OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Reeves, Hon. William

Layout 2
​Reeves, Hon. William, M.L.C., was the son of a gentleman holding the position of Receiver of Fee Farm Rents, and was born at Clapham, near London. In early life he was placed in the banking house with which the Kennard family were connected, and subsequently became a stockbroker. Not being successful on the Stock Exchange, he decided to emigrate to New Zealand, and, after a short trial of farming, settled at Christchurch, in the North Island, where he became editor and chief proprietor of the Lyttelton Times. He was connected with provincial politics, and entering the House of Representatives was a member of the Executive Council and resident Minister for the Middle Island in the third Fox Government from Nov. 1871 to Sept. 1872. In Oct. 1884, he was nominated to the Legislative Council and died at Christchurch on April 4th, 1891. He married a daughter of John Edward Ross Pember, of Clapham Park, Surrey, and sister of E. H. Pember, Q.C.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Rae, John

Layout 2
​Rae, John, M.A., J.P., was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, on Jan. 9th, 1813, and educated at the Grammar School and Marischal College. Having commenced the study of the law, he graduated M.A. at Aberdeen University in 1832, and subsequently attended law classes in Edinburgh, gaining a prize of £20 in 1837 for a literary essay. In Dec. 1839 he arrived in Sydney, having accepted the post of secretary and accountant to the North British Australasian Loan and Investment Company. In 1842 he wrote the letterpress for "Sydney Illustrated," and in July 1843 was appointed Town Clerk of Sydney. Ten years later he published a version of Isaiah in blank verse, with explanatory notes. In Jan. 1854, on the abolition of the Sydney Corporation, Mr. Rae was appointed one of the City Commissioners, and retained that position till the Corporation was re. established in April 1857. In November of that year he became secretary to the New South Wales Railway Department, and in Jan. 1861 was appointed Under-Secretary for Works, with the additional position of Commissioner of Railways. In 1877 the office of Commissioner of Railways was separated from that of Under-Secretary of Works, in which latter post Mr. Rae remained until March 1888. Mr. Rae (who in 1875 published "Gleanings from my Scrapbook") married, in 1845, Miss Elizabeth Thompson, who died in Dec. 1877. Mr. Rae is now a member of the Civil Service Board, constituted under the Civil Service Act of 1884.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Raff, George

Layout 2
​Raff, George, a native of Scotland, was elected to the first Legislative Assembly of Queensland, as one of the three members for the Metropolitan constituency of Brisbane, and took part in the Herbert and Macalister Ministries as a member of the Executive Council without portfolio from July to Nov. 1866. ​ He died on August 8th, 1889, at the age of seventy-four.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/America is popular in Bohemia

AMERICA IS POPULAR IN BOHEMIA.
While the Austrian Government is trying to stir up hate against America as the country that is responsible for the prolongation of the war by raising the morale of the Allies and their will to fight until victory, the Czechoslovak people use every opportunity to manifest their confidence in and friendship for the United States.
In the Czech papers unusual prominence is given to the lectures of Professor Karel Velemínský on America. This scholar spent a year in this country shortly before the war, studying the American school system, and is now lecturing under auspices of the most important societies of Bohemia and Moravia, such as the Society of Engineers, Bohemian Provincial Agricultural Bureau, Manufacturers’ Association of Moravia, etc.
Recently reports came to this country that the name of President Wilson was loudly cheered on the streets of Prague. Since then the Czech newspapers published the report that President Wilson has invited Alsatians, Czechoslovaks and Poles to take a prominent part in the celebration of the Fourth of July, and that this occasion will be used to bring into prominence the demands of the oppressed peoples of Germany and Austria for liberation.
Every public expression made by the American Government in favor of the Slavs and Latins of Austria is welcomed and given all possible publicity by the journalists of Bohemia.
This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/American Socialist Party and its Slav membership

