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    The Jan Hus Memorial (Czech: Pomník mistra Jana Husa) stands at one end of Old Town Square, Prague in the Czech Republic. The huge monument depicts victorious...
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    Jan Hus (/hʊs/; Czech: [ˈjan ˈɦus] ; c. 1370 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes...
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    truth until death". The phrase thus appears along the base of the Jan Hus Memorial in Prague. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia...
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    reformer Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake in Konstanz for his beliefs. This led to the Hussite Wars. The statue known as the Jan Hus Memorial was erected...
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    Ladislav Šaloun. The villa was designed and built to construct the Jan Hus Memorial but it was also a meeting place for the Czech intelligentsia. Today...
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    Avenue Church NYC, formerly known as Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, is a Christian congregation on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, associated...
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    Wimmer's Fountain František Palacký Monument Jan Hus Memorial Memorial of the Second Resistance Movement Memorial to the Victims of Communism Monument to Soviet...
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    Church trace their tradition back to the Hussite reformers and acknowledge Jan Hus (John Huss) as their predecessor. It was well-supported by Czechoslovakia's...
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    14th century, most Czechs became Hussites, that is to say followers of Jan Hus, Petr Chelčický and other regional Proto-Protestant religious reformers...
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    be aware of Siwiec's and Makukh's protests. The burning at the stake of Jan Hus in 1415 for his beliefs may have been an inspiration for Palach's self-immolation...
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  • ultimately reaches Old Town Square in Prague and stands in front of the Jan Hus Memorial Statue. Both Mraz and Caillat look back and the video ends with the...
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    building. He is the same local sculptor who created the city's iconic Jan Hus Memorial. The building, which was intended as a tax and financial office, was...
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    The Jan Hus Educational Foundation was founded in May 1980 by a group of British philosophers at the University of Oxford. The group operated an underground...
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    installed as a Jan Kubíček memorial at a public park in his birthplace city of Kolín, Husově náměstí, opposite the city's Jan Hus memorial. In April 2014...
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    Marian column (Prague) (category Monuments and memorials in Prague)
    Böhm. [citation needed] In 1915, the Jan Hus Memorial, sculpted by Ladislav Šaloun, was erected in the square. Hus was the founder of the Hussites, a pre-Protestant...
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    was honored by being named a National Artist. Šaloun worked on his Jan Hus Memorial on the Old Town Square in Prague for 15 years, from 1901 through 1915...
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    Jan Hus memorial stone in the village of Bohemka (2015)...
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  • Monument, Prague Head of Franz Kafka Holy Trinity Column, Malá Strana Jan Hus Memorial Josef Dobrovský Monument Kohl's Fountain Kranner's Fountain Libuše...
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  • Vienna 1915 Casa Tortosa [es] was finished by Enrique Nieto in Melilla Jan Hus Memorial was completed by Ladislav Šaloun in Prague 1916 Casa de Jacinto Ruiz [es]...
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    origin. Mádl's influence shaped new artistic commissions, such as the Jan Hus Memorial created by Ladislav Šaloun. Mádl resented German cultural dominance...
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    of Kubiš's birth) a small memorial and museum was open in the house where Jan Kubiš was born. Since 2010 a National memorial and museum dedicated to all...
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  • Gómez de la Serna Isaac Rosenberg – Self-portrait Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial (Prague) Helene Schjerfbeck – Self-portrait with black background Kathleen...
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    Jan Hus memorial in Lubno from 1921...
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    a public park in Kubíček's birthplace, Kolín, opposite the city's Jan Hus memorial. Family House on Červený kopec (Red Hill – Brno) House of Prayer for...
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    Czechoslovak government-in-exile) by the Slovak and Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. These men, who had been part of a team trained in Great Britain, had...
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    Poster with Sgt. Jan Hrubý, who died in the fight with German troops in the crypt of the Church of Saint Cyril and Methodius Memorial in the crypt of the...
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    History Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in Manhattan in New York City. MSKCC is one...
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  • meant to counter the activities of the recently founded partisan unit Mr. Jan Hus [cz]. Throughout the war, Feustel and his men arrested civilians and resistance...
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    Constance in 1415, Jan Hus was sentenced to be burnt at the stake as a heretic. The verdict was passed despite the fact that Hus was granted formal protection...
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  • States) Independence Day (Comoros) Independence Day/Republic Day, (Malawi) Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic) Kupala Night (Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine)...
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