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Flight Attendant Survived 33,000 Feet Fall With No Parachute. Read Vesna Vulovic's Story
Vesna Vulovic was temporarily paralysed from the waist down by the fall, but she never surrendered to despair.
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On Camera, People Leap From Building Ledge During Prague Shooting
Authorities said the gunman - a 24-year-old student at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague - had been "eliminated".
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What FBI Files Say On Ivana Trump: Report
Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana, was under an FBI counterintelligence inquiry into allegations about her connections in her home country of Czechoslovakia in the 1990s, according to excerpts from her FBI file obtained by Bloomberg News.
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Jawa 90th Anniversary Edition Launched In India; Priced At Rs. 1.73 Lakh
Classic Legends-owned Jawa Motorcycles has launched the Jawa 90th Anniversary Edition in India priced at Rs. 1.73 lakh (ex-showroom), to mark the 90the year of the brand. The motorcycle maker traces its roots to the erstwhile Czechoslovakia where founder Frantisek Janecek founded the brand in 1929 and produced its first motorcycle - the Jawa 500 OH...
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Slovak Legend Jozef Adamec Dies At 76
Slovak Adamec was just 18 when he forced his way into the Czechoslovakia team in 1960.
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How World War I Shaped The 20th Century And Beyond A 100 Years On
World War 1: Beyond Germany, the slew of peace treaties redrew the map of Europe, carving up vanquished empires and creating as many future conflicts as new countries and borders from the Baltic States to Turkey, via Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
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Czechoslovakia Secret Police Had Dossier On Donald Trump: Report
Secret police in communist-era Czechoslovakia kept a dossier on Donald Trump after his first marriage to a Czech woman, Ivana Zelnickova, a Prague weekly reported in cooperation with Britain's Guardian newspaper. "Yes, the Trumps were in our line of sight," a former regional chief of state security StB, Vlastimil Danek, told the Czech paper Respekt...
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British Lord Says Brexit 'Stupidity' Should Not Block Child Refugees
A member of Britain's House of Lords rescued from the Nazis when he was six years old, told AFP the anti-immigrant sentiment behind Brexit should not prevent child migrants being welcomed to Britain
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Migrant Crisis Recalls Trauma of Germans' Own Post World War II Chaos
Barbara Keller remembers the summer day in 1945 when her mother suddenly told her they were about to flee to Germany. Their homeland would cease to exist in the mayhem after World War II.
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Iceland, Czechs Secure Euro 2016 Berths, Wales Wait
Iceland, with its population of barely 330,000, became the least populated country ever to qualify for a European Championship thanks to a nervy 0-0 draw with Kazakshtan in Reykjavik.
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India Need Minor Miracle Against Czech Republic in Davis Cup: Mahesh Bhupathi
The Czech are seeded No.1 in the Play-offs. They have won the Davis Cup thrice, that too as recently as 2012 and 2013 and once as Czechoslovakia in 1980. India, on the other hand, have reached the final thrice -- 1966, 1974 and 1987. The Czechs have never lost to India in three meetings, although their last tie was back in 1997.
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FIFA World Cup: Pele Hopes Brazil Will Win Without Neymar
Pele on social networking site Twitter compared Neymar's injury to his own during the 1962 World Cup in Chile. Pele was injured in the second group match against Czechoslovakia and was ruled out of the tournament but still Brazil won and defended the title.
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Emil Zatopek (Czechoslovakia)
Emil Zatopek of what was then Czechoslovakia won the 10,000m at the 1948 London Games, lapping all but two runners in the field. He also picked up a silver in the 5,000m.
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Segio Ramos and Andrea Pirlo serve poetic justice at Euro 2012
Antonin Panenka was dubbed a poet by a watching journalist when he cheekily chipped his penalty down the middle to secure the then Czechoslovakia the 1976 European title at the expense of West Germany.
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Antonin Panenka
He makes the list not only because he scored the winning penalty that handed Czechoslovakia the title but also the way he hit it. The Czech debuted what is now famous as the Panenka penalty in the 1976 tournament.
