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Czechmate
These reminiscences are an intimate account of Mila Rechcgls saga, his fascinating life, his varied and successful professional career, and his highly visible public life, encompassing some fifty years, since the earliest childhood in a small hamlet in northeastern rural Bohemia to his government career in the Worlds Capital, Washington, DC and spending his retirement years in active scholarship and voluntary work for non-profit organizations. He views his life as a chess game, in which he confronts various challenges head-on, usually ending with a checkmate in his favor. He describes his idyllic youth at family mill, in an area known as Bohemian paradise, talks fondly of his parents and gra...
Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography
As the Czech ambassador to the United States, H. E. Petr Gandalovic noted in his foreword to this bookMla Rechcgl has written a monumental workrepresenting a culmination of his life achievement as a historian of Czech America. The Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography is a unique and unparalleled publication. The enormity of this undertaking is reflected in the fact that it covers a universe, starting a few decades after the discovery of the New World, through the escapades and significant contributions of Bohemian Jesuits and Moravian Brethren in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the mass migration of the Czechs after the revolutionary year of 1848 up to the earl...
Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography
As the Czech ambassador to the United States, H. E. Petr Gandalovic noted in his foreword to this book that Mla Rechcgl has written a monumental work representing a culmination of his life achievement as a historian of Czech America. The Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech American Biography is a unique and unparalleled publication. The enormity of this undertaking is reflected in the fact that it covers a universe, starting a few decades after the discovery of the New World, through the escapades and significant contributions of Bohemian Jesuits and Moravian brethren in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the mass migration of the Czechs after the revolutionary year of 1848, and up to ...
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
When I Was a Little Girl
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL is based on stories Georgia told her children and her Grandchildren about growing up in a small rural town: Clarkson, Grayson Springs, Kentucky, USA. Fewer than 250 people lived in town. Children worldwide will relate to the simple pleasures of a life of self-made adventures, learning, and family ties. It will be enjoyed by children ages 3103. It shows Imagination, Adventure, Learning, Initiative, Independence, Nature, Discovery, Hope, and Love. It illustrates the unimportance of Material Things or Money in a childs development. The Appendix has information on some of the things in the stories together with activities and encouragement to utilize resources to explore new material and reading. The Family Tree section includes historic documents. FAMILY PICTURES ARE OVER one hundred YEARS OLD.
The Roman Monster
In December 1495 the Tiber River flooded the city of Rome causing extensive drowning and destruction. When the water finally receded, a rumor began to circulate that a grotesque monstrosity had been discovered in the muddy detritus—the Roman monster. The creature itself is inherently fascinating, consisting of an eclectic combination of human and animal body parts. The symbolism of these elements, the interpretations that religious controversialists read into them, and the history of the image itself, help to document antipapal polemics from fifteenth-century Rome to the Elizabethan religious settlement. This study examines the iconography of the image of the Roman monster and offers ideol...
