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year old girl sneezes for twenty-one days. An Indian game leads to an Indian massacre. History proves that it does repeat itself. Yes friends, this is Lindsay McCarry back once more for another session of Can You Imagine That. My courts and I have dug up a lot of interesting items for your amusement and amazement. So stay around and we'll be back with you in just
one minute and a half. Written down by historians, quoted by almost everyone at one time or another, is the Hackneyed and Tried phrase, History repeats itself. But Hackneyed as it is, Tried
though it may seem it never loses its truth through usage. Many are the examples of its proof, but one of the most dramatic and startling parallels of history to prove this saying, I discovered in two sets of newspapers published three hundred years apart. One set of newspapers were the first to be printed in the English language outside of England and were published
in Amsterdam, Holland, beginning in the year 1620. The other set of news items came from dispatches emanating from the same part of Europe as the first, but three hundred years later. Now to begin, listen to this modern dispatch of October 18, 1918.
He had known that we, the people of Czech-e-Bohemia, have proclaimed the Republic to be known as Czechoslovakia on this day. And in July 1920, at the Conference of Ambassadors, it is hereby agreed that the borders of the Republic of Czechoslovakia are confirmed by the decision of this Conference of Ambassadors. That was in 1918 and 1920. Now go back 300
years to the year 1620. On November 4 in Prague Bohemia, Vistin takes place. In the name of the Almighty in whom we place our trust by crowned Frederick King of Bohemia, in thy hands have been placed the protection of Bohemia against all invaders, against those who would destroy the state. God it well King Frederick.
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