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Axel Wenner-Gren
Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 - 24 November 1961) was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s. ... Wenner-Gren's yacht Southern Cross rescued over three hundred survivors of the sinking and transferred some to nearby Allied ships and others continued to the U.S.
Yacht Gossip in the Bahamas: 1943 Version Is Pretty Juicy
As war broke out in Europe, Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren sailed to Bahamian waters aboard Southern Cross, the fifth or sixth largest private motoryacht in the world. Wenner-Gren's tenure in the Bahamas mixed business and pleasure; among his offshore properties was Paradise Island in Nassau, the site of today's Atlantis mega-resort ...
3-Way Nassau
As war broke out in Europe, Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren sailed to Bahamian waters aboard Southern Cross, one of the largest private motoryachts in the world. Wenner- Gren's tenure in the Bahamas mixed business and pleasure: Among his offshore properties was Paradise Island off Nassau, the site of today's Atlantis mega resort and ...
INTERNATIONAL: Man of Peace
Cuzco's Doctor. Last year Axel Wenner-Gren sailed the Southern Cross to Peru, where he was received as a king. He financed an archeological expedition, gave Peru a million-acre public park ...
The Sinking of the SS
Originally owned by Howard Hughes, the Southern Cross was then owned by a Swedish millionaire named Axel Wenner-Gren, who immediately redirected his yacht as soon as the distress call was hard. Lifeboat 14 was one of the first to be picked up by the Southern Cross , eventually over 200 survivors were packed aboard.
Norman Bel Geddes Database
Job 302, Wenner-Gren Yacht, 1934-1955 Summary: In designing a yacht for the Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, Bel Geddes streamlined its superstructure, which posed a problem for the yacht's lifeboats. They are typically stored on the ship's open top deck where they can be easily lowered over its sides. But by replacing the ship's ...
Paradise Island, Nassau, The Bahamas · Preservation Foundation of Palm
Spearheaded by Dr. Axel Wenner-Gren and funded by investor Huntington Hartford of the A&P Company, Paradise Island was another massive project that Volk undertook in The Bahamas. The comprehensive plan for the whole island included: Paradise Beach, Hurricane Hole (a natural harbor for yachts), Café Martinique, the Ocean Club, the hotel and a ...
Axel Wenner-Gren: Was Athenia's Rescuer a Nazi Spy?
Of all the persons associated with the sinking of the British passenger ship Athenia and the rescue of her passengers, no one is more enigmatic than the Swedish multimillionaire Axel Wenner-Gren. His yacht, Southern Cross, was the second ship to join the rescue operations the morning of September 4, 1939, and he saved 376 passengers. When he answered Athenia's distress call following the ...
The Story of the Bahamas' Medieval Cloisters
Let's back up: Paradise Island, the sandy spit north of downtown Nassau where the resort is located, was purchased in 1939 by Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren during a yacht trip around the ...
Atlantic Slavery and the Making of the Modern World: Wenner-Gren
The Foundation originated in 1941 when Axel Wenner-Gren, a ... Service after selling one of his yachts in Florida (see Lindee and Radin 2016:S219). Paul Fejos, a Hungarian avant-garde film- ... The fact that Wenner-Gren and Fejos found it so easy to get behind the discipline tells you something about anthropology.
Axel Wenner-Gren
Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 - 24 November 1961) ... Wenner-Gren's yacht Southern Cross rescued over three hundred survivors of the sinking and transferred some to nearby Allied ships and others continued to the U.S. Other ventures Alwac III computer. In the 1950s, Wenner-Gren also got involved in the early computer business. ...
Reality and Myth: A Symposium on Axel Wenner-Gren
One of the highlights of the summer for the Foundation was the two-day symposium on "Reality and Myth: A Symposium on Axel Wenner-Gren.". This meeting was co-sponsored by the Swedish Wenner-Gren Foundations and ourselves and was held May 30-31, 2012 at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Chair (Seth Masters) and Vice Chair ...
Unraveling The Mysterious Death of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas
According to Murdered Midas, he bore a Don Juan reputation in the Bahamas; he named his yacht Concubine and, according to persistent rumors, would drug young women before assaulting them. ... Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, owner of a 700-acre island that today is known as Paradise Island, was a well-known Nazi sympathizer. Wenner-Green ...
The original Bank of Bahamas was used to fund the Nazis 1939-1942
The first and originally named Bank of Bahamas, Ltd. was started in 1939 by Swedish multi-millionaire and Nazi confidant, Axel Wenner-Gren. Wenner-Gren started the bank for one reason, and one reason only, to help fund Nazi, Germany through his friend Field Marshall Hermann Göering and others. Wenner-Gren saw a veritable gold mine in the ...
