ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Spring Lake Park topped Fargo Davies 67-56 in the Granite City Classic boys basketball showcase on ...

Viking has acquired Our Man in Prague by Daniela Richterova, “the story of one of MI6’s greatest, and least known, triumphs behind the Iron Curtain”. Publishing director Daniel Crewe acquired UK and ...

The composer and conductor Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935) is a major figure in the history of The National Theatre Opera. He successfully linked up to the era of Karel Kovařovic, who in 1919 engaged him ...

People stand on an abandoned tank in a street while pedestrians walk by during the Czech Crisis, Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 29th 1968. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty ...

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The acronym of COP26, the UN’s latest climate change agreement, stands for “Conference of the Parties”. But attending a family wedding in Monaghan at the weekend, it struck me that the Child of Prague ...

The clocks have sprung forward and the temperatures are on the upswing, so why not head across the pond to experience one of the continent's best kept secrets: European springtime. In the spring each ...

Prague's Matejska pout, the oldest and largest fair in the Czech Republic, will take place for the 430th time in 2025. Originally held to mark the Feast of St. Matthias, for many it heralds the ...

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Any efforts to resist the regime were definitively crushed in August 1969. After the representatives of the Czechoslovak government returned from negotiations in Moscow at the end of August 1968, ...

Dozens of people are killed in a massive military clampdown in Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries, in August 1968. Several members of the liberal Czechoslovak leadership are arrested, ...

The weather in Prague is relatively pleasant during the spring season, which technically starts in March and ends in June. During spring, travelers may experience varying temperatures as summer ...