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WEBHuman activity partly to blame for floods in Czechia, says international study. A new study, carried out by an international team of scientists, shows that the devastating floods that hit Czechia were made much worse by man-made climate change. 03:57.
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WEB09/30/2024. A group of Czech nationals were exploited as modern-day slaves in a UK branch of McDonald’s and in a pastry factory, the BBC has reported. According to its findings, a criminal gang exploited 16 vulnerable individuals from Czechia over a period of more than four years, while the companies involved allegedly ignored warning signs.
Czech Photo Gallery launches Best of the Nude
WEBApr 26, 2013 · The Czech Photo Gallery at Prague’s Újezd this week launched the first in a series of “Best of” exhibitions beginning with the Nude. Curators for the opening show chose work by five well-known photographers, the late Taras Kuščynskyj, Jan Saudek, Robert Vano, Pavel Brunclík and Antonín Tesař. The nudes range from lyrical and ...
Rising opera star Patricia Burda Janečková succumbs to cancer at 25
WEBOct 8, 2023 · Soprano Patricia Burda Janečková was one of the bright lights of the opera world. Her young life and promising career were tragically cut short by cancer to which she succumbed at the age of 25. She died on October 1, 2023. Born in Germany to Slovak parents, Patricia Burda Janečková grew up in Ostrava, where she studied opera at the ...
A quick history of the Czech language. - Radio Prague International
WEBJan 1, 1998 · Czech culture blossomed under the 14th century emperor, Charles IV, but faced turbulent times with the Hussite wars that came soon afterwards. With the onset of rule by the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, Czech went into decline as a written language, with German becoming the language of the elite. Czech remained the language of …
Recordings from trial with “chief symbol” of Nazi occupation K. H ...
WEBNov 21, 2022 · Archivists at Czech Radio have discovered 1,300 discs of recordings from the 1946 trial with Karl Hermann Frank, who was in charge of the Nazi security forces during the wartime occupation of Bohemia and Moravia.
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WEBHuman activity partly to blame for floods in Czechia, says international study. A new study, carried out by an international team of scientists, shows that the devastating floods that hit Czechia were made much worse by man-made climate change. 09/25/2024. Travel.
1950’s Hollywood actress Kim Novak exhibits her paintings in Prague
WEBApr 2, 2015 · Self-portrait, photo: Miroslav Krupička. Today Kim Novak is a vocal advocate of art-therapy for mental health problems and it was one of the reasons why she decided to exhibit her work in Prague. Her paintings are impressionist and surrealistic. The colours are strong and vibrant and the paintings often have a dreamy character, weaving ...
Bedřich Smetana's "My Country" - a symphonic poem to the nation
WEBOct 28, 2009 · Smetana is remembered as the father of Czech music and My Country is probably his must successful work. It is a tour of Czech history, mythology and geography in the shape of six symphonic poems that begin where Czech history is imagined to begin: on a steep, craggy bank of the Vltava River at its entrance to Prague; at Vyšehrad, or “High ...
March 15, 1939 – The day Czechoslovakia ceased to exist
WEBMar 15, 2019 · 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 reluctantly agreed to give up his country’s independence the German army started moving in. It was the beginning of six long years of occupation.