History
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Anniversary of the Week
130 years ago, the father of Spejbl and Hurvínek was born
Humorous puppet shows with a confused “daddy” and a clever street man Hurvajz still entertain new generations. Puppet actor, artist Josef Skupa was at the birth.
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Anniversary of the Week
January 1422: The Hussites led by Jan Žižka defeat the Second Crusade at Německý Brod
The failure of the Second Crusade led to the consolidation of the Hussite movement in the Czech lands. Until 1427, no army dared to invade Bohemia.
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80 years since Czechoslovak gulag prisoners granted amnesty in order to fight in WWII
This week marks exactly 80 years since the Soviet Union officially granted amnesty to Czechoslovak prisoners who were being held in Gulag labour camps.
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Petr Pithart: Charter 77 saved the soul of the nation
Charter 77, the most significant protest petition in Czechoslovakia in the Communist period, was published 45 years ago, on January 6, 1977.
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US war veteran reunited with bracelet lost in Czechoslovakia in 1945
At the end of the WWII, American Joe Esquibel lost a silver bracelet when serving as a guard at a prisoner-of-war camp near Mariánské Lázně. Now he got it back.
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Anthropologists reconstruct faces of two Great Moravian noblemen
The faces of two 9th century Great Moravian nobles have been newly reconstructed in extraordinary detail.
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The CIA and Czechoslovakia
The CIA’s electronic reading room provides a veritable trove of fascinating historical information on what the Americans knew about Czechoslovakia.
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Anniversary of the Week
Contact lenses – 1961’s Christmas present to the world
Soft contact lenses were invented by Czech scientist Otto Wichterle around Christmas time in 1961. It was no easy feat.
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Jan Urban: Only Havel could have unified opposition in 1989
Jan Urban was close to Václav Havel, who died 10 years ago on Saturday, before and during the Velvet Revolution and has many vivid memories of that period.
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Some of Czechia’s rarest mediaeval manuscripts on display at new Saint Ludmila exhibition
A new two-month exhibition opened up in Prague’s Klementinum this week, which focuses on Saint Ludmila, who was martyred exactly 1,100 years ago.
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25 years since opening of Communist-era surveillance archives to public
This December marks a quarter-century since the opening up of Communist-era State Security Service archives to victims of surveillance in Czechia.
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Memory of Nations institutes to offer immersive exhibits on Czech 20th century history
The Memoriy of Nations project is setting up a web of institutes across the Czech Republic, which will offer visitors an immersive experience of key moments in history.
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