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the alarm another member of the afghan journalist safety committee wrote a letter to the u.n. security council urging it to help reduce the violence. i don't think it's ever been as. scary as it is right now. because it seems that all journalists are threats. only 6 weeks of loss for joe. joe you know. it's so hard to get likes. so. and that's has created a sense if you're a writer a journalist all over the country. just days after my one death and almost 300 kilometers away another journalist to learn next was killed shot close to his home but are not gunmen next that head of the local journalists union and reporter for outlets like a.p. and al-jazeera according to his colleagues he had received threats and inform the authorities about them but got little help. but an attack on journalists
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is an act of oppression in our society no one is more pressed than journalists i have to say let's question ourselves and let's get united let's ask our leaders to explain why this cruelty happens and how long it's going to continue whether it if i s local strongman or government affiliates the question of who is behind these attacks often remains unanswered good for those who continue to do their work as journalists one thing is clear they should not have to risk their lives to do their jobs was told to correspondent the electee 3 who joins us from the afghan capital kabul welcome allie in your experience why is afghanistan so dangerous for journalists. afghanistan is dangerous for journalists because the truth is that journalists are under attack
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from all angles obviously they come under attack from the taleban from groups or groups claiming allegiance to the so-called islamic state but also we have strong men we have mafia you know there's no shortage of guns it's very easy to buy sticky bombs an i.e.d. isn't things like that in this country and what we've seen is that with all of these journalists killings there have been no real answers of who is responsible for it and so for a journalist the scariest thing is that you don't actually know who could kill you you know i was talking to a friend of mine the other day and he said think about it if one of us gets killed we don't even know if they would investigate the killing meaning the government and even if they had investigated the killer and what would that really accomplish you know he was saying that it doesn't bring us back to life and it doesn't change what's happening right now so the fact that it could be anybody is what's the biggest fear for journalists in afghanistan right now so it could be anybody targeting journalists why you know. that's the
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question right and the thing is is that we've seen in recent years in since 20142015 that freedom of speech has been under attack from all angles in this country so obviously of the taliban and the so-called islamic state claiming responsibility for attacks and then you have you know the government saying things like the vice president only a few weeks ago threatened anyone who reported on civilian casualties at a religious school in a northern province and the spokesperson for that province was fired you know we've had reports that security officials are telling local media outlets if you can't provide security to your staff then you might as well just close up shop we've also had reports that the national security council is telling local officials not to talk to journalists so in every single way freedom of speech is under attack in this country so given all those dangers why do you do the job.
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because i think it's very important that and i have on journalist someone with ties to this country is the one reporting on this country because i think a lot of times what we have is a situation where you know people come in from any other part of the world don't fully understand the context and the dynamics and you know you can't really. convey the feelings of the people and the complexities of the situation and honestly if we don't do it we will we wish you well and thank you for joining us happy new year when it comes out a little for a couple. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines we start in bangladesh which are started to move a 2nd group of range of mostly refugees to the offshore islands of bass and china the rights groups are voiced opposition are concerned about the compounds vulnerability to floods in the united nations has urged the government not to force
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anyone to go. united states has begun voluntary covert 19 vaccinations for its troops and civilian health care workers in south korea on tuesday the country reported a record high daily death toll amid a surge in new cases. lawmakers in the united states and the house of representatives of voted overwhelmingly to override president trump's veto over defense policy bill they've also voted to increase pandemic relief to struggling americans to $2000.00 the debate over defense and pandemic aid now moves to the republican controlled senate. well after more than 40 years as members of the european union in its various forms great britain will leave the european single market on the 1st of january so what will bracks it made for the e.u. is more than a 1000000 british born residents d.w. is taking a breath said goodbye to a lot to try and find out i d
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w corresponds to making stops for british migrant communities across the continent i'm stood on the french ports of callaway hall so there and today alexander phenomena is in chantilly about an hour's drive north of paris. it's racecourse and shatter chantilly has been a visitor magnet for decades today so many brits have sacked or bad as even a cricket club. well let's join d.w. alexandra of our nominee in chantilly alexandra looks lovely. so tell us what you've been looking out there. let's 1st explain me where we are as you can see behind me the horse because shown is the self-proclaimed french capital off the horse and you can see on my right side