AMERICAN SOCIALIST PARTY AND ITS SLAV MEMBERSHIP.
At the recent conference of secretaries of the American Socialist Party at Chicago a memorandum was presented by the Czechoslovak branch of the party, signed also by the Serbian and Slovenian sections. The memorandum demands that the American Socialist Party change its anti-war attitude for one supporting the war.
The three following paragraphs best express the trend of the memorandum:
“The war and peace program of President Wilso, which today is timely and acute, in all decisive res pects is absolutely democratic and expresses those principles which international socialism always proclaimed. And these principles remain such principles regardiess of the fact who enunciated them. What we have considered good and demanded, we cannot declare evil or condemn because coming from somebody else.
The real mission of the Socialist Party in America now is, consciously and firmly to support the war and the principles laid down by President Wilson, and if the party now takes this attitude and in such a fashion that unsocialist pacifists and camouflage idolizing of the German regime will be unable to use it as a cloak, then it will have the next duty of seeing to it that the principles of President Wilson remain the real American principles until the very end, and that they receive appreciation in places where heretofore they have not been sanctioned.
If the steps hereinbefore enunciated are not taken, the situation so created will force us to act upon our convictions to the limit.”
In this connection it should be noted that the chief editor of the only Bohemian Socialist daily in America, Joseph Novak, recently enlisted in the Czechoslovak Army.
This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Anniversary of Cesare Battisti

DEDICATION OF CZECHOSLOVAK FLAG, ROME, MAY 24, 1918.
Czechoslovak Battalion Saluting General Graziani and Prince Colonna, Mayor of Rome. Captain Sheba and Dr. Leo Sychrava, Director of Home Office of the Czechoslovak National Council follow the guests of honor.
ANNIVERSARY OF CESARE BATTISTI.
July 21st was the third anniversary of the martyrdom of Cesare Battisti, deputy from the Trentino to the Vienna Parliament, who upon the outbreak of the war between Italy and Austria joined his people and being captured by the Austrians was shot as a traitor. He was the first martyr out of the thousands who have since been put to death by the Austrian barbarians of which noble company the 300 Czechoslovaks soldiers executed in June were the very flower.
The Washington office of the Czechoslovak National Council addressed to the Italian Ambassador on this occasion a letter which pointed to the many ties connecting Bohemia with Italy and assured the Ambassador of the deep gratitude of the Czechoslovaks for Italian help.
The Ambassador answered in following words:
“I am touched by your letter commemorating the martyrdom of Cesare Battisti in the light of the preent sacrifice of the noble Czechoslovak lives for the same ideal that animated him.
“While thanking you for having honored his memory in these days when the struggle is harder than ever, I wish to express my reverent admiration for your brave countrymen who are giving the world a splendid evidence of their self-sacrificing courage and patriotism.
“Indeed the cruel sufferings inflcted upon them by the common enemy create an additional bond of friendship between Italians and Czechoslovaks; their joint efforts, made the stronger by the indignation by the barbarous treatment received at the hands of their foes, cannot fail to hasten the day of the final liberating victory.
Yours very truly, MACCHI DI CELLERE, Italian Ambassador.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/American Commanding General one of our readers

​AMERICAN COMMANDING GENERAL ONE OF OUR READERS
October 24, 1918.
Mr. Jaroslav F. Smetanka, Editor The Bohemian Review, Chicago. Illinois.
Dear Sir:—
I have been receiving regularly the “Bohemian Review” for which I thank you. I am very interested in this work and, as you probably know, when I was in Camp Sherman kept in close touch with all Bohemian activities, going to Washington several times in consultation with your representatives there. Our Commanding General, as you know, is probably one of the best posted men in the Army on the Eastern question and he reads with a great deal of interest your Review, which I pass over to him.
Thanking you for continuing to send it to me, Sincerely yours, Alleyne C. Howell, Capt. Sr. Chaplain, A . C. Howell.
P. S. My foreign address is: Capt. Sr. Chaplain A. C . Howell, Division Headquarters, 83rd Division. U. S. A., American E. F.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1964, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 59 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/American Recognition for the Czechoslovaks

