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• Czechs Keep Alive Memories of Battle Over Ore Mountains on September 11, 1944

  
  Remembering World War Two Airmen — Authority: 110
  It never ceases to touch me deeply how Europeans are so much more linked to memories of the air war than Americans and to the extent people will go to preserve the memories of the men who flew the skies in World War Two. The latest example of this is found in the Czech Republic. I became acquainted with a pilot and ...
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• Peter Robinson talks to Václav Klaus

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 581
  Czech president Václav Klaus did another tour to the U.S. He has been to many places but here is the interview with Peter Robinson of Uncommon Knowledge (National Review Online): Part 1/5 (remembering fall of communism), Part 2/5 (similarities of EU and the Warsaw Pact), Part 3/5 (Al Gore is wrong on AGW), ...
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• The Velvet Revolution and how the Czech public perceives it today (Sametová revoluce a jak to dnes vidí česká veřejnost)

  
  CzechFolks.com — Authority: 112
  Článek v ČEŠTINĚ dole (Klikněte na “Read the rest …”) Readers of CzechFolks.com PLUS have been following a series on what foreign radios broadcasted in last weeks of the totalitarian regime and the early days of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia . As the recent surveys have shown, it was the ...
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• The Berlin Wall Came Down, But Now The Washington Wall Goes Up

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 475
      This week marked the 20 th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is the anniversary of an event worthy to revisit and rethink. Of the dominoes that remained standing during the Cold War, the Berlin Wall’s fall, set in motion, the end of communism in Europe. And not slowly. Within days of the ...
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• Report on Fall of Berlin Wall, Collapse of Iron Curtain

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  This video shows an ABC News report on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the process of reform and political change that rapidly swept across eastern Europe in the months surrounding that event. The report cites the efforts of mass movements of ordinary people to overthrow hardline totalitarian regimes through peaceful ...
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• Reflections on the revolutions in Europe

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 811
  Do you remember where you were when you heard that the Berlin Wall had fallen? I had just started my gap year, and was teaching at a small school in Dorset. When I realised what was going on, I handed in my notice and started arranging visas with the Comecon embassies. The headmaster, a clever and kindly man, told me ...
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• Why the Berlin Wall Fell

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  In the debate over who deserves credit for causing the Berlin Wall to collapse on the night of November 9, 1989, many names come to mind, both great and small. There was Günter Schabowski, the muddled East German politburo spokesman, who in a live press conference that evening accidentally announced that the countrys ...
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• Outsourcing Prague

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 581
  Everyone who has been to Prague must know what this is: Click for a much larger picture. Yes, it is the Old Town City Hall with the Astronomical Clock ("Orloj"). But those who look even more carefully will also say: holy crap, the building on the left side from the city hall looks strange. It should be ...
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• Cold War’s unintended consequences

  
  Suspense Author's Daily HotchPotch — Authority: 134
  Some day I’ll tell you how I used to cross the Cold War borders of various Eastern Bloc countries, including Soviet Russia, armed with … a chocolate bar. Meanwhile, enjoy this interesting, if sad tale of Cold War’s unintended victims… the Red Deer:Ahornia inhabits the thickly wooded mountains along what once ...
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• Pilsen…Ottawa….The story o two monuments to the victims of Communism (Příběh dvou památníků obětem komunismu)

  
  CzechFolks.com — Authority: 112
  Článek v ČEŠTINĚ dole (Klikněte na “Read the rest …”) Author:  Josef Cermak ( CzechFolks.com PLUS ) The garden of his soul The Pilsen monument is today known as the Meditation Garden of Luboš Hruška (the author of a book on the monument and its creator, Irena Kastnerová, named her book ...
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• Klaus signed Lisbon

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 581
  Unfortunately, the Czech constitutional court ruled that the Treaty of Lisbon is compatible with the Czech constitution, as expected. President Klaus signed the document at 3:00 pm. No photographs, no champagne, no foreign counterparts: there is certainly nothing to celebrate. His statement, translated from Czech ...
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• Celebrating the anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia in Canada (Oslava výročí vzniku Československa v Kanadě)

  
  CzechFolks.com — Authority: 112
  Článek v ČEŠTINĚ dole (Klikněte na “Read the rest …”) October 28th is a memorable day in the history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This year, this day marked the 91st anniversary of the establishment of the independent Czechoslovak state . There were many ceremonies happening on this date ...
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• Post-socialist Europe still against global climate communism

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 581
  Last night, during their dinner in Brussels, the EU leaders agreed to give the Czech Republic an opt-out from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as demanded by President Klaus. The Austria-Hungarian opposition has apparently evaporated. So right now, its likely that he will sign the treaty after the constitutional ...
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• EU summit on global warming and Václav Klaus

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 581
  Today, a two-day summit of the European Union begins in Brussels. It will be mostly discussing two things - none of which will be present in Belgium: Global warming and Václav Klaus Moreover, you can see that the two main topics are opposite to one another. ;-) Yesterday, in the evening of the most important ...
  2 weeks ago

• Czechs do not “celebrate” their Independence Day. Only politicians lay flowers and give speeches

  
  The Czech Daily Word — Authority: 415
  October 28 is the “Independence Day” for the Czech Republic . In 1918 the former Czechoslovak Republic was founded as one of the successor countries of Austria-Hungary. It is a national holiday. Schools, offices, banks and similar institutions are closed. On the other hand, malls, movie theaters, pools etc. are ...
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• Peter Nagy in Australia (Peter Nagy v Austrálii)

  
  CzechFolks.com — Authority: 112
  Článek v ČEŠTINĚ dole (Klikněte na “Read the rest …”) Melodies that bring a smile to your face, clever lyrics and recitation “charged” with a peculiar charm - no wonder that the compatriots in Australia evaluated a concert by Peter Nagy as one of the coolest they have ever experienced here. ...
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• 1989, revolution in Eastern Europe

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 733
  The BBC World Service has put together a special report on the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe (they also have a simpler portal ). There is a wealth of material, including TV reports on key events from the BBC archives, interviews , a map timeline , a report on Catholicisms role in the 1989 revolutions , a ...
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• Car from Czechoslovakia, Tatra T87 up for auction

  
  Born Rich — Authority: 678
  Streamlining has been an intrinsic automotive design feature almost since day one, but the 1940 Tatra T87 sedan was one of the cars that redefined streamlining. The streamlined car from Czechoslovakia will be auctioned at Wright ’s upcoming Important Design. Smooth bodylines flowing up and around a gracefully ...
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• October 28 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 581
  On October 28: 1510 Francis Borgia , Spanish duke and Jesuit priest was born. Saint Francis Borgia. He is depicted performing an exorcism in this painting by Francisco Goya . 1538 The first university n the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino in the Dominican Republic, was established. ...
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• Czech Constitutional Court looks at the Treaty of Lisbon

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 581
  The proceedings began at 10 am, Central European Time. The boss of the Constitutional Court, Dr Rychetský, enumerated the participants of the proceedings. Pretty much all of them were "personally known" to the court. Dr Pavel Rychetský, a former social democrat, the boss of the Constitutional Court in Brno. ...
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