Miscellanea

What do people say about our country and our people?

• Czech Republic - heart of the Europe.
• Every Czech is a musician.
• Golden Czech hands.

Do you know them?

History:

• Karel IV. (Czech king 1346 - 1378)

Music - musicial composes:

• Antonin Dvorak
• Leos Janacek
• Bedrich Smetana

Graphic arts:

• Alfons Mucha (art nouveau painter)

Literature:

• Jaroslav Hasek (author of character soldier Svejk)
• Franz Kafka
• Karel Capek (the first time he used the word "robot" in his performance)
• Milan Kundera
• Jaroslav Seifert (awarded the Nobel Prize for literature)

Movies - directors awarded the Oscars:

• Milos Forman (Amadeus)
• Jiri Menzel (Closely watched trains)
• Jan Svěrák (Kolja)

Science:

• Jaroslav Heyrovsky (awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry)
• Gregor Mendel (father of genetics)

Sport:

• Hockey
  • Dominik Hasek
  • Jaromir Jagr
  • A Czech Hockey team won the Winter Olympic Game in Nagano in 1998.
• Tennis
  • " Martina Hingis (she was born in the Czech Republic and she emigrated to the Switzerland)

Politics:

• Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (first president of the Czechoslovak Republic)
• Vaclav Havel (former Czech president - his function finished on 8. 2. 2003, writer and drama-tist)
• Madeleine Albright (former U. S. secretary of state, she was born in the Czech Republic)

We produce

Beer:

• Pilsner Urquell (from town Plzen - Pilsen)
• Budweiser Budvar (from town Ceske Budejovice=Budweis)

Czech motor works:

• " Skoda is Europe's third-oldest manufacture, founded in (1895), Skoda manufacturer base in Mlada Boleslav.

Cut glass:

• trademark Moser is well-known in the world

Our hobbies:

• Travelling: in summer a lot of people go to the country which has a sea (Italy, Croatia, Spain etc.) and in winter they go to the mountains in search of snow. Among the most frequently visited Czech mountains ranges there are the Giant Moun-tains, the Sumava range, the Jeseniky and Krusne mountains rangers.
• Sport: football, volleyball, tennis
• Dancing
• Fishing