...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 Liebotschaner Beer, produced by some United Statesbreweries, was originally brewed in and named after the Czech village of Libočany(pictured)? -- 27 June 2009
... 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 Czech poetAntonín 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