Portrait: Juan Carlos I, King Emeritus of Spain
27 January 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: Portrait Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from November 1975 until his abdication in June 2014. In Spain, since his abdication, Juan Carlos has usually been referred to as the Rey Emérito (“King Emeritus“). read more…Portrait: Jules Verne, science fiction writer
23 December 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). read more…Portrait: Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
25 November 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (16 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (sovereign prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal). He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. read more…Portrait: Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator and explorer
28 October 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. After a remarkable odyssey, his bones are now in the Seville Cathedral in Spain. read more…Portrait: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, feminist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
23 September 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
Chief Justice William Rehnquist swearing in Ginsburg as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, as her husband Martin Ginsburg and President Clinton watch © U.S. National Archives and Records Administration – Ralph Alswang
Portrait: Investor and philanthropist George Soros
26 August 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait George Soros is a Hungarian–American billionaire investor and philanthropist. As of May 2020, he had a net worth of $8.3 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations. Born in Budapest, Soros survived Nazi Germany–occupied Hungary and moved to the United Kingdom in 1947. He attended the London School of Economics, graduating with a bachelor’s and eventually a master’s degree in philosophy. Soros began his business career by taking various jobs at merchant banks in the United Kingdom and then the United States, before starting his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969. Profits from his first fund furnished the seed money to start Soros Fund Management, his second hedge fund, in 1970. Double Eagle was renamed to Quantum Fund and was the principal firm Soros advised. At its founding, Quantum Fund had $12 million in assets under management, and as of 2011 it had $25 billion, the majority of Soros’s overall net worth. read more…Portrait: Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most important composers and pianists
22 July 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist; his music is amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire, and he is one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music. His works span the transition from the classical period to the romantic era in classical music. read more…Portrait: Ayn Rand, the voice of libertarian Objectivism
24 June 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
Ayn Rand quote – American Adventure – Epcot Center – Walt Disney World © flickr.com – Cory Doctorow/cc-by-sa-2.0