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Mináč and Nguyễn Duy Tân formulated the Mináč-Tân conjectures on the vanishing of Massey products over fields and the kernel unipotent conjecture. [3] [4] [5] He has also worked on Galois theory and quadratic forms, [6] Galois Demushkin groups, [7] [8] mild pro-2-groups, [9] Galois modules, [10] small quotients of Absolute Galois groups, [11] [12] [13] ghosts in group cohomology, [14 ...
Mináč has directed three films about Sir Nicholas Winton, a Briton who organized the rescue of 669 |Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport: the drama All My Loved Ones (1999) (the role of Winton was played by Rupert Graves), the documentary The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002), which won an ...
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Mináč got the idea for "a film about what preceded the war from the perspective of a child" from stories recounted by his mother. For further inspiration, he visited Prague's Jewish Museum and read Vera Gissing's Pearls of My Childhood, which briefly mentioned Nicholas Winton rescuing hundreds of children before the war.
Jan Minář; Country (sports) Czech Republic: Residence: Prague, Czech Republic: Born 9 April 1981 (age 43) Prague, Czechoslovakia: Height: 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) Turned pro: 1999: Plays: Right-handed (2-handed backhand) Prize money $265,469: Singles; Career record: 0–2: Career titles: 0: Highest ranking: No. 177 (5 May 2008) Current ranking
Janet Michelle "Jan" Kerouac (February 16, 1952 – June 5, 1996) was an American writer and the only child of beat generation author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac. Early life and career [ edit ]
Jan Mark (22 June 1943 – 16 January 2006) was a British writer best known for children's books. In all she wrote over fifty novels and plays and many anthologised short stories. In all she wrote over fifty novels and plays and many anthologised short stories.
The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award was a literary award that annually recognised one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. [1] It was conferred upon the author of the book by The Guardian newspaper, which established it in 1965 and inaugurated it in 1967 ...