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Forster was born in London, England, and educated at Tonbridge School and King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1927. At Cambridge he made a lifelong friendship with English writer Lowes Dickinson; along with Dickinson, F Nathaniel Wedd, his classics tutor, G M Trevelyan, and others, Forster founded the Independent Review in 1903 (Forster wrote for the magazine after his return from his travels in Italy in 19021903). His experiences in Italy provided the background for Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and A Room with a View. A Passage to India was begun shortly after the publication of The Celestial Omnibus. Aspects of the Novel was delivered first as the Clark lectures in Cambridge in 1927 and published the same year. A volume of short stories, The Eternal Moment (1928), included pieces such as The Story of the Siren which were written much earlier. Other books are What I Believe (1939), Nordic Twilight (1940), and the Rede lecture on English writer Virginia Woolf, published in 1942. Besides Abinger Harvest, another collection of essays was Two Cheers for Democracy (1951); he also wrote the libretto (words) for Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd (1951). Forster was awarded the Benson Medal in 1937 and was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1961.
Red and white are the colours of Bohemia, dating back to the 13th century. Blue represents Moravia. Unlike that of the Slovak Republic, the Czech flag is not based on the pan-Slav colours. Effective date: 1 January 1993.
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