The following article by Gary Clark (texasbirder@comcast.net) was first published in the Houston Chronicle Star on Saturday, January 20, 2018 and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. The Sorbs of Lusatia, Germany, celebrated an ancient winter tradition known as Vogelhochzeit, or the “Bird’s Wedding.” Reader Leo Symmank – whose ancestors […]
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This article by M. Zaborowski first appeared as an abstract in The Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution on 30 Jun 1906. It is presented here as one of the article that Anna Blasig used in writing her book, The Wends of Texas. -0- The Origin of the Slavs[1]
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This article by the Reverend Francis Domanski, S. J. first appeared in the Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America in July 1944. Authochthonism – the state of being aboriginal or native to a particular area. AUTOCHTHONISM OF THE WENDS or SORBO-LUSATIANS By the Rev. Francis Domanski, S. J. “Durch die
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This article by Sorabicus first appeared in Slavonic Review, XIV, (April 1936,) pages 616-621. It is being presented here because it was one of the sources of material that Anna Blasig used in writing her book, The Wends of Texas. For a discussion of Sorabicus and the historical context for the publication of the article
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This article first appeared in 1892 in Westminster Review, Vol. 137, pgs 538-556. It also appeard in 1894 in Odd Bits of History: Being Short Chapters Intended to Fill Some Blanks by Henry W. Wolff. -0- Modern History is, in its rapid march onward making sad havoc of old races.
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God said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Ta-boom, ta-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom. Eliot said, “It is never too late to be what you might have been . . .” Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat. Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is How to remain an artist once he grows up . . .” Tat-a-rat-tat-tat, tat-a-rat-tat. Mozart
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ALL THINGS END all things end ipso facto before they end dum spiro spero they wind down de facto it’s the winding down status quo that breaks my heart kyrie eleison things begin and end carpe noctem it’s the in-between that smarts terra incognita especially the far end of in-between eheu, fugaces labuntur anni when
Oberlehrer Jan Arnošt Hančka. Headmaster and Cantor in Purschwitz. *11.9.1867 – †17.6.1928 Translated from Upper Sorbian by Gerald Stone on 11 October 2017 at the request of the Wendish Research Exchange. -0- Arnošt Hančka was born on 11 September 1867 in Guttau, where his father had a farm. His childhood years and the conditions in
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Raj in 1928, shortly before the author’s death. It was translated from Upper Sorbian by Gerald Stone in 2017 at the request of the Wendish Research Exchange. -0- As I write these lines, I have no intention of making out that I may have been something special. No, but I want my young readers to
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So what happens to the old house now? Now that it’s been re-occupied by a young couple Who love its oldness? The one now gone used to move about the house With such energy That the windows would rattle. They still rattle. The new owners’ dog Wouldn’t go into the living room. “It’s OK,” the
