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unusual facts about Czech people



Antonín Rezek

Antonín Rezek (13 January 1853 Jindřichův Hradec – 4 February 1909 Prague) was a renowned Czech political historian, specialized in political and religious history of the 16th to 18th century.

Bohuslav Matoušek

Bohuslav Matoušek (born 1949 in Havlíčkův Brod) is a Czech violinist.

Eduard Štorch

Eduard Štorch (April 10, 1878, Ostroměř – June 25, 1956, Prague) was a Czech pedagogue, archaeologist and writer, known for novels set in prehistoric Bohemia during Stone and Bronze Age.

František Mašlán

František Mašlán (born 19 February 1933 in Chornice) is a Czech former ice hockey player who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Hans Molisch

Hans Molisch (December 6, 1856, Brünn, Habsburg Moravia - December 8, 1937, Wien, Austria) was a Czech-Austrian botanist.

Iyasu II

During Iyasu II's reign, a Czech Franciscan Remedius Prutky visited his kingdom, and engaged Iyasu in talks about religion and European politics.

Jana Černá

Jana Černá, born Krejcarová, called "Honza" ("Johny") by her mother, (1928–1981), was a daughter of Milena Jesenská and Jaromír Krejcar and a Czech poet and writer.

Klepht

Dvořák, the Czech composer, wrote a song cycle named Three Modern Greek Poems: the first one is entitled "Koljas - Klepht Song" and tells the story of Koljas, the klepht who killed the famous Ali Pasha.

Languages of Texas

Early immigrants that arrived directly from Europe such as Germans, Poles, and Czechs even established their own separate towns where their native tongues became the dominant language.

Lejopyge laevigata

In a monograph on Bohemian trilobites, Prodrom einer Monographie der böhmischen Trilobiten (1847), the Czech fossil collector Ignaz Hawle and botanist August Carl Joseph Corda established the genus Lejopyge using B. laevigatus as the type species.

O moj Shqypni

Written in Vasa's native dialect of Shkodër O Moj Shqypni is a 72-verse poem, which was first published by the Czech linguist Jan Urban Jarnik in his work Zur Albanesische Sprachenkunde published in 1881.

Pavel Tigrid

Pavel Tigrid (October 27, 1917 in Prague, Austria-Hungary as Pavel Schönfeld – August 31, 2003 in Héricy near Paris, France) was a writer, publisher and author of Czech origin.

Robert von Zimmermann

Robert von Zimmermann or Robert Zimmermann (November 2, 1824, Prague – September 1, 1898, Prague) was a Czech-born Austrian philosopher.

Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet

The Ševčík-Lhotský String Quartet was a well-known Czech musical ensemble founded originally as the Ševčík Quartet at Warsaw in 1903, which remained in existence in the 1930s.

Silesian cuisine

It has been influenced by cuisines of many nations, particularly (alphabetically) Czech, German, Hungarian, and Polish.

Tatiana Vilhelmová

Tatiana Čecháková-Vilhelmová (born 13 July 1978 Prague-Jarov) is a Czech actress.

The Pit and the Pendulum

In 1983, Czech Surrealist Jan Švankmajer directed a 15-minute live action short film called The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope, based on this story and the short story "A Torture by Hope" by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

Václav Chalupa

(born December 7, 1967 in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech rower who competed at six consecutive Olympics from 1988 to 2008, winning a silver medal in 1992 behind Thomas Lange in the single scull.

Vladimír Menšík

Vladimír Menšík (9 October 1929 – 29 May 1988) was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.


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Jaroslav Velinský

It is believed that Ota Fink, hero of these books, is such a success for his detective insight is based on a detailed knowhow of common industrial professions and small problems of plain Czech people this in a way of method resembling the books of Dick Francis.

Slovak People's Party

In 1920, the party participated in the election together with the Czech People's Party under the name Czechoslovak People's Party.