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36 unusual facts about Prague


Alexey Eisner

Eisner joined the literary association of Russian émigrés in Prague.

Anima Sound System

After touring Eastern European cities and capitals - 8 performances in Prague alone - Anima Sound System has begun to draw interest from Western European promoters - from the "Glasshaus" in Berlin, to "Divan du Monde" in Paris.

Animefest

Animefest is one of the two largest conventions held in The Czech Republic, having around the same number of visitors as Advík, which is held in Prague, in July.

Celtic Tiger Live

Another preview show was planned for Prague in the Czech Republic, but at the last minute that show was cancelled due to the venue (which included a massive stage specially built for the show) was unsafe for the dancers.

Crazy Jane

Jane makes a cameo appearance in Teen Titans #36, where she is seen on Danny the World through a portal in Dayton Manor in Prague.

Doppler effect

The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift), named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who proposed it in 1842 in Prague, is the change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for an observer moving relative to its source.

Hillel Noah Maggid

Among these may be noted his biography of David Oppenheim, rabbi of Prague (in "Gan Peraḥim," 1882), and his notes on the history of the Jewish community of Lemberg (in "Anshe Shem," 1895).

Johann Josef Loschmidt

The first was a Bohemian priest, Adalbert Czech, who persuaded Loschmidt's parents to send young Josef to high school in the Piarist monastery in Schlackenwerth and, in 1837, to advanced high-school classes in Prague.

Jules Védrines

After a long delay in Nancy, on 20 November Védrines circumvented the ban by the transparent ruse of heading west on taking off from Nancy, changing course for Prague when out of sight of the airfield.

Ken Stern

He previously was legal and management consultant to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, based in Munich and Prague.

KkStB Class 265

The two locomotives were built in Prague in 1907 by the Erste Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik.

Konrad Petzold

After an internship in the Film & Television school of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, he shot his first feature film in Czechoslovakia in 1955 a comedy called "The Fools Among Us".

L'Absent

His journey takes him to such places as Budapest, Warsaw, Prague and even as far as Tokyo.

Letná Park

Letná's elevation and location afford commanding views of the Prague Old Town (Staré Město).

Lord, Have Mercy on Us

Saint Adalbert is sometimes ascribed as the author; while it may possible it is not confirmed.

Lucan Concert Band

The band has played at various events ranging from their hometown of Lucan, venues throughout Ireland, and even as far as the United Kingdom & Prague.

Marie Javorkova

She studied under Professor Karel Rusin VUT - foundry, sculpture and with more Professors at the Prague Academy of Art.

National Marionette Theatre

The National Marionette Theatre (Czech: Národní divadlo marionet, NDM) is a theater company devoted to puppetry performances, located in the Old Town neighborhood of Prague, Czech Republic.

Nightmare Creatures II

Kalisto's concept of the game involved a heroine exploring 19th century Prague during the daytime and merging with a raven at nightfall to transform into a beast and battle Adam Crowley's monsters, but Ubisoft reportedly began designing the game from the ground up when it gained control over the game's development.

Pat Westrum

Westrum also was a member of the United States national team at the 1978 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament in Prague.

Polythematic Structured Subject Heading System

Polythematic Structured Subject Heading System (abbreviated as PSH from the Czech Polytematický Strukturovaný Heslář) is a bilingual Czech–English controlled vocabulary of subject headings developed and maintained by the National Technical Library (the former State Technical Library) in Prague.

Prague-Velká Chuchle Racecourse

In the week starting 12 August, extensive flooding of the Vltava and Berounka rivers wreaked havoc at the racecourse.

It is located on the southern outskirts of Prague, in the administrational district of Velkà Chuchle.

On May 13, 1911, racetrack engineer Jan Kaspar landed his airplane Blériot XI on the racetrack.

Prague, Oklahoma

On May 24, 1952, Indian mystic Meher Baba was seriously injured in a head-on automobile collision near Prague.

Prahu

Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic; the accusative (4th form) of the Czech word Praha

Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet

He moved to Prague in 1947, returned to the Foreign Office again in 1949 as head of the Southern Europe department with the rank of Counsellor, and was posted to Paris in 1951 with the same rank.

Swami Jnanananda

He took up research in High Tension and X-Ray Physics at Charles University, Prague.

Tampere Opera

The first visit abroad of Tampere Opera was in 2005, when they visited the National Theatre in Prague.

Těžká Barbora

The play had premiere on 14 June 1960 in ABC Theatre, Prague.

