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False Prophets and Preachers
In February 1534, a radical group of Anabaptists, gripped with apocalyptic fervor, seized the city of Münster and established an idealistic communal government that quickly deteriorated into extreme inequality and theocratic totalitarianism. In response, troops hired by the city's prince-bishop laid siege to the city. Fifteen months later the besieged inhabitants were starving, and, in the dead of the night, five men slipped out. Separated from his fellow escapees, Henry Gresbeck gambled with his life by approaching enemy troops. Taken prisoner, he collaborated with the enemy to devise a plan to recapture Münster, and later recorded the only eyewitness account of the Anabaptist kingdom of ...
Living with a Visionary
In his afterword, Igor Webb writes, "The lament, uttered when love and death are most closely bound, is something like an essential accessory to mortality. . . . 'Living with a Visionary' is the poet's account of his, and (and his wife) Diana's, descent into hell (from effects of Parkinson's disease). . . . But it's in 'Some of Her Things,' a fable in the form of a long prose poem, . . . that Matthias most powerfully, and poignantly, deploys his language. . . . it is a courtly threnody for lost time." Literary Nonfiction
Ancestors of John Mathias Zwaska and Margaret Schill Zwaska
John Mathias Zwaschka, son of John N. Zwaschka and Anna Trautman, was born 1 June 1882, in Kewaskum, Washington County, Wisconsin. He married Margaret Schill, daughter of Nicholas Schill and Catherine Leisses, on 17 May 1904. They had 12 children. John died 10 Mar 1968 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Margaret died 1 July 1970, also in Stevens Point. Their ancestors came from Germany. Their descendants have lived in Wisconsin, Connecticut, Ohio, Oklahoma, and other areas in the United States.
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Allegheny, Pa. (also known as Allegheny City) was chartered in 1840 and primarily encompassed the land north of the Allegheny River now known as Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhoods. Allegheny City was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907.
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