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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Wenzel Number Four" is an English allusion to 14th Century King Wenceslaus IV of "Bohemia whose exploits included not only harpooning maidens young and spry but also ordering that his Queen's confessor, the legendary St. John of Nepomuk, should be thrown into the vltava for refusing to reveal to His Majesty something which Her Majesty had confided to the saint at confessional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wenzel Number Four | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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