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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there can never be permanent peace. Only truces...
...first great draftsman of Europe. . . . [He] tries to grasp man as a product of nature. . . . His new conception of nature ... is . . . immediately expressed in his drawings of animals, plants, trees, and landscapes. He looks with new eyes on the broad realm of creation and discovers in the pulpy flower or plant something zoömorphic, and in the animal something plantlike. He sees trees as tender, trembling creatures hovering in the soft air; landscape is for him no longer a mere background to man but a space filled with light...
Half hour later, Britain's busy Mosquitoes stung Frankfurt again, demoralized its weary firefighters. That pattern, by night and by day, will flower into bloody bloom in many another German city before spring...
...Teetotalers are much more interested than drinkers in church, foreign missions, music, observatories, wild-flower picking. Their attitude toward drinkers is not devoid of envy: 59% of those examined wished that scientists would develop a beverage "retaining all the good features of alcohol but lacking all its harmful features...
When a WP shell bursts in a spectacular flower of smoke (see cut), it scatters flaming phosphorus particles over a wide area. The rain of fire sticks to clothing, cannot be brushed off. Larger particles burn through to produce burns particularly painful and hard to heal...