The novelist Herbert Gold in Bohemia ( 1994 ) called it " Sarfatti's Cave ," after Plato's cave:

Two of the largest festivals in Cottage Grove are Bohemia Mining Days and the Covered Bridge Festival.

At one time the second city of Bohemia, the city developed rapidly at the end of the 19th century and as a result has a spectacular collection of late 19th century buildings ; the town hall, the opera house, and the Severočeské Muzeum ( North Bohemian Museum ) are of significant note.

Other notable pieces include: a wooden model of the statue of St. John of Nepomuceni, according to which the bronze statue, that is presently on Charles Bridge, has been cast, statues of St. Joseph and Christening of the Lord on Charles Bridge ( both have been damaged during the revolution days in 1848 and today can be found in the lapidarium of the National Museum in Prague ) and many other plastics around Bohemia such as the sculpture in the church of St. Barbara in Manětín, plastics in and nearby the castles in Klášterec nad Ohří, Červený Hrádek, Libochovice, Broumov, etc.

The originals of certificates and documents ( such as deeds of ownership and commercial documents ) that the family had taken with them on their flight to Bohemia are stored in the National Museum ( Prague ).

* Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové, ( 1908 – 1912 )

Image: Hradec Králové-průčelí Muzea Východních Čech. jpg | Museum of Eastern Bohemia.

The 1946 film Dressed to Kill features several references to " A Scandal in Bohemia ," with Holmes and Watson discussing the recent publication of the story in The Strand Magazine, and the villain of the film using the same trick on Watson that Holmes uses on Irene Adler in the story.

Whereas the original arms of Guben features the coat of arms of Saxony, Bohemia and Prussia, Gubin dropped the Saxon shield and the Prussian eagle after it became part of Poland, and replaced the Bohemian double-tailed lion in the centre with the Polish eagle.

Different Rhythms Different People features vocal samples from " Art Blakey's Comment On Ritual " and " At The Cafe Bohemia, Vol.

In " A Scandal in Bohemia ", he is paid the staggering sum of one thousand pounds ( 300 in gold and 700 in notes ) as advance payment for " present expenses ".

Other mementos of Holmes's cases are a gold sovereign from Irene Adler (" A Scandal in Bohemia ") and an autographed letter of thanks from the French President and a Legion of Honour for tracking down an assassin named Huret (" The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ").

Lack of a legitimate heir, however, remained a concern for Władysław I and in 1085 he and his wife Judith of Bohemia sent rich gifts, among which was a life size statue of a child made of gold, to the Benedictine Sanctuary of Saint Giles in Saint-Gilles, Provance begging for offspring.

A gold " needle " from the Bohemia District in Douglas County

To raise money for the Bohemian forces, Frederick used his private funds, pawned his jewels and, in May 1620, drove the Electoral Palatinate into insolvency when he decided to move two tons of gold to Bohemia.

According to the Primary Chronicle ( its record for year 969 ), Svyatoslav explained to his courtiers that it was to Pereyaslavets, the centre of his lands, that " all the riches would flow: gold, silks, wine, and various fruits from Greece, silver and horses from Hungary and Bohemia, and from Rus ' furs, wax, honey, and slaves ".

Richard's outer robe is of cloth of gold and red vermilion, the fabric decorated with his personal device of the white harts and sprigs of rosemary, the emblem of his wife Anne of Bohemia, who died in 1394.

He travelled widely on collecting trips to the mining regions of Germany, Bohemia and Silesia, often accompanied by his Bohemian naturalist friend, Thaddaeus Hagecius.

Unlike the Lower Saxon, Eastphalian and Thuringian dialects of the surrounding region, this was an Ore Mountain dialect from Saxony and Bohemia, that went back to the settlement of mining folk from that area in the 16th century.

Jihlava is a centre of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava river ( German Igel ) on the ancient frontier between Moravia and Bohemia, and is the oldest mining town in the Czech Republic, ca.

In 1300 when King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia issued the new royal mining code Ius regale montanorum.

Ferdinand II took a fearful revenge upon the Protestant nobility in Bohemia and reconquered Royal Hungary ( Pozsony reconquered in May 1621, central part of the country with the mining towns in June 1621 ).

Sänger was born in the former mining town of Preßnitz ( Přísečnice ), Chomutov ( flooded by the Preßnitz dam in 1974 ) in Bohemia, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

During Wrocław's early history, its control changed hands between Bohemia ( until 992, then 1038 – 1054 ), the Kingdom of Poland ( 992 – 1038 and 1054 – 1202 ), and, after the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Poland, the Piast-ruled duchy of Silesia.

Throughout the history of the University, thousands of students from all over Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Hungary, Bohemia, Germany, and Spain have studied there.

Also seen as one of the most significant individuals in early Lithuanian history, he was responsible for both erecting the capital of Lithuania, and the establishment of a dynasty that can be traced to other European monarchies such as Poland, Hungary and Bohemia.

The Defenestrations of Prague were two incidents in the history of Bohemia ; there have been more, see below.

The history of producing quality sparkling wine in California can be traced to the Sonoma Valley where, in 1892, the Korbel brothers ( emigrated from Bohemia in 1852 ) began producing sparkling wine according to the méthode champenoise.

Marie's relation to Regensburg's Thurn and Taxis is rather distant, however ; she was married to Alexander Thurn and Taxis, a member of the family's branch that in the early 19th century settled in Bohemia ( now Czech Republic ) and became strongly connected to Czech national culture and history.

* Bohemia in history.

* Seacoast of Bohemia (" history of four infatuated adventurers, Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstaff Gribble, who rediscovered the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, and refurnished it ", 1929, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell )

Each poem depicts some aspect of the countryside, history, or legends of Bohemia.

In the image of the saint which gradually arose, the religious history of Bohemia is reflected.

This book, which comes down to the year 1526 and the extinction of Czech independence ( Palacký admitted that in writing about the national history since 1526, he " would have to lie "), was founded on laborious research in the local archives of Bohemia and in the libraries of the chief cities of Europe, and remains the standard authority.

As to historians, none have surpassed his history of Bohemia except when they have focused on a narrower time period.

Original exposition Baroque in Bohemia was replaced with interior exposition that shows the history of the Kinsky lineage and the history of Kinsky horse breeding.

* Petr Žitavský ( 1270 – 1339 ), abbot of the Zbraslav cloister, politician and author of the Zbraslav Chronica, history of Bohemia in 13th and early 14th century.

( In the history of Bohemia, the ploughman is an important symbol of Bohemian kings — Přemysl, the legendary founder of the Přemyslid dynasty, was originally a ploughman.

Marduk have recorded further songs relating to those chapters of human history, such as " The Hangman of Prague " ( moniker of Reinhard Heydrich-second in command of the SS-in his capacity as the de facto Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia ), " Night of the Long Knives ", " Deathmarch " and others.

The history of beer in the modern Czech Republic, historically Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, goes back further than the creation of Pilsner Urquell in 1842.

Much of the early brewing history of Bohemia is centred around various monasteries, although today there are very few Czech monasteries brewing and selling beer to the public.

In 1885 he was called to the newly established German University of Prague, Bohemia, as ordinary professor of the history and theory of music, and in 1898, in the same capacity, to the University of Vienna, where he succeeded Eduard Hanslick.

The word dollar is derived from Low Saxon cognate of the High German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler – ( coin ) from Joachimsthal ( St. Joachim's Valley, now Jáchymov, Bohemia, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, now part of the Czech Republic ; for further history of the name, see dollar.

His most famous work was a history of painting in Bohemia.

The history of the institute goes well into past centuries and is connected to the beginning of chemistry education in Bohemia.

He studied in Prague and in Olomouc, and, after travelling extensively in search of historical material, became professor of history at the German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague and archivist for Bohemia in 1862.