Word: scandinavia
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These Reformation churches made their greatest strides in northern Europe-Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland and the Low Countries. In France they made little headway against such violent suppression as produced the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of thousands of Calvinist sympathizers in 1572. Calvinism-under the name of Presbyterianism-became the national Church of Scotland in 1560. Like the Church of England, wherever the major Reformation churches flourished, they followed the Catholic pattern of state-church partnership and were just as savagely relentless as the Roman Church in persecuting religious minorities...
...discovered her in 1929. After hearing her sing Tosca in Oslo, he told Met Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza that she was a singer to watch. Before Gatti got around to taking this advice, Flagstad accepted a bid from Bayreuth. It was the first time she had sung outside of Scandinavia. Says she: "I was quite happy where I was. I was never ambitious. Always I wanted to be a private person...
Kauffman, remembered for his historic action on the part of the free Danes who would not recognize the Nazi occupation during the second world war, will speak on "Scandinavia in the World Today...
...merger gives Pan Am 2,502 extra route miles and an opportunity to capture 33% of the transatlantic traffic. Pan Am will now stop in ten additional cities in Iceland, Scotland, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia, will go to Paris and Rome within a month. With the help of the 18 four-engine airplanes (DC-4s, Stratocruisers and Constellations) that it acquired in the deal, Pan Am stepped up weekly transatlantic crossings from 22 to 29. Juan Trippe still did not think its 144-plane fleet big enough. To replace aging DC-4s on the South American run, Pan Am last...
...expect stated that he had been asked many times this summer in Scandinavia, "Why can't America follow the advice of Lie and welcome China into the U.N.?" He said he himself believed it would be "surely better" to recognize the Communists in China...