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Flight Attendant Survived 33,000 Feet Fall With No Parachute. Read Vesna Vulovic's Story
Vesna Vulovic was temporarily paralysed from the waist down by the fall, but she never surrendered to despair.
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On Camera, People Leap From Building Ledge During Prague Shooting
Authorities said the gunman - a 24-year-old student at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague - had been "eliminated".
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What FBI Files Say On Ivana Trump: Report
Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana, was under an FBI counterintelligence inquiry into allegations about her connections in her home country of Czechoslovakia in the 1990s, according to excerpts from her FBI file obtained by Bloomberg News.
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Jawa 90th Anniversary Edition Launched In India; Priced At Rs. 1.73 Lakh
Classic Legends-owned Jawa Motorcycles has launched the Jawa 90th Anniversary Edition in India priced at Rs. 1.73 lakh (ex-showroom), to mark the 90the year of the brand. The motorcycle maker traces its roots to the erstwhile Czechoslovakia where founder Frantisek Janecek founded the brand in 1929 and produced its first motorcycle - the Jawa 500 OH...
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Slovak Legend Jozef Adamec Dies At 76
Slovak Adamec was just 18 when he forced his way into the Czechoslovakia team in 1960.
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How World War I Shaped The 20th Century And Beyond A 100 Years On
World War 1: Beyond Germany, the slew of peace treaties redrew the map of Europe, carving up vanquished empires and creating as many future conflicts as new countries and borders from the Baltic States to Turkey, via Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
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Czechoslovakia Secret Police Had Dossier On Donald Trump: Report
Secret police in communist-era Czechoslovakia kept a dossier on Donald Trump after his first marriage to a Czech woman, Ivana Zelnickova, a Prague weekly reported in cooperation with Britain's Guardian newspaper. "Yes, the Trumps were in our line of sight," a former regional chief of state security StB, Vlastimil Danek, told the Czech paper Respekt...
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British Lord Says Brexit 'Stupidity' Should Not Block Child Refugees
A member of Britain's House of Lords rescued from the Nazis when he was six years old, told AFP the anti-immigrant sentiment behind Brexit should not prevent child migrants being welcomed to Britain
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Migrant Crisis Recalls Trauma of Germans' Own Post World War II Chaos
Barbara Keller remembers the summer day in 1945 when her mother suddenly told her they were about to flee to Germany. Their homeland would cease to exist in the mayhem after World War II.
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Iceland, Czechs Secure Euro 2016 Berths, Wales Wait
Iceland, with its population of barely 330,000, became the least populated country ever to qualify for a European Championship thanks to a nervy 0-0 draw with Kazakshtan in Reykjavik.
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India Need Minor Miracle Against Czech Republic in Davis Cup: Mahesh Bhupathi
The Czech are seeded No.1 in the Play-offs. They have won the Davis Cup thrice, that too as recently as 2012 and 2013 and once as Czechoslovakia in 1980. India, on the other hand, have reached the final thrice -- 1966, 1974 and 1987. The Czechs have never lost to India in three meetings, although their last tie was back in 1997.
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FIFA World Cup: Pele Hopes Brazil Will Win Without Neymar
Pele on social networking site Twitter compared Neymar's injury to his own during the 1962 World Cup in Chile. Pele was injured in the second group match against Czechoslovakia and was ruled out of the tournament but still Brazil won and defended the title.
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Emil Zatopek (Czechoslovakia)
Emil Zatopek of what was then Czechoslovakia won the 10,000m at the 1948 London Games, lapping all but two runners in the field. He also picked up a silver in the 5,000m.
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Segio Ramos and Andrea Pirlo serve poetic justice at Euro 2012
Antonin Panenka was dubbed a poet by a watching journalist when he cheekily chipped his penalty down the middle to secure the then Czechoslovakia the 1976 European title at the expense of West Germany.
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Antonin Panenka
He makes the list not only because he scored the winning penalty that handed Czechoslovakia the title but also the way he hit it. The Czech debuted what is now famous as the Panenka penalty in the 1976 tournament.
