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Vladimír Mišík
Vladimír Mišík (born 8 March 1947) is a Czech musician and politician. He is the founder or co-founder of the bands The Matadors, Matadors, Blue Effect, and Etc (band), Etc.... Career Music Mišík founded his first band, Uragán, as a teenager. Later, he became the lead singer of Komety, where he met Radim Hladík, with whom he also played in Fontána (later known as The Matadors (band), The Matadors). He also sang in Karel Duba's band. In 1968, Mišík and Hladík co-founded the band Blue Effect. In 1970, Mišík left Blue Effect and became a member of Flamengo (Czech band), Flamengo, with whom he recorded ''Kuře v hodinkách'', the only studio album the band released. The record, published in 1972, was banned by the History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989), Communist regime under Normalization (Czechoslovakia), Normalization and the group broke up the same year. During this period, Mišík also briefly sang with Energit (band), Energit. In 1974, he founded his own band, c ...
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Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the ...
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ...
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Red Cross
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a Humanitarianism, humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million Volunteering, volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. Within it there are three distinct organisations that are legally independent from each other, but are united within the movement through common basic principles, objectives, symbols, statutes and governing organisations. History Foundation Until the middle of the nineteenth century, there were no organized or well-established army nursing systems for casualties, nor safe or protected institutions, to accommodate and treat those who were wounded on the battlefield. A devout Calvinism, Calvinist, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant traveled to Italy to meet then-French emperor Napoleon III in June 1859 with the intention of discussing difficulties in conducting ...
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Miloš Zeman
Miloš Zeman (; born 28 September 1944) is a Czech politician serving as the third and current President of the Czech Republic since 2013. He previously served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party during the 1990s, he is credited with the revival of the party into one of the country's major political forces. Zeman briefly served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 1998. Born in Kolín to a modest family, Zeman joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1968, but was expelled two years later due to his opposition to the Warsaw Pact invasion. Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he joined the Czech Social Democratic Party, which he led into the successful 1996 election. Zeman became Prime Minister following the 1998 legislative election after striking a controversial pact with his long-time rival Václav Klaus. The pact became known as the Opposition agreement and was heavil ...
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Civic Forum
The Civic Forum (Czech: ''Občanské fórum'', OF) was a political movement in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, established during the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The corresponding movement in Slovakia was called Public Against Violence ( Slovak: ''Verejnosť proti násiliu'' - VPN). The Civic Forum's purpose was to unify the dissident forces in Czechoslovakia and to overthrow the Communist regime. In this, they succeeded when the Communists gave up power in November 1989 after only 10 days of protests. Playwright Václav Havel, its leader and founder, was elected president on December 29, 1989. Although the Forum did not have a clear political strategy beyond the June 1990 elections, it campaigned successfully in March and April 1990 during the first free elections in Czechoslovakia since 1946. Those elections garnered Civic Forum 36 percent of the vote, the highest that a Czechoslovakian party ever obtained in a free election. This netted it 68 seats in the Chamber of Deputie ...
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Czech National Council
The Czech National Council ( cs, Česká národní rada, ČNR) was the legislative body of the Czech Republic since 1968 when the Czech Republic was created as a member state of Czech-Slovak federation. It was legally transformed into the Chamber of Deputies according to the Constitution (Act. No. 1/1993 Coll.) because of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992. Chairmen of the Czech National Council # Čestmír Císař 1968-1969 # Evžen Erban 1969-1981 # Josef Kempný 1981-1989 # Jaroslav Šafařík 1989-1990 # Dagmar Burešová 1990-1992 # Milan Uhde 1992-1992 See also * Slovak National Council * Federal Assembly (Czechoslovakia) The Federal Assembly (, ) was the federal parliament of Czechoslovakia from January 1, 1969 to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on December 31, 1992. It was Czechoslovakia's highest legislative institution. Chapter 3 of the 1960 Constitution of ... 1968 establishments in Czechoslovakia 1992 disestablishments i ...
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Anděl Awards
The Anděl Awards ( cs, cena Anděl) is a Czech music award ceremony organized by the Czech Academy of Popular Music. It is a successor to the Annual Czechoslovak Music Award (Czech: ''Výroční československé hudební ceny'') established in 1991 in Czechoslovakia. Between 1992 and 1995, it was known as Gramy, with award categories matching the American Grammy Awards and the prize being represented by a ceramic gramophone A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ... statuette. Since 1997, it bears the current name, with the prize including a statuette of an angel with open wings playing a horn, designed by sculptor Jaroslav Róna. Name history * 1991: Annual Czechoslovak Music Award (Czech: ''Výroční československé hudební ceny'') * 1992–1995: Gramy * 1996: Cz ...
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Independent Music Companies Association
The Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA), originally the Independent Music Publishers and Labels Association, is a non-profit trade association established in 2000 to help European independent record labels represent their agenda and promote independent music. Its offices are in Brussels, Belgium. IMPALA is a member of the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN), a coalition of independent music bodies from countries throughout the world. History IMPALA was founded in 2000 by national trade associations and key independent labels, as a non-profit organisation dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises in the music industry. In 2008 an ''Action Plan for Music'' was launched and in 2010 an ''Action Plan for Finance'' was published. In January 2015, IMPALA launched its ''Digital Action Plan'', a ten-point plan calling for a new European industrial policy to drive the digital market through the cultural and creative sectors. The action plan calls on the EU to reinf ...
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Jitka Němcová
Jitka is a Czech female given name. It is nickname of Hebrew name Judith, meaning ''He will be praised'' or ''woman of Judea''. The old Czech form is Jutka, derived the German name Jutta. Name day celebrate 5 December. Pronounced "YIT-kah". Famous bearers * Jitka ze Svinibrodu - Czech princess * Jitka Babická - Czech figure skater * Jitka Čechová - Czech actress * Judita Čeřovská - Czech jazz and swing singer * Jitka Čvančarová - Czech actress * Jitka Harazimova - Czech professional bodybuilder * Jitka Janáčková (born 1973, Mladá Boleslav), a Czech-Czechoslovak sprint canoer * Jitka Kocurová - Czech model * Jitka Landová - Czech Biathlete * Jitka Legatová, a Czechoslovak slalom canoer * Jitka Licenik - Czech-Canadian journalist * Jitka Molavcová - Czech actress and singer * Jitka Němcová - Czech director * Jitka Obzinová - Czech journalist * Jitka Seitlová - Czech politician * Jitka Schneiderová - Czech actress * Jitka Bartosová - Czech lingu ...
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Vladimír Mišík
Vladimír Mišík (born 8 March 1947) is a Czech musician and politician. He is the founder or co-founder of the bands The Matadors, Matadors, Blue Effect, and Etc (band), Etc.... Career Music Mišík founded his first band, Uragán, as a teenager. Later, he became the lead singer of Komety, where he met Radim Hladík, with whom he also played in Fontána (later known as The Matadors (band), The Matadors). He also sang in Karel Duba's band. In 1968, Mišík and Hladík co-founded the band Blue Effect. In 1970, Mišík left Blue Effect and became a member of Flamengo (Czech band), Flamengo, with whom he recorded ''Kuře v hodinkách'', the only studio album the band released. The record, published in 1972, was banned by the History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989), Communist regime under Normalization (Czechoslovakia), Normalization and the group broke up the same year. During this period, Mišík also briefly sang with Energit (band), Energit. In 1974, he founded his own band, c ...
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