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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of the northwest Czech Republic west of Prague. Chartered in the 1300s, it has medicinal sulfur springs and has long been popular as a spa.
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Examples
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Kaderova said that one of the aims of the visit to Karlovy Vary is to get more acquainted with the problems of the glass-making industry in western Bohemia.
Prague Monitor 2010
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Litomyšl certainly has as much to offer the visitor as famous destinations such as Karlovy Vary and Český Krumlov do.
Prague Monitor 2009
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Meanwhile, I am enjoying a nice break in Karlovy Vary, staying in the same hotel where Casino Royale was filmed.
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Naomi Gryn and Hugo Gryn in Karlovy Vary, 1989, on location filming Chasing Shadows (released 1990).
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Since the Velvet Revolution more than a decade ago, Karlovy Vary has been transformed from a run-down spa town to a playground for the rich, the famous -- and the arthritic.
Movies And Massage 2007
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I met Roger Ebert on the visit to Karlovy Vary he describes.
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Roger Ebert says, "My wife and I were in Karlovy Vary four years ago for the film festival, and, like Queen Latifah's character, we did a double-take when we discovered that the correct pronunciation of the hotel rhymes with 'poop.'"
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The film is supposed to be set in Slovakia, but the film locations planned are Prague, Karlovy Vary and Cesky Budejovice and Cesky Krumlov in Czech and possibly Rome in Italy.
Archive 2006-09-01 Praguetory 2006
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I met Roger Ebert on the visit to Karlovy Vary he describes.
Archive 2006-01-08 2006
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Roger Ebert says, "My wife and I were in Karlovy Vary four years ago for the film festival, and, like Queen Latifah's character, we did a double-take when we discovered that the correct pronunciation of the hotel rhymes with 'poop.'"
Archive 2006-01-08 2006
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