21) Tab'orites (3 syl.). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A sect of Hussites in Bohemia. So called from the fortress Tabor, about fifty miles from Prague, from which Nicholas von Hussineez, one of the founders, expelled...
22) echy. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...See Bohemia....
23) 64780. Williams, Tennessee. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:64780 QUOTATION:Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion. ATTRIBUTION:Tennessee Williams (1914-1983), U.S. dramatist. Marguerite Gautier, in Camino...
24) Nep'omuk. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...St. John Nepomuk, a native of Bohemia, was the almoner of Wenceslas IV., and refused to reveal to the emperor the confession of the empress. After having heroically...
25) Premysl. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...P emysl, (przhem´isl) (KEY) , earliest dynasty of Bohemia. Its semilegendary founder was the peasant Premysl, whom the Bohemian Princess (sometimes called Queen)...
26) 42758. O. Henry [William Sydney Porter]. The Columbia World of Quotations.
1996
...NUMBER:42758 QUOTATION:Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue...
27) Leopold II, Holy Roman emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary. The Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Leopold II, Holy Roman emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary, 1747-92, Holy Roman emperor (1790-92), king of Bohemia and Hungary (1790-92), as Leopold I grand duke...
28) Bohemia. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Bohemia, village (8 sq mi/20.7 sq km; 1990 pop. 9,556), Suffolk co., SE N.Y., in central L.I., 26 mi/42 km WSW of Riverhead; 40°46'N 73°07'W. Light mfg....
29) Wenceslas, Saint. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Duke of Bohemia who encouraged Christianization and was martyred by his brother Boleslav. He is popularly associated with Christmastide charity and is the patron...
30) Bohemia. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...the 15th century, when it passed to Hungary and then to the Hapsburg dynasty of Austria. Bohemia became the core of the newly formed state of Czechoslovakia in 1918....
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