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Tag / Notable Czechs
Czech-Girl-Is-Best-Athlete-in-the-World-TresBohemes
April 8, 2017

Girl with Czech Roots Is the Best Athlete in the World

Best Athlete in the World A 15-year old, Katie Ledecky shocked the 2012 London Olympic Games, when she unexpectedly won the Gold Medal in the women’s 800-meter freestyle. Currently, she is a five-time Olympic Gold Medalist and nine-time World Champion. Some consider her the best athlete of the World. Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky was born on...
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PEOPLE, Women
March 29, 2017

Honoring Helen Brooke Taussig

Today we are honoring Helen Brooke Taussig, a woman physician who saved thousands of children’s lives. When in May 1980, the famed 87- year physician, Helen Brooke Taussig, lost her life during a car accident, the Czech foreign press did not devote any attention to that event. Nobody could, of course, suspect that she was, on...
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PEOPLE, Women
Czech_Composers_Jerome_David_Kern_Tres_Bohemes
March 2, 2017

Father of American Musical Theater is Czech

Today we have another surprise for you. How many of you realized that the man considered the ‘Father of American Musical Theater’ comes from Czech parents? Yes. Jerome David Kern (1885-1945),  is remembered for his almost 1,000 songs and more than 100 theater performances and films. Jerome Kern was born in New York, in Sutton Place,...
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ENTERTAINMENT, Music
Grant-Lewi-Czech-Astrology-TresBohemes
February 24, 2017

Father of Modern Astrology and His Czech Roots

Czech Americans are known to have excelled in just about every aspect of human endeavor, including business, religion, government & politics, law, music, dramatic art, visual art, creative writing, publishing, media, education, activism & reform, the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences & mathematics, engineering, medicine, military, exploration, espionage, sports, and modeling (Encyclopedia of...
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NOSTALGIA, Time Warp
vaclav-havel-tres-bohemes
October 6, 2016

Czechs Remember Vaclav Havel with Heart-Shaped Monument

A small square by the National Theater in Prague, Czech Republic was renamed yesterday after the late president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel. Havel was a Czech playwright, politician, and essayist. He was also the last president of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993-2003). Yesterday, on what would have been the late president’s 80th...
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PLACES, Prague
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