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  • Plzensky Prazdroj Pilsner Urquell brewery in Plzen, C.ech Republic The Brewery Museum (Veleslavinova 6, +420 377 235 574), 90 korunas, tucked into a townhouse where brewing began as early as 1520, opens with an exhibition on beer's beginnings in the fourth century B.C. The C.thedral of St. Bartholomew (Namesti Republiky 35), a gothic structure on which construction began in the 13th century, boasts Bohemia's tallest church steeple (336 feet).

    Plzen 2009

  • This policy, combined with a pagan reaction against a determined Christian king, led to Wenceslaus's murder by his brother Boleslav I. Prague soon became the center of a Wenceslaus cult; by 1100 he was recognized as Bohemia's patron saint, and his crown has served as the symbol of Czech independence.

    b. Bohemia and Moravia 2001

  • At the same time, Bohemia's internal independence was guaranteed.

    1. Bohemia 2001

  • A series of charters issued in 1348 established an order of dynastic succession and determined Bohemia's place in the Holy Roman Empire.

    1. Bohemia 2001

  • Mr. BROOKS: Well, Bohemia's a region in central Europe, and I think the Bohemians who had no ethnic relationship to real Bohemians who were from Bohemia adopted it because they thought they were Gypsies, that they ha -- were free-floating individuals.

    Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There 2000

  • It was Bohemia's Swan Song, sung by those to whom San Francisco held more than pleasure -- more than sentimentality.

    Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords

  • Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Cæsar's eagle shield.

    Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

  • Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Caesar's eagle shield:

    The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • Everything then went as merrily as that marriage-bell which, apparently, is the only one absent in Bohemia's gay chimes.

    In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

  • It was lately a large brick pile, concealed by other buildings and was a public-house, bearing the sign of the Queen of Bohemia's Head, the earl's admired mistress, whose battles he fought animated by love and duty.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 Various

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