nPostednon July 6, 2015
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nTodaynis a public holiday in the Czech Republic. It honors Jan Hus, anpriest who also taught and a philosopher who also tried to reformn(make better) society and religion.
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nBornnin 1369, Hus lived before some of the other Roman Catholic Churchnreformers who ended up creating the Protestant movement in the 1500s.n(Martin Luther was one of the more famous Protestant reformers.) Henis considered one of the first Church reformers. He was notnnecessarily all that successful in his own lifetime at winning thenreforms he sought, since he was burned at the stake for “heresy”n(religious teachings that are considered incorrect by the powers thatnbe).
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nHus’snmartyrdom occurred on this date in 1415.
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nButnthe Czech people celebrate him, because his reforms made a hugenimpact after his death. Hus’s followers were so upset at his cruelnexecution, they rebelled against their Roman Catholic rulers. Therenwere a series of wars that have become known as the Hussite Wars, andnby the 1500s as many as 90% of the people living on Czech lands werennon-Catholic, and many of them were followers of Hus’s teachings.
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nHusnalso influenced Martin Luther and perhaps other later reformers asnwell.
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nDidnyou know…?
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nThen Czech Republic is made up of three historical regions: Bohemia,
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nnn Moravia, and Czech Silesia.
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nAftern World War I, and up until 1993, the Czech Republic had been bundledn together with Slovakia to create Czechoslovakia.
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nThen capital city, Prague, is supposed to be one of the most wonderfuln cities in the world. Some people say THE most beautiful city in then entire world. What do you think?
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nIn read that Prague Castle is the largest castle in the world in termsn of area. It’s about 1,000 years old. When you go to visit, then highlights include a cathedral, a basilica, a tower, a palace, an royal garden with a “Singing Fountain,” and “Golden Lane,”n which is lined with medieval workshops. That sounds like a lot ofn stuff in just one castle!
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nSomen of the world’s oldest and most magnificent libraries are found inn Prague.
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nTheren are thousands of human skeletons on bizarre display at the famousn “Bone Church” in the Czech Republic.
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nThen “Bohemian Paradise” is special because of the rock formationsn that stand up out of the ground like sculptures.
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nTheren are plenty more cool castles in the nation, but I thought thisn Hluboka Castle was really pretty:
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nAlsonon this date:
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nEarthnat Aphelion
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nIndependence Day in Comoros n
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nRepublicnDay in Malawi
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nAnniversarynof Althea Gibson’s win at Wimbledon
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nPlannahead:
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nChecknout my Pinterest boards for:
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