...that Josef Smrkovský boasted he had kept American units away from
Prague in
1945, allowing the liberation of the city by the
Red Army, and then in
1968 he and
Dubček became the most popular politicians of the
Prague Spring? -- 27 April 2008
... that Liebotschaner Beer, produced by some
United Statesbreweries, was originally brewed in and named after the
Czech village of Libočany(pictured)? -- 27 June 2009
... that not long after it first appeared in 1631, the book Janua linguarum reserata(pictured) by
Comenius was published in translation in twelve European languages plus several Asian languages? -- 23 April 2012
... that Miroslav Tyrš, the founder of
Czech national sport movement
Sokol, was born into a
German family? -- 13 July 2012
... that
Czech poetAntonín Sova gained national fame for answering
Theodor Mommsen's letter in
verse, calling the
German historian a "covetous dotard" and "arrogant spokesman of slavery"? -- 20 March 2014