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8 unusual facts about Czechs


Bohumil Sekla

Bohumil Sekla (May 16, 1901, Bohuslavice - August 7, 1987, Prague) was a Czech biologist.

Cartoon Noir

The short films brought together for this anthology were Gentle Spirit (1987) by Polish animator Piotr Dumala, Club of the Laid Off (1989) by the Czech artist Jiri Barta, Abductees (1995) from England’s Paul Vester, The Story of the Cat and the Moon (1995) from Portuguese animator Pedro Serrazina, and a pair of shorts from American filmmakers: Suzan Pitt's Joy Street (1996) and Julie Zammarchi's Ape (1992).

Charles Blahous

Blahous was born in 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, the second of three children of Charles Paul Blahous II of Czech descent and Marjorie Alice Robertson of Scot/English ancestry.

Henry Swoboda

Henry Swoboda (October 29, 1897 – August 13, 1990) was a Czech conductor and musicologist.

Jan Pavel Filipensky

Jan Pavel Filipenský (born 8 October 1973) is a Czech actor.

Karel Krautgartner

Karel Krautgartner (July 20, 1922 - September 20, 1982) was a Czech jazz and classical clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, composer, conductor and teacher.

Ota Ulč

Ota Ulč (1930 in Plzeň) is a Czech-American author and columnist.

Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic

From the mid-19th century until the formation of Czechoslovakia, Czech rights with respect to administrative law were safeguarded by the Verwaltungsgerichtshof, or Austrian administrative court, which sat in Vienna.


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1938 in Germany

10 September — Hermann Göring, in a speech at Nuremberg, calls the Czechs a "miserable pygmy race" who are "harassing the human race."

1st World Festival of Youth and Students

The World Federation of Democratic Youth had decided to celebrate its first festival there in remembrance of the events of October and November 1939, when thousands of young Czechs rose in demonstrations against the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany.

Adolfína Tkačíková-Tačová

Adolfína Tkačíková-Tačová (born 19 April 1939 in Petřkovice) is a Czech former gymnast who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Bohdan Kaminský

Bohdan Kaminský (pen name of Karel Bušek) (February 24, 1859 in a hamlet Husa near Sychrov – July 13, 1929 in Poděbrady) was a Czech poet and translator.

Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church

Churches and chapels were closed, and a rounding up of Czechs was conducted, including the whole village of Lidice, whose inhabitants were either killed or sent to forced labor camps.

Czech tramping

The economic successes of the new nation and its many political and social links to the United States (for example the first Czechoslovak President, Tomáš Masaryk, was married to Charlotte Garrigue, who was from a prominent American family and part of the reason for Masaryk's success in persuading Woodrow Wilson to support the inception of Czechoslovakia) meant that Czechs' interest in things American continued in earnest.

Daniel Ernst Jablonski

Daniel Ernst Jablonski (20 November 1660 Nassenhuben – 25 May 1741 Berlin), German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.

Daniell Zeleny

Daniell Zelený (born 19 October 1988) is an Australian association footballer of Czech and Italian descent, currently playing for Kaya F.C. in the UFL Division 1 in the Philippines.

East Tilbury

A sizeable Czech workforce was relocated here, and has merged into the local community after connections were lost with Czechoslovakia after the Second World war.

František Kaván

František Kaván (September 10, 1866, Víchovská Lhota near Jilemnice - December 16, 1941, Libuň near Jičín) was a Czech painter and poet.

Godesberg Memorandum

10 September 1938 — In a speech at Nuremberg, Hermann Göring calls the Czechs a "miserable pygmy race" who are "harassing the human race".

In early September 1938, Chamberlain sent Lord Runciman to attempt to negotiate a settlement of the crisis between the Germans and the Czechs.

Heinrich Blum

Heinrich Blum (name sometimes written in Czechized form Jindřich Blum) (January 16, 1884, in Soběšice, today part of Brno – 1942) was a Czech architect.

IDA Ireland

The sponsoring minister was Daniel Morrissey of Fine Gael who was influenced by a friend of his, a Czech businessman who experienced his country's economic success in the pre war period.

