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The unnamed autobiographical narrator recalls viewing an exhibition of remarkably lifelike botanical models by the father-and-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
“He realized that geniuses are made, not born,” says Hungarian chess master Anna Rudolf, “if they are educated in the right way.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
In 2024 I helped the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project buy the house next door to Auschwitz, where camp commandant Rudolf Höss lived with his family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Rudolf Eisner believed he would be safe if he made his company invaluable to the Nazi regime.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
He cast horoscopes for the Duke of Wallenstein, as he had done for Rudolf II, and spent his final years in a Silesian town controlled by Wallenstein and called Sagan.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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