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20 unusual facts about Czech Republic


AHG Industry

The holding is formed by several companies active in Germany, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, People's Republic of China, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Iraq.

Aliaksei Abalmasau

At the 2006 European Championships in Račice, Czech Republic, Abalmasau and his K-4 team-mates did not defend their 500 m title, focusing instead on their least favourite distance, the 1000 m, which will be the only K-4 event at the Beijing Olympics.

Andreas Dittmer

His run of success at the European championships finally came to an end in 2006 when he was defeated by Romania's Florin Mironcic in the 1000 m final in Račice, Czech Republic.

Břehy

Břehy is the name of several places in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

FusionArts Museum

The museum was founded by Shalom Tomas Neuman (July 27, 1947 – ), a Czech-born American multimedia artist.

Hrušovany

Hrušovany may refer to several places in Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Imre Pulai

Most assumed that would be the final medal of his long career, but in 2006 he made a comeback at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czech Republic, winning a C-4 500 m bronze medal.

Jan Firbas

Born in Brno, in the Czech Republic, he studied English, German and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.

Markus Oscarsson

He returned to action in 2006 and won the K-1 1000 m bronze medal at the European Championships in Račice, Czech Republic - the first individual medal of his senior career.

Michael Kolganov

At the 2006 European Championships in Račice, Czech Republic, he won the K2 200m bronze medal with partner Barak Lufan.

Milan Đenadić

Meanwhile, he made his first appearance for Serbia in international competition at the 2006 European Championships in Račice, Czech Republic, finishing in 11th place in the K1 200m.

Moravice

Moravice, Czech Republic, a municipality in Opava District (Moravia-Silesia), Czech Republic

Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell

In the 2009 World Championships in Račice he won a bronze medal at the World U23 Championships in the men's eight.

Norman Bröckl

They took the 1000 m bronze medal at the European Championships in Račice, Czech Republic in July.

Petr Procházka

At the age of forty-two, the evergreen Procházka and the C-4 200 m crew finished in fourth place at the 2006 European Championships held in Račice (where he now lives) in the Czech Republic.

Post-communism

The newly created Social Democratic parties were generally larger and more powerful than the remaining communist parties; only in Russia, Moldova, and the Czech Republic did the Communist Party remain a significant force.

Teschen

Teschen is the German name of a town on the Olza River divided in 1920 into the towns of Cieszyn, Poland and Český Těšín, Czech Republic.

Trine Hansen

The same year she won the Bronze medal at the World Rowing Championship in Račice, Czech Republic.

Viktor Kadler

In 2006 they lost their 200 m titles, finishing third at the European Championships at Račice, and second at the World Championships in Szeged.

Vilnius letter

The letter of the eight was followed on 6 February by a letter from the Vilnius group comprising Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, and Slovakia which effectively supported a US military intervention in Iraq.


1994 Cando event

Zdeněk Ceplecha of the Ondřejov Observatory in the Czech Republic explains the incident might have been a blast of subterranean gases which, removing the topsoil in a sudden explosion, vented into the air.

1999 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Qualifying

The 1999 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Qualifying rounds took place over November 11th to November 13th, 1999 in Prague, Czech Republic.

1999 Nokia Cup – Doubles

The 1999 Nokia Cup was a WTA Tier IV tournament held in Prostějov, Czech Republic, and the only edition of the Nokia Cup.

2005 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship

Ukraine and the Czech Republic were relegated to Division B.

2008 World University Cycling Championship

Prague, Czech Republic and Bangkok, Thailand were also candidate cities to organize the championship.

2011 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament

The top seven women's teams at the 2011 European Curling Championships, Scotland, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, will join defending champions Sweden in representing their respective nations at the 2012 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Ali Elsamni

Ali is from a sporting family; his younger brother Osama Elsamni plays forward for FK Teplice of the Czech Republic, and his father Ibrahim was a player on the Egypt national football team.

Bea Bielik

In the first round she defeated world number 148 Renata Voráčová of the Czech Republic in straight sets, 6-4 6-4, but the major upset came in the 2nd round, when she defeated comfortably Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn, who was a top 30 player at the time, 6-4 6-2.

Blumentritt railway station

It is located at the corner of Old Antipolo Street and Rizal Avenue in Sampaloc, Manila and derives its name from nearby Blumentritt Road, which is named after the Czech professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, friend of José Rizal and sympathizer of the Filipino cause.

Bohemia, New York

Proposed new names have included: Sayville Heights, after the town immediately to the south; Lidice, after a Czech town destroyed by Nazi troops during World War II; and MacArthur, after the airport built in the 1940s (the airport is named for famed American General Douglas MacArthur).

Brezovica pri Borovnici

The name Brezovica and names like it are relatively common in Slovenia and in other Slavic countries (e.g., Březovice in the Czech Republic, Brezovica in Serbia, etc.).

BSK Olympia Neugablonz

The suburb of Neugablonz in Kaufbeuren was formed after the Second World War, when refugees from the former German speaking territories in the Czech Republic, mainly from the region around the city of Gablonz, now Jablonec nad Nisou, settled there.

Čezeta

The Čezeta was originally a motor scooter manufactured from 1957 to 1964 in what was then Czechoslovakia, (now the Czech Republic), by the Česká Zbrojovka Strakonice (ČZ) company, which manufactured motorcycles from 1935 to 1997.

