Word: alsatian
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Fakes have set complex historical forces dancing. Anti-Semitic officers high in the French military fabricated evidence that Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, passed sensitive information to the Germans and Italians. Convicted of treason in 1894 and sentenced to Devil's Island for life, Dreyfus had to endure a ceremony in which his sword was broken and the insignia stripped from his uniform. One shocked witness was Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist covering the trial for a Vienna newspaper. Herzl embarked on a train of thought that would result in the writing of Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State...
...Austrian mother he adored. An Alsatian father who drank and brawled when not working his shift at a Ford foundry...
...West Rand mining complex, one of the richest gold veins in the world. When some of the men refused to enter the mines and others symbolically laid down their shovels, white overseers called out the mines' internal security police. Using riot guns, armored vehicles, tear gas and snarling Alsatian dogs, they attempted to disperse the angry crowd. By evening the confrontation had erupted into a full-scale riot, as 4,000 blacks raged across mine property, stoning the cars of white officials and setting fire to an office building and an infirmary. In the following days, sporadic rioting...
...most. Since her divorce from Philippe Junot, the jet-setting playboy, Caroline, 24, rarely makes the scene. Yes, there is the occasional rendezvous with Close Friend Roberto Rossellini, 31, Ingrid Bergman's son. But generally the princess restricts her company to another tall, dark male. He is an Alsatian named Oenix and clearly the jealous type...
...constructed an automatic orchestra called the Panharmonicon, which could simulate violins, cellos, clarinets, flutes, trumpets, drums, cymbals and triangle. For this contraption, the inventor commissioned Beethoven to compose his Vittoria Symphony, Maelzel also toured America with a robot chess player that was actually operated from inside by a hunchbacked Alsatian dwarf named Schlumberger...