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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...formed, the Croats expressed their discontent by handing election victories to the "Croatian Peasant Party" headed by Radic. The latter was a dour a... ...ht his end. The Ustasha movement ("insurgence" or "insurrection", officially the "Croatian Ustasha Movement") was a product of the personal rebell... ...d environment. He practised as a lawyer in Zagreb and there joined the Nationalist Croatian Party of Rights. He progressed rapidly and by 1920 (at ... ...range movement, the Ustashe. Claiming the continuous "rights of state" of the Great Croatian Kingdom under Peter Kresimir and Zvonimir in the 11th ... ...s declared the Independent State of Croatia (NDH, after the initials of its name in Croatian - Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska). Vladimir Mecak, leader of... .... Return The Crescent and the Cross Introduction "There are two maxims for historians which so harmonise with what I know of history that I... ...poke languages artificially constructed and lauded a culture hastily assembled by "historians" and "philologists". These were the roots of the gre...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...oth ethnic and religious differences can be divisive. The non-Catholic non-Croatians are more likely to experience negative prejudices when living in... ...s and eye witness accounts. But historical evidence is often politicized. Historians can pick and choose what they will examine and report on. Were ... ...y of the past confirming that events never repeat themselves? ―Real historians want the truth, although some rewrite history to back up a polit... ...ious to injuries except for his heel? God can‘t change the past, but many historians do, especially if they are justifying for a cause that is sacred... ... situations of the American Revolution. The facts written by the American historians seem to be different from those reported by the English histori... ...to verify and illuminate the actions of the people who do the things that historians record and analyze. --―It seems that you are saying...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... zero-sum games. A contract gained by a Slovenian company - is a contract lost by a Croatian one. Luckily, in this last decade, the economic cake te... ..., etc.) and the diary observation of the technological breaking point (what the old historians called: the "short time" and the "long time"). To com...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ence arises a phenomenon, which has too lan- guidly arrested the notice of historians; namely, that already, and for centuries before the time of Cons... ...an bigotry of Rome. Paganism for Rome, it ought to have been remembered by historians, was a mere neces- sity of her Pagan origin. Paganism was the fa... ...ere stationed in their national costume—Italian, Hungar- ian, T urkish, or Croatian—in the lofty galleries or corridors which ran round the halls; and... ...oldier of desper- ate enterprise, everywhere abhorred as a man. By birth a Croatian, he had exhibited himself as one of the most savage leaders of tha... ...; and cut every knot of jurispru- dence, whether form or substance, by his Croatian sabre. T wo assessors, however, he willingly received upon his ben... ...it of fighting for and against all the princes of Germany had given to the Croatian general a disregard for any of them, except on the single consider... ...rom those who had the power to enforce them; and, with a brutal scoff, the Croatian bade her merit their indulgence by frank discoveries and voluntary...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...Wamba kept of his master’s achievements, and of the Bulgarians, Bohemians, Croatians, slain or maimed by his hand. And as, in those days, a reputation... ...s, who cut away among them without mercy. And although none of the Spanish historians whom I have consulted make mention of Sir Wilfrid as the real au... ...ve been, however, an effeminate race; they are represented by contemporary historians as being passionately fond of flying kites. Others say they went...

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