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Imrich Andrejčák
Imrich Andrejčák (12 July 1941 – 5 September 2018) was a Czechoslovak-born Slovak army general and politician. He was the last Minister of Defence of Czechoslovakia from 2 July 1992 until 31 December 1992, with the dissolution of the country. Andrejčák then became the first Defence Minister of an independent Slovakia from 16 March 1993 and 14 March 1994. Biography Andrejčák was born on 12 July 1941 in the Slovak village of Haniska, Košice-okolie District, Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Jan Žižka Military School in Bratislava from 1955 until 1958 and the Military School in Vyškov from 1958 to 1961. In 1961, he was commissioned as a Czechoslovak Army officer with the rank of Lieutenant. He served as a commander from 1961 to 1968. He then studied intelligence at the Military Academy in Brno in 1971. Andrejčák was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1960 until the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Towards the end of the Communist era, Andrejčák held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovakia
Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about , hosting a population exceeding 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice. The Slavs arrived in the territory of the present-day Slovakia in the 5th and 6th centuries. From the late 6th century, parts of modern Slovakia were incorporated into the Pannonian Avars, Avar Khaghanate. In the 7th century, the Slavs played a significant role in the creation of Samo's Empire. When the Avar Khaghanate dissolved in the 9th century, the Slavs established the Principality of Nitra before it was annexed by the Great Moravia, Principality of Moravia, which later became Great Moravia. When Great Moravia fell in the 10th century, the territory was integrated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bratislava
Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, some sources estimate daily number of people moving around the city based on mobile phone SIM cards is more than 570,000. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia at the foot of the Little Carpathians, occupying both banks of the Danube and the left bank of the Morava (river), River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital to border two sovereign states. The city's history has been influenced by people of many nations and religions, including Austrians, Bulgarians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarian people, Hungarians, Jews and Slovaks. It was the coronation site and legislative center and capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783; elev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Rastislav Stefanik Order
The Milan Rastislav Stefanik Order is an award given "to recognize eminent contributions to the defence and security of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic". It was bestowed by the President of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic. The award is named after Milan Rastislav Stefanik. List of recipients * President of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic - First Class Insignia of the Order * Colonel Josef Adam - Third Class, 1991 * Lieutenant General Jan Ambrus - Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Zdenek Bachurek - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Josef Balabán - Second Class, 1992 * Major Alfred Bartos - Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Vaclav Beran, M. Sc. - Fourth Class, 1992 * Army General Josef Bily - Second Class, 1992 * Colonel Frantisek Bogataj - Third Class, 1992 * Brigadier General Jozef Brunovsky - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Josef Buršík, Josef Bursik - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Vladimir Cupak - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Vojtech Danielovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flown At Half Staff
Flight or flying is the motion of an object through an atmosphere, or through the vacuum of space, without contacting any planetary surface. This can be achieved by generating aerodynamic lift associated with gliding or propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement. Many things can fly, from animal aviators such as birds, bats and insects, to natural gliders/parachuters such as patagial animals, anemochorous seeds and ballistospores, to human inventions like aircraft (airplanes, helicopters, airships, balloons, etc.) and rockets which may propel spacecraft and spaceplanes. The engineering aspects of flight are the purview of aerospace engineering which is subdivided into aeronautics, the study of vehicles that travel through the atmosphere, and astronautics, the study of vehicles that travel through space, and ballistics, the study of the flight of projectiles. Types of flight Buoyant flight Humans have managed to construct lighter-than-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
