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Czechs in Space, and Other Trivia
Did you know that you can find out what Czechs have in common with other nations by visiting the "official Website" of the CR (czech.cz)?
Learn such valuable information as:
I'm so amazed.
Learn such valuable information as:
What do Czechs have in common ... with Americans?
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush included Jaromír Vejvoda’s song Škoda lásky
along with a photograph of the composer in his presidential library. In 1995, the Czech song was used to as a wakeup alarm for the astronauts on board the Discovery space shuttle.
I'm so amazed.
Posted 21 February 2008 at 21:44.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
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