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Procházka (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpr̩oxaːzka]) is a very common Czech surname. The feminine variant is Procházková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpr̩oxaːzkovaː]). A literal translation of the name to English is a stroll. The name approximates to the English surname "Walker". Other spelling versions include Prochaska, Prohaska and Prohászka.
Georg Prochaska (sometimes also Juri, Jiří or Georgius Prochaska; Czech: Jiří Procháska) (10 April 1749 in Blížkovice – 17 July 1820 in Vienna [1]) was a leading Czech-Austrian anatomist, ophthalmologist, physiologist, writer and university professor. He lived in the Holy Roman Empire and then in the Austrian Empire. He wrote the first ...
Jiří Procházka (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈproxaːska] ⓘ; ⓘ; born October 14, 1992) is a Czech professional mixed martial artist.He currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and the first Czech fighter to win a UFC championship.
James O. Prochaska (6 August 1942 – 9 July 2023) was professor of psychology at the University of Rhode Island. [1] He was the lead developer of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM) beginning in 1983.
There are two predominant surname traditions among the Finnish in Finland: the West Finnish and the East Finnish. The surname traditions of Swedish-speaking farmers, fishermen and craftsmen resembles the West Finnish tradition, while smaller populations of Sami and Romani people have traditions of their own. Finland was exposed to a very small ...
Prochaska now weighs about 226 pounds and has been able to maintain that number. Surgery for loose skin. But there’s still the matter of the extra skin. In the spring of 2023, Prochaska flew to ...
The Indo-Aryan suffix Desh is derived from the Sanskrit word deśha, which means "land" or "country". Hence, the name Bangladesh means "Land of Bengal" or "Country of Bengal". [82] Sanskrit language influenced the name of Bangladesh. The term Vanga was used in the Sanskrit texts. The term Bangla denotes both the Bengal region and the Bengali ...
In retrospect, Prochaska was strongly idealized as a chaste heroine and honoured as "Potsdam's Joan of Arc" ("die Potsdamer Jeanne d'Arc").Various plays and poems were written on her life (including those by Friedrich Rückert and Emil Taubert [3]), whilst Ludwig van Beethoven began a "Bühnenmusik" (WoO 96) on her, with a libretto written by Friedrich Duncker.