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A brand new year is upon us - another year filled with new surprises, expectations, hopes and dreams, resolutions, love, laughs …

Our sincere wish is that your new year will be filled with everything that you wish for:
Peace in world relations, success in your business, freedom in your thoughts, love in your friendships and relationships, beauty in your creations and much more.

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A couple of months ago we announced a new sweepstakes with one history question. We did not realize how many people would respond to this article. The question was either very easy or all of our readers know about the history of the Czech Republic. Since we wanted to be fair, we went through all the results and verified the CzechFolks.com membership. Then we had to put in a pool of hundreds of emails to select one winner that will receive a mug and a T-shirt of a choice from our partner ABC imports. We were so pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming response by our readership that we decided to select one more winner that will receive a T-shirt of a choice. ABC imports also wanted to thank to all the readers that answered our question for the sweepstakes. They all will receive a code to redeem $5 cash back on their purchase from the partner’s site. We hope to start a new drawing soon, thus stay tuned for our new postings. Read the rest of this entry (Čtětě více ZDE) »

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Author: Josef Cermak (CzechFolks.com PLUS)

The garden of his soul

The Pilsen monument is today known as the Meditation Garden of Luboš Hruška (the author of a book on the monument and its creator, Irena Kastnerová, named her book “Luboš Hruška and the garden of his soul”). It is also known as “The Monument to the Victims of Evil.” Originally, it was planned by its creator as a monument to the victims of communism. This is what he wrote about communism in January, 1998: “Even today we still don’t know all the catastrophes caused by communist power in the world. Tens of millions dead and mentally or physically marked, thousands of disrupted families, a ruined environment, crippled economy, but worst of all, sick human souls. Read the rest of this entry (Čtětě více ZDE) »

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Today is a special day for CzechFolk.com, because we celebrate our first anniversary. The past twelve months were really amazing and we can’t wait to see what is ahead of us. Less than 6 months ago, we also introduced another affiliate named CzechFolks.com PLUS that brings lots of interesting articles from our talented authors that live all over the world. That is why we believe it is time to tell you more about our site and introduce to you our team of volunteers that contribute to the site. Read the rest of this entry (Čtětě více ZDE) »

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Author: Josef Čermák (CzechFolks.com PLUS)

Approximately 110km north of Toronto lies a small town of Edenvale and just a little further, you come to the Edenvale Aerodrome, an airport built by a Czeh refugee, Milan Kroupa. The aerodrome rests in the middle of a fruitful plane, even though possibly not as fruitful as the “fertile Haná”, so worshipfully described by a Czech poet whose name my aged brain refuses to surrender. During the second world war, this place was used by the Canadian air force to train its pilots. After the war, the place kept deteriorating until it was purchased, in 2003, by Milan Kroupa, who hails from a little village not far from a town of Nové Strašecí. Kroupa came to Canada as a political refugee in the middle of the sixties. And because he was an entrepreneurial wizard, he built up in this place (as well as putting together the largest janitorial company in Canada) a modern airport. It is this airport where on August 23rd, 2009 we shall reminiscence about the night of August 21, 1968, when frightened rulers in Moscow tried to stop the march of history and sent their army, with the armies of their vassals, to another brotherly vassal state, Czechoslovakia, to eradicate the potentially infectious decease called “socialisms with a human face”. Read the rest of this entry (Čtětě více ZDE) »

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Let’s start the weekend with some fun. As we promised, we have a great prize for CzechFolks.com readers. Everybody living in the USA can participate. You will not only win a wonderful item related to the Czech Republic or Slovakia, but you will also be able to pick a T-shirt of your taste and size.

The sweepstakes are sponsored by ABC Imports – a company that imports great goods mostly from the Czech Republic. What can you find there? Here is a brief list of items that you can find on their website www.abc-imports.com: Read the rest of this entry (Čtětě více ZDE) »

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Another sweepstakes has ended and we have selected a winner of a free language course from our partner Edulink.cz. Again, we randomly selected a winner:

Stephen Nors
Texas, USA

We are sorry we could not select more winners, but next week we are starting NEW sweepstakes with products from our new partner ABC Imports. Read the rest of this entry (Čtětě více ZDE) »

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A Czech proverb “Kolik reci vis, tolikrat jsi clovekem,” or in Slovak “Kolko reci vies, tolkokrat si clovekom,” can be literally translated as “As many languages as you know makes you that many times more of a person.” Basically it means that the number of languages you know makes you that number of times more of a person. So how many languages do you know? The golden rule is that you should know a little bit about the culture and language of the country you are visiting or moving to. The more you explore and learn about the country, its citizens and their culture, the more they will help you to understand the differences that could surprise you upon your arrival to a foreign country.

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Last month we switched to a new way of announcing current events. Since many of you visit the “CURRENT EVENTS” page regularly, there is no need to send you reminders. Don’t forget that our list is changing frequently, thus, we recommend visiting this page regularly. CLICK HERE.

Did we miss your event? Please, let us know HERE.

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Our sweepstakes has ended and we have selected two winners of the DVD I Served the King of England. The drawing was quite difficult. As many of you already know, we randomly selected two winners right at the end of the sweepstakes (March 11^th). Unfortunately, one of the winners of this contest was disqualified for living outside the USA, and we did not hear from the other one.
Yesterday, we decided to go for a more fun selection process that involved all the CF subscribers. The two fastest responders were awarded with the prize and here are their names:

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Check out our events for March 2009. Our list is changing frequently, thus, we recommend visiting this page often. We hope you like our new events calendar look. CLICK HERE.

Did we miss your event? Please, let us know HERE.

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Once in a while, we provide you with news from the Czech Republic; however, it usually reflects happenings from the area of politics and entertainment or is somehow related to Czechs and Slovaks abroad. Nevertheless, we know how important it is to know what is happening in our home country. Today, you will have a great opportunity to learn about a site that provides excellet news and if you subscribe for free, with the promotion code below, you will receive bonus news only available to premium subscribes.

Are you wondering what site we are talking about? It is Prague Daily Monitor and it is accessible to everyone online but with limited access to the archives. The site offers free email subscriptions that allow you to receive some daily headlines. Monitor Plus is a paid program but today you can sign up for a 14-day free trial, no strings attached! This subscription allows you to access extra articles from the Monitor staff and full news translations from top Czech periodicals. We don’t have to remind you that the translations may help many readers to improve their Czech language, because they can find original articles online.You will also receive Breakfast Brief, which is a one page press (pdf) of the main business and political headlines and is aimed at the business sector and Diplomatic missions/embassies.

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