All early Everest expeditions—including the one led by John Hunt that put Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on the summit—passed through Jiri.
On 25 December 2012, a number of gunmen killed six while attacking a Church in the village of Jiri.
Jiří Menzel | Jiří Bělohlávek | Jiří Stivín | Jiří Paroubek | Jiří Orten | Jiří Jarošík | Jiri Georg Dokoupil | Jiri Barta | Jairos Jiri | Jiří Zídek Sr. | Jiří Suchý | Jiří Šlégr | Jiri Slegr | Jiří Pták | Jiří Pernes | Jiří Lobkowicz | Jiří Jirmal | Jiří Hudler | Jiri Hlinka | Jiří Gemrot | Jiří Dvořák | Jiří Dienstbier Jr. | Jiří Barta | Jiri | ''Harmoniae morales'' from printer Jiří Nigrin |
Atentát, 1964 Czech film directed by Jiří Sequens depicting events before and after the assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in Operation Anthropoid
The events of the film take place in 1961, in Český Šternberk and the role of the count Jiří Sternberg, the father of today's owner of the castle Zdenek Sternberg, is portrayed by the internationally acclaimed Italian actor Michele Placido.
Paul Matavire (1961–2005), a Zimbabwean musician and member of the Jairos Jiri Band, whose lyrics garnered him the nickname Dr. Love
The Moody Brothers in 1988 on their album "Friends" recorded in Prague, Czechoslovakia with Jiri Brabec and Country Beat for Supraphon Records
With this group for the entire period of its existence played such violist Jan Hrubý (Framus Five), bassist Jiří Veselý (Stromboli, Žlutý Pes), guitarist Petr "Kulich" Pokorný (Framus Five, Žlutý Pes), drummer Ivan Kadaňka, bassist/cellist Jaroslav Olin Nejezchleba, bassists Vladimír Padrůněk and Vladimír Guma Kulhánek and many others.
In June 2011, FK Spartak MAS Sezimovo Ústí owner Jiří Smrž bought the rights to neighbouring team FK Tábor and at the end of 2011, the club announced that they would compete from 2012, including the remainder of the season in progress, as FK MAS Táborsko.
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.
Christoph Asendorf, Jacques Aumont, Jiří Bystřický, Hartmut Böhme, Peter Geimer, Eva Geulen, Joachim Krausse, Dieter Mersch, Jürgen Müller, Patricia Pisters, Manfred Schneider
Past awardees are Jonas Landgren (Viktoria Institute, Sweden), Jiri Trnka (Linkoping University, Sweden), Manuel Llavador (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), Valentin Bertsch (Karlsruhe University, Germany), Thomas Foulquier (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), and the PhD students in crisis informatics at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA).
Jiří Matoušek, chairman of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Scientific Advisory Board and professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at Masaryk University, Brno
Jiří Mlika (born 18 July 1980) is a professional Czech football player who currently plays for FK Baník Sokolov.
Jiří Petrů (born 17 February 1985) is a Czech football defender currently playing for FC Graffin Vlašim.
Jiří Polívka (born March 2, 1974 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade).
Jiří Schubert (born 18 April 1988) is a professional Czech football player, who currently plays for FK Varnsdorf, on loan from FK Mladá Boleslav.
At the time of British annexation, the kingdom consisted of parts of Nagaon and Karbi Anglong; North Cachar, Cachar and the Jiri frontier of Manipur.
According to Hirut Abebe-Jiri, an activist involved in preserving and documenting atrocities while Mengistu Haile Mariam ruled the country, and other women, Kelbessa directly oversaw their torture, and demanded to know whether they were members of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party, then fighting the government in the Ethiopian Civil War.
After graduation, Leokadia married Jiří Čermák and moved to Ostrov a town not far from Karlovy Vary.
Besides works of Jiří Kylián and Lightfoot León the repertoire of Nederland Dans Theater I comprises a large number of works by internationally renowned choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Mats Ek, William Forsythe and Ohad Naharin.
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Besides works of Jiří Kylián and Lightfoot León the NDT performs works choreographed by Jacopo Godani, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, and Crystal Pite.
He wrote many operas, often using his own librettos, such as The Revenge of Catullus based on the work of Vrchlický (1917), Alladina and Palomid (based on the work of Maeterlinck, 1925), Ňura (1932), How the Death came in the World (1936), Jiří from Kunštát and Poděbrady (based on the work of Alois Jirásek, 1941), Cradle (composed on the work of Jirásek, 1951), Eupyros (1960).
Saseong Hermitage, Saseongam, is located in Gurye County on Mount Osan, a foothill of Jirisan (Jiri Mountain) in the province of Jeollanam-do, South Korea.
She has also created roles with James Kudelka, Crystal Pite, Dominique Dumais, Mikko Nissenen, and Jean Grand-Maitre and has been featured in the works of William Forsythe, Paul Taylor, Nicolo Fonte, Jiri Kylian, Martha Graham, and Twyla Tharp, among others.
Burgin, as well as other researchers (including Selim Akl, Eugene Eberbach, Peter Kugel, Jan van Leeuwen, Hava Siegelmann, Peter Wegner, and Jiří Wiedermann) who studied different kinds of super-recursive algorithms and contributed to the theory of super-recursive algorithms, have argued that super-recursive algorithms can be used to disprove the Church-Turing thesis, but this point of view has been criticized within the mathematical community and is not widely accepted.
"Springman & the SS", also known as "The Chimney Sweep", a 1946 Czechoslovakian film directed by Jirí Brdecka and Jirí Trnka
1975, František Jílek (conductor), Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra; Naďa Šormová, Marcela Machotková, Jiří Zahradníček, Jaroslav Horáček, Zdeněk Švehla, Daniela Šounová
In 1992 she became one of the youngest students ever to matriculate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (AVU), studying under Jiří David and Jiří Sopko, receiving a one-year scholarship (1995) at the San Francisco Art Institute, and a Masters of Art degree in 2000.