Word: nikolas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bulgaria, Communist Boss Georgi Dimitrov suddenly discovered a "plot" involving stubborn Nikola Petkov, leader of the opposition Agrarian Party, which holds about a quarter of the seats in the National Assembly. As he was led away by the police, Petkov shouted: "This is nothing but a prolongation of what has already happened in Hungary...
...election was held anyway. From the sidelines Opposition Leader General Nikola Petkoff urged all good Bulgars to stay away from the polls. The balloting was brisk. The Soviet Tass news agency reported that the vote in one Sofia district had run as high as 99%, the election as a whole had been held "quietly and in an organized manner...
...Three former Regents: Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III and uncle of the boy King Simeon II; ex-Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian expansionist, who preferred making history to teaching it; Lieut. General Nikola Mikhoff, who had held the mistaken belief that the German Army was invincible...
...Bulgarian liberals doubted that the more important pro-fascist prisoners should be punished. What disturbed them was the fact that three leading Bulgarian democrats and antiFascists were among the defendants. The three: Nikola Mushanoff, Athanase Buroff, Dimitri Gitscheff...
June Bugs and Generators. Tesla had the fictional earmarks of genius. He was humbly born (in a Croatian village now part of Yugoslavia) of a preacher father and illiterate mother who loved to invent household gadgets. Nikola invented a popgun and a water wheel at five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed...