A Polish mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe. Nicolaus Copernicus attributed the heliocentric theory to Aristarchus of Samos. The publication of Copernicus’ model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, just before his death in 1543. Toward the close of […]
Automobilwerk Eisenach was a small automotive maker from Eisenach, Germany. This company acquired the license to produce a German version
The castle, built in the 9th century. It is the official office of the President of the Czech Republic. The castle was a seat of power for kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman emperors, and presidents of Czechoslovakia. Prague Castle was most likely founded in around 880 by Prince Bořivoj of the Premyslid Dynasty. It consists of a […]
A sculpture from the 1990s by Marie Uchytilová, overlooks the site of the old village of Lidice. The monument comprises 82 bronze statues of children (42 girls and 40 boys) aged 1 to 16, to honor the children who were murdered at Chełmno in the summer of 1942. On 10 June 1942 the Nazis killed all 173 […]
The castle’s site, like today’s city, has been inhabited for thousands of years, because it is strategically located in the center of Europe at an important ford used to cross the Danube river, and at an important crossing of central European ancient trade routes running from the Balkans or the Adriatic Sea to the Rhine river or […]
The Castle, is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honor of Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds. The castle was intended as a home for the king, […]
Dates to the Renaissance and is one of the most recognizable icons. It is the central feature of the main market square in the Krakow Old Town. It was once a major center of international trade. Traveling merchants met there to discuss business and to barter. On the upper floor of the hall is the Sukiennice Museum […]
The Church was built in 1352 in what was then Bohemia. When the church burned out at the end of the 18th century, it was rebuilt in the neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic styles. Then in 1968 the roof collapsed during a funeral. The residents of Luková recognized this as a bad omen, a curse, and from then on […]
