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Before this empire was even born, the fertile steppe north of the Black Sea was repeatedly swept by nomadic tribes from Central Asia. The first known invaders were the fierce Scythians, who swarmed in from the east around 700 B.C., driving out the resident Cimmerians. The Greek historian Herodotus, who...
"Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe," declared Bis marck. Between periods of self-rule, Bohemia fell to the Avars in the 5th century, later to the German emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and finally to the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs and the...
Producers Powell & Pressburger made it a point to cast the opera's voices first, record the score before turning a camera, and then engage their actors-presumably so that the players could look and perform their roles convincingly while seeming to sing like birds. But the part of a...
There is no more romantic history perhaps in all Europe than that of the Slavic peoples who, about the seventh century after Christ, began a considerable movement into the region northeast of the Adriatic. They were divided into various small tribes, and in the earlier ages most of the them...
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