Word: communed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years before Churchill was born, Bismarck made the German Empire Europe's No. 1 power by defeating France. This same year, and as a result of the same war, Paris gave Europe the first example of a new revolutionary political form-the commune or soviet...
...other was Vladimir Lenin. To the old revolutionist who in 1917 used to number the life of the Soviet Government in days ("Now we have lasted two days longer than the Paris Commune," "We have lasted two days longer than the Paris Commune.") the Anglo-Russian meeting would have meant success beyond his dreams. Well might he have said to his great disciple: "Khorosho!- A good...
...stamps with perforated seams, retractable carriage steps. After building the first streetcar lines between Liverpool and Birkenhead, Train circled the globe in 80 days (said Train of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days: "He stole my thunder. I'm Phileas Fogg"). During the Paris Commune, Train wrapped himself in French and American flags, screamed at a firing squad: "Fire, fire, you miserable cowards." He lived to be buried in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, leaving to science the 27th heaviest brain on record...
...photographs were taken by Sir Richard Wallace in Paris during the 1871 struggle between the Paris Commune and the army sent against the city by the anti-republican National Assembly government at Versailles at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war, Sir Richard was an art connoisseur who made a study of the then new art of photography and his pictures of the ruins of Paris were unique. The photographs were in Sir Richard's town house in Paris until acquired by Mr. Spaulding...
...people of Paris, embittered against their government by the defeat of the French armies by the Prussians, had proclaimed the city a Commune or free town. When the government troops from Versailles marched into Paris and the defeat of the Commune appeared imminent, the Parisians destroyed the buildings which symbolized the past...