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unusual facts about Beneš-Mráz


Beneš-Mráz

It was established at Choceň by Pavel Beneš and Jaroslav Mráz on 1 Apr 1935 and manufactured a series of light aircraft of their own design until the Nazi-German occupation.


Ainslie Henderson

In 2004, he visited the US, collaborating with the American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz, and co-writing the song "Clockwatching" which appears on Mraz's album, Mr. A-Z.

Christmas gift-bringer

Croatia: Djed Božičnjak ("Grandfather Christmas") or Djed Mraz ("Grandfather Frost"); Mali Isus ("Baby Jesus") for religious Christians, Sveti Nikola ("Saint Nichlaus") bringing gifts or rod on December the 6th

Dave Nachmanoff

In 2011, he released his first album in five years, "Step Up", featuring musicians Bob Malone (John Fogerty), Ian Sheridan (Jason Mraz), and Victor Bisetti (Los Lobos), and vocalists Al Stewart, Rosemary Butler, John Wicks (singer) (of The Records) and Liz Bligan.

Emilie Benes Brzezinski

Shortly after graduating from Wellesley, Emilie Benes, herself a grandniece of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Beneš and granddaughter of his brother Vojta, married Zbigniew Brzezinski, a political scientist who served as an adviser to President Carter.

Eric Schermerhorn

Upon moving to Los Angeles in 2001 he wrote for Jason Jason Mraz's first album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come.

Everybody's Got Somebody but Me

Hayes and Mraz invited YouTube artists and other aspiring musicians Tessa Violet, Echosmith, TJ Smith, Tyler Ward, Brandyn Burnette, Brian Landau, Sam Tsui, Kina Grannis and Peter Hollens to share their covers of the song, and participate in a one-take mashup video.

George Mraz

George Mraz (born Jiří Mráz on 9 September 1944 in Písek, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now Czech Republic) is a jazz bassist and alto saxophonist.

German occupation of Czechoslovakia

The British appointed Lord Runciman and instructed him to persuade Beneš to agree to a plan acceptable to the Sudeten Germans.

House of Kinsky

sued the Czech Republic for return of the properties confiscated in 1945 under the Beneš decrees only because, he maintained, that the confiscation implicitly labeled his family as historical traitors against Czechoslovakia and as willful collaborators during the Nazi occupation.

Jan Rys-Rozsévač

During 1939 - 1940 Vlajka organized mass meetings against politicians of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia as represented by Masaryk and Beneš.

Jaroslav Beneš

Jaroslav Beneš photographed works by Polish sculptor and artist Jan Berdyszak, who teaches at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań (Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu).

Peter Hruby

He studied Philosophy, Psychology, Literature and Languages and organized three national programs: Week of Children’s Joy, 1946 & 1947 (introduced by President Edvard Beneš), Cultural Unity’s Youth Club, and a vacation exchange program for Czech and Slovak children (introduced by President Benes’s wife).

Suncokret

In 1978, the band members refused to perform Đorđević's song "Lutka sa naslovne strane", so Đorđević and Biljana Krstić left the band and joined Rani Mraz, Đorđević remaining in Rani Mraz shortly and in 1979 forming hard rock band Riblja Čorba which will eventually become one of the top acts of the former Yugoslav rock scene.

The Soulmen

In November 1968 another group, The New Soulmen, was founded, with Ursiny on guitar, Ján Lehotský on keyboards, Fedor Letňan on bass and Peter Mráz on drums.

Two Spot Gobi

In the fall of 2008, following further exposure from Perez Hilton, Mraz invited the band to join him on his US tour, and then again on his European tour in 2009.

You and I Both

Now sharing a jail cell, a bereft Mraz doodles on the walls and pines away the hours.


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