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  • Josef Becher – the man behind Czech Republic’s iconic liqueur
    The creator of the Czech Republic’s most famous liqueur, Josef Vitus
    Becher, was born exactly 250 years ago in Karlovy Vary. It was he who
    invented the drink, which has come to be known as “Becherovka”, by
    adjusting a recipe he received from an English physician called Christian
    Frobrig. The liqueur has since become one of the most recognised Czech
    exports.
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  • National Museum searching for early Czech sound recordings in US
    Few people in the Czech Republic know that a significant chapter in the
    history of early Czech sound recordings was written by Czech immigrants in
    the United States. For several years now, Filip Šír from the National
    Museum in Prague has been searching for the lost recordings and the stories
    of the people behind them. Last year, he published his findings in a book
    called Bohemia on Records, written together with music collector Gabriel
    Goessel. But he says there is still much more waiting to be discovered.
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  • PM says AI is “major opportunity” for Czech industry
    The Czech Academy of Sciences hosted a two day SOLAIR conference focused on
    ethics in the field of artificial intelligence last week. Prime Minister
    Andrej Babiš took this opportunity to reiterate his belief that artificial
    intelligence is a major opportunity for the Czech industry and the
    government is hoping to secure the establishment of an EU Centre of
    Excellence for AI in the country.
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  • Peter Sis: In September 1989 I led fleeing East Germans through Malá Strana
    Peter Sis’s On Flying and Other Dreams is one of the exhibitions of the
    year in Prague. It places in a fresh context five books focused on freedom
    by the US-based author and illustrator, including The Wall – Growing up
    Behind the Iron Curtain, The Three Golden Keys and Robinson. The show was
    conceived by the team of Michaela Šilpochová, Leoš Válka, Ivana
    Brádková at venue DOX, and at the opening I asked Sis what he had made of
    their approach.
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  • My Brno – Martin Reiner
    Brno’s Martin Reiner is an award-winning poet and novelist. He also works
    closely with some of the Czech Republic’s other leading writers as head
    of the publishing house Druhé město (Second City). Our tour of “his
    Brno” begins in the tree-lined district where Reiner grew up, Černá
    Pole, around half an hour’s walk from the centre of the Moravian capital.
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  • Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk: An inspiration for our own time
    We start this series with one of the great European democrats of the 20th
    century, Czechoslovakia’s first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Born
    in 1850, he was already in his late sixties when he became president in
    November 1918. He took inspiration from the western democracies, in
    particular the United States and Britain, having spent time in both
    countries during his First World War exile. But he was also a passionate
    European.
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  • FAMU’s animated movie grabs student Oscar
    Daughter, a Czech short animated film by Daria Kashcheeva, has won the U.S.
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ student Oscar for best
    animated film from international schools. After Jan Svěrák and Marie
    Dvořáková, she is only the third FAMU student to win the award.
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