The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

The Czech premiere of the opera was presented by the National Theatre on 27 February 1898.

* Czech National Corpus

A flourishing center for arts and culture in Eastern Iowa, the city is home to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, the Paramount Theatre, Theatre Cedar Rapids, and the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance.

The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is one of the major tourist attractions in Cedar Rapids, and the nearby Bohemian National Cemetery may also be of interest to visitors.

The National Czech & Slovak Museum's main building was located directly on the river and was badly damaged by the 2008 floods.

As of late 2010, the Board of Directors of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is pursuing a plan to move and then elevate its flood-damaged museum building.

Reflecting its Czech Catholic heritage, Prague is also the home of the National Shrine of the Infant Jesus, which draws numerous visitors each year.

The annual National Polka Festival which features Czech cuisine, polka music, dancing, and a parade is held on Memorial Day weekend.

Smetana wrote a series of patriotic works, including two marches dedicated respectively to the Czech National Guard and the Students ' Legion of the University of Prague, and The Song of Freedom to words by Ján Kollár.

On 16 May 1868 Smetana, representing Czech musicians, helped to lay the foundation stone for the future National Theatre ; he had written a Festive Overture for the occasion.

The name " Czech Philharmonic Orchestra " appeared for the first time in 1894, as the title of the orchestra of the Prague National Theatre.

The Czech countryside offers protected areas such as Bohemian Paradise ( Český ráj ), Bohemian Karst ( Český kras ) and Šumava National Park.

During the 19th century Czech National Revival, Czechs idealised Comenius as a symbol of the Czech nation.

* Czech Republic: National Gallery in Prague ( Národní galerie v Praze )

In the same month, all Czech or Slovak political parties in Slovakia ( except for the Communists ) voluntarily joined forces and set up the " Party of Slovak National Unity ", which created the basis for the future authoritarian regime in Slovakia.

After Future Systems won the Stirling Prize, the firm received larger commissions including the Maserati Museum in Modena, Italy ( 2009 ) and the unbuilt new Czech National Library.

2007 Won the commission for the controversial Czech National Library.

2008 Czech National Library project cancelled by Prague authorities.

Not until May 1938 did he begin " consistently to withhold his support from the National Government's conduct of foreign policy in the division lobbies of the House of Commons ", and he seems " to have been convinced by the Sudeten German leader, Henlein, in the spring of 1938, that a satisfactory settlement could be reached if Britain managed to persuade the Czech government to make concessions to the German minority.

Category: National symbols of the Czech Republic

The Bavarian Forest National Park () is a national park in the Eastern Bavarian Forest immediately on Germany's border with the Czech Republic.

Rear of a Škoda Popular Special on display at the Sportauto Museum, Lány ( Kladno District ) | Lány, Kladno District, Czech Republic

# The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic 1999

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Caldwell is the home of the Czech Heritage Museum, which is open to the public on Saturdays from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.

In 1936 the museum moved to the former Waterworks building on the banks of the Vltava, and since 1976 has been part of the Czech Museum of Music.

Whenever possible, the Quays prefer to work with pre-recorded music, though Gary Tarn's score for The Phantom Museum had to be added afterwards when it proved impossible to licence music by the Czech composer Zdeněk Liška.

* 1992 / 94 Retrospective, Neue Galerie Linz, Austria ; America House, Frankfurt, Germany ; Hardenberg Gallery, Velbert, Germany ; Galerie Fotogramma, Milano, Italy ; Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK ; Smith Gallery and Museum, Stirling, UK ; America House, Berlin, Germany ; Hradcin Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

Several museums dedicate a part of their permanent exhibition to that memory, like the Museum of Romani Culture in Czech Republic and the Ethnographic Museum in Tarnów.

It is the location of several economic and cultural institutions serving the entire region, including the Silesian Land's Museum, the oldest Museum in Czech Republic, and the Silesian Institute of the Academy of Science.

Under the influence of the Enlightenment and romanticism, the Czech national revival led to the establishment of the National Museum in 1818 and the National Theatre in 1881.

The Czech revival acquired an institutional foundation with the establishment of the Museum of the Bohemian Kingdom ( 1818 ) as a center for Czech scholarship.

