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The White Plague (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a play written by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1937. [1] Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra addition: an uncurable white disease, a form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people ...
The Municipal Library of Prague (Czech: Městská knihovna v Praze) is one of the largest libraries in Prague, Czech Republic.It is an open institution that offers access to fiction and educational literature for children and adults.
Skeleton on Horseback aka The White Disease (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a 1937 Czechoslovak drama film directed by and starring Hugo Haas. It revolves around an infectious disease which breaks out during a war. It is based on the play The White Disease by Karel Čapek. [1]
Bílá nemoc (The White Disease) Továrna na absolutno (The Absolute at Large) Krakatit: Notable awards: Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (in memoriam) Spouse: Olga Scheinpflugová: Parents: Antonín Čapek (father) Božena Čapková (mother) Relatives: Josef Čapek (brother) Helena Čapková (sister) Signature
In 1958, all large Prague libraries were merged into the single centralized State Library of the Czechoslovak Republic (Státní knihovna CSR). In 1990, the hitherto last renaming of the library resulted in its current name: National Library of the Czech Republic. A new storage building, the Central Depository in Hostivař, was inaugurated in 1996.
The National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius (Czech: Národní pedagogické muzeum a knihovna J. A. Komenského) is an institution in Prague that was created in 2011 by merging of two institutions: Pedagogical Museum (Valdstejnska 5) and Pedagogical Library of J. A. Comenius (Jeruzalemska 12).
The Czech National Library of Technology (Czech: Národní technická knihovna, abbreviated as NTK) is located at Technická 6 in Prague 6.The building also houses a branch of the Municipal Library of Prague.
The Battle of White Mountain (Czech: Bitva na Bílé hoře; German: Schlacht am Weißen Berg) was an important battle in the early stages of the Thirty Years' War. It led to the defeat of the Bohemian Revolt and ensured Habsburg control for the next three hundred years. It was fought on 8 November 1620.