Tag: Bohemia
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Welcome to The Jungle: The story of adopting two food safety laws
Stephen KosnarAccra, Ghana In 1912 my great-grandfather Matthew Kosnar collected his family in rural Bohemia and began a journey that would take them by train, ship, and train again, nearly 6000 miles to their final destination in Chicago, Illinois. Matthew and his two oldest sons began working immediately, and his youngest son, John (my grandfather),…
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The Emperor Maximilian II and his physicians
Maximilian II (1527–1576) of the House of Habsburg was Holy Roman Emperor as well as king of Bohemia, Croatia, and Hungary. The Emperor . . . had long suffered from gout, from heart attacks, from bouts of “kidney colic,” [and] quite possibly syphilis, that had been sweeping across Europe since the turn of the 16th century.…