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Current AffairsPanoramic photo taken from Žižkov TV tower sets new record
A photograph taken from Prague’s landmark Žižkov TV tower has set a
new record for the largest known spherical panoramic photograph in the
world. The picture offers a rare 360 degree view over the city and
measures
18 Gigapixels, obliterating a record from 2007 - a shot taken in Harlem
that
measured 13 Gigapixels. The photographer of the record shot, Jeffrey
Martin,
at an interview at Žižkov TV tower talked about how this idea was first
born. More
MailboxMailbox
In today’s Mailbox: response to last week’s Spotlight on Prague’s
bomb shelters, the latest development regarding Radio Prague’s shortwave
broadcasts, greetings to William Cookson from the UK. Listeners quoted:
Rich Burns, Pete Johnson, Ralph Francis, Lenfant Lee, Yukiko Maki, Terje
Nielsen, Graham Armishaw.
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MagazineMagazine
The Žižkov TV tower in Prague is rated the second ugliest construction in
the world! Why do ČSA planes have two different logos? And, a bishop gets
booed as he blesses a “stolen” statue. Find out more in Magazine with
Daniela Lazarová.
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SpotlightZizkov TV tower
Rising like a futuristic space ship above the old working class quarter of
Zizkov, is one of Prague's most interesting, if controversial, buildings -
Zizkov TV tower. The TV tower is, at 216 metres, the tallest building in
the city, and they say on a clear day it can be seen from a full 100
kilometres away. Often regarded as a relic of the communist era, Zizkov TV
tower wasn't actually completed until ten years ago, in 1992.
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