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Give a real gift this Christmas: People in Need's Jan Mrkvička discusses their Skutečný Dárek scheme . Danny Bate sat down with Jan Mrkvička from the Czech charity People in Need, to talk about his career and their Christmas scheme that helps people to give a ‘real gift’.
Rising opera star Patricia Burda Janečková succumbs to cancer at 25
Oct 8, 2023 · Critics predicted a dazzling career for her, but in a cruel twist of fate, she was diagnosed with breast cancer in February of 2022. Despite putting up a valiant fight, Patricia succumbed to the aggressive tumour on October 1, 2023, with her husband, Vlastimil Burda, whom she married in July of this year, and her family by her side.
Czech Photo Gallery launches Best of the Nude
Apr 26, 2013 · The Czech Photo Gallery at Prague’s Újezd this week launched the first in a series of “Best of” exhibitions beginning with the Nude. Curators for the opening show chose work by five well-known photographers, the late Taras Kuščynskyj, Jan Saudek, Robert Vano, Pavel Brunclík and Antonín Tesař.
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The overall incidence of acute respiratory infections in Czechia has remained stable over the past week, with 1,575 cases per 100,000 people, according to the National Institute of Public Health (SZÚ).
Pop singer Helena Vondráčková still going strong
Helena Vondráčková, one of the Czech Republic’s biggest pop stars, will turn 75 next week. She can look back on a career spanning five decades and boast of being the country’s best-selling singer with over a million albums under her belt.
Czech Christmas traditions explained, from Ježíšek to the Golden …
Dec 24, 2018 · For new arrivals to the Czech Republic, the emphasis on Christmas Eve, the traditional fare served on that day – chiefly carp and potato salad – and the role of the Baby Jesus are typically the most surprising elements of how the holiday is observed locally.
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Army chief-of-staff: Collective defense will be more expensive for us all “More funding, soldiers and active reserves needed” was the message Czech army commanders sent to politicians and the public in connection with the growing threat of war.
Bedřich Smetana's "My Country" - a symphonic poem to the nation
Oct 28, 2009 · “Vyšehrad is about a very important place in Czech history where all of the Czech kings or princes were seated when they were in Prague. So the point of the composition Vyšehrad is that it begins with the memories of a poet, who is trying to recall how things were in the past.”
300 years since death of great Czech architect Jan Blažej Santini ...
Dec 7, 2023 · Baptised as Johann Blasius Aichel, he was the oldest son in a respectable family of Prague stonemasons. His grandfather, Antonio Aichel, had moved from Italy to Prague in the 1630s, and his father, Santini Aichel, had made a successful career as a stonemason.
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Original Rapid Arrows comic strips on display at Prague Museum of Literature . An exhibition dedicated to Rychlé šípy or The Rapid Arrows, a legendary Czech comic series by Jaroslav Foglar, got underway at the Museum of Literature this week.