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Refreshment Table. Founding the university in 1348, Charles IV of Bohemia announced that he wanted the people of Bohemia, "incessantly hungering after the fruits of learning ... to find set out in our realm a table of refreshment." Charles was central Europe's first university, and one of the medieval world's best...
Most of the indications pointed to suicide. Some skeptics insisted it was another case of Bohemia's famed "forcible defenestration."* Whether it was suicide or murder, the fact was that Jan Masaryk had become enmeshed in exactly the kind of trap his father had warned against: he had been destroyed by trying to compromise with forces with which no man could compromise...
...Bohemia-born Rabbi Wise arrived in the U.S. in 1846 to find the country's Jews scattered and unorganized, and falling away from their ancient faith. For half a century he traveled up & down the land preaching and organizing a new, liberalized Judaism; it laid less stress on traditional forms and observances than on cutting the vital principles of the Old Testament to the democratic measure of the New World. "American Judaism" which he founded is today called "Reform," and numbers 350 U.S. congregations...
...Where is my home? Where is my home?" they sang. (The watching crowd bowed their heads; many wept.) "Fair Bohemia is my home! Fair Bohemia is my home!" (The police stood ramrod still; one reporter noticed several of the policemen weeping too.) "Thunders crashing wild, over Tatras' dark main...
...horror of New Orleans' old guard, there are even krewes for women. Each seemed determined that its ball should be as lavish as the next. Queens of new krewes were not always debutantes, but all-like pretty Shirley Ray Toups (see cut), who reigned over the Bards of Bohemia ball-were gorgeously gowned...