* The fastest marathon while ball-juggling was completed by Danial Jazaeri in the Prague City Marathon, July 8, 1990.

* Prague International Marathon

The Prague Marathon event takes place over a full weekend and comprises several events, including the Volkswagen Prague Marathon, the Volkswagen Family Minimarathon 4. 2 km, the Allianz Eco Walk 2 km, and the In-line party 6. 5 km-a skating event.

The Hervis Prague Half Marathon, which is also awarded IAAF Gold Label status, is held each March or April.

Taking on refreshment during the 2010 Prague Marathon

* Prague New Music Marathon ’ 96 ,’ 98, 2000

The Prague Post added sponsorship of the Prague International Marathon in the summer of 1996, and published a 12-page, four-color tabloid Holiday Shopping Guide for the month of December.

Bag of Prague powder # 1, also known as " curing salt " or " pink salt.

The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th century chief rabbi of Prague, also known as the Maharal, who reportedly created a golem to defend the Prague ghetto from antisemitic attacks and pogroms.

Thousands of East Germans also tried to reach the West by staging sit-ins at West German diplomatic facilities in other East European capitals, most notably in Prague.

The views of the moderate Hussites were widely represented at the university and among the citizens of Prague ; they were therefore called the Prague Party, but also Calixtines ( Latin calix chalice ) or Utraquists ( Latin utraque both ), because they emphasized the second article of Prague, and the chalice became their emblem.

She financed a scholarship for twenty Lithuanians to study at Charles University in Prague to help strengthen Christianity in their country, to which purpose she also founded a bishopric in Vilnius.

He went on to study law at Prague University ; during that time he also became involved in theatre ( as an actor he first appeared in Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek's play Czech and German in July 1832 in Benešov ), where he met Eleonora Šomková, with whom he had a son out of wedlock.

Heda Margolius Kovály also ends her memoir Under a Cruel Star with a first hand account of the Prague Spring and the subsequent invasion, and her reflections upon these events.

In film there has been an adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and also the movie Pelíšky from director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský, which depicts the events of the Prague Spring and ends with the invasion by the Soviet Union and their allies.

Clement also excommunicated King Casimir III of Poland and made Prague an archbishopric in 1344.

The Germans in Czechoslovakia, known as Sudeten Germans but also Carpathian Germans, were expelled according to the Beneš decrees — from the Sudetenland region, where they formed a majority, from linguistic enclaves in central Bohemia and Moravia, as well as from the city of Prague.

The collection remaining at Prague was looted during the last year of the Thirty Years War, by Swedish troops who sacked Prague Castle on 26 July 1648, also taking the best of the paintings, many of which later passed to the Orléans Collection after the death of Christina of Sweden.

Rudolf is also the ruler in many of the legends of the Golem of Prague, either because of or simply adding to his occult reputation.

His mother, Sophie (" Phia ") Entz ( 1851 – 1931 ), came from a well-to-do Prague family, the Entz-Kinzelbergers, who lived in a house on the Herrengasse ( Panská ) 8, where René also spent many of his early years.

Freak Show was also a stage performance by a theater company at the Archa Theater in Prague that premiered on November 1, 1995, and a comic book.

Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Troubetzkoy ( also Trubetskoy ; Russian: ; Moscow, April 16, 1890 – Vienna, June 25, 1938 ) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics.

After directing the drama Fast Workers ( 1933 ) starring John Gilbert, who was also not in good standing with the studio, he was allowed to direct a remake of London After Midnight, originally titled Vampires of Prague but later retitled Mark of the Vampire ( 1935 ).

Vratislaus is credited with the establishment of St. George's Basilica at Prague Castle and also with the foundation of the Silesian city of Wrocław ( Vratislavia ).

He also founded a rotunda consecrated to St Vitus at Prague Castle in Prague, which exists as present-day St Vitus Cathedral.

* The Prague Astronomical Clock ( also known as Prague Orloj ) was built by Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

Prague ham ( Prosciutto di Praga ), although originating in Prague in the early 1900s, is one of the most well known Italian cooked hams, and the province of Trieste ( which was part of Austria-Hungary until 1918, just like Prague ) is the center of its production ..

In 1888, Austrian botanical physiologist Friedrich Reinitzer, working at the Charles University in Prague, examined the physico-chemical properties of various derivatives of cholesterol which now belong to the class of materials known as cholesteric liquid crystals.

In May 1618 with the event known as the Defenestration of Prague, the Protestant Bohemians, in defence of the rights granted them in the Letter of Majesty, began the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ).

The period following Novotný's downfall became known as the Prague Spring.

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A painter and goldsmith, of his three paintings known to survive, one was for centuries erroneously attributed to Tintoretto ; and from his own, personal workshop came the main part of the famous silver coffin of St. Adalbert of Prague at the Cathedral in Gniezno.

* The Dancing House in Prague ( Czech: Tancici dum ), sometimes known as Ginger and Fred, was designed by American architect Frank Geary and inspired by the dancing of Astaire and Rogers.

Though a son of the rationalistic era which produced two of its most intense partisans, Peter Beer and Herz Homberg in his native city, Frankel developed, partly through opposition to shallow rationalism and partly through the romantic environments of the ancient city of Prague, that love and sympathy for the past that made him the typical expounder of the historical school which was known as the " Breslau school.

Bag of Prague powder # 1, also known as " curing salt " or " pink salt.

Although he had received the training of an engineer, his first appointment was that of tutor to the duc de Bordeaux ( afterwards known as the comte de Chambord ), grandson of Charles X, and when the king abdicated in 1830, Barrande accompanied the royal exiles to England and Scotland, and afterwards to Prague.

The core of his synthesis of different schools of Jewish thought was rooted in his deep studies of the teachings of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( 1525 – 1609 ) a scholar and mystic known as the Maharal of Prague.

This is how Elizabeth came to be known as the " Winter Queen " ( zimní královna in Czech ), even though she and her husband held court in Prague and controlled the government of Bohemia for months after the end of the winter of 1619-1620.

This event – known as the Second Defenestration of Prague – marked the beginning of the Bohemian Revolt, and with it, the beginning of the Thirty Years ' War.

Loewe, Löwe, or Levai, ( c. 1520 – 17 September 1609 ) widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague, or simply The MaHaRaL, the Hebrew acronym of " Moreinu ha-Rav Loew ," (" Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew ") was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia.