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Nonilex

The #dollar's 4% drop gives emerging market currencies a chance to shine.

#Trump's re-engagement w/ #Russia & #Putin has helped the #ruble surge 35%, although it remains heavily restricted in most major economies by sanctions.

#Poland's zloty & the #Czech crown that also stand to benefit if the #Ukraine conflict ends are near the top of the list, w/gains of over 5%, while even #Mexico's peso & #Canada's dollar are in positive territory despite all #tariff traumas.

#geopolitics#GlobalEconomy
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Jim Wald

Returning to art: we mark the birthday of #Czech artist-illustrator Josef Čapek (23 March 1887)
His early personal ex libris in Art Nouveau style by Josef Wenig (1885-1939)
The idyllic scene is all the more poignant as the Nazis would murder him in Bergen-Belsen in spring1945
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romantic scene: couple on circular bench around large fruit tree on lawn. Ochre sky and fields with farmhouse in distance below. Framed in gray textured with fine vertical lines. Beneath garland at bottom: Ex libris J Čapek Artists's initials in tiny rectangles at upper left and right
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Jim Wald

To celebrate International Day of #Forests, a few images: some woodcut (what else?) ex libris plates by Jaroslav Dobrovolský: #Czech artist, teacher, antifascist murdered Mauthausen concentration camp. His characteristic images of nature remind us of an idyllic pre-war world
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ex libris in shades of blackish green square (church?) tower with steeple resembling an onion dome topped by a spire--seen through a gap in trees in foreground: conifer at left, tree with twisted trunk and some bare branches at right at bottom in angular letters: EX LIBRIS HEŘMA KOŘÍNKOVÁ signed by the artist in pencil beneath the inage
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Jim Wald

To celebrate International Day of #Forests, a few images: some woodcut (what else?) ex libris plates by Jaroslav Dobrovolský: #Czech artist, teacher, antifascist murdered Mauthausen concentration camp. His characteristic images of nature remind us of an idyllic pre-war world
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ex libris in shades of blue-green a stand of conifers at right, hill in foreground with a small tree at the crest at the bottom in angular letters: EX LIBRIS • RÉTHY ISTVAN
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Jim Wald

To celebrate International Day of #Forests, a few images: some woodcut (what else?) ex libris plates by Jaroslav Dobrovolský: #Czech artist, teacher, antifascist murdered Mauthausen concentration camp. His characteristic images of nature remind us of an idyllic pre-war world
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woodcut in shades of green at left, a leafless tree and some shrubs on a river bank at right, across the river, a mountain in the distance, trees in foreground at bottom in angular stylized letters: EX LIBRIS • B• KUČERA signed by the artist in pencil at lower right, beneath the image
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Jim Wald

To celebrate International Day of #Forests, a few images: some woodcut (what else?) ex libris plates by Jaroslav Dobrovolský: #Czech artist, teacher, antifascist murdered Mauthausen concentration camp. His characteristic images of nature remind us of an idyllic pre-war world
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black and white woodcut a mountain slope dotted with coniferous trees extends downward from right to left at left, a human figure sits beneath one of the trees, chin on hand, contemplating the beauty of nature at bottom in angular stylized letters: EX LIBRIS * JAROSLAV MRA'ZEK signed by the artist--JD--in the lower right of the block
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

An Evening of Poetry in Czech, English, & Gaelic
14 March, Glasgow – free

Petr Hruška will launch the English edition of his prize-winning collection I Caught Sight of My Face (trans. Joshua Mensch). Petr will be joined by Scottish poets Rob A. Mackenzie & Gerald Mangan, & by Czech poet Petra Johana Poncarová who writes in Gaelic.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-

EventbriteAn Evening of Poetry in Czech, English, and GaelicJoin us for an evening of poetry in Czech, English, and Gaelic
#Scottish#Czech#literature
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Alex Doppelgänger

⚙️ Star Trek The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, The Expanse, Doctor Who, The X-Files, etc. How much we love sci-fi series! I don't know if we would have enjoyed them as much if the BBC hadn't gotten involved about 83 years ago, when on February 11, 1938, it broadcast the first sci-fi film in history on TV (more specifically, the first sci-fi program-film-whatever made specifically for TV).

⚙️ Initially, I wanted to call it a series, but it was simply a 35-minute adaptation of a part of the play "R.U.R." by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. "R.U.R." stands for "Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots)" and was first staged in 1921. It's about humans who create robots (more closely related to the idea of "androids," "replicants" from Blade Runner, or "cylons" from Battlestar Galactica) that eventually rebel against their creators.

⚙️ The most important thing is that in "R.U.R." the term "robot" was used for the first time.

📸 Photo: a sequence from the BBC adaptation of the play "R.U.R." for the small screen (1938)

A sequence from the BBC adaptation of the play "R.U.R." for the small screen (1938) showing 3 robots around a human.
#History#Culture#TV
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Geriatric Gardener

“The Czech is in the Mail”

by Another Angry Voice on Substack

“The [Labour] government has approved the sale of Royal Mail to #Czech #billionaire #Daniel #Křetínský, turning what was a not-for-profit public service just eleven years ago into a billionaire's plaything”

@UKLabour

open.substack.com/pub/anothera

Another Angry Voice · The Czech is in the MailBy Another Angry Voice
#Press#UK#RoyalMail
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