Archive of articles - November 2004, page 4

Central Bank Governor: Crown will not be allowed to firm indefinitely

Slovak highways most expensive in Europe

Strong winds bring death and chaos to Slovakia

Outing the previous order

THE VELVET Generation, the young students and activists who demonstrated in Slovakia's squares in 1989, are now in their mid-thirties, and they have learned a thing or two about revolution. First, a distinct line dividing the old and new regime does not exist.In the blinding light of revolutionary fervour, in the deafening sound of falling walls, one cannot immediately see how much will survive from the previous order.When a new regime is built, it is constructed on the remains of the previous one. If a nation fails to understand what remains from the previous regime, if it cannot see through the disguise the surviving phenomena takes, generations to come will have to eliminate them - and pay the price for doing so.

A discovery to change history

"ONCE I was watching a programme on TV where they said that even stone has memory. After finding this church dating back to the Great Moravian period I stood in it and, recalling the TV programme, I started to wonder what the church's stone could remember - masses held in old-Slavic, maybe even the visit of [Greater Moravian ruler] Svätopluk on his way to Nitra.

Slovnaft wants Transpetrol shares

KDH ministers block cabinet resolution

Sykes over Košice

The real face of dining

Restaurant U JanusaWhere: Kláštorská 22, LevočaWhen:Monday-Friday 10:00-20:00, Saturday and Sunday by reservation onlyReservations: YesEnglish menu: YesTel: 053/451-4592Rating: 6 out of 10RESTAURANT U Janusa, as the menu says, is a family restaurant. It is an apt description, one that hints at the restaurant's pleasures and pitfalls, and as the name Janus suggests, this family atmosphere has two faces.

Women want more than just fun

THE NIGHT of the Witches will be an event, according to the invitation, "when females party". It will be a night of singing, music, film, theatre, DJs, VJs (Video Jockeys), information, exhibitions and fun. But, just in case you were wondering, "men can relax - they are encouraged to come as well".The nightlong party will roll out at Bratislava's Babylon Club November 26.

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Secret police files on Internet

Vršatec

AUTUMN is a time for tidying up the garden, making bonfires, raking up endless leaves, painting garden furniture - getting ready for the onslaught of a Slovak winter. It is also a time for field mice to head down to their local estate agents and start choosing a warm, cosy hideaway in which to take refuge for the long cold season ahead.On this last point, my partner and Viktoria, my daughter, put their feet down and made it abundantly clear that no mice or even mouse shall take up residence in our house this winter.

On mice, cheese and a sporting chance

AUTUMN is a time for tidying up the garden, making bonfires, raking up endless leaves, painting garden furniture - getting ready for the onslaught of a Slovak winter. It is also a time for field mice to head down to their local estate agents and start choosing a warm, cosy hideaway in which to take refuge for the long cold season ahead.On this last point, my partner and Viktoria, my daughter, put their feet down and made it abundantly clear that no mice or even mouse shall take up residence in our house this winter.

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Slovak sea only in museum

TO FIND traces of the time when Slovakia was covered by sea, some 14 to 16 million years ago, palaeontologists have had to delve deep into the earth. Fossils from the so-called Late Tertiary period have been located at three principal sites near Bratislava - Devínska Nová Ves, Devín and especially Devínska Kobyla, with its famous Sandberg site.These traces of Slovakia's ancient past are housed in the palaeontology collection of the Natural History Museum of the Slovak National Museum (SNM).

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