today has been a devastating day for czech people all over the country. 14 people dead and 25 injured, 10 of them seriously, in today's school shooting at the faculty of arts, charles university, prague. the gunman shot himself half an hour after starting the killing.
this happened nine and a half hours ago. as of right now, there's no official info about the victims and the people missing. the only pieces of information available come from other students who took on compiling lists of names and the current state of those individuals and sharing those on social media in hopes of being able to help. the news coverage is constant, but poor.
there are many terrifying testimonies and photos from the ones present at the faculty at that time. there are also many disgusting photos and videos of the gunman circulating on social media even after the police department urged not to share those out of respect to the victims and to prevent the rising panic.
there would've been way more victims had the police not acted as quickly as they did. still, there were mistakes made and i hope the department will be able to recognize them and act on them.
school shootings and shootings in general are not a thing here, they don't happen, people often haven't been given proper instructions on how to act in case of an active shooting in years. i still remember a mass shooting that took place in a hospital in ostrava. that was five years ago, 7 people dead.
this mass shooting is by far the worst one in czech history.
a national day of mourning has been scheduled for tomorrow, december 23rd, 2023. a minute of silence for the victims, the injured and their loved ones at noon, UTC+1 time. flags flying at half-mast. the victims will never go back home for christmas, they'll never see their loved ones again. this is the crushing reality of massacres like this one.
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If you have any fun fact about Czechia, please tell us and I'll reblog it!
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A mammoth tusk engraved with what's believed to be the oldest known attempt at a map. Recovered in Czechia and dated to ~25,000 BC.
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Rakvice🇨🇿
Some beautiful Moravian dresses/costumes from Rakvice, a village/municipality in the South East of Czechia🇨🇿.
This place has wonderfully preserved their beautiful culture.
You will notice with Moravian dresses, women tend to have large, puffy dresses with their distinctive huge, wide skirts and abundant petticoats underneath.
In many regions in South Moravia, men's costumes typically include a long white embellished ribbon with a decorated cockade on the right side of their vests as you can see above.
I managed to find some older photos from 1959 too❤️
A traditional dress/costume in Czech & Slovak is called a "Kroj" (pronounced like kroi). I love how highly and beautifully embellished each garment is from here❤️
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The Spanish Synagogue is the most recent synagogue in Prague's Jewish quarter. It was built in 1868 and called "Spanish" for its impressive Moorish interior decoration, influenced by the Andalusian Alhambra.
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Protože musím pracovat na práci, která mi pridá pár písmenek ke jménu, zde jsou přebásněné první dva verše refrénu "Pumped up kicks".
Všechna ta děcka,
V luxusních keckách...
A dál nevím.
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Since people are being obnoxious:
"My Sister's Crown" is expressing solidarity with Ukraine and condemning Russia's invasion. This is incredibly obvious. "My sister" is Ukraine. The "you" in lines like "you can take your hands back" is clearly Russia. They put a veneer of girl power anthem over it just in case the EBU tried to strike them down for being "too political." I mean "you can't steal our souls" is a direct quote from Jamala's Eurovision winning song "1944." If you can't tell whose side Czechia is on, you might just be stupid.
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