Word: leiden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to a matter-of-fact business college, and finally to the University of Göttingen, where a wealthy uncle sent him to study law. He got his degree but never practiced. Instead, he hurried to Berlin, published there in 1822 a juvenile volume of poems, the Junge Leiden (Young Sorrows). "I got forty free copies." he wrote later, "and not a penny...
...down to the last seed and spore, must have been wiped out by lava, ash, gas and steam, that if life again took root on the islands it must come from outside. A minutely detailed story of vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal Nature. In 1886, one-celled water plants, ferns and mosses had already established themselves. In 1905 a visitor found a large cycad (palmlike tree). Now the islands are covered with vegetation including tall trees, luxuriant...
Greetings in Latin are shown from the Papal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Hungarian Peter Paznany University, and the universities of Leiden, Dublin, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Upsala, Naples, Glasgow; and Carolina. For some the exhibit emphasizes the magnificent cases in which the messages were sent, many of them the finest examples of modern leatherworker's art, in red, deep brown, and blue, with gold seals embossed...
...promote the study of international private and public law," the Law Faculty of the University of Leiden, Rolland, his announced an international prize essay contest, open to all scholars who can write German, English, French or Dutch. The essay is to be "a critical and complete study, based exclusively on the published sources, of the origin of the treaties of London of April 19, 1838 (1830-1839), as well as of the international legal relations between Belgium and the Netherlands since that date...