Chateau Chantilly is immense and is surrounded by miles of pools, ponds, garden pathways and horse trails and the interior is filled with period furnishings, a huge collection of 15th and 16th century art works, second only to the Louvre.
Chateau Chantilly boasts of eight centuries of existence.
The main part of the chateau was destroyed in the French Revolution, and the contents looted, but was rebuilt and refurbished by Henri of Orléans, the Duke of Aumale.
Which versions do you prefer, the color or black and white?
Here a a couple photos taken at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
The third photo is one of my all time favorites, taken in 1995 using old school infrared film. Digitally tweaking an image in PhotoShop is close but no cigar to the real thing. The first image is one of my favs from 2019.
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Diamond magnate Lev Leviev was served with a summons by police Tuesday night upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport from Russia, as he is wanted for questioning in relation to the multimillion-dollar “Black Diamond” fraud investigation that began in 2018. timesofisrael.com/diamond-tycoon…
Lev Leviev, the Israeli Billionaire With Ties to Jared Kushner and Putin
Leviev is best known for having cracked the world diamond market monopoly of the De Beers cartel in the 1980s, and for real estate holdings and construction deals.
Leviev-Sofiev has been pictured hanging out with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, while her dad Lev Leviev is said to be friends with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
The share-trading scandal known as "cum-ex", which has blighted German political and financial circles for several years, has cost taxpayers billions of euros.
Government officials say the investigation involves some 100 banks on four continents and at least 1,000 suspects.
From 2006 to 2011 hundreds of bankers, lawyers and investors made off with a staggering $60 billion, all of it siphoned from the state coffers of European countries.
The scheme was built around “cum-ex trading” (“with-without”): a monetary maneuver to avoid double taxation of investment profits that plays out like high finance’s answer to a David Copperfield stage illusion.
Portland’s Japanese Garden is huge and spectacular and not to be missed if you are in the area. Also, the adjacent rose test garden is amazing as well.
Employees at Rocket One Capital, had learned of the pending deal long before it was announced.
Rocket One officials at the time talked about ways to profit off the soon-to-be-announced transaction with Trump Media & Technology Group by investing in the SPAC.
Federal prosecutors and regulators are now investigating the merger between Digital World and Trump Media, including the frenzied trading in the SPAC’s warrants, according to people familiar with the investigation and public disclosures.
Digital World said in a recent regulatory filing that a federal grand jury in Manhattan had issued subpoenas seeking information about Rocket One, among other things.
Pekin said Dugin introduced Malofeev as Putin’s “right-hand man,” and the Turks came to learn the financier really can “knock on Putin’s door.”
“That’s how the trip became effective,” Pekin said. “We knew what we said went directly to Putin.”
In 2022, political committees tied to Trump routed more payments than ever to one firm involved in the Jan. 6 rally — Event Strategies Inc., the firm named in a permit for the rally that also employed two individuals involved in the protest. #Manafort
Event Strategies Inc. was helmed by Tim Unes and Justin Caporale, Trump campaign aides who were listed on permit records as the Jan. 6 rally’s stage and production managers.
Unes was reportedly brought to Trump’s campaign by Paul Manafort.