Word: lithuania
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...Austria, two; Belgium, six; Brazil, four; Canada, 41; China, 56; Costa-Rica, two; Columbia, two; British Columbia, one; Cuba, five; Czecho-Slovakia, one; England, 25; Finland, one; France, ten; Germany, ten; Greece, five; Guatemala, City, one; Hawaii, ten; Ireland, two; Italy, four; Japan, ten; Korea, two; Latvia, one; Lithuania, one; Norway, one; Nova Scotia, six; Palestine, four; Panama, one; Peru, one; Phillippine Islands, one; Poland, four; Porto Rico, five; Roumania, two; Russia, six; South Africa, four; Spain, four; Sweden, three; Switzerland, six; Syria, one; British West Indies, one; Turkey, five; Venezuela, three; Yugoslavia...
Since 1921 he has devoted his entire time to travel, study and lecturing on the Central European Nations. He has traveled widely in Germany, Finland, Estbonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Yugoslavia, Italy, Austria, as well as France and England...
...Princes and princesses were numerous in Tsarist Russia. As Oxford's scholarly Walter Alison Phillips wrote before the War: "The Russian title of 'prince' (knyaz) implies undoubted descent from the great reigning houses of Russia, Poland and Lithuania; but the title descends to all male children, none of whom is entitled to represent it par excellence. There may be three or four hundred princes bearing the same distinguished name; of these some may be great nobles, but others are not seldom found in quite humble capacities-waiters or droshky-drivers. The title in itself.has little social value...
...Kovno last week snoring soundly. Two young students burst into his bedroom, shot him in the head, stabbed him in the body. Colonel Rusteika is corporeally tough. He did not die. The students were captured. Their confession led straight to the most interesting man in Lithuania, Augustine Waldemaras, Prime Minister-Dictator of Lithuania from...
Half the politicians in Lithuania, fancying themselves among the unknown eight, shouted that ex-Dictator Waldemaras should be committed as a lunatic...