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Mladičká Blanka z Valois, sestřenice francouzského krále, se nebrání diplomaticky sjednanému sňatku s českým kralevicem Václavem, budoucím králem Karlem IV., neboť ví, že ji jako urozenou dívku čeká dohodnuté, politicky výhodné manželství. S českým princem se navíc bezp…

Montague Rhodes James makes his second appearance in the series in this, the seventh step into the Darkness. James came from Kent in South East England, and was a renowned scientist focusing on medieval art, literature, and architecture. He wrote short stories just for …

Summer has started and a group of six friends who call themselves the Bombardiers have so many plans. First on the agenda? Finally explore the half-ruined house in Acacia Street everyone is so afraid of. No one has stepped inside for years. Except for cats. Hundreds of …

The Beauty of Women for Middle Aged and Older Men 67 humorous and reflective poems about love, attraction, and relationships from a mature man's perspective. What happens when love is seen not through youthful fantasy, but through the wisdom of time? This collection bl…

Vzpomínky na počátky časopisu, který se na konci 19. a v první čtvrtině 20. století stal tribunou mladého hnutí v české literatuře.8. října 1894 vyšlo první číslo Moderní revue pro literaturu, umění a život. Počátky Moderní revue zaznamenal ve svých pamětech básník a sp…

The second step into the Darkness is called Illusion, and the pioneer of modern-era horror stories, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, meets another of his “gurus” – Edgar Allan Poe (Lovecraft himself is sometimes referred to as E. A. Poe’s direct successor). William Wilson is …

The eighth step into the Darkness takes place on the American side of the Atlantic. It features two short stories by a single author – Texas native Robert Ervin Howard. Sadly enough, Howard died at age 30, but he still managed to create several immortal heroes – and was…

"Já musím psát. Když jsem mnohdy mrzutostí nebo starostí sklíčená, jak sednu k psaní, žiji v jiném světě," svěřuje se v jednom ze svých dopisů Božena Němcová (4. 2. 1820 Vídeň - 21. 1. 1862 Praha). Když pročítáme její korespondenci, vždycky znovu musíme obdivovat, s jak…

James Clerk Maxwell is one of history's most influential scientists — in Einstein's words, the man with whom "one scientific epoch ended and another began" — yet he remains far less known to the public than contemporaries like Faraday, Newton, or Einstein himself. In th…

Říká se, že v každém květu heřmánku sídlí heřmánková víla, která si plete z heřmánkové vůně jemňounký léčivý závojíček. A co se stane, když se heřmánková víla zatouží proletět po světě a cestu zpátky domů už nenajde, protože její bylinku lidé utrhli? Naneštěstí ale práv…

What did Shakespeare really believe, write, and do -- and what have we simply assumed for four hundred years? 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare takes aim at the persistent myths surrounding the world's most famous playwright, from questions about his identity and authors…

The e-book reveals a set of rules obeyed by entrepreneurs who are running successful businesses in the long-term. Business is affected by many variables, but every entrepreneur can affect those which are essential for success! Which are they?

The third step into the Darkness is called Sounds in the Dark. It begins with a short story written in 1921 by American master horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft called The Music of Erich Zann. The author himself considered the story to be one of his masterpieces, …

World history is contradictory. On the one hand, it is certainly fascinating with the number of courageous deeds and glorious victories that moved human society forward. And if that failed, then at least with heroic defeats that positively influenced national consciousn…

What if politics isn’t random at all but follows patterns most people never see? Why do some political systems succeed while others collapse? Is history shaped by chance… or by underlying laws? And can morality truly survive in the world of power, strategy, and ideology…

Císař Karel IV. získal pro svou dceru Annu výhodnou partii -- anglického krále! Mladičká česká princezna se za Richarda II. provdá v šestnácti letech a přicestuje do svého nového domova. Královský dvůr cizí nevěstu přijme zprvu chladně, ale mírná a laskavá Anna Česká br…

The very first step into the Darkness is called Death and Other Horrors, and it contains three short stories. The author of the first of these – The Haunted Dolls’ House – is Montague Rhodes James. A scientist at first, James eventually gained success writing Gothic hor…

The fourth step into the Darkness is called Murderers, and it takes the listener into the realm of vampire stories and haunted houses. The first – The Tomb of Sara – was written by English navy officer, and writer, Frederick George Loring. It was one of the very first s…

Rituals for Virtual Meetings turns a genuine 2020-era crisis — the sudden shift to all-remote work — into a practical playbook for making screen-bound meetings feel human again. Drawing on their backgrounds teaching at the Stanford d.school and researching how humans cr…

A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and well-behaved, but are they too good to be true? When the governess starts to experience strange visions, she …

MS v ledním hokeji juniorů 1977 - Banská Bystrica (první MS v této kategorii) ČSSR - Švédsko 4:2 2. 1. 1977 - 2. a 3. třetinu komentují Stanislav Dudka, Aleš Procházka a Jaroslav Janků - přenos začíná posledními 2 minutami 2. třetiny, ČSSR vede 2:0 - …