Czech

See: Music of the Czech Republic Though associated with Slovenia, Germany and Poland as well, the Czech Republic includes Bohemia, the ancestral home of polka music. Polka has a long history in the United States, and the city of Chicago, among others, had produced numerous innovations in the genre. ...

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Music of immigrant communities in the United States, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Armenia, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Cape Verde, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - China, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Czech, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Eastern European Jews, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - England, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Philippines, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - France, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Germany, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Greece, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Iran, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Ireland, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Italy, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Jamaica, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Japan, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Norway, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Poland, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Serbia and Montenegro, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Slovenia, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Ukraine, Music of immigrant communities in the United States - Vietnam

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Czech may refer to the following: The Czech people The Czech language Of or relating to the Czech Republic; or to the Czech lands, especially Bohemia and Moravia Of or relating to Czechoslovakia (erroneously) Čech, the legendary founder of Bohemia. Other related archivesBohemia, Czech Republic, Czech lands, Czech language, Czech people, Czechoslovakia, Moravia, Čech

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Absinthe (from French, from Latin absinthium, ancient Greek apsinthion, "wormwood") is a high-alcohol anise-flavored liquor derived from herbs including the flowers and leaves of the medicinal plant Artemisia absinthium, also called wormwood. Nicknamed la Fée Verte ("The Green Fairy"), absinthe's lightly bitter taste is similar to other anise-flavored liqueurs, although subtler due to the many herbs used. It is especially known for its popularity in France—particularly its romantic associations with Pari ...

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• Absinthe - Constituents
• Absinthe - Preparation
• Absinthe - History
• Absinthe - Etymology
• Absinthe - Controversy
• Absinthe - Modern culture
• Absinthe - Legal status
• Absinthe - France
• Absinthe - Switzerland
• Absinthe - Netherlands
• Absinthe - Canada
• Absinthe - United States
• Absinthe - Countries without bans

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

• Caron - Usage
• Caron - Writing and printing carons
• Caron - List of letters
• Caron - Other uses
• Caron - Software
• Caron - Unicode
• Caron - TeX
• Caron - Macintosh
• Caron - Microsoft Word
• Caron - XFree86

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This is a list of the twelve Corto Maltese novels in chronological order. Please note that NBM Publishing, one of the publishers, took great liberties in translating the stories. Not all the albums are available in English and some NBM albums do not correspond to any original French or Italian title. Where the adequate English translation is not available, the original titles are given first. 1905 The Early Years (NBM, colour 1988) (the original Italian title: La giovinezza, colour 1983; French title: La Jeuness ...

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Corto Maltese, Corto Maltese - Corto Maltese Graphic novels, Corto Maltese - Namesake island

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Aqua-lung was the original name for the first open-circuit SCUBA diving equipment, developed by Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau in 1942. It consists of a high pressure diving cylinder and a diving regulator that supplies the diver with breathing gas at ambient pressure, via a demand valve. Before that, there were a few attempts at constant-flow compressed-air breathing sets. Aqualung and Aqua Lung are registered trademarks for diving equipment. In Britain, for very many years after public interest in scuba divin ...

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Antonín Leopold Dvořák (pronounced "Dvor-zhack"-listen ▶ (help·info)) (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of romantic music. Antonín Dvořák - Biography. Dvořák was born in Nelahozeves near Prague (today the Czech Republic) where he spent most of his life. He studied music in Prague's only Organ School at the end of the 1850s, and slowly developed himself as an accomplished violinist and violist. Through ...

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• Antonín Dvořák - Biography
• Antonín Dvořák - Musical style and influence
• Antonín Dvořák - Dvořák's Symphonies

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Anna is a 1987 film which tells the story of a Czech actress, looking for work in New York City, who sees her protege shine while she herself struggles. It was adapted by Agnieszka Holland from an unauthorized story by Holland and Yurek Bogayevicz based on the real life of Polish actress, Elzbieta Czyzewska. It was directed by Bogayevicz. The movie stars Sally Kirkland, Robert Fields, Paulina Porizkova and Steven Gilborn. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Sally Kirkland).

Anton (or Antonius) Maria Schyrleus (also Schyrl, Schyrle) of Rheita (1597-1660) (in Czech, Antonín Maria Sírek z Reity) was a Czech astronomer and optician. He developed several inverting and erecting eyepieces, and was the maker of Kepler’s telescope. "Things appear more alive with the binocular telescope," he wrote, "doubly as exact so to speak, as well as large and b ...

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• Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita - Optics
• Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita - Astronomical observations
• Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita - The Moon
• Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita - Legacy

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The United States Army Air Force dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the mornings of August 6 and August 9, 1945 during World War II. The goal was to secure the unconditional surrender of Japan. At least 120,000 people died immediately from the attacks, and many thousands more would die in years to come from the effects of nuclear radiation. About 95% of the casualties were civilians. Japan sent notice of its unconditional surrender to the Allies on August 15, a week after the bo ...

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• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Prelude to the bombings
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Choice of targets
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Hiroshima
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Hiroshima during World War II
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - The bombing
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Japanese realization of the bombing
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Survival of some structures
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Nagasaki
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Nagasaki during World War II
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - The bombing
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Debate over the decision to drop the bombs
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Support for use of atomic bombs
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Opposition to use of atomic bombs
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Cultural notes

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The USA has always been a beer-drinking nation. The diary of William Bradford records that the Mayflower made landfall at Plymouth Rock under duress: "We could not now take much time for further search...our victuals being much spent, especially our beer." [1] The brewing traditions of England and the Netherlands (as brought to New York) ensured that the colonies would be dominated by beer drinking and not the imbibing of wine. Up until the middle of the 19th century, ales dominated American brewing. This changed as the lager styles, ...