* Sex Machines Museum, a sex museum in Prague, Czech Republic

The Slovak National Museum opened an exhibition in May 2007 to commemorate the heroes of the Czech and Slovak resistance, presenting one of the most important resistance actions in the whole of German-occupied Europe.

In 1990 he became director of the Military Museum for Aviation and Astronautics in Prague, since 1995 he worked as a sales representative for the company ČZ in Moscow, since 2002 he served at the Czech embassy in Russia.

* " Emil Orlik ( 1870 – 1932 )-Portraits of Friends and Contemporaries " Jewish Museum, Prague, Czech Republic includes

It took its name from the city of Pilsen ( Plzeň in Czech ), Bohemia, now Czech Republic, where it was first produced in 1842.

* 1265 – The brewing of Budweiser Budvar beer begins in Bohemia ( now part of the Czech Republic ); Budweiser Budvar has been produced continuously there to this day.

* The brewing of Budweiser Budvar beer begins in Bohemia ( now part of the Czech Republic ); Budweiser Budvar has been produced continuously there to this day.

It is produced in Croatia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

Presently sold in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the candies are produced in the United States, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Brazil, by Nestlé.

The style was influenced strongly by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, when Mucha produced a lithographed poster, which appeared on 1 January 1895 in the streets of Paris as an advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou, featuring Sarah Bernhardt.

Apart from Dessauer Werke, Zyklon B was also produced from 1935 by Kaliwerke AG in the Czech town of Kolín and in France.

Although these electric-assist pedicabs were engineered in Germany they are manufactured in the Czech Republic and some clones are now also produced in China.

Okeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities.

Using apostrophe in place of a caron looks very unprofessional though it can be found on goods produced in foreign countries and imported to Slovakia or the Czech Republic ( compare t ’ to ť, L ’ ahko to Ľahko ).

This approach was picked up by other brewers, most notably Josef Groll of Bavaria who produced Pilsner Urquell in the city of Pilsen, now in the Czech Republic.

A Czech mini-series was produced in 1999, with Jan Stastny in the titular role and Tereza Brodská as " Leora Tozerova ".

A confectionery similar to the hard variety of the Spanish turrón and Italian torrone is produced in various Central European countries Czech Republic under names that literally translate to " Turkish honey ".

Since 1969, economic plans for the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic have been produced by their own planning commissions, although the central plan remained the most important.

Chiefly, it specifically delineates what officers or laws of the former Czech government as a constituent part of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic remained in force until the Czech Republic produced new officeholders or laws under the provisions found elsewhere in the constitution.

* Nil ( cigarette ), a brand of cigarette which is sold in Austria, Czech Republic and Germany produced by the Gallaher Group, a subsidiary of Japan Tobacco

Special " spa wafers " ( Czech: lázeňské oplatky, Slovak: kúpeľné oplátky ) are produced in the spa towns of the Czech Republic ( e. g. Karlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně, etc.

* In 1999, Czech director Saša Gedeon produced a modern cinematic reinterpretation of The Idiot entitled The Return of the Idiot ( Návrat idiota ).

Automatic knives have been produced in the following countries: Argentina, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan and U. S. A ..

Modernized version was adopted in 1938 as 37 mm pansarvärnskanon m / 38 ( anti-tank gun model 1938 ) and 37 mm pansarvärnskanon m / 38 F. The latter was also produced in a tank gun variant-37 mm Kanon m / 38 stridsvagn ; it was fitted to Landsverk Strv m / 38, Strv m / 39, Strv m / 40 light tanks and to the Strv m / 41, a Swedish version of the Czech TNH light tank.

rereleased Romantic Robot ( RR1991 ) 2 CD-set: Terezín: The Music 1941-44 by FISYO ( Filmový symfonický orchestr ) Prague conducted by Mario Klemens and Bambini di Praga led by Bohumil Kulínský ; this was the first available recording in Czech from a two-CD set produced by Alexander Goldscheider and released in 1991, which further contains Krása's string trio Tanec together with music from other leading Terezín composers, namely Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein