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Czechs celebrate anniversaries of Jan Hus and Cyril and Metoděj on successive days
Author: admin Posted: July 5th, 2009
Svatý Valentýn comes to Prague, fills expat paper's space
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 13th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Habits and customs
• History
• Holidays
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
The Prague Daily Monitor makes a 'desperate-to-fill-space-on-the-page' connection between the increasing popularity of the previously un read more »
EU Skeptic Ideologue Praises 'Courageous' Czechs in a Newspaper that Once Supported Hitler's Annexation
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 8th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• History
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• News
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
Prominent UK right-winger, Peter Hitchens lays out the involved history of the Czech land in a typically tendentiously der read more »
Lost in translation: Prudish Washington Post journalist mistranslates spa, has time of her life in Karlovy Vary
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 7th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Environment
• Habits and customs
• Health
• History
• Holidays
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Language
• Tourism
A slender blonde sitting next to me on a bench in Karlovy Vary's Spa III got up, tossed off the white read more »
Death of former child star, a time to reminisce
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 6th, 2009
The death of Czech actress Dana Vávrová reminded of what for many people of my generation was the golden a read more »
Most Czechs feel EU alegiance
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 28th, 2009
Categories: International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
It appears that most Czechs feel good about the EU membership - even half the communists - as the Czech six-month EU presidency gets under way. read more »
Czech drinking habits revealed
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 27th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Food and drink
• Habits and customs
• Health
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
1 in 10 Czechs drink like fish, 1 in 10 are teetotallers and the rest have the occasional tipple adding up to 10 liters of pure booze per head per year. All that and more was revealed by a recent survey. read more »
Amazing images of Czech countryside on Flickr
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 22nd, 2009
A photographer calling himself 'svedek' (wittness) has an a set of absolutely astonishing snapshots of the 'Czech lands' on Flickr. A must-see for anybody nostalgic after their visit or looking for motivation to go have a look. It's a collection of the new and the old, city and country, sacred and mundane. read more »
40th Anniversary of Jan Palach's Suicide
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 16th, 2009
Today is the anniversary of Jan Palach's suicide. read more »
Czech Language Institute makes dictionary available online
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 16th, 2009
Czech Language Institute, the guardian of Czech language usage guidelines, made available a wonderful online resource on http://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz. It's targeted at Czechs, thus the interface and many of the grammatical explanations are in Czech but even beginner learners can take advantage of the search. Just type in any word in any form, click [Hledej] and get a full listing of its other forms as in the picture below. read more »
