Word: moravia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Career. Sigmund Freud was born of Jewish parents, at Freiburg, in Moravia, 68 years ago. At the Sperl Gymnasium in Vienna he was always the head of his class. His preliminary education over, he vacillated for some time between a career in law and one in natural science, decided much against his will to become a medical student and, after a journey to England, entered the University of Vienna, where he did brilliantly...
...Provisional Government of Czecho-Slovakia?the recognition of a Government over a country that did not exist. His triumph was not delayed, for on Oct. 28, 1918, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Narodni Vybor (National Council) took over the governments of the countries of Bohemia, Moravia, Ruthenia, Silesia and Slovakia, which had formerly belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Less than a month later (Nov. 14, 1918) the National Assembly met at Prague?capital of Czecho-Slovakia?and formally declared the State of Czechoslovakia to be a Republic and elected Masaryk, who was in New York...
Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, son of a poor gamekeeper on one of the imperial estates in Moravia, is married to an American. He was a student at the Universities of Prague Vienna and Leipzig; later, while still a young man, he was appointed a professor in Prague University...