The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 2Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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... peasants are superstitious people ; if they want rain next Thursday they take the priest a present of eggs on Monday , and if it does not rain they take still more eggs until it does . As the Soviet has largely disendowed the Church ...
... peasants are superstitious people ; if they want rain next Thursday they take the priest a present of eggs on Monday , and if it does not rain they take still more eggs until it does . As the Soviet has largely disendowed the Church ...
Page 897
... PEASANTS The Chekho - Slovakian peasants , especially those of Moravia and Slovakia , are noted for the tenacity with which they cling to their gay native costumes . Every scrap of work from weaving and dyeing to actually making the ...
... PEASANTS The Chekho - Slovakian peasants , especially those of Moravia and Slovakia , are noted for the tenacity with which they cling to their gay native costumes . Every scrap of work from weaving and dyeing to actually making the ...
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... peasants are fairly contented when not unduly worried over their taxes , serious agrarian questions have arisen in the newly acquired territories . No landowner in Croatia , Bosnia , Herzegovina , Dalmatia or Slavonia is allowed to ...
... peasants are fairly contented when not unduly worried over their taxes , serious agrarian questions have arisen in the newly acquired territories . No landowner in Croatia , Bosnia , Herzegovina , Dalmatia or Slavonia is allowed to ...
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INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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