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...Wilhelm Von Moll Berczy's family portrait of the Woolseys had scores of contemporary U.S. counterparts. Born in Saxony, Berczy adventured through Europe, brought a group of German settlers to New York State and then led them on into Canada. With the quietude of age, he turned to architecture and workmanlike portraiture. He charged a fee for each of the Woolseys in the picture, but in a note on the back of the canvas, Berczy notes that its real hero, the dog, "was added without cost...
German Movie Director George Wilhelm Pabst, hired to restage Aïda, crammed three elephants, four camels, ten horses and a cow onstage, with 1,500 people, 2,000 Riviera palms, and a 53-ft. Egyptian statue. As a clincher, a navigable canal (representing the River Nile) stretched between the stage and the 30,000 onlookers. The singing, with Italy's current top Soprano Maria Callas as Aïda and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames, was first-rate...
...verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their homework, and adults who want the words of the latest song. Huett has answered everything from "What happens in Schiller's Joan of Arc?" to "Recite some verses from Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz," has even been known to recite a geometric theorem or two. About the only question that has stumped him: "What is the size of a kangaroo at birth...
...best. (In 1809 Fouche's men intercepted a British intelligence report written in invisible ink on an agent's petticoat-a device that was considered highly original when it cropped up again during World War I.) Characteristically, however, it was Prussia that introduced Europe to mass espionage. Wilhelm Stieber, spymaster to Bismarck, boasted that he had some 40,000 agents in France at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Stieber was almost surely exaggerating, but his vacuum-cleaner espionage technique did supply the Prussian army not only with military information but with accurate estimates...
Born in 1893 in Germany's turbulent Ruhr, Gomez was actually Wilhelm Zais-ser. He had got his taste for fighting in Germany's World War I army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant. When the bloody "workers' rebellion" broke out in the Ruhr in 1923, Zaisser organized workers' brigades. He was already known as the "Red General of the Ruhr." Taken prisoner, he escaped to Russia, where he became a Soviet citizen and a colonel in the Red army. During the Nazi regime, he returned to Germany, a leader and organizer...