Writer Franz Kafka lived almost his entire life in Prague, and the city often made an appearances in his stories and novels. It is not difficult to find the places where the author lived and worked: ...

More than 350 years after it was looted from Prague by the Swedish Army during the Thirty Years’ War, a famous medieval text will return to its native land, though only temporarily. The Codex Gigas ...

Anyone even remotely familiar with Czech literature will know Ivan Klíma and his work. The author of more than 40 novels, short-story collections, plays and books of essays, Klíma, born in 1931 in ...

Since 2005, the Foundation for Development of Ukraine—also known as the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation after its founder—has played a prominent role in Ukraine. Its work has been especially noticeable in ...

As of January 2025, Olympic coach Jamie Main will become the Director of Swimming at Repton School. This prestigious day and boarding school in the Derbyshire village of the same name has an ...

The 71st edition of the Miss World beauty pageant concluded with the crowning of Krystyna Pyszková from the Czech Republic as the new queen. According to the official social media accounts of the ...

Lucie Turnerová from the Charles Bridge Museum and boat company Prague Venice helped us get to know a bit about the history of the landmark. She describes the Charles Bridge as “the epicenter of Czech ...

The transition to Counter-Strike 2 has brought about significant changes in the professional scene, but Team Vitality has emerged as one of the most formidable forces in the new era. The French ...

Among the names for Prague is the Magic City, and not without reason. Places connected to legends are all over the city, and throughout the centuries everyone from alchemists to vampires are supposed ...

As the recent controversy about The Passion of the Christ and the election of a movie star as governor of California show, movies are not only entertainment but also sources of negative and positive ...

It seems like a lifetime ago since people were able to go out and live their daily lives without any restrictions on their movements. We’re only in the second quarter of 2020, but the lives of people ...

In modern organizations, large volumes of information are exchanged in spoken form. Meetings, interviews, briefings, workshops, and training sessions generate substantial amounts of operational, ...