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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...
...Provisional Government of Czecho-Slovakia?the recognition of a Government over a country that did not exist. His triumph was not delayed, for on Oct. 28, 1918, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Narodni Vybor (National Council) took over the governments of the countries of Bohemia, Moravia, Ruthenia, Silesia and Slovakia, which had formerly belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Less than a month later (Nov. 14, 1918) the National Assembly met at Prague?capital of Czecho-Slovakia?and formally declared the State of Czechoslovakia to be a Republic and elected Masaryk, who was in New York...
...Norman England written in the present style. The Battle of Crecy is laid out, a decisive battle, to be sure, but as bare of any imagination stimulating incident as a scrimmage between two sandlot football team. The picturesque is gone; there is nothing of the blind king of Bohemia charging into battle among his knight, or the stand of the English archers against wave after wave of the French chivalry. All of this is unessential from the modernist point of view. The student will learn what the issue was, fought between a handful of men, and what the result...