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...Serbia continued to resist, helped by Austria or Russia, who valued the Balkans as a buffer against the Turk, or betrayed them if it suited their purposes. Early in the 19th Century the great Serbian King Kara George fought Turkey with Russian aid, got a limited autonomy with Turkish garrisons still in Serbia. But Napoleon's advance on Moscow drew away Russian support, and the Turks pressed Serbia hard again. This time Serbia's Milos Obrenovich made a deal with Turkey for recognition. The deal included the assassination of Kara George, and thus started an Obrenovich-Kara George...
...England, while they waited for word of their fugitive brother, Yugoslavia's King Peter II, two active young Kara-Georgevitches, Prince Andreja, 11, and Prince Tomislav, 13, played in a treetop in an observation post of their own construction, watching the sky for German planes...
...summer of 1937, the Soviet icebreaker Sedov was doing exploration work in the Kara Sea and making a hydrological survey of the Laptev Sea, two links of the Northeast Passage (see map). In October, most of her work done, she was sent to the rescue of two other icebreakers, the Sadko and Malygin, icebound in the floes of the Laptev. Winter set in early that year, and on Oct. 23 the Sedov was fast in the ice too. Professor Rudolph Lazarevich Samoilovich. leader of the expedition, ordered the 217 men and women aboard the three ships to settle down...
Another American had also gone to Syria, naturalized Citizen Mejardich Kara-yan who thought the climate would be good for his health. Mejardich Karayan changed his mind, decided to go back to the U. S. When he applied for a visa, Consul General James Theodore Marriner approved it, had it mailed to Mejardich
...Belgrade, a vast neo-Byzantine family tomb. Therein he installed his swineherd ancestor ''Black George," the peasant who became a bandit, then a general, and finally the "Liberator of Serbia." The mausoleum is in the form of a multidomed church with a crypt beneath for the royal Kara-Georgevitches, the descendants of Black George. Last week green lights burned in the crypt. When King Alexander's body, brought by train and motor hearse from Belgrade, was finally lowered to rest beside Black George, Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia broke down completely and King Peter joined her sobs...