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• Apostrophe mark - English language usage
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• Apostrophe mark - Things to note
• Apostrophe mark - Tip
• Apostrophe mark - Greengrocers' apostrophe
• Apostrophe mark - Derivation
• Apostrophe mark - Other languages
• Apostrophe mark - Alternative uses
• Apostrophe mark - Computers and Unicode
• Apostrophe mark - Entering apostrophes
• Apostrophe mark - Eight-bit encodings

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2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5766-5767 in the Hebrew Calendar, 5107-5108 in the Hindu Calendar, 1426-1427 in the Islamic Calendar, 1384-1385 in the Iranian calendar, 4703 in the Chinese calendar, and 2759 a.U.c. It is also the current year. It has been designated: The International Year of Deserts and Desertification The Rembrandt Year, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrand ...

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• 2006 - Events
• 2006 - January
• 2006 - Predicted and scheduled events
• 2006 - January
• 2006 - February
• 2006 - March
• 2006 - April
• 2006 - May
• 2006 - June
• 2006 - July
• 2006 - August
• 2006 - September
• 2006 - October
• 2006 - November
• 2006 - December
• 2006 - Major Religious Holidays
• 2006 - Unknown/undecided dates
• 2006 - Deaths in 2006
• 2006 - January
• 2006 - 2006 in Fiction

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The Amber Room (German Bernsteinzimmer, Russian Янтарная комната) in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoe Selo near Saint Petersburg is a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed "The Eighth Wonder of the World." It was created in the begining of 18th century in Prussia. Soon after its creation, it was given by the Prussian king, Friedrich Wilhelm I, to his then ...

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• Amber Room - Creation
• Amber Room - Looted by Nazis
• Amber Room - Disappearance and mystery
• Amber Room - Destruction theory
• Amber Room - Reconstruction
• Amber Room - Fiction
• Amber Room - Notes

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Bóbr (-Polish, Czech: Bobr, German: Bober) is a river in the northern Czech Republic and southwestern Poland, a tributary of the Oder River, with a length of 272 kilometres (2 in Czech Republic, 270 in Poland, 10th longest Polish river) and the basin area of 5,876 sq. km (46 in Czech Republic and 5,830 in Poland). towns: Lubawka Kamienna Góra Jelenia Góra Wleń Lwówek Śląski Bolesławiec Szprotawa Małomice Żagań Nowogród Bo ...

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• Quotation mark - Quotations and speech
• Quotation mark - Emphasis and irony
• Quotation mark - Titles of artistic works
• Quotation mark - Nicknames and false titles
• Quotation mark - Typographical considerations
• Quotation mark - Punctuation
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• Quotation mark - Non-language related usage
• Quotation mark - Glyphs
• Quotation mark - Typewriter quotation marks
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in English
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Finnish and Swedish
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Germany and Austria
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Polish
• Quotation mark - Angled quotation marks in various European languages
• Quotation mark - Quotation dash
• Quotation mark - Corner brackets in East Asian languages
• Quotation mark - Table
• Quotation mark - Names for quotation marks
• Quotation mark - Double quotation mark

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In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants, which are characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract. A vowel is also understood to be syllabic: an equivalent open but non-syllabic sound is called a semivowel. In all languages, vowels form the nucleus or peak of syllables, whereas consonants form the onset and (in languag ...

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• Vowel - Articulation
• Vowel - Height
• Vowel - Backness
• Vowel - Roundedness
• Vowel - Nasalization
• Vowel - Phonation
• Vowel - Tongue root retraction
• Vowel - Secondary narrowings in the vocal tract
• Vowel - Tenseness/checked vowels vs. free vowels
• Vowel - Acoustics
• Vowel - Prosody and intonation
• Vowel - Monophthongs diphthongs triphthongs
• Vowel - Vowels in languages
• Vowel - Vowel systems
• Vowel - Written vowels
• Vowel - Written vowels in writing systems

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(Vietnamese: Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc) The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, or Vietnam, is a country in Southeast Asia. Situated in eastern Indochina, it borders countries such as China, Laos, Cambodia, as well as the South China Sea. Vietnam - Terminology. The name of the country comes from the Vietnamese Việt Nam, which is in turn a reordering of Nam Việt, the name of an ancient kingdom from the ancestral Vietnamese that covered much of today's northern Vietnam. ...

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• Vietnam - Terminology
• Vietnam - History
• Vietnam - Politics
• Vietnam - Provinces
• Vietnam - Geography
• Vietnam - Economy
• Vietnam - Demographics
• Vietnam - Religions
• Vietnam - Minorities
• Vietnam - Percentage of ethnic Vietnamese
• Vietnam - Languages
• Vietnam - Culture
• Vietnam - Miscellaneous topics

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1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). 1948 - Events. 1948 - January-February. January 1 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution. January 4 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom. January 5 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tou ...

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• 1948 - Events
• 1948 - January-February
• 1948 - March-April
• 1948 - May
• 1948 - June-July
• 1948 - August-December
• 1948 - Undated
• 1948 - Unknown date
• 1948 - Births
• 1948 - January-February
• 1948 - March-April
• 1948 - May-July
• 1948 - August-December
• 1948 - Unknown date
• 1948 - Deaths
• 1948 - Nobel Prizes

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Alfons Maria Mucha listen ▶ (help·info) (July 24, 1860 - July 14, 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist. His first name is also sometimes rendered in English as Alphonse. Mucha was perhaps the most defining artist of the Art Nouveau style. Alfons Maria Mucha was born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia. His singing abilities allowed him to continue his education through high-school in the Moravian capital of Brno, although drawing had be ...

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