Prague Spring

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world holds its breath awaiting his voice, and as he begins singing, the soft and tender vocals flow naturally from his mouth, with the audience’s amazement filling up the concert hall. Michael Jackson started his HIStory World Tour in Letná Park, Prague, September 7, 1996 with the song “They Don’t Care About Us”. After Michael Jackson cancelled his special concert, his world tour took place one year after the release of his album HIStory. HIStory is the best-selling two-disc album in history,…

Michael Praetorius was born on February 15, 1571, at Kreuzberg in Thuringia. He was a German composer, a theorist, and an organist. “He was the most versatile and wide ranging German composer of his generation and one of the most prolific, especially of works based on Protestant hymns.” Syntagma musicum is one of the main reasons why Praetorius is important as a theorist. His father was a “zealous Lutheran clergyman,” and also had the name of Michael. The Michael Praetorius, his father, came…

and Polka ("Polish woman," female counterpart of Polak), the connection between the pattern and the dance is murky; possibly the spotted pattern evoked the lively half-step of the dance. In any event, the polka ripped through the Bohemian fields to Prague, ignited the ladies of Paris by 1840, hopped the Channel to London by 1844, then set America ablaze. Every occasion, every social group, every weather pattern, every passing mood was stamped with its own perfect polka. Marketers hawked every…

of East and West Germany. Without the approval of the Soviet Union, a French journalist has written that this event would have probably been a "repetition of the coup de Prague of 1968, as the forces of the Warsaw Pact entered the Czechoslovakian capital to put an end to the democratic reforms of Dubček following the Prague Spring”. Corroborating with the journalist’s…

their children first. With Hitler’s invasion on Poland, he faced the dilemma of having to deal with more Jewish people the more land he took. At this stage, the idea of mass killings was put to action. Six killing centres were set in Poland by the spring of 1942 named Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec, Maidanek, Treblinka and Auschwitz. These centres were made near railways to easily transport Jews. However, “the camps were liberated gradually as the Allies advanced on the German army”. The Holocaust is…

Palacky organized a Pan-Slav Congress in the city of Prague, demanding equality with the Germans. On June 17, Austrian forces crushed this rebellion and a month later regained control in Milan. In December, Francis Joseph succeeded Ferdinand I as the emperor of Austria and, using the force of a Russian army, was able to get the Hungarian revolutionaries to surrender their independence. In the summer of 1849, a Roman republic crated by…

and Spain were all hopeful that the year would bring serenity globally. Kurlansky then makes it evident that peace is far from obtainable during the course of this year. He discusses the anti-draft movement, the politically-reforming period of Prague Spring,…

Smiling, however, has always stuck out, probably because it’s something Americans are known for. When I was in seventh grade I was lucky enough to go to Europe for spring break. We spent one week in Prague, in the Czech Republic. We went to so many old churches, castles, and farmers markets. As beautiful as it was to see the timeless history and magnificent architecture, the people there stood out the most. Of course not in a bad way…

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