The Bohemian Review
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE BOHEMIAN (CZECH) NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF AMERICA :
| Jaroslav F. Smetanka, Editor. Published Monthly by the Bohemian Review Co., 2324 S. Central Park Ave., Chicago, Ill. |||
| Vol. II, No. 9. | SEPTEMBER 1918 | 10 cents a Copy $1.00 per Year |
AMERICAN RECOGNITION FOR THE CZECHOSLOVAKS.
The Secretary of State made the following announcement on September 3, 1918:
The Czecho-Slovak peoples having taken up arms against the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, and having placed organized armies in the field which are waging war against those Empires under officers of their own nationality and in accordance with the rules and practices of civilized nations;
and The Czecho-Slovaks having, in prosecution of their in dependent purposes in the present war, confided supreme political authority to the Czecho-Slovak National Council,
The Government of the United States recognizes that a state of belligerency exists between the Czecho-Slovaks thus organized and the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires.
It also recognizes the Czecho-Slovak National Council as a de facto belligerent government clothed with proper authority to direct the military and political affairs of the Czecho-Slovaks.
The Government of the United States further declares that it is prepared to enter formally into relations with the de facto government thus recognized for the purpose of prosecuting the war against the common enemy, the Empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Among the Czechoslovaks here

AMONG THE CZECHOSLOVAKS HERE.
The month of September opened for the Bohemians and Slovaks of the United States with the act of recognition by the American Government. Both the Bohemian National Alliance| and the Slovak League with their hundreds of branches sent telegrams eloquent with gratitude to the President and the Secretary of State. Celebrations were held in the principal settlements of the Czech and Slovak people, at which not merely this one people, but all the Austrian races as well as the representatives of the city and state governments took part. Among the many meetings of this sort should be recorded the celebrations in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, St. Paul, Bridgeport, etc.
The Bohemians and Slovaks of New York were fortunate to hear at one occasion the most noted figures in the Czechoslovak movement. At a meeting in the Sokol Hall on September 13th addresses were made by President Masaryk, his daughter Miss Olga Masaryk, General Štefanik, vice-president of the National Council, and General Janin, commander of all the Czechoslovak armed forces. General Janin, like all the others, spoke in the Bohemian language.
Under the influence of the great diplomatic achievements the campaign for raising money for the support of the Czechoslovak government, a campaign that goes on without interruption, has been unusually successful. At the bazaar in Omaha the goal set was to raise $50,000 and thus beat the larger Bohemian settlements; the result exceeded all expectations, for the total raised was $60,000. The same great success rewarded the efforts of the Slovak workers in Bridgeport, Conn., where the result was also far greater than anticipated, the net proceeds being equal to the sum gained at Omaha. At the same time recruiting for the Czechoslovak army in France is proceeding with renewed vigor, and the camp at Stamford, Conn., is crowded almost all the time.
The Slovak League million dollar fund will now soon be collected. Among other notable gifts is one of $10,000, voted by the convention of the First Catholic Slovak Union. A remarkable and highly gratifying fact, testifying to the good effects of the common campaign for freedom, has been the holding of a union patriotic meeting by the conventions of the Slovak Catholic and the Slovak Protestant Unions, both of which held conventions at Pittsburgh at the same time.
This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Spring, Gerald

Find main topic
Layout 2
​Spring, Gerald, was a member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, and was Secretary for Lands from Dec. 1885 to Feb. 1886. He died on Nov. 9th, 1888.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stanley, Major Henry Charles

Find main topic
Layout 2
​Stanley, Major Henry Charles, M.Inst. C.B., entered the Queensland Civil Service in Jan. 1866, and was appointed Chief Engineer of Railways for the Southern and Central Divisions in July 1889. He entered the Queensland Defence Force in Feb. 1868, and was appointed Acting-Major of the Moreton Field Battery in June 1887.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stanton, Right Rev. George Henry

