JRR Tolkien in an archive photo. | Photo: Alamy / Profimedia.cz creator Tolkien, who lived from 1892 to 1973, had many predecessors: from the novels of William Morris, the first to be set in a completely fictional fantasy world, to the Conan stories from the pen of Robert E. Howard. However, none have been as … Read more
With the usual dose of expected films, but without the biggest stars, the jubilee 80th year of the Venice festival began this Wednesday evening. Due to the strike of Hollywood screenwriters and actors, significantly fewer famous faces walked the red carpet. The director Luca Guadagnino, the filmmakers Jane Campion and Alice Diop, as well as … Read more
It was called the Tyrannical Pyramid. A brutalist museum built in the late 1980s in the center of Albania’s capital in honor of communist dictator Enver Hoxha has now been transformed into a computer training center for young people. According to Reuters, the small Balkan country thus removed the last vestige of a repressive past. … Read more
Magazine Updated 33 minutes ago In recent months, TikTok and Instagram have been abuzz with videos of Americans answering basic geography questions and failing. Some of them are probably rigged, but that doesn’t change the fact that Americans’ knowledge of world geography tends to be weaker on average than that of Europeans or Asians. This … Read more
President Petr Pavel visited the Trutnoff Bojiště complex, where the Trutnoff music festival started on Thursday evening. Upon arrival, he was greeted by the founder of the festival, Martin Věchet, and František Starek, known as Čunas. Due to visiting the festival, Pavel adjusted his vacation schedule. It is the first time at the Trutnov parade. … Read more
Magazine 3 hours ago Someone in geography class was just quietly suffering while discussing the universe, waiting for the teacher to come back to earth. Many people, on the other hand, are still fascinated by trips to space, they devour the discoveries of astronomers, and they would most like to colonize Mars with Elon Musk. … Read more
Fifteen minutes before the start, the grassy area of the airport in Prague’s Letňany is wet with heavy rain. Where metal plates are not laid, muddy areas slowly expand. And there are more as the crowd rushes to the stage. The frequency of puddles is not surprising – the English band Depeche Mode will soon … Read more
Hundreds of people, including Minister of Culture Martin Baxa from ODS, attended the opening ceremony of the 93rd International Amateur Theater Festival in Jiráský Hronov this Saturday afternoon in the center of Hronov in Náchodsk. This was announced by its program director Jan Julínek. The event in the city of six thousand will last until … Read more
It took ten years to build, and the hard rock was advanced centimetres. Nevertheless, in 1593, the kilometer-long tunnel saw the opening of the sluice gates to feed the water from the Vltava river on the orders of Emperor Rudolph II. Royal branch in today’s Stromovka, Prague. Even after 430 years since its completion, it … Read more
He was released from custody after two months. When the Brazilian singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil composed the allegorical samba Aquele Abraço, he violently described all the sensations he saw in the streets of Rio de Janeiro after his return to freedom: the Portela dance school, the Banda de Ipanema carnival group, the girls from the favelas, … Read more