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Carmen Sandiego Ending Theme
The first thing I ever learned about this part of the world is that it's the reason for the disclaimer at the end of Carmen Sandiego: "All geographic information is accurate as of the date this program was recorded!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_L4...
03.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Please come and share your questions, advice, experience, wisdom, etc., about doing research in Poland, the Czech Republic, and/or Slovakia this Thursday!
07.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
CSEEES at UNC is hosting a Zoom workshop on May 16 for emerging scholars of East Central/Central/Eastern/Southeastern Europe on interesting sources and approaches. Apply by the end of the month! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
10.03.2025 14:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, absolutely -- I've sent you a message.
12.02.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm looking for one more presenter for an ASEEES panel about medicine and morality under state socialism. Please get in touch if you're interested and pass it on if you know of anyone who might be!
12.02.2025 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Answer: "Entertainment according to the tax code does not exclude [the fact] that presentations might also serve the purposes of uplift, education, or other purposes not considered entertainment, or that the organizer does not intend to entertain."
13.12.2024 15:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A picture from my favorite magazine, Lidová správa, produced by the Czechoslovak Communist Party for local officials
Questions and answers from Communist local officials, 1948: "A magician/fortuneteller refused to pay the entertainment tax after doing a show in our village, saying that it wasn't entertainment, but a serious scientific demonstration, [and] that nobody laughed at his show. How should [we] proceed?"
13.12.2024 15:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two centuries?! This means that trdelníky have a longer history in Moravia than slivovice and the cimbál, which is highly disturbing
27.11.2024 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some people might say that I should use a more professional-looking avatar, but these people are just jealous that they didn't appear in a Soviet cartoon as a deprived American librarian decades before they were even born
26.11.2024 20:11 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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