Word: kossovo
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...things they told her, the things she said to them, above all the things she observed and thought fill two volumes of some 1,181 pages. But two things which impressed and distressed Novelist West had a special meaning as symbols of death and life-Ovche Polye and Kossovo Polye-the Sheep's Field and the Field of the Blackbirds...
...Kossovo Author West heard that song which Serbian boys learn as soon as they can speak...
...beak he bears a swallow. . . . The grey falcon comes to Tsar Lazar at Kossovo and says...
...want an earthly kingdom? If you want an earthly kingdom, says the grey falcon, saddle your horses and drive out the Turks. If you want a heavenly kingdom, build a church at Kossovo...
...date was June 28, 1914, a memorable day, 25 years ago this week. It was the 550th anniversary, of the battle of Kossovo ("the Field of Blackbirds") in which the Serbs lost their independence to the Turks. It was the day which Franz Ferdinand-Archduke of Austria-Este, Heir Apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne-and his good Czech wife, Sophie, chose to visit Sarajevo, and it was the day when the trigger was pulled which set off World...
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