Word: kilian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first man to see potential wealth in the Sahara was a brilliant but unstable French geologist named Conrad Kilian. In 1927, after three harrowing years in the central Sahara-on one expedition he was obliged to remove his own tonsils without anesthetic-Kilian returned to Paris proclaiming that the Sahara was a huge depository of oil and natural gas. Geologists scoffed. "There is no more oil in the Sahara than there are trees in the Atlantic," cracked one. In 1950, worn out by repeated bouts of mental illness and years of rebuffs from French authorities, Kilian hanged himself...
...delight in "Europe's New Churches" was revived in your fine pictorial article. We regret only the omission of the name of the prominent postwar German artist, Georg Meistermann, who designed the stained-glass window in Schweinfurt's St. Kilian's Church...
...General Pal Maleter, hero of the Kilian Barracks fighting against the Russians and Nagy's Defense Minister until the Soviets tricked him into a meeting, captured and imprisoned him. Although Budapest sources deny the persistent reports that Maleter is being or has been tried, no one doubts that the trial is coming...
...Kilian barracks there was such a big crowd that Peter was about to quit and go home when someone called for a truck driver, and he came forward. Peter drove "a tall colonel who seemed to be in charge" to an arms depot, called the Lamp Factory, where they loaded cases of rifles and machine guns. The revolutionary fever caught Peter up at this point, and he was swept into the battle for Radio Budapest, shooting from the rooftops...
...morale at the barracks was skyhigh. When citizens called up to report the presence of Russian tanks or the whereabouts of the AVH, the Freedom Fighters forayed out to do battle. A week later the Soviet army returned in strength and tried to blast the Freedom Fighters out of Kilian barracks. Peter Szanto was one of the last to leave. He came out through a hole in the back wall after a delegation of local people had pleaded with the Fighters to stop the battle because the neighborhood was in ruins. When he reached home, Peter learned that...