A Toast To Olde Tymes
Mrs. H. Roper Bishop (right) with her hostess, Mrs. Axel Wenner-Gren, at Shang-Ri-La, winter residence of the Wenner-Grens on Hog Island in the Bahamas. When Axel died in 1961, the headline of his front-page (but below the fold) New York Times obituary read: "Axel Wenner-Gren, Financier, 80, Dead.".
Documents Show Government's Concern
He was also told that he could not travel aboard a yacht belonging to a Swedish magnate, Axel Wenner-Gren, whom American intelligence considered to be a close friend of Hermann Goering, Hitler's ...
Geddes Liner, aka the Whale Ocean Liner
1930s axel wenner-gren interwar period norman bel geddes & company ocean liner the liner of the future troopship ... #1 Yes, that Norman Bel Geddes. The yacht mentioned in the reddit post is the Wenner-Gren Yacht design of 1934, with a both a naval yacht and a naval patrol vessel derived from it proposed for the United States Navy in 1939 at ...
Axel Wenner-Gren
Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren (ursprungligen Wennergren), född 5 juni 1881 i Uddevalla, död 25 november 1961 i Stockholm, var en svensk företagsledare och finansman. Han var verkställande direktör i Electrolux 1920-1925 och styrelseordförande 1926-1939.
Allegedly Corrupt MP Slanders Foreign Resident
Mr Lindroth said Axel Wenner-Gren founded the Electro-Lux Group of companies and arrived in Nassau on his yacht, the Southern Cross, in 1939. By then Wenner-Gren had retired from active business and wrote a book, Call to Reason, which was critical of Nazism, he said.
Watchtower, Perm-36, Perm Krai
Perm-36 is allegedly the only Gulag camp that has been turned into a museum. While this is not strictly true (there are other former camps that have been partly preserved) and Perm-36 is heavily reconstructed, the museum has conserved an important part of the Soviet camp system, especially from its latter era after the death of Stalin.
Orda Cave: Underwater Gem of Siberia, Russia
Orda Cave is a gypsum crystal cave located underneath the western Ural Mountains in Russia. The cave was formed in gypsum during the Permian period (Perm is the period of the Paleozoic era -and got its name in honor of the Russian city of Perm). The mouth is near the shore of the Kungur River just outside Orda, Perm Krai in Russia. A local myth tells of the "Lady of the Orda Cave" who is ...
Landscape and Biological Diversity of Protected Areas Network in Perm
The problem of creating the systems of specially Protected natural Areas (PA) adequately representing the geographical diversity of different territories has been acute. Creation of the territory nature protection systems always requires comprehensive assessment of the representativeness of the existing PA network. In Perm region the only such research was carried out at the end of the last ...
Live Webcam Perm Dzerzhinsky City District, Perm Krai, RU
City. This HD webcam at the Krylova Perm Zhk Danilikha Condominium complex shows the cityscape of Dzerzhinsky City District in Perm, western Russia, while listening to music via this live stream. Perm is the sixth-largest city in Russia, with a population of about 1.2 million people. It is an important centre for arts and culture, with numerous ...
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Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 - 24 November 1961) was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s. ... Wenner-Gren's yacht Southern Cross rescued over three hundred survivors of the sinking and transferred some to nearby Allied ships and others continued to the U.S.
As war broke out in Europe, Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren sailed to Bahamian waters aboard Southern Cross, the fifth or sixth largest private motoryacht in the world. Wenner-Gren's tenure in the Bahamas mixed business and pleasure; among his offshore properties was Paradise Island in Nassau, the site of today's Atlantis mega-resort ...
As war broke out in Europe, Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren sailed to Bahamian waters aboard Southern Cross, one of the largest private motoryachts in the world. Wenner- Gren's tenure in the Bahamas mixed business and pleasure: Among his offshore properties was Paradise Island off Nassau, the site of today's Atlantis mega resort and ...
Cuzco's Doctor. Last year Axel Wenner-Gren sailed the Southern Cross to Peru, where he was received as a king. He financed an archeological expedition, gave Peru a million-acre public park ...
Originally owned by Howard Hughes, the Southern Cross was then owned by a Swedish millionaire named Axel Wenner-Gren, who immediately redirected his yacht as soon as the distress call was hard. Lifeboat 14 was one of the first to be picked up by the Southern Cross , eventually over 200 survivors were packed aboard.
Job 302, Wenner-Gren Yacht, 1934-1955 Summary: In designing a yacht for the Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, Bel Geddes streamlined its superstructure, which posed a problem for the yacht's lifeboats. They are typically stored on the ship's open top deck where they can be easily lowered over its sides. But by replacing the ship's ...
Spearheaded by Dr. Axel Wenner-Gren and funded by investor Huntington Hartford of the A&P Company, Paradise Island was another massive project that Volk undertook in The Bahamas. The comprehensive plan for the whole island included: Paradise Beach, Hurricane Hole (a natural harbor for yachts), Café Martinique, the Ocean Club, the hotel and a ...