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there are raised of course and it was actually horse racing that attracted many brits to come and settle here and we would love to show you horses or. race but of course we are in the middle of the pandemic and it's not possible but we are so happy to have a british couple with amanda and homer thank you for being with us so tell us please what do you like about this place it's very relaxed it's. very nice to bring your children in an environment. isn't too stressful it's not a city on the course it's good wine and good food and you've been living in france for quite a while then you went to china to work there and then you came back after the breakfast referendum and you were trying to figure out what it means for you and your life and friends and we joined the referendum was voted we would
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not have voted for the when we came but we're concerned as to what it meant for us what does it mean for pensions for a living children coming back. so it's very uncertain for the past 2 to 3 years and really only helped when we have the vote last week that it may be a little more clear. so you know talking about the agreements that the european union and the u.k. were able to agree at pawn do you think that it brings you more certainty in terms of what circumstances you can stay and listen friends definitely be because. he's taken away the concern you have to have. would you be allowed to move in and out of the countries more secure for the pension. i think it's given us a certain because i think it's ended on a ball started the day along on the correct notes and it's more participative
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communication so yeah we feel much more reassured by by having to deal with i think that if we haven't had that day i think we would have been very concerned with what it meant for us as a family thank you very much for being here at this is very chilly day. from oz and stick with us in the afternoon where we are going to visit a british. 100. 50 thank you. of course d.w. house much more on the european union trade deal with the u.k. and documentary more bitter than sweet loses and with this song here in just over an hour 1330 central european time of course at any time on i.q. to channel the w. news. it's an annual. it's an annual new york tradition that takes on a whole new meaning this year good riddance day in a ceremony out with the old in with the new vent held at the close of the year in
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times square after the tumultuous months of the pandemic people are more than ready to send 2025. i say very pretty good bye to the year of 2020. 2020 once all the dozen people in new york gathered to celebrate the unofficial good riddance day when they say goodbye to the things they don't want to take into the new year. old let's say good riddance to the coronavirus throwing them into an oversized paper shredder all those sentiments are so much more strong in 2020 because people really want to say good riddance to a lot of the difficulty in the pain in the isolation here and they also see the light of the tunnel at the end of the tunnel the back scene the sense that maybe in the future finally the houses of broadway will be and the theaters will be able to be full. also at times square people and having to look forward instead of back at
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what they want to shred. to participating in a wishing wall writing down their hopes and dreams for 2021. and i did wish for hopefully called it a go way back there to the cure and then we can go back to traveling and having fun and really doing things for my family my least healthy for the lord health for all the my family and all the family there. picked it up because of the dedication i had to be able to feed my family they love the pottery barn i want to see them are then i wish her abundance and happiness for everyone and those around. times square in new york is normally a hot spot for celebrations on new year's eve but with the coronavirus still keeping people up on celebrations to ring in 2021 will be much more subdued.
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that said show up today at the top. next on noise fahnestock the secrets of a castle out of course as always the web sites for news. dot com and you can follow social media as well the news. letter we were. when we were. 80 percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listening. audience.
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it's packed with myths and desires. is it the work of a wasteful lunatic or the wondrous conception of a genius who has never understood is it a medieval castle or a modern construction. a castle inseparable from the tragic fate of the varian king new flick the 2nd. was am. in 869 the 1st story this late in genius divine or absolute kitsch it's a phenomenon with a new that reaches around the world and yet it was built for one man alone blue defeated the 2nd or the fairytale king as he is known to us today his legacy includes a council underneath. people call me
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a fool. will god call me that tune when i finally received his summons. the man who built it never had the pleasure of living in his finished palace the king died before it was completed and the circumstances surrounding his death from an unclipped to this day. his story has become judgement and his legacy itself. i'll have the stories of knowing castle and the man who built it though dick the 2nd are so closely intertwined with each other as to make them almost unique history of a culture that can buy a ham. it all began here in when she found out he had wigs father acting maximillian the 2nd rebuilt a late medieval council here turning it into a comfortable house the family often spent summers here. much to his
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father's regret the firstborn son was holy i'm interested in politics. stayed with his younger brother he preferred to explore the area around the alps see in shanty lakes as well as horn chunk out. in 1961 the varian puppy crude consummate 1st documentary film about the life and fate of luke vic the 2nd. here in all here on the top floor of holen shango castle is where the early childhood of luke vig and his younger brother also unfolded on. the walls a decorated with scenes from medieval legend says it's all very cozy very romantic
