Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later a memorial service was held in the cathedral at Belgrade and was attended by royal representatives and high government officials, despite the fact that it is now generally believed that the Serbian government, if not the actual instigator of the crime, was at least aware of the plot to kill the Archduke and made no effort to frustrate...
...following program will be presented at the Pops Concert at Symphony Hall tonight. Old Dances and Airs for the Lute (freely arranged) Respight Largo Handel (Solo, violin, harp, organ and strings) Minuet from Septet Beethoven Overture to Cinderella Rossini Kamarinskula Glinka Fantasy on two Serbian Themes Rimsky-Korsakov Suite from "The Fire-Bird," a Danced Legend Stravinsky Third Slavonic Dance Dvorak "Spring" for String Orchestra Greig Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt
...however, less the misgovernment of the Hapsburg rulers that produces ferment in Croatia and Bosnia, than the rise of a passionate nationalism in those provinces and a desire to unite with men of their own blood and language in the Serbian kingdom. The justification put forward by the champions of the Jugoslavs is the same as that put forward by the friends of Italian unification, namely, that they had a right to desire racial unity and political independence, and had also a right to fight...
These and many more events of 1926 were in the minds of scientific gentlemen who thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself...
Torrential Serbian protests filled the hall of a great mansion at Belgrade. "No, no?you shall not go out. Think, father Nikola, of what the doctor said! Please, you must not go out into the night...