Layout 2
​Stanton, Right Rev. George Henry, D.D., Bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W., was born at Stratford on Sept. 3rd, 1835. He was educated at Hertford College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1858 and M.A. in 1862, receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1878. He was ordained deacon in 1858 and priest in 1859, and was curate of Christ's Church, Rotherhithe, from 1858 to 1862; of All Saints', Maidstone, from 1862 to 1864, of St. Saviour's, Fitzroy Square, London, from 1864 to 1867; and vicar of Holy Trinity, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London, from 1867 to 1878; on June 24th in which year he was consecrated first Bishop of North Queensland, in St. Paul's Cathedral, by Archbishop Tait and Bishops Jackson, Browne, Thorold, and Barker (of Sydney). A few months later Bishop Stanton left for his new diocese, where no difficulties in the way of travelling, whether over trackless bush or swollen rivers, ever daunted him in the discharge of his duties in a truly pastoral and missionary spirit. In 1888 Bishop Stanton visited England to attend the Pan-Anglican Conference, held at Lambeth in that year, and took the opportunity to appeal to English liberality on behalf of his diocese, which, with a view to its more efficient working, he proposed to divide. In Nov. 1890, much to the regret of his North Queensland flock, Dr. Stanton accepted the bishopric of Newcastle, N.S.W., vacant by the resignation of Dr. Pearson (q. v.).
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sprent, James

Layout 2
​Sprent, James, was born in Manchester, of Scotch parents, in 1806. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he took the degree of M.A. He emigrated to Tasmania in the year 1830, and was for some time tutor to Governor Sir George Arthur's children. In 1832 he was appointed District Surveyor. From 1842 to 1846 he was employed in surveying the Van Diemen's Land Company's estates. Between the years 1849 and 1857 Mr. Sprent took the leading part in the trigonometrical survey of the island, which he accomplished almost single-handed, and with remarkable success. He was appointed Surveyor-General of Tasmania in 1857, and died at Hobart on Sept. 27th, 1863.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stafford, Hon. Sir Edward William

Layout 2
​Stafford, Hon. Sir Edward William, G.C.M.G., eldest son of Berkeley Buckingham Stafford, of Maine, county Louth, and Anne his wife, third daughter of Lieut.-Col. Patrick Duff Tytler, was born on April 23rd, 1820, in Edinburgh, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1843 he went out to Nelson, N.Z., and at once began to take a prominent part in public affairs, being twice Superintendent of the province of Nelson. Mr. Stafford formed a Government on June 2nd, 1856, in succession to Mr. Fox, and was Colonial Secretary in what was practically the first definite administration in New Zealand from Nov. 4th, 1856, to July 12th, 1861. During his premiership the trouble with regard to the famous Waitara block reached a head, and a sort of irregular war was prosecuted against the chief Te Rangitake. On August 16th, 1860, the Government carried through a resolution in favour of the prosecution of the war, and stood committed to a war policy, despite the opposition and entreaty of Bishop Selwyn. But the matter went little further at the moment, as in July 1861 the Ministry were defeated on a want of confidence motion moved by Mr. Fox. Upon the resignation of the Fox Ministry in August 1862, Mr. Stafford refused to take office. In 1859 Mr. Stafford had visited England with the objects of establishing a steam mail service from New Zealand viâ Panama, and of arranging for the planting of military settlements in the North Island. Lord Derby went so far as to call for tenders for the steam service, but his successor, Lord Palmerston, refused to go on with the scheme. Nor was Mr. Stafford more successful in regard to the military settlements. On Oct. 16th, 1865, he again became Premier, and held the office of Colonial Secretary till June 28th, 1869, that of Colonial Treasurer till June 12th, 1866, that of Postmaster-General from Oct. 31st, 1865, to May 8th, 1866, and from Feb. 6th to June 28th, 1869. The Maori troubles lasted most of this time, and Mr. Stafford had to cope with them as best he could. In 1869 the Imperial troops were withdrawn from the colony, notwithstanding the Premiers protest. For a third time he became Premier on Sept. 10th, 1872, but a month later (Oct. 11th) resigned upon a no-confidence motion carried by Mr. Vogel. He was created K.C.M.G. in 1879, and G.C.M.G. in 1887. For many years past he has lived in England; and in 1886 he was commissioner for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Sir Edward Stafford married first, Sept. 24th, 1846, Emily Charlotte, only child of Colonel William Wakefield and Emily Elizabeth, daughter of Sir J. Shelley-Sidney, Bart., who died on April 18th, 1857; secondly, on Dec. 5th, 1859, Mary, third daughter of Thomas Houghton Bartley, Speaker of the Legislative Council, New Zealand.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stanbury, James