Of all the persons associated with the sinking of the British passenger ship Athenia and the rescue of her passengers, no one is more enigmatic than the Swedish multimillionaire Axel Wenner-Gren. His yacht, Southern Cross, was the second ship to join the rescue operations the morning of September 4, 1939, and he saved 376 passengers. When he answered Athenia's distress call following the ...
Let's back up: Paradise Island, the sandy spit north of downtown Nassau where the resort is located, was purchased in 1939 by Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren during a yacht trip around the ...
The Foundation originated in 1941 when Axel Wenner-Gren, a ... Service after selling one of his yachts in Florida (see Lindee and Radin 2016:S219). Paul Fejos, a Hungarian avant-garde film- ... The fact that Wenner-Gren and Fejos found it so easy to get behind the discipline tells you something about anthropology.
Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 - 24 November 1961) ... Wenner-Gren's yacht Southern Cross rescued over three hundred survivors of the sinking and transferred some to nearby Allied ships and others continued to the U.S. Other ventures Alwac III computer. In the 1950s, Wenner-Gren also got involved in the early computer business. ...
One of the highlights of the summer for the Foundation was the two-day symposium on "Reality and Myth: A Symposium on Axel Wenner-Gren.". This meeting was co-sponsored by the Swedish Wenner-Gren Foundations and ourselves and was held May 30-31, 2012 at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Chair (Seth Masters) and Vice Chair ...
According to Murdered Midas, he bore a Don Juan reputation in the Bahamas; he named his yacht Concubine and, according to persistent rumors, would drug young women before assaulting them. ... Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, owner of a 700-acre island that today is known as Paradise Island, was a well-known Nazi sympathizer. Wenner-Green ...
The first and originally named Bank of Bahamas, Ltd. was started in 1939 by Swedish multi-millionaire and Nazi confidant, Axel Wenner-Gren. Wenner-Gren started the bank for one reason, and one reason only, to help fund Nazi, Germany through his friend Field Marshall Hermann Göering and others. Wenner-Gren saw a veritable gold mine in the ...
Mrs. H. Roper Bishop (right) with her hostess, Mrs. Axel Wenner-Gren, at Shang-Ri-La, winter residence of the Wenner-Grens on Hog Island in the Bahamas. When Axel died in 1961, the headline of his front-page (but below the fold) New York Times obituary read: "Axel Wenner-Gren, Financier, 80, Dead.".
He was also told that he could not travel aboard a yacht belonging to a Swedish magnate, Axel Wenner-Gren, whom American intelligence considered to be a close friend of Hermann Goering, Hitler's ...
1930s axel wenner-gren interwar period norman bel geddes & company ocean liner the liner of the future troopship ... #1 Yes, that Norman Bel Geddes. The yacht mentioned in the reddit post is the Wenner-Gren Yacht design of 1934, with a both a naval yacht and a naval patrol vessel derived from it proposed for the United States Navy in 1939 at ...
Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren (ursprungligen Wennergren), född 5 juni 1881 i Uddevalla, död 25 november 1961 i Stockholm, var en svensk företagsledare och finansman. Han var verkställande direktör i Electrolux 1920-1925 och styrelseordförande 1926-1939.
Mr Lindroth said Axel Wenner-Gren founded the Electro-Lux Group of companies and arrived in Nassau on his yacht, the Southern Cross, in 1939. By then Wenner-Gren had retired from active business and wrote a book, Call to Reason, which was critical of Nazism, he said.
Perm-36 is allegedly the only Gulag camp that has been turned into a museum. While this is not strictly true (there are other former camps that have been partly preserved) and Perm-36 is heavily reconstructed, the museum has conserved an important part of the Soviet camp system, especially from its latter era after the death of Stalin.
Orda Cave is a gypsum crystal cave located underneath the western Ural Mountains in Russia. The cave was formed in gypsum during the Permian period (Perm is the period of the Paleozoic era -and got its name in honor of the Russian city of Perm). The mouth is near the shore of the Kungur River just outside Orda, Perm Krai in Russia. A local myth tells of the "Lady of the Orda Cave" who is ...
The problem of creating the systems of specially Protected natural Areas (PA) adequately representing the geographical diversity of different territories has been acute. Creation of the territory nature protection systems always requires comprehensive assessment of the representativeness of the existing PA network. In Perm region the only such research was carried out at the end of the last ...
City. This HD webcam at the Krylova Perm Zhk Danilikha Condominium complex shows the cityscape of Dzerzhinsky City District in Perm, western Russia, while listening to music via this live stream. Perm is the sixth-largest city in Russia, with a population of about 1.2 million people. It is an important centre for arts and culture, with numerous ...