Pilsen

• “Plzen in 1898 trademarked its concoction Pilsner Urquell (Pilsen is German for Plzen; "Urquell" translates roughly as "original source.")”

  The Wall Street Journal: Plzen

• “Note: The name "Pilsen" is one indication that Mexicans weren't the first immigrants in this neighborhood.”

  Another Day in the Ketchup Mine

• “(Well, at least consumption wasn't measured as in Pilsen, site of the sudden-death beer match between meself and Juha.)”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “I'm looking forward to a wee trip to the Czech Republic at the end of the month, where I'll be a guest at Parcon in Pilsen, along with Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Ian R. Mcleod and Les Edwards, making this sort of the world's first New Weird convention.”

  Archive 2008-08-01

• “This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.”

  Think Progress » Report: Blair refuses to back Iran strike.

• ““My most serious concern was to open the ballot boxes in Pilsen in Chicago and have lines of people voting for Mexican politicians,” Gonzales remarked seriously.”

  Think Progress » In Any Language, Sen. Coburn’s Amendment Should Make You Sick

• “This beer company, Efes Pilsen is a very famous beer here in Turkey.”

  Oktoberfest, The Beer Festival Has Begun

• “The focus of the controversy in Pilsen, Chicago's best-known Mexican neighborhood, isn't a person but a doll: an $84 addition to the coveted American Girl series, most of which come with their own book-length back story.”

  Another Day in the Ketchup Mine

• “Above, a tap at the Pilsner Urquell factory in Pilsen.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Posh Beer Flows in U.S.

• “Pilsen, which is known to us chiefly (and rightly) for its good beer, is now spelt Plzen; this, however, makes little difference to the pronunciation, and happily none at all to the quality of the beer.”

  From a Terrace in Prague

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