Czechmatediary

In 2006 the Miss Universe became a smart and beautiful Czech girl Tatiana Kucharova who is also considered the most successful Czech in the history of international beauty competitions. This year’s winner became dark-haired, green-eyed Dyana Mendoza from Venezuela who along with a bunch of money, luxurious jewelery and a flat in New York also won a 2-year scholarship in a prestigious film school in New York. Our girl, the Czech Miss 2008 Eliska Buckova from Hodonin did place into an honorary 15th place and that was out of 80 girls! (more…)

Couple of days ago Washington and Prague signed the treaty to place a tracking radar in the Czech Republic as part of a system that the US (and other countries) needs as a protection against any missile attack from possible hostile countries in the Middle East. And who ends up screaming “bloody murder” about this? Russia! Medvedev, the current president of Russia, told the news: “we are extremely upset about this situation…we will not be hysterical but we will think of retaliatory steps“. (more…)

The 43th Annual Film Festival in Karlovy Vary just started (where did that year go??). The Festival will show over 220 films and 60 premiers - all in 8 days (!!). And what celebrity is granting its presence to this year’s celebration? Last year we had Dany de Vito and Renee Zellweger and this year it is Robert De Niro himself! This will be his second visit to Karlovy Vary as he visited this town 18 years ago. (more…)

Where are you planning to travel this summer? Are you going to lay out on the beach somewhere in the Pacific or would you rather do some sightseeing and wonder around the streets of some ancient city like Rome? Why not do both? Prague not only has the medieval architecture but now it also has the beaches. The river that cuts through the center of Prague,Vltava, is opening up a new beach right by the Charles Bridge! (more…)

A new vaccine for a potential avian flu pandemic has been recently developed in a Czech town Bohumile. The US-owned production company is called Baxter International and their new “mirracle child” vaccine, Celvapan, has been more promising than any other such vaccines. Why? Because the researchers decided to use monkey cells instead of the traditional use of hen’s eggs. (more…)

What Czech actor (dead or alive) has made the biggest impression on the Czech audience? The results are not surprising (at least for me):

CZ: Kdo je nejoblibenejsim hercem/hereckou vsech dob? Vysledky nejsou zdaleka prekvapujici…

• 1st place
  • Female: Libuse Safrankova (Three Wishes for Cinderella)
  • Male : Vladimir Mensik (more…)
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5 brave guys from Brno (Czech Republic) will be soon immortalized in the Guinness book of world records. They all scuba-dive for living and one day they decided to take it up a notch and stay underwater for 1 hour with just ONE oxygen bomb. What does’ that mean? That means that each one of them could take only one breath from the oxygen tank per minute. Can you imagine to take only 60 breaths in one hour? (more…)

You may not know it but during communism the sport of the “rich and famous” was tennis. Now, almost 20 years later the situation has changed; tennis is still kind of popular but it got definitely overpowered by a new sport giant - GOLF. Over half of the golf courses in the formal Eastern European block are located in the Czech Republic! The Czechs can currently pick from over 80 golf courses spread out all over the country. If you are a golf fan and would like to read up more on this “issue”, click here.

CZ: Za komunismu to byl tenis. Jaky sport ovlada Ceskou Repubiku dnes? Budete se divit (tedy alespon ja nad tim kroutim hlavou), ale je to GOLF. V roce 1991 mel tento stat poze 5 golfovych hrist; dnes jich je tam pres vice nez 80. Vice o tomto tematu si muzete precist zde.

Do you like to visit Prague? And do you like to chew gum? Then you may be in trouble. Starting this July spitting out an old chewing gum or flicking off your cigarette butt may cost you 1,000 Czech crowns (which with today’s exchange rate means pretty much $1,000). And if you try to make it difficult for the police - like putting that gum back to your mouth claiming that it had accidentally just fallen out - then you may be charged up to 30,000 crowns!! What else is included (or rather excluded) under the new Clean Law? (more…)

While America is kind of over the whole shopping mall scene (it was big hit of the 80’s) the Czech Republic is just getting started. There are currently about 60 shopping mall centers spread all over the CR while 50 other ones are on the verge of being built. More about the shopping mall boom and why do they grow like mushrooms after the rain (is that an American expression as well or am I making a fool out of myself here?) click here.

CR: Zatimco hit obrovskych nakupnich stredisek se stal v Americe jiz jaksi pase (byla to obrovska hitovka 80-tych let), v Cechach ted rostou jako houby po desti. V soucasne dobe je jich tam pres 50 a 60 dalsich nakupnich stredisek jen ceka na vystavbu. Proc tak nahly vzestup? Odpovedi na toto tema se dozvite zde.

Source: http://www.radio.cz/en/article/104814