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09/26/2018
The Ministry of Culture has declared the atelier of the painter and sculptor Hana Wichterlová a cultural monument. She had lived and worked in the small garden building in Prague’s Malá Strana district for more than 50 years. It still houses many of her artistic works.
Wichterlová, who died in 1990 at the age of 87, was married to another highly regarded sculptor, Bedřich Stefan, and was a close friend of the famous photographer Josef Sudek. The ministry named the atelier a cultural monument in part because so many celebrated persons had visited her there.
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09/26/2018
The Czech Republic’s top academic institution, the Academy of Sciences (AS ČR), has announced the winners of its biggest annual prize, the prestigious Academic Award - Praemium Academiae.
The winners are Jiří Hejnar from the Institute of Molecular Genetics, Pavel Janoušek from the Institute of Czech Literature, and Martin Markl from the Institute of Mathematics.
Academic Award winners are granted on the basis of the winners' current research and the work they plan to do. Each will receive up to 30 million crowns over the coming six years to fund their research.
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09/26/2018
Thursday should be sunny nationwide, with daytime highs of between 20 and 24 degrees Celsius. Clouds are set to roll in overnight, with rain in the forecast for northern Bohemia on Friday.
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09/26/2018
Czech film director and actor Jiří Menzel has been honoured for his life's work at the Haifa Film Festival. His wife Olga accepted the prize on his behalf in Israel.
The 80-year-old Oscar-winner recently co-starred in the bittersweet road movie The Interpreter, about an elderly Jew searching for the murders of his parents.
The film is screened at the festival as part of the Czechoslovak Film Days programme. Menzel underwent emergency brain surgery in November and is still recuperating.
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09/26/2018
Prominent ethnographer and sociologist Eva Davidová, who studied Romani culture, has died at the age of 85.
She had begun documenting the lives and traditions of Romani communities in what is today Slovakia in the 1950s and 1960s.
Over the four decades, Dr. Davidová collected thousands of photographs and sound recordings of Romani songs, traditional narratives and fairy tales.
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09/26/2018
Czech tennis player Petra Kvitová has failed to reach the fourth round of the women’s singles at the Wuhan Open in China. The two-time champion lost with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-3, 3-6, 3-6.
The only Czech to remain in the singles is Markéta Vondroušová, who is set to take on Garbine Muguruza of Spain in the third round.
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09/26/2018
The Pirate Party has won mock local elections held at secondary schools in Prague a fortnight before the actual elections take place. The Pirates received over 26 percent of the vote, followed by the TOP 09 and STAN coalition with almost 20 percent of the vote.
The event, organized by the NGO People in Need across the Czech Republic, was held for the 10th time in succession. Its aim is to interest children aged over-15 in politics and local affairs and let them experience what voting in elections involves.
Local elections and election to a third of seats in the Senate are due to be held on October 5-6.
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09/25/2018
Czech village of Poříčí u Litomyšle in East Bohemia has won the gold medal in the 2018 Entente Florale, a European contest recognising municipalities and villages in Europe for excellence in horticultural displays, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday.
The aim of the Entente Florale competition, established in 1975, is to promote the greening of towns and villages and their environmentally and ecologically sensitive development. The results of this year’s Entente Florale were announced at a special awards ceremony on Tullamore, Ireland, over the weekend.
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09/25/2018
Czechs spent on average 21,700 crowns on their summer holidays this year, suggests a survey carried out by the polling agency Nielsen Admosphere for ProfiCredit, a company providing financial and credit services. It is an increase of about 1,000 crowns compared to 2017.
According to the survey, the number of Czechs who can afford to go on summer holidays has also increased, thanks to increasing wages and record-low unemployment. In 2016, some 65 percent of Czechs went on holidays during the summer months, while this year, the figure increased to 70 percent.
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09/25/2018
Wednesday is expected to be mostly sunny with daytime highs ranging between 13 and 17 degrees Celsius.
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