Posts tagged Praha
Arched Ceilings of the Pinkas Synagog...
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Wenceslaus Crown
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Does Kafkas Ghost Roam Josefovs Stree...
Burn them all, the words that I have written
When this, my life, it has come to an end
An earnest request made by Frank Kafka
Solemnly to his good friend…
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Does Kafkas Ghost Today Roam Josefovs...
Burn them all, the words that I have written
When this, my life, it has come to an end
An earnest request made by Frank Kafka
Solemnly to his good friend.
That man, to spite his genius to him unknown
Thought his written words, his stories, not good
His life’s writing seemed to him but a waste
Be burned on death his writings should.
It s [...]
Adolf Hitler is Coming to Town
“Hurry up” they said, “its a problem”
“Tear Mendelssons statue down
For he is a Jew and it will not do
Adolf Hitler is coming to town.
So a soldier was send orders given
And to the roof he went to find
But no statue had a name and they looked much the same
And Mendelsons face he could not bring to mind.
Our soldi [...]
That We May Never Have to Play Dalibo...
During Vladislav II’s reign knight Ploskovský behaved toward his people in serfdom in a such a cruel way, that peasants did revolt capturing him and forced him to free them from the serfdom.
The peasants asked for serfdom from Dalibor from Kozojed, who behaved in a more humane way.
The nobles, scared of the trend spreading invited Dalib [...]
Sailing Neath the Charles Bridge
Such history flows beneath this bridge
And all that have walked on it
So many pass its statues walk
And think so little of it.
Germans, Russians and the Slav
Have at times been masters here
And yet none was ever master
So from history it does appear
An Irishman beneath it sails
As slowly the Vlatava flows
And everyone goes about their lives
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