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Geographic information |
- situated at
"heart of Europe"
- visit Brief introduction to the Czech language (by BBC)
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| Science & technology |
- Prof. MuDr. Jan Jansky (1873-1921)
was author of blood-groups - Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1787-1869) was famous physiologist - MuDr. Peter Safar (*1924 czech family in Wien, +2003 Pittsburgh) was author of resuscitation technique - lighting conductor was invented in Bohemia by Prokop Divis - contact lens were invented in Czechoslovakia by Otto Wichterle - Johann Gregor Mendel was biologist and founder of genetics - author of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, was born at Pribor - radar locators "Tamara" and "Vera" are the once locators, which can detect American invisible Stealth bombers - after American nuclear air attack on Japanese city Hiroshima survived in center one house only - its author was Czech constructor Jan Letzel (born 1880 in Nachod), who was trying to build houses earthquake resistant - Czechoslovak cosmonaut Vladimir Remek was first non-russian and non-american man in the cosmos. Third nation in the space was Czech. First after Russian and American. - trucks "Tatra" and buses "Karosa" are one of few vehicles, which can be used at freezy conditions of Siberia. - cars "Skoda" are recently favourite at whole Europe - beer "Pilsner Urquell" and "Budweisser - Budvar" is popular at whole world. - at years 1987-1990 Czechoslovak truck Tatra 815 Grand Tourist Caravan "Around the world" managed journey around the Earth (almost 150 000 km)
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| Sport |
- czech cyclist Vitezslav Dostal
managed journey around world in three years and three days, length was 59 460 km
(1994-1997) - czech cyclists Lucie Kovarikova and Michal Jon managed theirs route around world in 1st May 2002 to 1st May 2005 (68175 km through 34 countries and all continents) - national ice-hockey team contest for the best prizes every championship (and have won lot of gold) - lot of Czech hockey-players played at NHL - football team is good too (you can know e.g. players P.Nedved, Baros, Koler) - czech tennis-player Martina Navratilova is the eldest successful player in history of world tennis - czech trucks Tatra are good at Rallye Paris Dakar
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| Literature and music |
- very known czech book is "The
Good Soldier Schweik", written by Jaroslav Hasek - marionettes of Theatre Spejbl & Hurvinek play their comedies in whole world, puppeteers speak in 8 world languages - When Czech writer Karel Capek wrote drama "R.U.R. - Rosum's universal robots", he first used neologism "robot". It's originaly Czech word, invented by writer's brother. Later this word expanded to lot of world languages. - very known classic composers are e.g. Bedrich Smetana (in german language he is named "Fridrich Smetana"), Leos Janacek and Antonin Dvorak Antonin Dvorak is author of symphony "Novosvetska"(The New World Symphony) or opera "Rusalka". Novosvetska is 2nd most often played symphonic music in whole world. It was used when astronauts of Apollo11 were landing on the Moon. - you can know historian writer Frantisek Palacky - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius) is called as "teacher of nations" - Czech song "Skoda lasky" (Wasted Love) is very known in whole world. Author of music is Jaromir Vejvoda. Name of song is various in different languages:
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| More | Some more information you can find in free encyclopedia Wikipedia |