Layout 2
​Stanbury, James, the successor of Searle in the rowing championship of the world, is a native of New South Wales, and was born at the Hawkesbury on Feb. 25th, 1868. In 1887 he won the first prize in the Lake Bathurst handicap, but was beaten the same year by Christian Neilson in a race over the Parramatta championship course. The next year he defeated Julius Wulf, but was himself defeated by Searle in a very toughly fought contest. In 1890 Stanbury twice defeated O'Connor, the American champion, who the year previously had been beaten by Searle on the Thames, in each case over the ​Parramatta course. On April 29th he defeated MᶜLean, another New South Wales sculler, over the same course for the championship of the world. In 1892 he also beat Sullivan, the New Zealand sculler, over the Parramatta course.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/St. Hill, Lieut.-Colonel Windle Hill

Layout 2
​St. Hill, Lieut.-Colonel Windle Hill, M.H.A., was born on July 11th, 1839, entered the army in Feb. 1858, became captain in June 1867, brevet lieut.-colonel in June 1876, and retired from the army (19th Foot) in August 1881. Colonel St. Hill served with distinction in the New Zealand war from 1860 to 1865, and for his gallant services was mentioned in despatches, received the war medal, and was promoted to brevet-major. He was private secretary to Sir F. Weld when Governor of Tasmania for two years, and was commandant of the local forces of that colony from June 1878 to May 1880. He has been member for North Hobart in the House of Assembly since July 1886.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/St. Julian, Charles James Herbert

Layout 2
​St. Julian, Charles James Herbert, was born in France on May 10th, 1819, and emigrated to Adelaide in 1837, proceeding in 1839 to Sydney, where he wrote for the Australian Chronicle, and subsequently for the Commercial Journal. In 1843 he joined the staff of the Sydney Morning Herald, which he left four years later for the Sydney Chronicle, afterwards known as the Free Press. In 1849 he rejoined the Herald, and remained as Law Reporter until 1872, when he received the appointment of Chief Justice of Fiji, from King Thakombau. Mr. St. Julian, who had some time previously acted as Consul for Fiji in Sydney, died near Levuka on Nov. 26th, 1874.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Standish, Captain Charles Frederick

Actual name was: Frederick Charles Standish
Layout 2
​Standish, Captain Charles Frederick, sometime Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria, was the son of the late Charles Standish, of Standish Hall, Wigan, Lancashire, where he was born in 1824. He was educated at Prior Park College, and then entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He subsequently obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery, in which he served for nine years, and retired with the rank of captain. He went to Victoria in 1852, and in 1854 was appointed assistant Commissioner of Goldfields at Sandhurst, and in 1858 Chinese Protector. On the resignation of Sir Charles Macmahon he was made Chief Commissioner of the Police. This post he resigned in 1880. Captain Standish in 1861 was installed District Grand Master of the Freemasons of Victoria, English constitution. He died on March 19th, 1883.