Word: moravians
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Freud first used the term psychoanalysis in 1896, when he was already 40. He had been driven by ambition from his earliest days and encouraged by his doting parents to think highly of himself. Born in 1856 to an impecunious Jewish family in the Moravian hamlet of Freiberg (now Pribor in the Czech Republic), he moved with the rest of a rapidly increasing brood to Vienna. He was his mother's firstborn, her "golden Siggie." In recognition of his brilliance, his parents privileged him over his siblings by giving him a room to himself, to study in peace...
Thomas Bata's visit to Prague last December at the invitation of the new Czechoslovakian leadership was a particularly joyful journey. At 75, he heads Toronto-based Bata Shoe, which made 300 million pairs of shoes last year. Founded in 1894 by his father in the Moravian town of Zlin, Czechoslovakia, the firm was nationalized by the Communists in 1945. The family moved to Canada and proceeded to build the world's largest shoe company...