The Prague Cemetery (Italian: Il cimitero di Praga) is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation...
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The Old Jewish Cemetery (Czech: Starý židovský hřbitov) is a Jewish cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe...
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The New Jewish Cemetery (Czech: Nový židovský hřbitov) in Žižkov, Prague, Czech Republic, was established in 1890 to relieve the space problem at the...
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Olšany Cemeteries (Czech: Olšanské hřbitovy, German: Wolschaner Friedhof) is the largest graveyard in Prague, Czech Republic, once laid out for as many...
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Italian: Il fascismo eterno, or Ur-Fascismo) is a renowned essay authored by the Italian philosopher, novelist, and semiotician Umberto Eco. First published...
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Prague (/ˈprɑːɡ/ PRAHG; Czech: Praha [ˈpraɦa] ) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated...
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Umberto Eco (category Academic staff of the University of the Republic of San Marino)
sacrifice his future.[citation needed] The Prague Cemetery, Eco's sixth novel, was published in 2010. It is the story of a secret agent who "weaves plots...
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with the Marquis Stanislas de Guaita. Boullan is mentioned in The Prague Cemetery, the novel by Umberto Eco. Liukkonen, Petri. "Joris-Karl Huysmans"....
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The history of the Jews in Prague, the capital of today's Czech Republic, relates to one of Europe's oldest recorded and most well-known Jewish communities...
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Established in 1869 on the grounds of Vyšehrad Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, the Vyšehrad Cemetery (Czech: Vyšehradský hřbitov) is the final resting place...
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Josefov (redirect from Jewish town (Prague))
ISBN 80-901208-5-7 Prague City Tourism (2017). Prague: Jewish. Prague City Tourism. Jewish Cemetery and surrounding buildings The cemetery itself The surrounding...
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Taxil hoax (section The Luciferian quote)
play a major role in the latter part of Umberto Eco's novel The Prague Cemetery (2011). History portal List of hoaxes Affair of the Cards Poe's law QAnon...
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Vinohrady Cemetery (Czech: Vinohradský hřbitov) is a large cemetery in Vinohrady in Prague 10 which contains Strašnice Crematorium. It is the second largest...
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (ISBN 0-15-601159-X) is a book by Umberto Eco which was published in Italian as Kant e l'ornitorinco...
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Maurice Joly (category Protocols of the Elders of Zion)
by Eugene Sue. Joly is also a character in Eco's novel, The Prague Cemetery. In 2015 one of the streets in Lons-le-Saunier was named Rue Maurice Joly....
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The Name of the Rose is a 1986 historical mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery...
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Jewish Cemetery, Prague Ďáblice cemetery, Prague Olšany Cemetery, Prague – the biggest graveyard in the Czech Republic New Jewish Cemetery, Prague – built...
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The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa [il ˈnoːme della ˈrɔːza]) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder...
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Vyšehrad (redirect from Vysehrad (Prague))
fort in Prague, Czech Republic, just over 3 km southeast of Prague Castle, on the east bank of the Vltava River. It was probably built in the 10th century...
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in Umberto Eco's novel The Prague Cemetery. Rubenstein, Richard L., and John K. Roth. Approaches to Auschwitz: The Legacy of the Holocaust. London: SCM...
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Baudolino (category Novels set in the 12th century)
2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century. Baudolino was translated...
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The Island of the Day Before (Italian: L'isola del giorno prima) is a 1994 historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th century during the...
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Ďáblice cemetery (Czech: Ďáblický hřbitov) is a graveyard in Ďáblice municipal district, Prague. The entrance pavilions were designed by Vlastislav Hofman...
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Leopold Ehrmann (category Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States)
hall at the New Jewish Cemetery and an apartment building in Prague’s New Town worked on with František Zelenka. Ehrmann’s best-known work is the Cubist...
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Czechoslovakia 1945-1992 Czech Republic 1993-present The land where Prague came to be built has been settled since the Paleolithic Age. Several thousand years ago...
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prevent the West from recognizing the Soviet Union, and bring about the downfall of Vladimir Lenin's regime. The chapter "In the Jewish Cemetery in Prague" from...
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a tomb at the Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague. Many notable Czech personalities are interred in the tomb. The idea of the establishment of the pantheon, a...
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metre-high Žižkov Tower, Prague's tallest structure. The large Olšany Cemetery take up much of the district. A New Jewish Cemetery nearby, one of two historic...
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Foucault's Pendulum (category Novels about the Illuminati)
by William Weaver being published a year later. The book is divided into segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. It is satirical, being full of esoteric...
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Lansquenet (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco. The game is mentioned in several of Georgette Heyer's historical novels. For example, in Chapter Thirteen of "The...
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