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Carl Austin Weiss Sr. (December 6, 1906 – September 8, 1935) was an American physician who allegedly assassinated U.S. Senator Huey Long at the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935. Career [ edit ]
The FN Model 1910 which Carl Weiss allegedly used to shoot Huey Long, on display at the Old State Capitol The assassin Weiss was a well-respected 28-year-old ear, nose, and throat specialist from Baton Rouge.
Huey Pierce Long Jr. was born on August 30, 1893, near Winnfield, a small town in north-central Louisiana, the seat of Winn Parish. [1] Although Long often told followers he was born in a log cabin to an impoverished family, they lived in a "comfortable" farmhouse and were well-off compared to others in Winnfield.
Judy Garland (1922–1969), actress, singer (aged 47) (originally interred at Ferncliff Cemetery in Greenburgh, New York, body exhumed and relocated to Hollywood Forever in 2017 [10]) Tony Gaudio (1883–1951), cinematographer (aged 67)
Leon Charles Weiss (1882–1953) was an architect in the 20th century who designed various public buildings in Louisiana and Mississippi, especially during the 1930s. [1] Many of Weiss's notable designs were commissioned by populist politician Huey Long and financed by the Public Works Administration .
In 2008, the art historian Florian Illies made a comparison to J. M. W. Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844), "modernity's break-in into art history", and interpreted Gnome Watching Railway Train as Spitzweg's self-ironic comment to his reputation as someone who wanted to stop time. According to Illies, Spitzweg's ...
The Works of art in The Aesthetics of Resistance are those included in Peter Weiss' novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. They form a kind of musée imaginaire (imagined museum) with more than a hundred named artists and just as many artworks, mainly of the visual arts and literature, but also of music and the performing arts. [ 1 ]
The Bookworm (German: Der Bücherwurm) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg.The picture was made c. 1850 and is typical of Spitzweg's humorous, anecdotal style and it is characteristic of Biedermeier art in general. [1]