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Team, Place & City Details

HC Kometa Brno

HC Kometa Brno is a professional ice hockey team based in Brno, Czech Republic. They play in the Czech Extraliga.

BC Brno

Basketball Club Brno , for sponsorship reasons egoé Brno, is a Czech professional basketball club based in the city of Brno. The team plays in the Czech National Basketball League – the highest competition in the Czech Republic.

Hole in one

In golf, a hole in one or hole-in-one occurs when a ball hit from a tee to start a hole finishes in the cup. A ball hit from a tee following a lost ball, out-of-bounds, or water hazard is not a hole-in-one.

Starobrno Brewery
Starobrno Brewery

Starobrno Brewery is a Czech brewery located in the city of Brno. It was built as a successor of the brewery founded in 1325, as a part of Cistercian convent.

Holešov
Holešov

Holešov is a town in the Zlín Region, Czech Republic. The town is located on the western hillside of the Hostýn Hills - the westernmost part of the Carpathian Mountains.

Holešovice
Holešovice

Holešovice is a district in the north of Prague situated on a meander of the River Vltava, which makes up the main part of the district Prague 7 (an insignificant part belongs to Prague 1). In the past it was a heavily industrial suburb; today it is home to the main site of the Prague's National Gallery in Veletržní palác, National Technical Museum, and a convention centre, Výstaviště Praha.

Holešov Airport

Holešov Airport was an old airport serving the city of Holešov. The airport opened in the 1946 and closed in 2009.

Kostelec u Holešova
Kostelec u Holešova

Kostelec u Holešova is a village and municipality in Kroměříž District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 15.02 square kilometres (5.80 sq mi), and has a population of 993 (as at 3 July 2006).

Zbrojovka Brno
Zbrojovka Brno

Pre-war Československá zbrojovka, akc.spol. and post-war Zbrojovka Brno, n.p.

Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and author who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work focused on the education of emotionally disturbed children, as well as Freudian psychology more generally.

Brno University of Technology
Brno University of Technology

Brno University of Technology is a university located in Brno, Czech Republic. Being founded in 1899 and initially offering a single course in civil engineering, it grew to become a major technical Czech university with over 24,000 students enrolled at 8 faculties and 2 university institutes.

Brno-Bystrc
Brno-Bystrc

Bystrc is a district of the city of Brno in the Czech Republic. Former village on the banks of the Svratka river.

Brno death march
Brno death march

The Brno death march is the traditional German term for the forced expulsion of the German inhabitants of Brno (German: Brünn) after World War II. The march began late on the night of 30 May 1945 when the ethnic German minority in Brno was expelled to nearby Austria. Only about half of expellees actually crossed the border.