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The Czech Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek was in Sweden this week, and he made
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Persson, by asking to borrow the Devil's Bible, one of the artefacts that
was stolen by the Swedish army from the Czech lands during the Thirty
Years War in the mid 17th century.
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Current AffairsA visit to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto
There are few things as enjoyable as a good book, but what about a whole
library? The University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in
Toronto, has it all: a magical interior, an incredible 600,000 books, and
an unparalleled collection of Czechoslovak samizdat writing, illegal
publications banned under Czechoslovakia's communist regime. Jan Velinger
visited recently and was more than a little impressed.
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MailboxMailbox
This week's Mailbox is devoted to questions on the holidays of Jan Hus and
Cyril and Methodius. Listeners quoted: Sanjit Gao, Penny Roland, Cyril
Klusak, Nayomi Kenta.
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Czechs in HistoryJan Hus
And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, in which we take a look a look at the lives of famous people in the history of the Czech Lands. Today, Nick Carey examines the life of Jan Hus, and the controversy that surrounds him to this day...
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