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Prague City Hall Council approves Museum of 20th Century Memory
Councillors at Prague City Hall unanimously voted in favour of creating a Museum of 20th Century Memory in the Czech capital on Monday. The plan is to provide the country…
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The Czechoslovak occultist plot to kill Hitler by magic
It seems that it was not only border fortifications and an alliance with France that were facing Adolf Hitler’s plan to crush Czechoslovakia during the 1938 Sudetenland…
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Orbis Pictus – Comenius’s groundbreaking book for children
A new exhibition, marking the start of the school year, got underway at the National Museum in Prague on Monday. It is dedicated to the 17th century Czech philosopher and…
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To the mountain top! How Czech ‘People’s camps’ rallied against the new dual Austro-Hungarian…
The establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, or dual monarchy, came as bitter blow for Czech intellectuals who hoped for equal status under a federalist state. While…
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Czech scholar helping throw more light on origin of Byzantine-era church in Ashdod-Yam
Since the discovery of a Byzantine-era church in Israel’s Ashdod-Yam, archaeologists have had a better opportunity to study the Eastern Roman Empire’s sixth century…
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Letters bring to life prison experience of Alice Masaryk facing execution for treason during WWI
T.G. Masaryk’s daughter Alice was imprisoned in 1915 for treason, a charge that carried the death penalty. Her time in a grim jail in Vienna is the focus of Charlotte and…
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“I was here the whole time in ’68”: Radio’s role during invasion recalled at ceremony
The Czech Radio building in Prague saw the most intense violence during the Soviet-led invasion of August 21, 1968 and, as every year, hundreds of people marked the…
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August 1969: When a brutal crackdown on protests resulted in killings and a “baton law”
Exactly a year after the Prague Spring was crushed by a Warsaw Pact invasion, many thousands of Czechoslovaks went into the streets once more to protest their country’s…
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In memoriam: Vojmír Srdečný, last survivor of Czech students sent by Nazis to Sachsenhausen
On the 17th of November 1939, Nazi soldiers executed eight Czech university students and a professor seen as ringleaders of protests against the occupation and deported…
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Prague Castle opens special exhibition on Wenceslas IV in light of 600 anniversary of ruler’s death
This Friday marks the 600 year anniversary since the death of King Wenceslas IV, who was simultaneously the king of Bohemia and of the Romans. His rule was marked by…
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Archaeologists unearth rare Renaissance-Baroque brew house in ‘Czech Paradise’
Archaeologists have unveiled a rare Renaissance-Baroque brew house in the depths of Kost Castle, itself an architectural jewel in the “Bohemian Paradise” region. The tiny…
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Czech National Library scrambles to save thousands of books at risk of decay
Over 90 percent of books in the Czech National Library printed after the year 1800 are threatened with destruction caused by acid, which has been forming in the paper over…
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