Word: serbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study art at the Royal Academy of Zagreb and then at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, which awarded him its first prize and gold medal for composition in the year Franz Joseph's nephew Franz Ferdinand happened to get fatefully shot, not in Croatia, but in Serbia. Artist Vanka kept on painting, after the War became a professor of painting at Zagreb's Academy. In 1926 he met Margaret Stetten, the attractive daughter of Surgeon DeWitt Stetten of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, five years later married...
...Serbia-National Anthem; Russia-Russian Hymn; France-"La Marseillaise"; Belgium-La Brabanconne"; England-"God Save the King"; Italy-"Marcia Reale"; United States of America-"The Star Spangled banner...
...Balkan wars, curtain raiser to the big show, gave both Austria and Russia the dangerous feeling that each had sacrificed more power and prestige than the other. Author Wolff does not believe that the War was inevitable. If Germany had not let Austria have her head in dealing with Serbia after Serajevo, if news of Serbia's satisfactory reply to Austria's ultimatum had not been suppressed for three crucial days-in short, if Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves...
...Heaton Vorse, just after the Armistice, on the last convoyed ship to leave Manhattan. England's Black Country, faced with "the great calamity of peace"; Paris of the Peace Conference; Italy, with new ruins to add to its old; the meeting of the Second International at Berne; devastated Serbia, machine-gun fire in starving Vienna, Budapest under Bela Kun's Communist regime-all these she saw and reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike...
Traveling about the country, living on goats' cheese and skewered lamb, Dr. House witnessed the complete independence of Serbia, Rumania and Montenegro; saw a Hohenzollern prince proclaimed Rumania's first king; later saw the Duke of Edinburgh's flighty daughter Marie started on her way to becoming that country's most famed queen. The first Balkan War and the Second came and went, followed by the World War, the Greek Revolution and the birth of Albania but Dr. House kept right on teaching school. Once in 1902 he made world headlines by spending nine weeks hunting...