The Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czech: Řád Tomáše Garrigua Masaryka) is an Order of the Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia. It was established...
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described Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and impulsive man". Born in Prague, he was the son of professor and politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (who...
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was a Czechoslovak statesman, progressive political activist and philosopher who served as the...
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Milada Horáková (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
rehabilitated in the 1990s and posthumously received the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1st Class) and Order of the White Double Cross (1st Class). Dr Horáková...
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Bill Clinton (redirect from 42nd President of the United States of America)
professional pianist. In 1961, Clinton became a member of the Hot Springs Chapter of the Order of DeMolay, a youth group affiliated with Freemasonry, but...
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Thomas J. Bata (redirect from Tomáš J. Baťa)
of the Order of Canada 1991 – Awarded the Czech Republic's top decoration, the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 2003 – Awarded the Retail Council of Canada's...
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Karel Čapek (redirect from The Life of the Insects)
many of the political leaders of the nascent Czechoslovak state, including Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovak patriot and the first President of Czechoslovakia...
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Milan Machovec (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
highlighted by a 2000 Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk award. Milan Machovec wrote for a broad audience, mainly about the spiritual legacy of major historical...
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Zbigniew Brzezinski (redirect from The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century)
pushing the limits of his insights." Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1981 Grand Cross of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1998 Order of the White Eagle...
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Nicholas Winton (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
Holocaust by the British Government. Winton was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Fourth Class, by the Czech President Václav Havel in 1998...
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Jiří Weil (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
6 August 1900, Praskolesy – 13 December 1959, Prague) was a Czech writer of Jewish origin and Holocaust survivor. His noted works include the two novels...
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Václav Neumann (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
became principal conductor of the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra. He left that post in 1954 to become principal conductor of the Brno Symphony Orchestra...
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Jaroslav Seifert (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
first collection of poems was published in 1921. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), the editor of a number of communist newspapers...
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René Wellek (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
founder of the study of comparative literature." With Austin Warren, Wellek published a landmark volume entitled Theory of Literature, one of the first...
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Jan Jesenský (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
(1911) of stomatology at Prague University. He was the founder and head of the Prague Stomatology Clinic until the German occupation in 1939, a member of the...
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Juscelino Kubitschek (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
"father of modern Brazil". Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic 1st Class of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk...
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Otto Wichterle (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
Czech chemist, best known for his invention of modern soft contact lenses. Wichterle is the author or co-author of approximately 180 patents and over 200 publications...
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Karel Schwarzenberg (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
received the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 3rd Class of the Czech Republic. In 2005, he received the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in...
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František Tomášek (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian. His...
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Václav Talich (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
pedagogue. He is remembered today as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, the object of countless reissues of his many recordings. Born in Kroměříž...
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Jan Čep (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
translator. Čep was born in 1902 in the village of Myslechovice (now a part of Litovel), Moravia, to a family of peasants. After completing his studies at the...
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Charles Richard Crane (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
permanent curator of the collection. In the 1900s, he brought Thomas Masaryk, Maksim Kovalevsky and Pavel Milyukov to lecture at the University of Chicago. After...
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Tomáš Halík (Czech: [ˈtoma:ʒ ˈɦali:k]; born 1 June 1948) is a Czech Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian. He is a professor of sociology at the...
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Milena Jesenská (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
author Franz Kafka and was one of the first to translate his work from the German language. After the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, she joined a resistance...
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Josef Čapek (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
play Land of Many Names and several novels, as well as critical essays in which he argued for the art of the unconscious, of children, and of 'savages'...
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Miroslav Kusý (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
was a Slovak political scientist and politician. Described as a "dissident" of Czechoslovakia's communist regime, he was given an eight-month suspended sentence...
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Robert Badinter (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czech Republic) in 2001. and the Order 8-September (North Macedonia) in 2006. As a longstanding activist for the abolition of...
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Vladislav Vančura (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
Benešov, about 30 miles south-east of Prague. It was an old school founded in 1704 and formerly led by the Piarist Order, with severe discipline and rigid...
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The Order of the White Lion (Czech: Řád Bílého lva) is the highest order of the Czech Republic. It continues a Czechoslovak order of the same name created...
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Yelena Bonner (category Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
Democracy, the Lithuanian Commemorative Medal of 13 January, the Czech Republic Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and others. She was also awarded the Giuseppe...
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