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His father Adolf Loos was a German stonemason who died when Loos was nine years old. [4] His mother, Marie Loos, was a sculptor who later carried on the masonry business after her husband's death. Young Adolf Loos had inherited his father's hearing impairment and was significantly handicapped by it throughout his life, contributing to his ...
World Heritage Sites; Site Image Location Year listed UNESCO data Description Aldabra Atoll: Outer Islands: 1982 185; vii, ix, x (natural) The atoll consists of four large coral islands which enclose a shallow lagoon; the group of islands is itself surrounded by a coral reef.
Contrary to popular belief that it was composed in 1908, Adolf Loos first gave the lecture in 1910 at the Akademischer Verband für Literatur und Musik in Vienna. The essay was then published in 1913 in Les Cahiers d’aujourd’hui in French as Ornement et Crime .
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Loos's immediate and extended relations—the Beck, Hirsch, Turnowsky, and Kraus families—and her friends the Semlers were some of Adolf's first clients. They hired him to remodel apartment interiors in Plzeň and Vienna, and it was there that Adolf first began to open up the "interstitial spaces" between walls to create continuous rooms.
During Seychelles' time as a French colony, it was a major plantation, supplying much of the island's southern area with agricultural produce. [3] Wall Paintings at Plantation House, La Plaine St. André. In 1996, the national anthem of Seychelles, Koste Seselwa was composed by David André and Georges Payet at an old house at La Plaine St ...
A police K-9 was killed and an officer was wounded during an armed standoff in Maine, officials said Tuesday. The suspect was also killed. The standoff began on Monday night.
La Digue is the third most populated island [3] of the Seychelles, and fourth largest by land area, [4] lying east of Praslin and west of Felicite Island. In size, it is the fourth-largest granitic island of Seychelles after Mahé, Praslin, and Silhouette Island .