The Presbyterian Church (USA), a mainline Protestant denomination that has historically been one of the most influential ...

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

He spent two decades in Africa, mostly in the Congo, and publicized the atrocities of King Leopold II of Belgium against ... draws its name from Sheppard, his wife, Lucy, and his partner in ...

The match was encouraged, if not made, by their mutual uncle Leopold ... the great-granddaughter of King George III. And King George III was the son of King George II. Accordingly, King Edward ...

He would be buried next to his wife. Prime Minister William Gladstone ... Later, however, he besmirched his reputation by accepting money from King Leopold II of Belgium to help create the Congo ...

King Philippe has ... Philippe Leopold Louis Marie was born on April 15 1960 at the Belvedere Chateau in Laeken, the first child of Albert and his wife, Paola, who were then Prince and Princess ...

Titled Explaining African Colonialism, it featured the hosts, Rudyard Lynch and Austin Padgett, speaking about the time when King Leopold II occupied the Congo. According to the official website ...

King Leopold II. This modern attitude is not the only attribute that the two kings share (nor is their shared heritage: Philippe being the fifth cousin of Charles’s mother, the late Queen Elizabeth).

King Leopold ... was the goal of Leopold III (1901-1983), who reigned from 1934 to 1951 – the year he was forced to abdicate because of his actions during World War II. In the summer of 1942 ...