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central Prague. The collection, which belongs to the Czech-born tennis
legend Ivan Lendl, is the largest in the world and is being shown publicly
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structure divided public opinion when it won an international competition
in 2007 and the project was finally scuppered. Now, more than four years
after the original plan was put forward, Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda has
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thing in the labyrinth – you are surrounded by around a millennium of
history and millions of volumes of books inside one of the most beautifully
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Current AffairsWork of the first Bohemian printers on display in National Library
The National Library is currently holding a special exhibit of the work of
the first printing press in Bohemia. The seven original works made by
anonymous printers in Plzeň in the late 15th century have been out of the
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for more than a hundred years has been at the centre of debate over when
Czechs first began printing.
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