Word: sebastopol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luther Burbank, horticulturist: "I discontinued the nursery business. My Sebastopol, Cal., farm is for sale. I will now turn my attention to the world distribution of my improved seeds, thus insuring the permanency of my life's work...
...Lieutenant Schmidt's cruiser was joined by nine other ships and an infantry regiment on shore, which attempted to seize the city of Sebastopol. Ships loyal to the Tsar opened fire on the rebel boats, sinking the Otchakov, the Dneiper and a transport. The remaining seven quickly surrendered, and, after several conflicts, the mutineers on shore gave themselves up. The casualties on both sides amounted to 5,000. Subsequently 39 sailors were tried, some acquitted, others sentenced to hard labor for life. Schmidt and three others were shot...
What is that point of view with which your reviewer, along with Captain Coningsby Dawson, so vigorously quarrels? Is it not that of the human individual in the midst of a herd enterprise, war? What Tolstoi painted with such superb restraint in "War and Peace" and "Sebastopol", namely: what happens to individuals when the state orders them out to kill their fellow men. It is the tragedy of the State's failure to touch the souls of men, the inevitable violence and injustice to individuals in any military machine, which "Three Soldiers" depicts afresh. It has been the theme...