Nearly 250 years ago, in the midst of the Revolutionary War, German military officer Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben helped transform the U.S. Continental Army from a band of militias into a unified and ...

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden was a German photographer known for his erotic images of adolescent boys. Often featuring subjects wearing togas and headdresses in staged poses, his works were inspired by ...

Norbert Grupe (born August 25, 1940 – March 10, 2004), better known outside Germany by his stage name Wilhelm von Homburg, was a German boxer, actor, and professional wrestler known for his villainous ...

Striking, sexy and sepia-toned, the photographs of sun-kissed male physiques and their Romanesque laurel-crowned cosplay featured in the new book Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875–1900 (Damiani) might ...

A true story of intrigue and artists, set during the 1936 Fascist Italian investigation of p*rnography charges in Taormina, Sicily. This artistic prosecution uncovers a much darker secret of an 1890s ...

WILHELM VON HAIDINGER is no more. He died after some years of failing health, though the illness to which he finally succumbed on the 19th of March was a short one. Among his veteran contemporaries in ...

IN the note on Wilhelm von Waldeyer in NATURE of October 3, p. 579, there appears the statement that this German anatomist was the first to describe the neurone theory. Most discoveries have been ...

When Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge on Feb. 23, 1778, one soldier likened him to "an ancient fabled God of War ... a perfect personification of Mars." Far from a ...

*This two-part series aired on April 15 and 16, 2024. About 200 years ago, an obscure Prussian philosopher named Wilhelm von Humboldt created the world's first education system. He was also behind the ...

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This article appears in the columns section of frieze 236, based on the theme 'After Dark' In 1968, editor William Como was tapped to transform the senescent Ballroom Dance Magazine into a periodical ...