Maj

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Máj (literary almanac)

Máj was a Czech literary almanac published in 1858 by a group of authors around Jan Neruda and Vítězslav Hálek.

Background

After the revolution of 1848 and its suppression, the cultural life of Czech people was weakened by the absolutism of Bach government and also because a lot of intellectuals died (Ján Kollár, František Ladislav Čelakovský, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Karel Havlíček Borovský etc.) In 1853 two important masterpieces of Czech literature were published that avoided reflecting the political situation – Babička by Božena Němcová and Kytice by Karel Jaromír Erben. The first manifestation of the new generation of authors appeared in the literary almanac Lada Nióla published by Josef Václav Frič in 1856, which was the first to admire the legacy of Karel Hynek Mácha. The authors of the young generation did not have much to publish, and the only literary periodicals were in the hands of old and conservative writers (Jakub Malý, Lumír of Ferdinand Břetislav Mikovec).

Major

Major is a military rank of commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces. When used unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicators, the rank is just senior to that of an army captain and right below the rank of lieutenant colonel. It is considered the most junior of the field officer ranks.

Majors are typically assigned as specialized executive or operations officers for battalion-sized units of 300 to 1,200 soldiers. In some militaries, notably France and Ireland, the rank of major is referred to as commandant, while in others it is known as captain-major. It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures, such as the New York State Police, New Jersey State Police and several others. As a police rank, Major roughly corresponds to the UK rank of Superintendent.

When used in hyphenated or combined fashion, the term can also imply seniority at other levels of rank, including general-major or major general, denoting a mid-level general officer, and sergeant major, denoting the most senior NCO of a military unit. The term Major can also be used with a hyphen to denote the leader of a military band such as in pipe-major or drum-major.