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all up to. big think grew up surrounded by fan maidens dragons and heroes. his relationship to his father was a distant bond intrigue felt he was traced with condescension and he found that his mother lacked a poetic sensibility. at the age of 18 a prince or bridge felt more at home in the world of legends than in the monday and real world. they're hopping off for good riddance his father mocks a 1000000 the 2nd died suddenly and march 18th 64th. when your dick was shocked by the fact that he was to ascend to the throne automatically and at once the shootout we know that he left his father's death bed in floods of tears similar that he was even more shaken when a servant addressed him as yours. majesty immediately after his father passed away
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. no one had prepared him for this sudden ascension to the throne. 3 days after the funeral he wrote in his diary just one group filling the in time paying each. gene. autry took title from bio pic the 2nd of the various felt and unsure at 1st to show. you months he was someone who lacked stability in a man who was author lee unsuitable for his job as king true to the representative of the bavarian state doctors for a common guy that. at least he had been told how to handle money the records of princeton thinks pocket money can be found in the archives of the house of little spot. in july 862 he spent a total of 9000 guilders and 48 crowns on the scene donations for the poor
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chocolates and presents. the prince had to keep meticulous appearances for he spent introducing them to his father the sights in italy. it was meant to help the crown friends learn how to live frugally of course and you can see that for example when he wanted to go to the theater he would have to pay for it himself and as he put that even if his father's lessons on what alludes they considered to be excessive frugality had a big impact on and i think it agreed after his father's death upon his coronation a loss i want no more of this unnecessary miserliness i was out i hear it unfortunately he didn't understand that even a king's resources are not endless that's half a lie that it's beautiful. his majesty didn't learn much from his father's example . one of his 1st official acts was to invite the highly indebted composer he had admittedly and to finance him unconditionally. at. mr
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morsi encountered wagner's musical dramas based on things that were very much inspired by them at the very tail world here i was and became an ardent fan of that music olympic ice that for the same reason i pursued the maestro as he respectfully called the composer became one of the 1st people to learn as the king somewhat unusual plan in the ongoing area. he wrote to wagner i discovered the obscene i intend to build a new castle above the old castle ruins in holland chango by the pilot or in the true style of the castles bill shorten ancient german lines i try to boil the i am the 1st fish is certainly a fairly simple castle i. watched a noisy sun shine he commissioned a theatrical scene painter christiane young to do the initial design is the image
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quite naturally those designs were quite literally theatrical. in this part this. design fuses elements from medieval germany more of spain and the new secret world a freak out his words this is a hunted india it's also in direct challenge to his father's cosy home when she found out castle with the built in the b. to maya static and with scenes from historical picture books on the walls of world it was wanted something grand something divorced from the real world and on a monumental scale in one with all of her form. and he was to achieve it. an architectural dream come true. the man who commissioned it was to escape reality with constructed plan to see. the municipal archives in force and harbor a small treasure a photographic treasure. these
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photos languished in a drawer for 150 years. now and these photos taken at the start of the construction process have never been seen before as far as i know this in this is the very 1st time that there be shown. to see. they were part of the deceased's estate and donated to the archive the photographer who's looked fiction radler born in force in an 830 he was the 1st person to document noise from stein council this photo shows the remains of a medieval castle on the mountain ridge of the some fortress one you may miss wherever you can see the real bridge which was built in 866 i know exactly what it will do you work on the castle began in 869 so this photo must have been taken sometime between those years and of course that means that this is the oldest photo
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by good fiction in our collection hardly at this it's. workable slopped a concrete room on my great grandfather actually worked on the noise bunch tynecastle building site and my grandfather would sometimes take in his lunch at the council of. and i think it was because he thought he might catch a glimpse of the king their current about including the exit people were curious about the king he was not exactly shy but he rarely made public appearances or and when you were up at the construction site you might expect to see him some time on the way out of cult. in the military and capital munich people were skeptical about the monarch zeal for building a council but not here in alva and. this was all this is in fact no one criticized the construction of noise punch line. due to its high altitude this region is not very fertile so people didn't live a life of affluence here and a giant construction like noise punched on they had approximately