The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives

At the same time, John Harding comes back from Prague with a new wife who is far from the normal size two socialites of Hunting Hill.

Thomas Ebendorfer

He represented the university at the Council of Basle (1432–1434), took an active part in all its discussions, and was one of the delegates sent by the council to Prague to confer with the Hussites.

University of Business in Prague

The University of Business in Prague (VSO Praha) is a not-for-profit private university in Prague, Czech Republic.

Vladimir Jankélévitch

From 1927 to 1932 he taught at the Institut Français in Prague, where he wrote his doctorate on Schelling.

William Morfill

He first visited Russia in 1870 and Prague in 1871, learning languages as he travelled; a visit to Georgia in 1888 led to an article on Georgian literature.

WinSCP

Originally it was hosted by the University of Economics in Prague, where its author worked at the time.


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.

Adolf Heyduk

After finishing his studies in 1859, he then became a teacher in Prague, then later in Písek.

Anatol Provazník

He studied "radiophony" in Berlin and after return to Prague he helped to set up the music department of the Czech Radio.

Antonín Rezek

Antonín Rezek (13 January 1853 Jindřichův Hradec – 4 February 1909 Prague) was a renowned Czech political historian, specialized in political and religious history of the 16th to 18th century.

Basilica of St Peter and St Paul

The basilica features an impressive stone mosaic above its entry, and its twin 58 m towers can be seen atop a hill to the south from along the Vltava River in central Prague.

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Lauf (Wenzelsburg) - built on the way connecting Prague and Nuremberg in Bohemian Palatinate, inside survived 112 coats of arms of the Czech Kingdom

Cinema City Czech Republic

On 19.1.2011 cinema city bought, as a part of a bigger European deal, 8 multiplexes (4 of them in Prague) from Palace Cinemas with 65 screens.

City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra works with labels such as Decca, EMI, Sony BMG and many international film studios.

Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation

The reform concerned Slovak autonomy; the concentration of governmental authority in Prague was a source of discontent within Slovakia throughout the 1960s, and the federalization of the Czechoslovak government codified in the 1968 constitutional amendments was virtually the only product of the reform movement associated with the Prague Spring to survive.

Count Lützow

Perhaps his greatest accomplishments are his various books regarding the history of Bohemia, Prague, Slavic poetry, Historiography and Literature.

Eduard Štorch

Eduard Štorch (April 10, 1878, Ostroměř – June 25, 1956, Prague) was a Czech pedagogue, archaeologist and writer, known for novels set in prehistoric Bohemia during Stone and Bronze Age.

Egon Kisch

His early work is characterised by an interest in crime and the lives of the poor of Prague, taking Jan Neruda, Émile Zola and Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz as his models.

Eliezer Karpeles

Karpeles was the author of Me-Abne ha-Maḳom, novellæ, chiefly to Horayot and to some passages of Maimonides (Prague, 1801), and 'Erki 'Alai, notes to 'Arakin and Hullin (ib. 1815).

Elijah Mizrachi

A compendium by Jacob Marcaria was published under the title Kitzur Mizrachi (Trento, 1561), and later, one by Isaac ha-Kohen of Ostroh, entitled Mattenat 'Ani (Prague, 1604-9).

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau (April 30, 1814 in Klatovy – October 24, 1852 in Prague) was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Würzburg and later at the University of Prague.

George Mansour

Other journalistic responsibilities included broadcasting at Radio Free Iraq in Prague, correspondent of Az Zaman and Al-Mutamar newspapers based in London, England, reporter at Sawt Alshab Al Iraqi radio based in Saudi Arabia and Radio Canada International based in Toronto and Senior Advisor for the International Organization for Migration - Canada.

Gerhard Kowalewski

Kowalewski was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, the Société Mathématique de France, and socially associated with members of the Louvre Circle and Prague intellectual elite, which included Berta Fanta, Oskar Kraus, Franz Kafka, Hugo Bergmann, Philipp Frank, Albert Einstein, and Christian von Ehrenfels.

Gunther of Bohemia

Gunther died at about the age of ninety in Hartmanice, Bohemia, on 9 October 1045, in the arms of Duke Bretislaus of Bohemia and of the Bishop of Prague.

Gymnázium Jana Keplera

The Gymnázium Jana Keplera (English: Johannes Kepler Gymnasium or Johannes Kepler Grammar School) is a public gymnasium located in Prague 6 district in Prague, Czech Republic.

Hana Mašková

Her tomb is at the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague, decorated by a winged female torso made by Jan Štursa.

