Word: friedrich
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...founded in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, of the Schlumberger oil fortune, and her husband Heiner Friedrich, a German art dealer. When oil prices slumped in the early 1980s, the foundation faltered for a while, but it re-emerged in chastened form several years later and, more recently, has got about $30 million from Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes & Noble. The foundation goes in for converted industrial buildings with good bones but no high-design drama. (The Nabisco factory was art-readied by little-known OpenOffice architects.) And while most museums collect a few works by each of a long...
...controlled environmental conditions. When completed, a computerized system will be able to locate and retrieve any of the more than 1.5 million items within 60 seconds. Another impressive feature is a four-story study wing housing restoration workshops and a library. Designed by the Austrian architects Erich Steinmayr and Friedrich Mascher so that it is concealed within the expanse of palace buildings, it leaves Vienna's skyline unchanged. The art collection of the palace's second owner, Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, was already famous in his own lifetime, 1738-1822. Albert's grandson, Archduke Albrecht, allowed the public...
...that gave the district its name in 1921. From the monument to the Wars of Liberation of 1813-15 at the top you have a sweeping view of the city and can relax to the sound of the waterfall tumbling down to Kreuzbergstrasse. Composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel were two of many historical figures who took their beers in Viktoria Park on the Kreuzberg. Centuries earlier medieval Christian knights known as Templars cultivated vineyards on the hill - a practice revived by the local horticultural office in 1968. At the bottom of the hill follow Kreuzbergstrasse east, until...
...philosophy department—under the leadership of Department Chair Friedrich Nietzsche—“will vote on April 27 on whether or not it exists,” while students interested in history were told to contact Henry VIII, the department’s new Head Tudor...
Returning from this regression, economists should converge on a growth theory resembling the forgotten discipline of political economy. They should discover the neglected economic insights behind de Soto’s analysis, like those of Friedrich Hayek, Richard Epstein and Peter Bauer...