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a 3rd of the population infused me it. was even possible to run into the king. movie there were there are some stories like the one of him meeting a young cowherd who asked him the time. the boy had no clue who the stranger was then he said why do you need to know what time it is and the boy replied precociously well i have to take my cows for milking and i don't know when. he then told the boy the time and even asked for the name of the farm 2 days later a king servant rode up on a horse and handed the boy of bob watch on a chain so he could see the time himself and know when he should take the cows in sean can of is really cool and there are a whole lot of stories at this personal levels of spending
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a very different picture of the king than how he's depicted in munich me comes on this big as this this illusion for. it was. there he was known as a spendthrift and the maverick but here in southern the various his subjects admired him as a monarch with a personal touch. the photographer who ventured life made the most of the spectacular views in the area. almost $100.00 french of rafiq plates a kept in the minister pull out comes the fists and. air is signed with his camera which was new technology at the time something that only had . just got going to me a castle was built as she went to fallujah it was a big heavy camera this was no smart for he dragged everything up the mountain and
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that's why we have now bought a graphics player of photos and a lesson. in. today the wafer thin photographic plates a delicate and irreplaceable every building phase was documented carefully for 17 years that helps historians reconstruct the building process. to search the ancient ruins and the mountaintop who moved from the site and you steam train was constantly at work. to do that's right living the 2nd was not just agreement he was a visionary too he had the will the imagination and of course the power and the resources to make this dream come true for. the blueprint for
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a mega sized project. it was impatient and for studious and he wanted the building to progress as quickly as possible when anything didn't go the way he wanted he would be extremely displeased those responsible would fall into the greatest disgrace. for tom from the top of the tower to the cellar floor everything was not big seconds work out so he dedicated himself to every detail that ever i was in regular correspondence with the royal superintendent of construction and the architects he take he always inspect the plants personally so he could decide how to forsee if to all want to change office and nuns i in matters of government not think mostly how to bow to his ministers and accept their advice. it was a kingdom in which he was. really just a figurehead with very little to say but when it came to his building projects he roots to train. them greased up so i don't think was
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a difficult client or how he was constantly scrapping plans you know suddenly deciding rome should be defrauded newly built walls might have to be torn down goodness. knows people are surprised to learn that the council is built of bricks. and clad with rocks for me if i cooperate. to fail is the model the cliff face and the walls are made up of the same materials it's a very sophisticated construction built from materials that come from the local area as it really organically blends in with its surroundings people in food. not only the construction but also the restoration in the last few decades were
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technical logistical and physical challenge. because the king was always impatient with the work up there couldn't progress fast enough for him it's understandable anyone who works in construction will get it you always want to see progress and it's always too slow as it was a challenge for everyone involved all of it a little. including the local people at the time a chronicle written by the village teacher back then whose name was left is still preserved in this funk archives the man recorded the ups and downs of the construction every day from the stir. not. in 198500 wrote. on violence once it's on the 23rd of april at 6 o'clock
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in the morning mist to have hauled from the foreman at the king's castle the works and all its wrong go and he took his own life with a bullet through his heart and in the way they say he had suffered a mental breakdown and is buried and by the hoffman who from pickup in. the foreman 100 harold who laid the foundation stone of the castle on the 5th of september 869. some people saw this as the case of noise. the giant trajectory the mountain pushed those in charge to the limits. to look to the construction was an escape from reality ever since gemini had had a cause of the bavarian chain had filled supply for us but he still had his world a fantasy. be a little boy and we all like to dream we all have ideas that will also have the courage to realize them and in his case to fight against all odds for them but that
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shows he was blocking it that's what i like about him i'm certain partitioned. made history in come true. his throne room takes you to the past. to the noble knights. the heroic battles. the hallowed kings. and everything under the watchful eye of divine guidance. the king rules by the grace of god. his indian born so are. we now in the throne room of the interview which was sort of religious . it will be the 2nd and by all it's a space dedicated to kingship without this bill and well read as he was he designed
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everything himself to the door of. this throne room came to symbolize the intervention monarch. no audiences were given here no court was held there isn't even a throne in the room the combination of splendor and solitude is pretty chilly stark in the space. of noise time not everything is how it seems at 1st sight when you step into the throne room can you might think the columns are made of spore for a go but it's actually stuck on a marble wall that was itself stuck on to cast iron columns oil and that was necessary for construction reasons when the. everything is for show the. most fun style is the perfect symbiosis of the latest technology and medieval in a statics the king's wishes challenge the creativity of the architects.
