Category: Social Media Posts

Cops find 38 cats – 16 dead, 22 starving and neglected – in Usti nad Labem flat rented by woman who worked with local cat-rescue organization; cops treating case as animal cruelty (Nova) *edited* [Social Media Post]

Animals / Crime / Local News / Social Media Posts / WTF

19 November, 2019

Cops find 38 cats – 16 dead, 22 starving and neglected – in Usti nad Labem flat rented by woman who worked with local cat-rescue organization; cops treating case as animal cruelty (Nova) edited [Social Media Post]

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Five-star Hard Rock Hotel Prague planned for former training ground next to Sparta’s Generali Arena (Letna) football stadium, Prague 7-Bubenec; 523-room hotel to include sky bar with Prague Castle views (Denik) [Social Media Post]

Architecture / Fotbal / Prague Tourism / Real Estate / Social Media Posts

19 November, 2019

Five-star Hard Rock Hotel Prague planned for former training ground next to Sparta’s Generali Arena (Letna) football stadium, Prague 7-Bubenec; 523-room hotel to include sky bar with Prague Castle views (Denik) [Social Media Post]

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Rozsochy in the Vysocina Region voted winner of 2019’s “Nejkrasnejsi nadrazi” award, honouring the Czech Republic’s most beautiful railway station; Celakovice, Central Bohemia, comes second; Slezke Rudoltice, Moravian-Silesian Region, is third (Seznam) [Social Media Post]

Czech Tourism / Czech Travel / Local News / Public Transport / Social Media Posts / Trains

18 November, 2019

Rozsochy in the Vysocina Region voted winner of 2019’s “Nejkrasnejsi nadrazi” award, honouring the Czech Republic’s most beautiful railway station; Celakovice, Central Bohemia, comes second; Slezke Rudoltice, Moravian-Silesian Region, is third (Seznam) [Social Media Post]

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Prague set to run out of vehicle registration numbers in two and a half years using current combination of numbers and letters; how problem will be solved remains unclear; around 1,224,000 vehicles currently registered in capital (iDNES) [Social Media Post]

Driving / Prague Politics / Social Media Posts

18 November, 2019

Prague set to run out of vehicle registration numbers in two and a half years using current combination of numbers and letters; how problem will be solved remains unclear; around 1,224,000 vehicles currently registered in capital (iDNES) [Social Media Post]

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Legendary people-smuggler Josef Hasil, who helped dozens escape Commie-era Czechoslovakia, dies aged 95 in Chicago; Hasil’s exploits inspired villain in 1959 film Kral Sumavy (“King of the Sumava”) but later earned 2001 heroism medal from President Havel (Blesk) [Social Media Post]

Commies / Film / History / Social Media Posts / Tragedies

16 November, 2019

Legendary people-smuggler Josef Hasil, who helped dozens escape Commie-era Czechoslovakia, dies aged 95 in Chicago; Hasil’s exploits inspired villain in 1959 film Kral Sumavy (“King of the Sumava”) but later earned 2001 heroism medal from President Havel (Blesk) [Social Media Post]

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Cops appeal for help identifying man who punched 10-year-old boy in the face in apparently unprovoked attack on Pobrezni street, Prague 8-Karlin; attack took place in early October (iDNES) *edited* [Social Media Post]

Children / Crime / Police / Social Media Posts / WTF

16 November, 2019

Cops appeal for help identifying man who punched 10-year-old boy in the face in apparently unprovoked attack on Pobrezni street, Prague 8-Karlin; attack took place in early October (iDNES) edited [Social Media Post]

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Live Video: Crowds gather at Letenska plan (Letna plain), Prague 7-Bubenec/Holesovice, for the latest mass protest against Prime Minister Andrej Babis (Nova) [Social Media Post]

Andrej Babis / Events / Politics / Social Media Posts

16 November, 2019

Live Video: Crowds gather at Letenska plan (Letna plain), Prague 7-Bubenec/Holesovice, for the latest mass protest against Prime Minister Andrej Babis (Nova) [Social Media Post]

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In first Czech case of its kind, Prague municipal court upholds prison sentences of 30 months and two years for Malaysian man and woman caught smuggling 70,000 critically endangered baby European eels out of Czech Republic; eels in those quantities would sell for millions of crowns on black market in Asia, where they’re considered a delicacy (Novinky) [Social Media Post]

Animals / Crime / Environment / Food / Foreigners / Law / Social Media Posts

15 November, 2019

In first Czech case of its kind, Prague municipal court upholds prison sentences of 30 months and two years for Malaysian man and woman caught smuggling 70,000 critically endangered baby European eels out of Czech Republic; eels in those quantities would sell for millions of crowns on black market in Asia, where they’re considered a delicacy (Novinky) [Social Media Post]

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Mystery surrounds two daguerreotype photographs found recently in Usti nad Labem municipal museum’s (Muzeum mesta Usti nad Labem’s) collection; photos were probably taken around 1845 but museum doesn’t know where they were taken or who the subjects are (Denik) [Social Media Post]

Design / History / Local News / Social Media Posts / Technology

14 November, 2019

Mystery surrounds two daguerreotype photographs found recently in Usti nad Labem municipal museum’s (Muzeum mesta Usti nad Labem’s) collection; photos were probably taken around 1845 but museum doesn’t know where they were taken or who the subjects are (Denik) [Social Media Post]

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Photo: Runaway camel walking down road in snowy conditions, between Bedrichov and Hrabetice, Liberec Region; escaped animal was recaptured shortly afterwards and returned to zoo in nearby Janov nad Nisou (Novinky) [Social Media Post]

Animals / Driving / Local News / Odd / Social Media Posts

13 November, 2019

Photo: Runaway camel walking down road in snowy conditions, between Bedrichov and Hrabetice, Liberec Region; escaped animal was recaptured shortly afterwards and returned to zoo in nearby Janov nad Nisou (Novinky) [Social Media Post]

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