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"Just appoint among others present only three living men: Zapletal, Musil and Hejčl, men whose names are in the science of biblical his good reputation far beyond the borders of our country closer to see how dignity is involved in this spirit of Czech industry in the international spirits of the world struggle. "Bartholomew Kutal, Našinec, 16 May 1918 Read more »

A known fact is that in Senftenberg in the 19th century the tower, at that time probably the most advanced in the Czech lands. At the invitation of the estate owner John Parish on it between 1847 - 1870 he was a Danish astronomer Theodor Brorsen, whose most 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf comet discovered on 20 July 1847 in Alton. The žamberské Observatory a few years later (1851) discovered two more (C/1851 P1 and C/1851 U1) of its total of five comets. Read more »