Word: erfurt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another peasant, attracted by the prospect of work in the mines there. Thrifty, he leased first one, then three small furnaces for smelting iron ore. He prospered. His son, Martin, went to the Mansfeld village school, later to St. George's School at Eisenach and the University of Erfurt, then Germany's most famed. To suggest that Martin Luther was ignorant would be absurd, but to deny that he was born of and raised by and among simple peasants in lowly surroundings would be as absurd as denying that Jesus was the son of a village carpenter, that...
Near Forchheim, Germany, a pilot and two passengers were killed when the great Lufthansa's regular Erfurt-Munich plane hit the earth...
...justice, it must be admitted that this life contains some extraordinarily interesting sidelights on history. Isolated episodes such as the death of Louis XV, the meeting of the Estates General, the assemblage on the Champs de Mars; the detention of Spanish Princes, and the Council of Erfurt, are told with a wealth of colorful detail not to be found in the more authentic histories. The story of Talleyrand's two years in American from 1792 to 1794, after he had been successively exiled from France and from England, with accounts of his visiting to various Revolutionary celebrities in Philadelphia, Albany...