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Occupation of Liberec occurred on 21 August 1968 during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. [1] In the early hours of the Soviet invasion, 4 people were shot dead by Soviet troops in the main square and 24 were injured, 2 of whom died later; a few hours after this, a Soviet tank rammed the arcade at the square [2] causing the immediate death of 2 people and injured 9 (1 died later); [3 ...
The annual precipitation is 845.3 millimetres (33.28 in), of which July is the wettest with 107.1 millimetres (4.22 in), while April is the driest with only 41.3 millimetres (1.63 in). The extreme temperature throughout the year ranged from −32.8 °C (−27.0 °F) on 11 February 1929 to 37.4 °C (99.3 °F) on 16 July 1928.
Liberec Region (Czech: Liberecký kraj) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the northernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia.
The Globus Group, led by Globus Holding (Globus Holding GmbH & Co. KG), branded as Globus, is a German retail company based in Sankt Wendel, Saarland (Germany). The Globus Holding includes the Globus hypermarkets in Germany (known as Globus Markthallen), Russia and the Czech Republic (known as Globus Hypermarkets), as well as the Globus DIY stores (known as Globus Baumarkt).
Globus is a Swiss department store company, with nine department stores in Switzerland. It is currently owned by a Thai company, Central Group . The Globus group includes the Herren Globus chain of menswear stores and the Office World chain of office supplies stores, was previously owned by Switzerland's largest retailer, Migros .
King Charles' team reportedly refreshed the royal family's website after a digital glitch. On Jan. 22, the royal family's Royal.UK website featured what was apparently an accidental heading on the ...
[2] [3] The building has three towers; the highest of them is 61 m (200 ft) high. [4] The city hall is similar to the more famous Vienna City Hall. Its silhouette resembles a Gothic cathedral. [5] The building has a richly decorated façade, integrated artwork and rare stained glass windows.
At the end of the 1980s, the need to adjust the track gauge from 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge began to appear increasingly important as it was present in all cities of the then Czechoslovakia (except Bratislava which still to this day runs on 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge).