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Friedrich Schiller's ''Wilhelm Tell''

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  The legend of Wilhelm Tell is as old as the hills, yet, there is no more subtle and romantic story. Friedrich Schiller wrote a drama a piece of masterpiece which expresses the political situation he himself observed and wanted to comprehend. The hero expresses Schiller's perception of live, his inner, unbroken demenour. The controversy and orthodoxy he was not afraid to come forward. The drama suddenly became very popular and well-read, Schiller himself was not astounded of its popularity, namely, he did expect the success, not that huge one, tough. It was his last completed work, his writting victory he deserved for. The book undoubtedy is indebted to the works and suggestion of Goethe's. Schiller's work was highely influenced by Goethe's. They befriended and created a mutual bound, a spiritual bound which helped them to create the books of our time. The one it is worth returning to. The crrespondence between those two was frequent and profound. ''(...)What ...

#16 Guilty!

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The history of the Balkans has always been filled with bloody conflicts, underpinned among all by incomprehensive notions, yet, despite it, each of them changed the shape of Europe, European thinking and the way the Western Europe perceived its Eastern counterpart. The region was born throughout the wars and throughout the uneasy times, the oppression started aggression, the vicious circle.   ''(...) in December 1991 Serbs voted against Bosnia's seceding from Yugoslavia in a referendum largely boycotted by Muslims and Croats.  Capitalizing on the results of the referendum, Serb nationalist politicians declared their own state in Bosnia, the Republika Srbska (...)''   Centuries layered upon, till the end of the game. Hence, there was no end, at all.   ''(...) Before the war, no place on earth  made her feel safer than Srebrenica.   Camila's father had been a locksmith and her mother a housewife. After high school, she had journeyed to Tuzla - the largest ...

# 15 Željko Ražnatović

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Željko Ražnatović was born on 17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000 and known as Arkan , was a Serbian career criminal and commander of a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars, called the Serb Volunteer Guard. He was enlisted on Interpol's most wanted list in the 1970s and 1980s for robberies and murders committed in a number of countries across Europe, and was later indicted by the UN for crimes against humanity for his role during the wars. Ražnatović was up until his death the most powerful crime boss in the Balkans. He was assassinated in 2000, before his trial. Željko Ražnatović was born in Brežice, a small border town in Slovenian Styria, FPR Yugoslavia. His father, Veljko Ražnatović, served as a decorated officer in the SFR Yugoslav Air Force, earning high rank for his notable World War II involvement on the Partisan side, and was stationed in Slovenian Styria at the time of Željko's birth. He spent part of his childhood in Zagreb (SR Croatia) and Pančevo (SR Serbia), befo...