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Prague to exhume remains of communism victim Zdena Mašínová from Ďáblice mass grave
Prague City Hall announced on Monday that its representatives had met with Zdena Mašínová and agreed to exhume the remains of her mother, who was imprisoned by both the…
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Marci Shore: In Slavic languages, life happens to you
Anyone who is interested in the history of Central and Eastern Europe has likely come across the name Marci Shore. An associate Professor at Yale University, she has…
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In memoriam: Gen. Milan Píka, son of war hero and first victim of judicial murder in Communist…
General Milan Píka, whose father also held that rank and was executed following a Communist Party-orchestrated show trial, has died at the age of 96. Himself punished on…
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From church bells into tanks
After the German occupation in 1939 the Czech lands did not just turn silent politically. Nearly all of the Protectorate‘s church bells ended up in the forges of the Reich.
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Scientists reconstruct the face of St. John of Nepomuk
A team of Czech anthropologists has reconstructed the face of one of the country’s patron saints, John of Nepomuk, using recorded details of his skull. The resulting face…
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DNA test traces direct descendants of Great Moravian noblemen
More than eleven centuries after the fall of the Great Moravian Empire, there are still direct descendants from the Slavic noblemen living among us. A study of DNA samples…
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March 15, 1939 – The day Czechoslovakia ceased to exist
Eighty years ago today, on March 15 1939, Hitler gave Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha a stark choice: accept becoming a protectorate or face destruction. After Hácha…
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Wenceslas II. – the king whose empire stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Danube
Right towards the end of their dynasty, the Přemyslids established what was effectively a short-lived central European empire. Its pinnacle was reached during the reign of…
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Onion patch yields unexpected treasure
While working in his onion garden, a pensioner from the Central Bohemian village of Čelivo discovered a vessel with nearly 600 coins dating back to mid-15th century. This…
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Project traces books looted by Swedes
Over 25,000 books were looted from the Czech lands by the Swedes at the end of the Thirty Years War. Today these valuable prints and manuscripts are scattered in libraries…
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A look back at six decades of VOA broadcasting in Czech
Voice of America (VOA), today the largest U.S. government-funded international broadcaster, ceased its Czech language broadcasts exactly 15 years ago today, on 27 February…
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Jan Zajíc – the story of “human torch number two”
On February 25 1969, five weeks after Jan Palach, another man set himself alight in protest to Czechoslovak apathy following the Soviet invasion of 1968. The name of the…
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