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spookiest places in the world. Only ten years ago though, archaeologists
working under the streets of Brno discovered a crypt that would earn a new
claim to fame; the largest collection of human bones in the country and the
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Current AffairsCzechs mark 150th anniversary of composer Gustav Mahler’s birth
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born on July 7, 1860, in a small village near the eastern town of Jihlava
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Czech kids for pet rats! Wondering what the underworld looks like? The town
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Czechs travel far from their homeland to lay a sun-dial on the bed of the
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