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PISEK , a See also:town of Bohemia, S5 M. S. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 13,608, mostly See also:Czech. It lies on the right See also:bank of the Wottawa, which is here crossed by an interesting See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:bridge of See also:great antiquity. The most prominent buildings are the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the Nativity, the town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, and a See also:castle dating from the 15th ;'See also:century. The See also:industries are See also:iron and See also:brass See also:founding, See also:brewing, and the manufacture of shoes, See also:paper, See also:cement and See also:Turkish fezes. Feldspar, See also:quartz and See also:granite are quarried in the environs. The name of Pisek, which is the Czech for See also:sand, is said to be derived from the See also:gold-washing formerly carried on in the See also:bed of the Wottawa (1571–1621).
In 1619 it was captured by the imperialist See also:general, Karl See also:Bonaventura de Longueval, See also:Graf von Buquoy, and suffered so severely that the citizens opened their See also:gates to his opponent, See also:Ernst von See also:Mansfeld. This was punished in See also:October of the following See also:year, when See also:Duke See also:Maximilian of See also:Bavaria sacked the town and put nearly all the inhabitants to the See also:sword. Pisek was one of the See also:chief centres of the See also:Hussites. It was occupied by the See also:French in 1741.
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