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This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on May 2, 2005 (18 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 1 day ago).

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Jan Losenický[edit]

Born in Louny, Czech Republic (1974), studied in Plzeň, living in Kadaň, interested in history, poetry, theatre and Jára Cimrman.

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Did you know that...

...that František Kriegel was the only political exponent of Czechoslovakia deported to Moscow in 1968 who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol dictated by Brezhnev? -- 14 April 2008
...that Josef Smrkovský boasted he had kept American units away from Prague in 1945, allowing the liberation of the city by the Red Army, and then in 1968 he and Dubček became the most popular politicians of the Prague Spring? -- 27 April 2008
... that Vratislav Brabenec (pictured), a member of the Plastic People of the Universe, studied theology and was in a Czechoslovak prison for eight months because of his music? -- 7 June 2008
... that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký? -- 15 June 2008
... that Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic) where Nikolai Gogol was a guest twice? -- 20 June 2008
... that Franz Kafka started his Diaries 1914 with this entry: January 2. A lot of time well spent with Dr. Weiss? -- 27 June 2008

... that Miroslav Macháček spent four months in an insane asylum because he criticised the communist approach in the Prague National Theatre in 1975, two years before Charter 77? -- 7 July 2008
... that actor Jiří Sovák played the role of a man who had a prophetic dream about the Velvet Revolution in the 1996 Czech film Kolya? -- 8 July 2008
... that Mangalitsa (pictured) is a lard-type pig breed that was the most prominent swine breed in Hungary until 1950? -- 14 July 2008
... that Czech poet František Gellner disappeared in Galicia with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was never found? -- 9 September 2008

... that Herbert Kisza owns one of the largest private one-artist galleries in Central Europe in Kadaň, Czech Republic? -- 17 April 2009
... that Liebotschaner Beer, produced by some United States breweries, was originally brewed in and named after the Czech village of Libočany (pictured)? -- 27 June 2009
... that Josef Hora was one of the seven Czech Communist writers who denounced the new Stalinist leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald in 1929? -- 7 January 2010
... that the writings of Czech national poet Karel Hynek Mácha, born 200 years ago today, include the poem Máj, novel Cikáni, diary of Journey to Italy and the Diary of 1835 which deals with his relationship with his fiancée Lori? -- 16 November 2010

... that most of French kings of the Bourbon era took oath on the Reims Gospel, a medieval book written in Old Church Slavonic languages? -- 22 January 2011
... that Late Gothic architect Benedikt Rejt rebuilt parts of Prague Castle and built the vault for St. Barbara's Church in Kutná Hora? -- 23 July 2011
... that a 1926 voyage to Java inspired Czech poet Konstantin Biebl for the remainder of his life? -- 13 November 2011
... that Božena Němcová was the only author who got paid for her contribution to the Czech literary almanac Máj? -- 21 January 2012

... that Josef Jiří Kolár was the first to begin a systematic translation of Shakespeare's plays into Czech? -- 27 January 2012
... that the large Baroque pilgrimage church complex in Mariánská Týnice (pictured) served its religious purpose for only eight years? -- 28 February 2012
... that not long after it first appeared in 1631, the book Janua linguarum reserata (pictured) by Comenius was published in translation in twelve European languages plus several Asian languages? -- 23 April 2012
... that Miroslav Tyrš, the founder of Czech national sport movement Sokol, was born into a German family? -- 13 July 2012
... that in August 1924 Adolf Dobrovolný presented commentary of the first broadcast sports event in Europe on Czech Radio – a heavyweight boxing match? -- 23 January 2014
... that Czech poet Antonín Sova gained national fame for answering Theodor Mommsen's letter in verse, calling the German historian a "covetous dotard" and "arrogant spokesman of slavery"? -- 20 March 2014
... that Filip Fabricius was given an epithet of Hohenfall (literally "of high fall") after he had survived the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618? -- 16 April 2014

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