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It was exactly 120 years ago this week that Praguers got their first ride
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and state-of-the-art wagons have long been one of the country’s best
products. To mark the occasion and remind the city what its first trams
were like, the National Technical Museum has opened up its garage and sent
a fleet of historic trams back out into the traffic.
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Czech HistoryFrantišek Křižík - a Czech engineer, entrepreneur and inventor
In this edition of Czech History, we look at the life and times of the
electrical engineer František Křižík, whose Plzeň lamp took the gold
medal at the World Fair in Paris in 1881. Today, he is considered one of
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phase-out could increase domestic energy prices by up to 30 percent, Czech
airlines is to further cut its number of destinations along with its staff,
the Swiss commodity giant Glencore is set to buy up the Czech food and
chemicals conglomerate Setuza, more than half of all Czech households are
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first time - the brand new 15T ForCity tram, designed by Škoda
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arguably more refined than previous models, offering more room for
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improvements. It is, for example, the first 100 percent low-floor tram in
the Czech Republic) making it very user-friendly. More
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A traffic inspector makes off with a tram left unattended. The inhabitants
of Hradec Králove put up a fight to bring back the sound of church bells
at night, and Prague hosts the world’s geniuses. Find out more in
magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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