Although the Habsburgs were also granted capitulations in 1616, which included articles concerning the Catholics in the empire, it was the French who assumed the protectory role for the missions and other Catholics, partly because of the displomatic status quo.

The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap.

These conditions exist to some extent among other foreigners, but are not as prevalent among other nationalities in Johnstown as among the Serbo-Croatians.

The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns.