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Intuition. Austrians sensed something more than an accident in Karpe's death. "POLITICAL MURDER IN LUEG TUNNEL," cried a Salzburger Nachrichten headline. Golling's Dr. Wilhelm Gugl noticed almost no blood on the spot where Karpe was supposedly dashed to death. Had the American been killed before his body fell into the tunnel? His remains were so mangled that an autopsy was useless...
Prince Hubertus of Prussia, grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, landed in South Africa to begin a new life as a sheep farmer. "This is going to be a considerable change from my vineyards at Wiesbach on the Rhine," he told newsmen in Johannesburg, "but your country has a wonderful future. Germany today is not a very happy place...
...stroke of noon one day, as the imperial military band began its daily concert in front of Berlin's imperial palace, Kaiser Wilhelm interrupted a conference of state by jumping to his feet. "With your kind forbearance, gentlemen," he said, "I must excuse myself now to appear in the window. You see. it says in Baedeker that at this hour I always...
...months later, on Jan. 22, 1901, Victoria died in the arms of her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm, whose devotion to her was widely advertised and believed. Few knew then that the Kaiser had recently tried to incite Russia against Victoria's Empire. In a secret message to the Czar, the Kaiser said: "Russia alone could paralyze the power of England and deal it, if need be, a mortal blow." If the Czar would order his armies against India, the Kaiser would guarantee that no European nation rose to Britain's defense...
...Some Roughness Here." Each conductor, beginning with German Georg Henschel in 1881, had added something to the Boston's sheen. From 1884 to 1889 and from 1898 to 1906, the Vienna Opera's bearded Wilhelm Gericke, as Founder Higginson wrote, "gave to the orchestra its excellent habits and ideals." It was he, said Higginson, who "taught those violins to sing as violins sing in Vienna alone." Europe's greatest conductor, fiery Hungarian Artur Nikisch (1889-93) taught it how to "poetize," and perhaps he taught too well; at a rehearsal in 1904 Guest Conductor Richard Strauss growled...