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Increased power of new stage V excavator key to heavy work with granite. A new Doosan DX350LC-7 Stage V compliant excavator has added increased power and fuel efficiency for working with heavy blocks of granite at the Ruprechtice quarry in the Czech Republic. The Ruprechtice quarry is one of several northern Bohemia quarries owned and operated by LIGRANIT a.s., using state-of-the-art equipment like the DX350LC-7 in tough conditions. The new DX350LC-7 excavator was supplied by GARNEA a.s., the Authorised Dealer for the Doosan range in the Czech Republic. The Ruprechtice quarry in Liberec dates back to 1910. Over the years, it has been owned by the famous stonemason, Josef Lange, and by the Liebig family. It subsequently became the property of the state until 1992, when it was acquired by private company, LIGRANIT. The quarry specializes in the extraction and sale of much sought after Czech granites, that architects both at home and abroad regularly specify in their desi ....
Nationalist dreams and nightmares Mike Macnair reviews Workers and nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918 by JS Beneš and The Fiume crisis: life in the wake of the Habsburg empire by DK Reill Both these books are about nationalism and the break-up of a larger multinational state regime. Reviewing Jakub Beneš’s book, published in 2017, is perhaps rather belated, but it provides fundamental background to that of Dominique Kirchner Reill: Beneš’s book is about the growth of nationalism in the late 19th-early 20th century workers’ movement in Austria-Hungary; Reill’s is a microcosm-study of the disastrous consequences of the implementation of nationalist programmes. ....
Traveling Around: The Most Beautiful Views of the Czech Republic Drábské světničky Are you eagerly waiting for the Covid-19 measures to be relaxed so that you can go beyond the borders of your district? Of course, we are not wasting any time and are already planning trips around the Czech Republic once the restrictions are lifted. Our focus will be on the most beautiful views of the Czech Republic, which will first start in the Central Bohemian Region. Thanks to these beauties being just a short driving distance from Prague, it is possible to visit them as part of a day trip. Next, we will explore together the so-called ‘Bohemian Switzerland’ National Park, the Jeseníky Mountains, eastern Bohemia or the Beskydy Mountains. ....
Long before the award-winning Hollywood screenwriter and director Billy Wilder spelled his first name with a y, in faithful adherence to the ways of his adopted homeland, he was known and widely published, in Berlin and Vienna as Billie Wilder. At birth, on June 22, 1906, in a small Galician town called Sucha, less than twenty miles northwest of Kraków, he was given the name Samuel in memory of his maternal grandfather. His mother, Eugenia, however, preferred the name Billie. She had already taken to calling her first son, Wilhelm, two years Billie’s senior, Willie. As a young girl, Eugenia had crossed the Atlantic and lived in New York City for several years with a jeweler uncle in his Madison Avenue apartment. At some point during that formative stay, she caught a performance of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West touring show, and her affection for the exotic name stuck, even without the ....
Story by Reuters • Published 17th March 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail We humans may be tiring of video calls, Zoom birthdays and streamed performances, but the chimps at two Czech zoos are just starting to enjoy their new live online linkup. To make up for the lack of interaction with visitors since the attractions closed in December under Covid-19 restrictions, the chimpanzees at Safari Park Dvur Kralove and the troop at a zoo in Brno, 93 miles away, can now watch one another s daily lives on giant screens. There are no mute-button disasters as the sound is off, but there has already been plenty of interest in what the distant cousins are up to since the project got underway last week. ....