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Peace of Prague
Peace of Prague 1635: see Thirty Years War .
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PRAGUE: A City for All Centuries.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Europe; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...After dark is the best time to arrive in Prague, when the city is wearing its evening...golden domes and Gothic spires, with Prague Castle as a final crowning glory aglow...Golden in the dark, it is obvious why Prague was chosen as one of this year's Cities...
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`Prague Is Over'; Now that the capital of the Czech Republic has a Planet Hollywood and TGI Friday's, what's a hip American expatriate to do?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/9/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...recently opened, was TGI Friday's. "Prague is over," we agreed. It's an old...are sniffing the air for more signs that Prague may be over or, more precisely, coming...here welcome the rising comfort level as Prague becomes democratized, capitalized, Westernized...
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Prague has so much to offer: check it out!(Features)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 4/3/2004; 700+ words
; ...city? This spring the place to be is Prague, there are adverts everywhere for trips...Czech Republic capital. Over the years Prague has suffered Nazi occupation, communist...getting in quick is a good idea, but Prague has plenty more to offer than bargains...
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Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Scott Spector Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural...The title of Scott Spector's book on Prague immediately brings to mind that other...What is certain, however, is that Prague Territories will pique curiosity even...
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Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Spector, Scott. Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural...Scott Specter's excellent book, Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural...cultural environment and that of his Prague contemporaries-or, as Spector puts...
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Reading prague: narrative domains of the image of the city in fiction.
Magazine article from: Style; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...so on. (1) Focusing on the image of Prague in modern literature of the Central European...story of its development. The image of Prague established during the era of the Czech...glorious but remote history. The name Prague, being grammatically feminine, gains...
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Prague office space vacancy rate at 5.5% in Q2, prime rents 'stable' at EUR 15 per sqm - report.
Newspaper article from: Czech Business News; 8/2/2007; 700+ words
; Prague office space vacancy rate at 5.5% in Q2, prime rents 'stable' at EUR 15 per sqm - report PRAGUE. AUGUST 2. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - The Prague Research Forum, a group of five international real estate...
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Prague Stories Justin Huggler has a Kafkaesque experience with a taxi company in the Czech capital: a bohemian city with a dark past where race is still a touchy subject - and heroic boozing has not quite given way to the new gentility
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...There is no Franz Kafka Square in Prague," she told me disconcertingly. "Please...say there is no Franz Kafka Square in Prague. So we cannot pick you up from a square...Kafka (pictured below). Until now, Prague has not had a street or square named after...
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Prague revisited
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 12/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; Barry Nelson last visited Prague in the old Stalinist days, when his...time I was in the beautiful city of Prague was 1984 and George Orwell probably...European Communist regimes. These days Prague is part of the democratic Czech Republic...
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IN PRAGUE, INDIFFERENCE AND SKEPTICISM TOWARD CHANGE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/21/1988; ; 700+ words
; PRAGUE - Exactly 20 years after Soviet tanks invaded...destroyed Alexander Dubcek's dream of a "Prague Spring" of reforms, there is skepticism...those Dubcek urged. "People want to forget Prague Spring and get on with their lives," said...
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Prague
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
PRAGUE PRAGUE. Prague was one of the largest and most influential cities in the Holy Roman Empire and central Europe in the early modern period. It was remarkable for its bilingual and multireligious population of Czech- and German-speaking...
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Prague, Defenestration of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
PRAGUE, DEFENESTRATION OF PRAGUE, DEFENESTRATION OF. The humorously complex word defenestration...something out a window (Latin fenestra, 'window'), but in Prague this action came to symbolize a national reaction to foreign or...
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Jerome of Prague
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jerome of Prague c.1370-1416, Bohemian religious reformer. During his studies at Prague and at Oxford, Jerome was influenced by the...with the authorities. In 1407 he returned to Prague, where he joined forces with John Huss in advocating...
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Prague rising
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Prague rising, part of a general rising against...strikes in nearby towns, and on 5 May 1945 Prague's population rose against the German garrison...the following day Konev's troops entered Prague, and the Germans finally surrendered on...
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Judah Loew ben Bezalel of Prague
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Judah Loew ben Bezalel of Prague ( Der Hohe Rabbi Loew , known as Maharal...Loew served as Chief Rabbi in Posen and Prague. He was the outstanding leader of his...known legend that he was creator of the Prague golem is unfounded.
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