Hill's Absinth

At that time there were only 3 such schools in the whole of Europe, in Berlin, Paris, and Prague.

Jan Bor

Jan Bor, real name Jan Jaroslav Strejček (16 February 1886 in Prague – 25 March 1943 in Zámostí, Hluboká nad Vltavou) was a Czech director and playwright.

Jaroslav Dietl

Jaroslav Dietl (22 May 1929, Zagreb – 29 June 1985, Prague) was a Czechoslovak scenarist of series.

Jeffrey Douma

Choirs under his direction have appeared in Leipzig's Neue Gewandhaus, Prague's Dvorak Hall, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Sydney Town Hall, Christchurch Cathedral, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for performances under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas McGegan, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville Marriner, and Helmuth Rilling.

Kurt von Wessely

In 1901 and 1903 he reached the singles final at the Austrian Championship, played in Prague but on both occasions lost in straight sets to Major Ritchie.

Marianne Kirchgessner

After that she traveled throughout Europe for ten years, visiting Prague, Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg and Magdeburg, playing four times at the Prussian court for King Friedrich Wilhelm II in Berlin.

Mbongeni Buthelezi

Buthelezis works have been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of African Art in New York, the Goch Museum in Germany as well as the Prague Biennale.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Nirmal Verma

He stayed in Prague for 10 years, where he was invited by Oriental Institute to initiate a program of translation of modern Czech writers like Karel Capek, Milan Kundera, and Bohumil Hrabal, to Hindi; he also learnt the Czech language, and translated nine world classics to Hindi, before returning home in 1968, as the result of Prague Spring.

Oul

The Czech mutual aid, or self-help, movement spread outside of Prague and was also established in the Brno and Liberec areas.

Out Distance

Their plan had involved the sabotage of gasworks in Prague, providing radio-sets to other resistance fighters, and navigating bombers to the Škoda Works in Pilsen.

Prague British School

Vlastina in Prague 6, north west of Prague, has Foundation Stage Unit and Primary School only.

Prague Half Marathon

The Prague Half Marathon has a looped course format which has its race start and end point on Jan Palach Square near the Rudolfinum.

Prague Quartet

In 1927, the Prague Quartet undertook a six month-tour of South America.

Prague underground

Prague Metro, a subway, underground public transportation network in Prague, Czech Republic

Šakvice train disaster

A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured.

Shabbethai Bass

In 1712 the Jesuit father Franz Kolb, teacher of Hebrew at the University of Prague, succeeded in having Bass and his son Joseph arrested, and their books confiscated.

Silicon Hill

Silicon Hill with approximately 4,200 members is the largest club of Student Union CTU located in Petřín, Prague, CZ.

Somerset County Youth Orchestra

It has given concerts in prestigious locations, among them Old Town Square in Prague, La Madeleine in Paris, and the Leonardo museum in Vinci.

Speciálník Codex

The manuscript is currently in the Hradec Králové Museum, which acquired it from a Prague antique dealer in 1901.

Tan Kheng Hua

Drama: Aquafire Productions: Cages directed by Graham Streeter (lead, Pusan Film Festival 2006, Prague Film Festival 2006, Bangladesh Film Festival 2007, distributed by Golden Village in Singapore and Hallmark for Asia Pacific Region), Final Cut (lead, Singapore Int'l Film Festival 1993, Asia Pacific Film & Video Festival in LA 1993, broadcast over HBO and Arts Central Singapore); Zhao Wei Films: Mee Pok Man, 12 Stories (screened at film festivals in Singapore, Moscow, England and Venice, 1994)

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

Waldstein

Wok of Waldstein a notable figure among the Hussites of Prague in the 15th century

Wayward Queen Attack

More often the opening is adopted by chess novices, as when actor Woody Harrelson played it against Garry Kasparov in a 1999 exhibition game in Prague.

Wenceslaus Linck

Born in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic), he entered the Jesuit order at age 18 and studied at Brno and Prague.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague

The emergence of an outstanding conductor, Johann Joseph Strobach, who built the opera orchestra of Prague into one of the greatest orchestral ensembles in central Europe, was also critical in attracting Mozart to the city, as was the prominence of the Duschek couple (Franz Xaver and Josepha, who had unprecedented international connections for musicians from Prague who chose not leave the Bohemian lands.

Zuzana Roithová

Zuzana Roithová (born on 30 January 1953 in Prague) is a Czech politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party, part of the European People's Party.