Stories: Czechia

Stories connected to Czechia.

• An early Amazon film disappeared. Decades later, it surfaced in Prague.The Brazilian silent film Amazonas, o Maior Rio do Mundo was presumed lost in 1931. In 2023, a digital copy a…
• A corner kick went straight past him. His team still won the league.Czech goalkeeper Radim Novák conceded a goal directly from a corner in the opening match of the 2011–12 secon…
• He sent out an irreverent photo of the president. Then came the uranium mines.Czechoslovak photographer Jindřich Marco supplied a foreign agency with an irreverent photograph of President…
• A wetland project stalled for years. Then beavers built the dams.Czech conservation officials had planned small dams in the Brdy area since 2018, but the project was delayed.…
• She spent years championing a concert hall and saw its cornerstone laid at 101.Czech organist Alena Veselá chaired an association working for a new concert hall in Brno. She was present wh…
• Few major battles did not mean little sufferingThe War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778–79 became known as the Potato War. Large armies maneuvered, with r…
• Rescued children stood up decades laterThe BBC presented Nicholas Winton’s work helping rescue children in 1988. In a subsequent programme, more tha…
• The horses outnumbered the soldiersDuring Operation Cowboy in 1945, US troops moved horses from Hostau in what is now Czechia. The horses outnum…
• About 55 km of pipes carried the city’s documentsPrague’s pneumatic post opened to the public in 1889. Its underground network extended to roughly 55 km, carr…