Doug Bruno

Because many team members were still playing in the WNBA until just prior to the event, the team had only one day of practice with the entire team before leaving for Ostrava and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Ectaco

Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).

Egon Hostovský

Egon Hostovský (23 April 1908, Hronov – 7 May 1973, Montclair), was a Czech writer.

Franz Planer

Franz Planer, A.S.C. (March 29, 1894 - January 10, 1963) was a cinematographer born in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic),

Hans Gfäller

He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the inaugural European championships of 1914 in Reichenberg, Bohemia (now Liberec, Czech Republic).

Hyundai i30

It is produced in Europe at the company's manufacturing facility in Nošovice, Czech Republic.

Ilario Di Buò

This gave him the 9th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Martin Bulíř in the first round, beating the Czech 111-100.

Jacob Platzer

He won a silver medal in the men's singles event at the inaugural European championships of 1914 in Reichenberg, Bohemia (now Liberec, Czech Republic).

Jan Kasl

In 2002 he resigned and left the Civic Democratic Party a few weeks before the parliamentary elections, because he thought that party was not able to deal with corruption.

Jan Malík

Jan Malík (born 7 April 1992) is a professional Czech football player currently playing for FC Zbrojovka Brno.

Jaromír Paciorek

Jaromír "Jarda" Paciorek – (born 11 July 1979 in Kroměříž) is a Czech football player who played as a midfielder.

Jindřich Kopeček

Jindřich (Henry) Kopeček (born January 27, 1940, in Strakonice, Czech Republic) is a polymer chemist and pharmaceutical scientist notable as one of the pioneers in drug delivery.

Jindřich Wankel

Studied as medical doctor he came to work into area of Moravský kras (Moravian Karst, today Czech Republic) in 1847 and since 1849 lived in Blansko.

Jiří Mlika

Jiří Mlika (born 18 July 1980) is a professional Czech football player who currently plays for FK Baník Sokolov.

Karel David

Karel David (born February 8, 1964 in Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia) is a retired long-distance runner from the Czech Republic, who won the 1991 and 1992 edition of the Vienna Marathon.

Kvetoslav

Květoslav Svoboda - a freestyle swimmer from the Czech Republic, who won the silver medal in the 400m Freestyle at the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships

Ladislav Mucina

He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, and Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czech Republic, Perth in Australia and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa.

Luboš Kubík

Luboš Kubík (born 20 January 1964 in Vysoké Mýto) is a Czech former professional footballer and former manager of Torquay United, who played sweeper for the Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic national teams, winning 56 caps in total, and a number of notable clubs.

Marián Geňo

Marián Geňo (born 4 October 1984) is a professional Czech football player who currently plays for FK Baník Sokolov.

Maxim Turbulenc

Maxim Turbulenc is a musical group from Klánovice, Prague, Czech Republic.

Michal Habai

Habai came to Scotland at the age of 27, having spent his career playing in his homeland of Slovakia, with a spell in the Czech Republic with Druhá liga side Baník Sokolov.

Obwodnica Trójmiejska

It enables traveling up to Grudziądz using a motorway, and when the A1 is completed it will connect Gdańsk, through Toruń, Łódź and Katowice to the Czech border in the south.

Olga Šplíchalová

Olga Šplíchalová (born September 1, 1975 in Třebíč, Vysočina) is a retired female freestyle swimmer from the Czech Republic, who twice competed for her native country at the Olympic Games: in 1992 and 1996.

PdfTeX

The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Petr Kašpar

Petr "Kafé" Kašpar (born 26 June 1960 in Kolín) is a retired Czech football defender and currently executive currently serving as Director General of Slovak football club Slovan Bratislava.

Rabí Castle

Rabí or Rábí is ruined castle in Southwestern Bohemia (Plzeň Region), situated on a prominent hill by the central course of the River Otava, in the foothills of Šumava region, 130 km from Prague, Czech Republic.

Spengler's freshwater mussel

Czech Republic - only fossil records in layers with settlement from neolite: Ďáblice, Kobylisy, Roztoky, Podbaba.

Svit

It was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) through his organization Baťa a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers.

Sychrov Castle

Sychrov Castle can be found near the village Sychrov in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic.

The Sound Above My Hair

The video features the members of Scooter riding around the German town of Wernigerode, where they travel around on a Czech military truck Praga V3S with giant speakers attached.

Topolná transmitter

The Topolná transmitter (Czech: RKS Topolná) is the central longwave broadcasting facility of the Czech Republic situated westward of the village Topolná at the Morava River.

Vysílač Krašov

Vysílač Krašov (Krašov transmitter, Zapadni-Cechy transmitter) is a facility for TV-broadcasting in near Bezvěrov in Carlsbad Region, in Czech Republic with 347,5 metre tall guyed mast (former mast was 305 m tall).

Výtopna

From the very beginning the restaurant was conceived as a franchise project, in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia - regions of the Czech Republic.

Workshop for All Beings

The organization conducted projects on preservation of the Wapienica Valley in Bielsko-Biała, they protested against building a coke plant just by the Polish border in Stonava in the Czech Republic, against building of a nuclear power plant in Żarnowiec as well as against deforestation of Bielsko-Biała.