Interhelpo

Trains from railway stations Žilina and Brno transported 1078 persons (including mainly Czechs and Slovaks, but also Hungarians, Ruthenians and other nationalities, and including both direct members and their families) to Kyrgyzstan.

Jáchym Topol

Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.

Jan Broschinský

Jan Broschinský (born 1 September 1985) is a Czech football midfielder who most recently played for FC Graffin Vlašim in the Czech 2. Liga.

Jan Černý-Nigranus

Jan Černý-Nigranus (born 1500 or 1510 in Kunvald; died 5 February 1565 in Mladá Boleslav), was a Czech historian, preacher and bishop of the Jednota bratrská now called the Moravian Church.

Jan Škrdlík

Jan Škrdlík (* 31 October 1964 Ostrava) is a Czech cellist, of the younger school of the Czech cello players, an artist, a writer and a teacher.

Jarda Svoboda

Jarda (Jaroslav) Svoboda (born May 31, 1966 in Kolín) is a Czech singer, guitarist, lyricist and composer best known as the frontman of the bands Otcovy děti and Traband.

Jaroslav Foglar

During the 1920s, Foglar was strongly influenced by German independent Wandervogel movement as well as Scout movement led by Antonín Benjamin Svojsík under Czech name Junák.

Josef Buršík

Josef Buršík (born September 11, 1911 in Postřekov, died June 30, 2002 in Northampton) was a Czech resistance fighter, general, dissident, and political prisoner.

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.

Libor Sovadina

Libor Sovadina (born 2 November 1964 in Náchod) is a Czech former handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Ludmila Peterková

Ludmila Peterková (born September 16, 1967 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic) is a Czech clarinetist.

Martin Zounar

Martin Zounar (born May 26, 1967 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech actor and TV personality.

Master IW

Master IW (or I.W.) was a 16th-century Czech Renaissance painter of unknown origin from the school of Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Origins of Czechoslovakia

The Czechs and Allies agreed on the Danube and Ipeľ rivers as the boundary between Hungary and Slovakia; a large Hungarian minority, occupying the fertile plain of the Danube, would be included in the new state.

Ostrožská Lhota

Charles Paul Blahous III (born 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA) – former Special Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Economic Policy – is a fourth generation descendant of Czech ancestry originating from Ostrožská Lhota

Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický

Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický (born 1550–1560 in Jistebnice u Tábora – died 1619 in Kutná Hora) was a Czech composer of the Renaissance and early Baroque era.

Philipp Gschwandtner

He achieved good results at the World Junior Championships 2008 in the Swiss vineyards. In the super-G, he went to coincide with the Czechs Lukáš Kolouch at number six and in the super-combined in seventh place.

Qasr Tuba

The site was brought to art historical attention after it was visited in 1896 by the Czech explorer Alois Musil.

Richard Glazar

While on the run, Glazar and Unger were arrested by a forester, but they managed to convince him that they were Czechs working for “Organisation Todt” (a Nazi construction and engineering group in Poland).

Rostislav Václavíček

Rostislav Václavíček (born 7 December 1946 in Vrahovice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech football player.

The Military Philosophers

Jenkins is living in a flat in Chelsea in early 1943 and is promoted in his liaison duties to supervising the Belgians and Czechs.

This Time We Mean It

The art style on the cover of the album is remarkably similar to the art style of Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, Alfons Mucha.

Thomas Elek

In March 1943, along with the young Czech, Pavel Simo, he made a grenade attack on a restaurant reserved for German officers at Asnières.

Tomáš Zápotočný

Tomáš Zápotočný (born 13 September 1980) is a Czech footballer, who currently plays for FK Příbram in the Gambrinus Liga.

Vendula

The name is of Czech origin and is a nickname for Václava, the feminine form of name Václav.

Vhrsti

Vhrsti (born 1 August 1975 in Rokycany, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech illustrator, writer, children's book author, comics artist and scenarist, member of the unofficial new wave of Czech and Slovak comics Generation Zero and the Czech Cartoonists' Union.

Vojtěch Rödl

Vojtěch Rödl is a Czech mathematician, currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, known for his work in combinatorics.


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