Topic: Czechoslovakia

Get weird with Fantastic Planet on Saturday

Chicago Reader - 19 days ago
Odd Obsession's Foreign Film Series is featuring a viewing of 1973's Fantastic Planet this Saturday, January 28, at the Whistler. Produced in both...

Totalitarian Regime Institute drafts new teaching materials on communist era

Prague Daily Monitor - 21 days ago
The Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (USTR) has been preparing new documents and methods that may help teachers improve the...

Black Country MP Ian Austin reveals Holocaust horror of father's family

Birmingham Post, UK - 21 days ago
A Black Country MP has revealed how his adoptive father was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, as Parliament prepared to...

Agnieszka Holland’s Opus

New Yorker - 22 days ago
Interesting stories emerged from an interview with Agnieszka Holland that appeared Friday in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. (Her film "In...

Witness: Havel - Moral force at the end of a long staircase

Reuters US Online Report World News - 59 days ago
(Reuters)- To get to Vaclav Havel's airy apartment high in an early 20th century block overlooking the Vltava River in central Prague, which I did several times in the mid-1980s, it meant a long climb.The elevator was always out, though ...

Witness:Vaclav Havel: Moral force at the end of a long staircase

Reuters US Online Report World News - 59 days ago
(Reuters)- To get to Vaclav Havel's airy apartment high in an early 20th century block overlooking the Vltava River in central Prague, which I did several times in the mid-1980s, it meant a long climb.The elevator was always out, though ...

"I'm Going To Be Honest, I Used To Be Homophobic But That's F*cked Up"

SOHH - 103 days ago
A$AP said past negative stereotypes applied to even himself has made him look at life differently.. "I was dating this chick from Czechoslovakia--...

Today in History

San Francisco Chronicle - 157 days ago
0 . Today is Monday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2011. There are 110 days left in the year.. . Today's Highlight in History:. . On Sept. 12, 1961...

8 Things You Might Not Have Known About the Czech Republic

Everything, Everywhere - 303 days ago
My arrival in the Czech Republic means not only a new country for me, but a new installment of "8 Things You Might Not Have Known...". Prague is...

Tom Gross: Heda Margolius-Kovaly, the woman who survived Hitler and Stalin

Full Comment - 422 days ago
public domain. Heda Margolius-Kovaly. . Anglo-Australian writer Clive James, reviewing the memoir of Heda Margolius-Kovaly several years ago...