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Faces of Evil: Maria “The Beast” Mandl

Edit World History Online 17 Apr 2016
Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin infamous for her key role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 female prisoners ... The concentration camp was discovered on January 27, 1945 by part of the 100th Infantry Division of General Fyodor Krasavina....

Major cleaning operation under way for Wellington Arch's Quadriga sculpture

Edit Belfast Telegraph 11 Apr 2016
... of peace, and has looked out over central London from its vantage point for more than a century since it was installed in 1912 ... The giant horses, angel, chariot and boy charioteer that make up the sculpture were then cast in bronze and once the arch had been given a new roof with steel girders to support the artwork, it was erected in January 1912....

Cleaning of sculpture on London's Wellington Arch reveals intricate details

Edit The Guardian 11 Apr 2016
Bronze statue of Peace by Adrian Jones was commissioned by Edward VII to replace an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington ... “The quality is ridiculously good, far better than it needed to be”, historian Steven Brindle says. “Poor Jones knew this was his masterpiece and took infinite trouble over it – for all the thanks he got.” ... By January 1912 Edward was dead and the planned grand opening ceremony was cancelled on cost grounds ... ....

Career of British double agent Kim Philby revealed in newly uncovered video

Edit Belfast Telegraph 04 Apr 2016
Revealing new insight into Britain's most infamous spy has finally come to light following the publication of a secret video showing his long-term career as a double agent for the Soviet Union ... Share Go To ... "Well, in a time of war, it honestly was not ... Born in the Punjab, India, on January 1 1912, Philby was first recruited by Britain as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 ... ....

Tom Clarke: the leader left out of the story

Edit The Irish Times 09 Mar 2016
The veteran Fenian John Devoy even declared that “but for him there would have been no IRB left in Ireland and no fight in 1916” ... Finally in January 1912 an exhausted old guard gave up and Clarke catapulted them into political oblivion ... Then in January 1916 Clarke forged an alliance with James Connolly whose inflammatory threats to start his own rebellion with his Citizen Army were imperilling the IRB’s project ... Irish freedom ...  . ....

100 years since 'Jana Gana Mana' was born

Edit The Hindu 28 Feb 2016
The year was 1911 ... Soon after the Congress conference, in January 1912, the song first appeared before the public under the title Bharata-vidhata in Tottvobodhini Patrika (official organ of the Brahma Samaj), of which Tagore was editor ... On January 24, 1950, when the Assembly met to sign the Constitution of India, President Rajendra Prasad officially declared Jana Gana Mana the national anthem and Vande Mataram the national song....

China Warns Taiwan Against Seeking Independence After Opposition Party Win

Edit Inquisitr 18 Jan 2016
“On major matters of principle including safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, our will is rock-solid and our attitude is consistent.” ... The state known as the Republic of China has its origins in the early twentieth century, when it was established on January 1, 1912, as a result of the Xinhai Revolution against the Qing Dynasty, ending over two thousand years of imperial dynastic rule in China....

Old Rivalries, New Problems in Taiwan's Presidential Election

Edit Huffington Post 14 Jan 2016
The Taiwanese are fans of the democratic process ... The KMT claims as its antecedence a number of organizations founded by Sun Yat-sen, widely regarded across the Taiwan Strait as the father of the modern Chinese nation; the party as a result sees itself as irrevocably linked to the declaration of the ROC on the 1st of January, 1912 and the decades of intermittent governance of China that followed ... ....

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Address to Extra-Ordinary Convention of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (South ...

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jan 2016
(Source. South Africa Government) ... Comrade Vice President Dr WaniIgga; ... As Comrade Chairperson and indeed the entire leadership of the SPLM is aware, this year marks the 104th anniversary of the birth of the ANC which was formed on 08 January 1912. As we speak the leadership and broad membership of the ANC are hard at work preparing for these celebrations which are scheduled to take place on Saturday, 9 January 2016 ... Ladies and gentlemen....

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Address to the Extra-Ordinary Convention of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement ...

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jan 2016
(Source. The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa). 07 January 2016 ... As Comrade Chairperson and indeed the entire leadership of the SPLM is aware, this year marks the 104th anniversary of the birth of the ANC which was formed on 08 January 1912. As we speak the leadership and broad membership of the ANC are hard at work preparing for these celebrations which are scheduled to take place on Saturday, 9 January 2016 ... I thank you....

Marek Janowski will bring more Beethoven to SFS in Davies next month

Edit The Examiner 31 Dec 2015
In January of 2011 he gave two weeks of all-Beethoven concerts, which included the Opus 60 (fourth) symphony in B-flat major during the first week and the very first two symphonies, Opus 21 in C major and Opus 36 in D major on the second ... Pfitzner composed this work (with interruptions) between January of 1912 and June of 1915 ... on Thursday, January 21, and Friday, January 22, and Saturday, January 23, and at 2 p.m....

World Football Day (RFS - Football Union of Russia)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Dec 2015
(Source. RFS - Football Union of Russia). 10.12.2015. World Football Day was established by the United Nations and is celebrated every year on December 10. The most popular game on the planet got its name in England where in early XIX century it starts taking an organized form ... The all-Russian Football Union was established on 6(19) January 1912 and gained FIFA membership the same year ... distributed by ... (noodl....

Piet Mondrian: The Studios edited by Cees W de Jong review – Mondrian’s modernist meccas

Edit The Guardian 25 Nov 2015
From a damp hut in the Netherlands to a quiet haven in Paris, the great painter’s many studios were laboratories for his artistic ideas ... Very few are ever preserved ... By this date Mondrian had begun to turn his back on Amsterdam and The Hague school; his use of simplified forms and brighter colours signalled his allegiance to the avant garde, and in January 1912 he moved to Paris to learn  about cubism ... ....
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