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the throne room is a modern construction. a masterpiece of engineering. the head of administration of the council geo hand hensel is giving us a peek behind the curtains of the mock middle ages the roof construction of noise feinstein castle. the area is not open to the public. we have different new ones we are now above the throne room that says this is the dome a silver star. 14 construction is it is this technique was innovative at the time arctic gilding with on land or with these large i and good is that we also see
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downstairs in the throne room the ones i'll see and it was revolutionary at that time which one i'm going to look to on. the modern construction of i'm t. beams can be seen beneath the through and. by the when it came to technology good big the 2nd was mainly interested in what you could do with us it went on for and his very high demands started on science driving it forward for here to clean. the king of this fascination with technology and away with the latest innovations in construction. sophisticated technology from the age of industrialization can be found throughout the class of. 2 superior. we now
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in one of the boiler rooms for the warm and heating system which was cutting edge back then it was still extremely uncommon in buildings used mainly for private purposes or a castle life a steam based on the it was included here to meet the king special demands for luxury and the 2nd wanted a comfortable version of the middle ages from his childhood on he had always had a low tolerance to cold and so a warm air heating system was ideal it's another issue the are. the boiler for the unfinished nights path was installed it has never been in service. everything was the finest quality for the. keane who also closes. battery operation fails 18000 pounds a brand new item in the collection of the telephone was the entire construction
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tailor made for one. was that ingenious was simply crazy and for work we think of a madman as someone who has no idea what he's doing just so it's good because the 2nd knew what he was doing all the way. living in a world of his own closed off from anyone is a different story to moment quanta big this 2nd created a world for himself that had a logic of its own all that was coherent in itself was often but that world was not meant to be open to others so that when. the price was loneliness. is big chain because your way to the tragic love story of tristen and his own.
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his wash basin reminds you of the back to smoove front the cup the histories brush the communion chalice. his big this is imposing as the choir stools in a cool thing to. do is when you walk around the noise time you realize very quickly that it was not built for practical purposes descriptive because there are no guest rooms to focus and you notice straight away that this is a fantasy made real to me and it's more like walking through a film so that you realize you're not in the house you're in a dream of the scene and call. searching for the holy grail. alongside the none of this will.
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not respond the digs buildings are unique and that they're not about showing off prestigious dynastic functions he would not to shraddha they were spaces where he turned his poetic world and his world imbued with literary arianne trickle influences and to architectural reality there is nothing like this anywhere else. stella type grosso in the middle of the consul belongs in that world to. a secret door needs to staircase which is normally hidden from view. it was built especially for the servants to use. the purpose of these stairs take you from the access road all the way to below the rafters that means they run through the whole
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building as you can see that the stairs are relatively wide and well equipped so the servants could do their work properly has to do you know. this was because the king insisted on fun lost in discreet service the monarch's behavior was starting to become increasingly awed he was true into himself the entire council is laced with staircases big and small brittle with hidden doors. the seen as whole. yet this is the 1st extensive restoration that since it was built xx. that's emerging stone and paintings have been at work throughout the cost of the several years.
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was event. as this is part of us what's so special about the paintings here in his they are incredibly high quality of execution taped to my door and you can see that from the fact that they've scarcely been damaged despite the explosion ok shanties and the high volume of visitors torm does she hadn't been doxie getting sent. to feed new civil artists personally. exquisite craftmanship was always more important to him than an hour soumik signature or style. play my suit into something if it's what i want it was only for a total of about $200.00 days that he really lived in the castle at a time when the artist was still working up there and he would show up now and then
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he'd have a chat with the foreman for example their job and hand out cigars to gun for food as it was standard back then well not when the monarch was satisfied with your work you get a cigar as a reward for life because it feeds. the king must have made a lot of cigars because he had other construction projects to my hair in chains in the palace is modeled on this summit in france i was. i was willing to work palace in the mountains near et al is built in the style of a french summer residence. on council is almost to the german middle ages and the world of germanic legend. expensive dreams of a keen resolve to build a rumor that will probably never die is that the big the 2nd bankrupted the state
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treasury 5 building noise that's completely wrong by law he received a sum of money annually which he used to pay for the court and the maintenance of other castles divorce walked numb from borg and many others who had split step had to be paid for the court theatre had to be paid for committed by and at the very bottom of the list whatever was left he used that for his own building projects such as an occult and wish to act. with private from 871 on was he received a yearly sum of 300000 marks of an impression mr president bismarck taken from so-called reptilian phones all slush funds. it was a little thank you gift for handing of the title of concept to william of prussia was a word nish to this what's incorrect is to call it a bride for i prefer to call it a gift then when he had already given up some of his sovereignty and accepted this great personal risk direction of his powers trend he could well be given a little financial benefit that often and cylinder we are mccoy. and yet even with
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his financial allowance from the north the king was still very short of money. his ministers i asked him to limit his building projects in nutrition good big clearly said and also wrote i can't escape building is my greatest joy in life and hoped to leave in sats how he put it formally or undeterred he continued to order chandeliers with exquisite nickel placing furniture and sculptures to bills show he's obsessed with details. on cost approximately 6000000 mugs that sequent of about 42000000 euros today. he'd also taken loans from foreign banks which was a big mistake on those foreign banks were not obliged to be loyal subjects to him and so they insistently pressed for repayment they even threaten to seize his properties so as this come to produce foreman.
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