Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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And there is too the Vagabond. There is little enough for him to do. No lectures, few concerts; only the library, vast, dust encrusted, darkest Widener. It is a dreary period for him. But what can he do, what can anyone do? The Vagabond will take refuge in poetry "for...
Loreto is the spot in central Italy whither, according to the story, the Casa Santa (Holy House of Mary and Joseph) was transported from Nazareth in 1295 by angels. Around it was built a great basilica. In the Litany which is sung there every Saturday, the Blessed Virgin is urged...
In November 1923 occurred the famous Beer Putsch, when Adolf Hitler in a black frock coat, scowling over his smudge of a mustache, marched into the biggest beer garden in Munich, the "Burgerbraukeller," and proclaimed the National Socialist Revolution. There was a riot in the Odeonplatz. Adolf Hitler fled to...
The life of Dostoevsky was closely connected with his work. Epileptic fits, occasional poverty, and a long Siberian exile in a bestial prison camp, made him spasmodically elated or despondent. He discovered in the contact with his fellow prisoners in Siberia, that under a rough exterior many criminals had really...
First State to start restocking its forests with game was Pennsylvania, which in 1906 bought from Michigan 50 deer, added more in subsequent years. A system of State-owned refuges was developed, each refuge surrounded by an area on which hunting could be regulated by State law. Under this protection...