Word: bohemia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prof. Posepni, of the Univ. of Przibram, Bohemia−"The Genesis of Ore Deposits...
...story. Zamiel, the wild huntsman, a blackhearted, fire-eating demon, has in his power Kaspar, a forester in the service of Prince Ottokar of Bohemia. Kaspar is doomed to forfeit his soul to the wizard unless he can find another victim. As a candidate he picks the noble young hero, Max, who loves Agatha, daughter of the Prince's chief ranger, one Kuno. In the shooting contest which is to 'decide who is to be Kuno's successor, Kaspar, through Zamiel's magic, makes Max miss the target. Max despairs (very tunefully...
Karel Kapek was born in 1890 in Northern Bohemia, and since then he has never travelled far beyond the boundaries of Czechoslovakia, although his plays, most prominent of which are "R. U. R." and "The World We Live In," have been presented in translation in London, New York and Berlin. At present he is at Prague serving as director of the Vinohradski Theatre...
...been on the physics of crystals (as was the early work of Louis Pasteur), became so interested that he abandoned his own work for his wife's subject. They chose the costly orefi pitchblende, and were able after much difficulty to secure several tons from a pitchblende mine in Bohemia, from which uranium was extracted by the Austrian Government. By a new method of chemical analysis based on measuring the radioactivity of various fractions with delicate electrical apparatus, they were able to announce in July, 1898, the existence of a new radio-active element, polonium (named for Mme. Curie...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, in presenting the distinguished guest to the Lotos Club, said: " We welcome you to our Lotos land and to Bohemia not as a former President of the Board of Trade and Cabinet Minister for many years; not as Chancellor of the Exchequer, associated with policies that make history; not as Minister of Munitions or as Prime Minister of England?one of the greatest titles ever known to history?during the conduct of that stupendous war. We welcome you not as a statesman of national and international and permanent achievement and fame. We honor those things, we applaud...