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Showing posts with label Czech Republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Czech Republic. Show all posts
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Atomic Bomb Dome

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Following the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the Second World War, the city was left in ruins. Among those ruins close to the hy...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

The Czech Kindertransport man

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Sir Nicholas Winton, famous for organising the so-called Czech Kindertransport which evacuated over 600 children from Czechoslovakia on the ...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Hrdlička’s Alaska diary

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Alois (later Aleš) Hrdlička, a pioneer of North American anthropology and evolution studies, was born 150 years ago today. While curator of ...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Václav Havel as diarist

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Václav Havel, the Czech political dissident and human rights activist who became his country’s first president in the post-Communist era, wo...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Writing for you, Sasha

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It’s a year to the day since the death of Hana Pravda, a Czech-born actress who had lived and worked in Britain since the late 1950s. Althou...
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