Word: blankenburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred years ago a German schoolmaster named Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel opened in Blankenburg the world's first kindergarten. Lonely, eccentric Friedrich Froebel, who had left school at a tender age to become a forester's apprentice because his teachers thought him a dunce, believed that children were "young plants needing to be nurtured carefully." In the garden of his private academy, which gave the kindergarten its name, Teacher Froebel supervised the play of his neighbors' children in a systematic manner, until his socialistic and irreligious leanings moved the Prussian authorities to close the school...
...Zephir shot away, uneventfully buzzed the 2,390 miles to Pan American's Long Island base at Manhasset Bay. With four men aboard, the silver and yellow flying boat covered the route in 22 hours, using Pan American's radio as a guidepost. Shrugged Ruddy Captain Joachim Blankenburg: "A routine flight . . . an everyday event. I am glad to say, however, that we had about everything the ocean could offer in the way of weather...
...spied a small, black mongrel dog adrift on an ice cake in the Delaware River. He did not know how the dog had come there, but he knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled. Rescuer Corliss toppled into the freezing Delaware...
Four miles back chugged the Blankenburg. While Patrolman Corliss dried himself in the Harbor Patrol's office, police statisticians computed salaries, fuel, wear & tear, concluded that the rescue had cost Philadelphia $250. Then they sat down to try. to figure out what to do with...
...Author. Oswald Spengler chose Germany (Blankenburg im Harz) as his birthplace, history as his province. He studied mathematics, philosophy, art and history in Munich and Berlin, wrote his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, then subsided into the anonymity of a pedagog. When the first version of Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) was finished, he could find no German publisher, brought it out in Vienna. By 1923 it had become a world affair, reached the U. S. in 1926. No longer hidden under a bushel of schoolboys' papers, Spengler's threatening light shines...