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Esperanto Museum Of Svitavy
Esperanto Museum in Svitavy is a museum in Svitavy in the Czech Republic. It presents the history and current activity of the Esperanto movement. It was inaugurated in September 2008. Museum building The museum is located in the Ottendorfer House, which was built in 1892 by an American patron and local native Oswald Ottendorfer. The architect Germano Wanderley designed the house, while the town's mayor Friedrich Sander entrusted the construction of the building to Johann Bier. The house is also known as "The Red Library", because its walls have a red brick color. Original purpose of the house The house also hosts a public library with 7,400 German books, which later expanded into a collection of 22,000 volumes. At the time, the town was mostly inhabited by German speakers. From time to time, concerts, plays and lectures take place in the forum on the upper floor. The book collection is considered to be superb, since Ottendorfer wanted to make good quality literature acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange which allocates products to everyone in the society.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." Communist society also involves the absence of private property, social classes, money, and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance, but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a more libertarian approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and a more vanguardist or communist party-driven approach through the development of a constitutional socialist state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Museums In The Czech Republic
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
