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Tue Dec 21st 14:12 2004 / #1 |
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http://www.czech-tv.cz/english/news.php - it's in English here as well! |
sambeckwith
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Tue Dec 21st 14:15 2004 / #2 |
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Well spotted... Didn't see that... |
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Jane Withall
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Tue Dec 21st 23:03 2004 / #3 |
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This will be difficult. What a lot of geniuses to choose from! |
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[ anonymous ]
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Wed Dec 22nd 11:40 2004 / #4 |
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Gross has my vote! |
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Wed Dec 22nd 14:44 2004 / #5 |
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Dominik Hasek vole. |
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[ anonymous ]
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Wed Dec 22nd 14:54 2004 / #6 |
Way to catch them pucks Dominick...what's so great about that?
How about John Hasek, the Canadian who founded Education for Democracy? He brought over the first waves of Westerners in 1990 and the died in a car crash. He never got any credit for renewing those 50 years of ties to the west in record time....
It's interesting how many people who are here now either came on that program or knew someone who came here and then decided to come and check it out.... |
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Wed Dec 22nd 14:55 2004 / #7 |
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err...Czech/Canadian that is... |
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[ anonymous ]
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Thu Dec 23rd 14:56 2004 / #8 |
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Bohumil Hrabal. |
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[ anonymous ]
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Thu Dec 23rd 16:08 2004 / #9 |
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TGM will take it for sure. |
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mikrez
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Thu Dec 23rd 16:36 2004 / #10 |
dead czech: TGM for sure, or Hrabal and Dvorak/Smetana.
live...hmm, tough calll between Karel Gott, Skvorecky, Milos Formann, Helena Vondrackova or Pavel Nedved!
The genius who invented the soft contact lens! |
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Fri Dec 24th 00:12 2004 / #11 |
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John Hasek. What an interesting thought... |
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[ anonymous ]
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Fri Dec 24th 01:19 2004 / #12 |
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Marketa Masojedlikova |
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[ anonymous ]
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Sun Dec 26th 18:28 2004 / #13 |
John Hasek? Who the eff is he?
Jaroslav Hasek maybe. |
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[ anonymous ]
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Sun Dec 26th 19:57 2004 / #14 |
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No doubt, Johan Paulik! http://www.howardroffman.com/images/johan/J06_pop.jpg |
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Sun Dec 26th 21:12 2004 / #15 |
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Never heard of Johan Paulik so I searched the internet and found out that he is a gay porn star! Since homosexuality is almost unknown among Czech guys, I was not surprised to find out that he is Slovak. |
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Mon Dec 27th 08:43 2004 / #16 |
hands down the greatest czech is... Jara Cimrman
http://www.cimrman.at |
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Amadeus Schubergruber
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Mon Dec 27th 09:16 2004 / #17 |
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J??ra Cimrman samoz?™ejmÄ›!! :-) |
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Big Mac
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Mon Dec 27th 10:58 2004 / #18 |
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Ray Kroc, the guy who invented McDonalds was almost Czech, I don't know if it was his parents or grandparents who immigrated. |
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kominsky
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Mon Dec 27th 11:09 2004 / #19 |
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Komenski |
syd
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Mon Dec 27th 12:28 2004 / #20 |
zdenek miler
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587036/
http://www.kratkyfilm.com/catalogue/html/29.htm |
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Tue Dec 28th 10:56 2004 / #21 |
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Huss |
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Tue Dec 28th 15:00 2004 / #22 |
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Hey Butthead, you Bozo, living up to your nickname eh? You drink too much and you can't spell - it's Hus vole. |
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adam
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Fri Feb 4th 08:47 2005 / #23 |
Well, it was announced, Cimrman won.
fleet sheet has a bit about it - http://www.fsfinalword.com
If anyone is interested, The video store at Radost FX has the complete collection on DVD. So does PlanetDVD.
Jara (da) Cimrman is a half-forgotten Czech genius, whose monumental work was accidentally unearthed during the sixties by the so-called "Liptakov explosion" (Liptakov was Cimrman's favorite resort). In the Autumn of 1966, first Cimrman's discoveries were introduced to the Czech public in a series of radio shows from the wine-house "U pavouka" that began with the announcement of Dr. Evzen Hedvabny (a.k.a. Karel Velebny) "that while building a fireplace in his summer house in Liptakov, he found a huge old chest containing manuscripts of a completely forgotten Czech genius.".... |
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Fri Feb 4th 09:12 2005 / #24 |
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I'm with Adam on this, noone can deny Mr. Cimmerman is the greatest :))) |
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[ anonymous ]
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Fri Feb 4th 10:23 2005 / #25 |
"This will be difficult. What a lot of geniuses to choose from!"
As if you know anything about you pampered product of Western consumerism. Ever pick up a book before? |
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Fri Feb 4th 10:39 2005 / #26 |
Fictional characters aside;
Here is one short list of potential contenders:
Hasek
Capek
Neruda
Kafka
Hus
Masyrek
Komenski
Jiriho z Podebrad
Karl IV |
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[ anonymous ]
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Fri Feb 4th 11:13 2005 / #27 |
Jiriho z Podebrad?
the metro station? |
RacerX
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Fri Feb 4th 11:15 2005 / #28 |
I'd vote for
deceased: Jan Hus
alive: Vaclav Havel |
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[ anonymous ]
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Fri Feb 4th 11:20 2005 / #29 |
Hey, #27, they name these things after people some times...
Jiriho z Podebrad = George of Podebrad
George of Podebrad , 1420–71, king of Bohemia (1458–71). A Bohemian nobleman, he became leader of the Utraquists, or the moderate Hussites, in the wars between Hussites and Catholics. He seized Prague (1448) during the minority of King Ladislaus V, was elected (1452) governor by the Bohemian diet, and continued to rule the country after the formal accession (1453) of Ladislaus. His relations with Ladislaus were friendly. In Ladislaus's reign, George ended the anarchy of the interregnum that had preceded Ladislaus's accession, restored the power of the courts, recovered lost crownlands, and secured the recognition of the central government at Prague in the Bohemian dependencies of Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia. Ladislaus died in 1457, and George was elected king in 1458. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III invested him with the kingdom in 1459. When in 1462, Pope Pius II abolished the Compactata, by which the Utraquists had been reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church, George promptly declared his loyalty to the Utraquists. An immediate break with Rome was averted through his alliance with France and Poland, and the emperor's intervention delayed papal action. In 1466, however, Pope Paul II excommunicated George, declared him deposed, and enlisted the aid of the emperor and of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, against him. Matthias won Moravia and most of Silesia and Lusatia; in 1469 the Catholic party in Bohemia proclaimed Matthias king. George, at the head of the Utraquists, expelled Matthias. To strengthen his position George had signed a treaty with Casimir IV of Poland, naming Casimir's son as his successor. As a result, Ladislaus II (later, as Uladislaus II, also king of Hungary) became king on George's death. George of Podebrad unsuccessfully proposed a European alliance against the Turks. Bohemia recovered peace and prosperity in his reign, which, however, was marked by the persecution of the Bohemian and the Moravian Brethren, descendants of the more radical Hussites. |
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Fri Feb 4th 11:40 2005 / #30 |
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Ole George was also the first recorded person to propose an economically unified Europe. Talk about your visionaries. |
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Czechfriend
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Fri Feb 4th 12:57 2005 / #31 |
By buying Cimirman Cds you can support the Fund for Widows from the Prusso-Austrian War.
Please buy them at http://www.cimrman.at |
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Amadeus Schubergruber
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Fri Feb 4th 13:08 2005 / #32 |
#29 - it was a joke because the name of that person is "Jiri z Podebrad" ... Jiriho z Podebrad is the metro station only - it´s done by the Czech grammar - "Jiriho z Podebrad" means "of the Jiri z Podebrad"
:-)) |
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[ anonymous ]
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Fri Feb 4th 16:27 2005 / #33 |
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I vote Petr Horak, a student in Ostrava. Cool guy. |
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Czechfriend
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Fri Feb 4th 16:50 2005 / #34 |
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33- I must disagree Pani Masojedlikova and Pan Nejeschleb were absolutly crucial in Czech history. Without these two key figures svicoka and chlebicky would have not survived the turbulent history this country. |
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Fri Feb 4th 17:06 2005 / #35 |
Amadeus, congrats on your understanding of czech grammer, my post was more to let bonehead understand the history behind the guy for whom the metro stop is named. Ironic, you should post a critic of czech grammar, when your post itself is a posterchild for poor grammar.
Long live Falco! |
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Amadeus Schubergruber
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Fri Feb 4th 17:54 2005 / #36 |
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I´m sorry I didn´t mean to dispute. BTW I´m Czech ... sorry for my engl. grammar. |
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[ anonymous ]
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Sat Feb 5th 13:21 2005 / #37 |
OK, recommendations should fall into three categories : I've listed my choices below :-
Fictional : Schweik!!!
Dead : Tomas G Masaryk
Alive : Havel
I'm wondering about a fourth group -- people you'd LIKE to be dead ... and Karel Gotts got my vote there. Vole. |
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Sat Feb 5th 14:48 2005 / #38 |
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Karl IV hands down |
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Bobbo
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Sat Feb 5th 15:57 2005 / #39 |
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Where the hell is Podebrad??? You darned Czech grammar geniuses don't have a clue that the town is Podebrady, and that Podebrad is the genitive of Podebrady, as required by the preposition z - DUH!!! |
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Czechfriend
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Sun Feb 6th 22:53 2005 / #40 |
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Again i must incist on Cimirman |
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TheFerret
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Mon Feb 14th 03:10 2005 / #41 |
Greatest in which way?
I would say my favorite would be Franz Kafka. I first came to Prague because I was interested in his work.
Of course he was German-Jewish and actually had a low opinion of Czech life and culture.
Rather ironicly, many Jews of Prague identified more with Germans and had opposed Czech independence. Of course when Hitler forcefully made Bohemia-Moravia part of the empire he ended up killing most of the Jews.
If anyone has the chance, they should visit the old Synagog and cemetary. Its a very moving tribute to the old jewish life that existed in Prague. |
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Mon Feb 14th 04:55 2005 / #42 |
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I must repeat my demand for Jara Cimirman. |
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[ anonymous ]
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Mon Feb 14th 12:05 2005 / #43 |
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Thats just stupid. Thats like saying the greatest American was Paul Bunyan. |
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[ anonymous ]
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Mon Feb 14th 12:21 2005 / #44 |
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when everybody knows that the greatest American was Pecos Bill |
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Tue Feb 15th 09:19 2005 / #45 |
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But really Jara Cimirman existence can't be proved but it is also impossible to disprove it. |
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Fri Sep 9th 18:58 2005 / #46 |
wow not one post that mentions the monk from Brno that gave scientific substance to Darwin's theory thus fathering an entire new science that we have only begun to understand. the father of genetics:
GREGOR MENDEL
(i hope i spelled his name right)
remember the guy that bred pea plants for decades to figure out chromosomes, heredity and all that stuff? |
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Tribe
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Fri Sep 9th 21:51 2005 / #47 |
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Dvorak. He put the Czech nation on the map. He's one of the masters of classical music. Not a grandmaster like Tchaikovsky but a maestro nonetheless. |
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p_13
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Mon Mar 13th 12:08 2006 / #48 |
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Mendel is the good choice ... |
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Matty
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Fri Jun 2nd 17:06 2006 / #49 |
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I can't believe no one has mentioned the great animator Jan Svankmajer. Famous for his surreal twisted puppetry animation. Best Czech ever!!! |
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Fri Jun 2nd 17:50 2006 / #50 |
Have you seen his last couple films?
I am a huge Svankmajer fan, and know the man personally, but i think after seeing S?len? and Otes??nek (I was sittin next to him in Slovansky Dum at the Febio fest where it premiered, and even he was disappointed) I couldn’t agree. Faust was the last good one he made, everything before that was golden, but I think now that Eva ( his wife) has passed away, he probably won’t continue makin films… |
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Eminent Threat
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Fri Jun 2nd 22:53 2006 / #51 |
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Without a doubt Vaclav Havel, the greatest czech to ever live. |
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rkasal
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Thu Nov 20th 03:47 2008 / #52 |
Mùj hlas je pro Karla IV, a pokud ne, pak pro Masaryka. I když nebyl èeský, byl dùležitý pro historii Èeské republiky.
Randy Kasal |
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Mon Apr 12th 01:11 2010 / #53 |
I'll stick with Charles IV for dead Czech. Live Czech, Mizterpresident Havel. It tooks guts to write and speak out when he did at risk of his life, liberty, family, and property. His qualities are rare in an individual and to be humble besides.
Best,
Randy Kasal |
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