due to the recognition of Hitler as overall Führer, included Alfred Proksch ( 1931-33 ), Hermann Neubacher ( 1935 ) and Josef Leopold ( 1936-38 ), although real power frequently lay with Theodor Habicht, a German sent by Hitler to oversee Nazi activity in Austria.

The Congo Free State of Leopold II of Belgium is frequently described as a Raubwirtschaft.

They are often regarded with contempt, particularly by Leopold Soli, and they frequently use half-sentences and confusing language.

King Leopold raves madly about the good things that he says he has done for the people of the Congo Free State, including the disbursement of millions on religion and art.

Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.

Following the early trailblazing work of Grove Karl Gilbert around the turn of the 20th century, a group of natural scientists, geologists and hydraulic engineers including Ralph Alger Bagnold, John Hack, Luna Leopold, Thomas Maddock and Arthur Strahler began to research the form of landscape elements such as rivers and hillslopes by taking systematic, direct, quantitative measurements of aspects of them and investigating the scaling of these measurements.

The construction of the Leopold Canal in 1857 made the closing of the Zwin and its transformation in a natural reservation possible.

However, Leopold II ’ s primary focus was to make a large profit on the natural resources, particularly ivory and rubber.

In the early bow ( the Baroque bow ), the natural bow stroke is a non-legato norm, producing what Leopold Mozart called a " small softness " at the beginning and end of each stroke.

Only two statesmen might hope to oppose Louis XIV: William of Orange, stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Dutch Republic and the natural leader of Protestant opposition ; and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, obvious leader of anti-French forces in Germany and Catholic Europe.

: Article 85 ( 1 ) The King's constitutional powers are hereditary through the direct, natural, and legitimate descent from HM Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saxe-Coburg, by order of primogeniture.

:( 3 ) The constitutional powers of the King are hereditary through the direct, natural, and legitimate descent from HM Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saxe-Coburg, from male to male, by order of primogeniture and with the permanent exclusion of women and of their descendants.

Both were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years ; Loeb was murdered in prison in 1936, while Leopold was paroled in 1958 after serving 33 years, and died in 1971 of natural causes.

Grand Duke Leopold sought his assistance for this herbarium, gave him the post of professor of botany at the museum of natural sciences ( a chair which had been vacant for almost thirty years ), and made him director of the botanical garden connected with the museum.

During this era, three key authors – Osborn, Vogt, and Leopold – awakened and promoted recognition of human dependence on the environment with the idea of ‘ natural capital ’.

* Masso Leopoldino, a natural tuff stone carved to form a fortified, panoramic terrace by order of Gran Duke Leopold.