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Sailors and rescuers commemorated victims of the Danube river
A MEMORIAL feast, commemorating the sailors, shipmasters and other workers who died in an accident during their work on ships sailing the Danube river – as well other rivers – took place on December 5, on the eve of the day of St Nicolaus, patron-saint of sailors.
Tatra ice cathedral was opened at Hrebienok
AFTER last year’s success, this year also the High Tatras will have a special attraction apart from natural beauties: a man-made ice cathedral of artificial ice.
Slovak app Droppie wants to compete with Instagram and others
A FIVE-member Slovak team is currently launching a new mobile application called Droppie – a social network that will connect people via pictures taken by others who have already been at a certain place. The inventors believe that the app may become as popular as Instagram, Foursquare and Snapchat. "
Discoveries under threat
THE BRATISLAVA Castle, restored in the second half of the 20th century after lying in burnt ruins for 140 years, needed another extensive reconstruction. This was started in the first decade of the new millennium and included archaeological research.
Public library of Ján Bocatio celebrates 90
IN SEPTEMBER 1924, the institution called State Public Library (štátna verejná knihovňa) came to exist due to the decree of the Council of the city of Košice. It continued the operation of the already non-existent library of the Law Academy in Košice.
Ever more Slovaks are leaving Christmas chores to professionals
MORE and more Slovaks prefer to leave it to the professionals when it comes to the chores associated with preparing for Christmas – according to a survey carried out by STEM/MARK agency on behalf of the Home Credit loan company.
“Call for help” by Slovak gingerbread-maker enchanted jury in Luxemburg
GINGERBREAD-MAKER from Trenčín, Mária Muráriková, again ranked well at the international gastronomy forum: with her bee-themed gingerbread, she won a prestigious award in the category of artistic confectioner at the World Cup in Luxembourg.
Names given most to newborns in 2014 are Adam and Ema
THE MOST frequently chosen names for newborns in Slovakia were Adam and Ema in Slovakia in 2014. This stems from a poll organised by the Najmama website, focused on children and maternity.
The construction of the Railway Track of Youth ended 65 years ago
THE CONSTRUCTION of the Railway Track of Youth, so symbolic for its time, was finalised on October 28, 1949, and two days later, it was ceremonially put into operation.
Historical tram rode in the streets, now parked in Transport Museum
THE ONCE legendary tram that connected Prešportok/Pozsony/Pressburg, now Bratislava, and Vienna has been reconstructed. After two years’ work, it was presented by the Club of Friends of City Mass and Regional Transport on the M.R. Štefánik Embankment during one weekend at the beginning of November. Then it was moved to the Museum of Transport in Šancová Street where it will be presented, together with a whole exhibition focused on this history, the TASR newswire informed.
Martin Hriňák of Košice wins Slovak record in spading
SLOVAK competition and an attempt at a Slovak record in spading was organised during the 5th year of the orcharding and farming JAHRADA in Expo Centre Trenčín on October 24 and 25.
Education path leads to the Hussite walls
PRIETRŽ, a municipality in western Slovakia, officially opened a new education, or informative, path leading to the so-called Hussite walls at the end of October.
The oldest hotel in the Tatras undergoes reconstruction
AFTER 20 years of dilapidation, the Lomnica Hotel in Tatranská Lomnica is now undergoing a thorough reconstruction.
Christmas markets opened
THE SLOVAK capital may not be the place you would immediately associate with widely-known Christmas markets, but it is probably the place with the biggest density of these markets per square meter: in its wider centre, at least four separate markets have expanded their kiosks, nativity scenes and choirs singing carols.
Connecting with the classics
IT IS difficult and challenging to evaluate art, but there are competitions that dare to tread on this thin ice – with the goal of exhibiting and promoting certain genres, styles or young artists.
Eagles prefer Hungary to Slovakia, blood tests show
SLOVAK ornithologists are using a new scientific method of getting DNA from the ends of birds’ moulted feathers. Thanks to its use, they were able to determine that two of the rare Eastern imperial eagle (Aquila Heliaca) born in Slovakia in 2004 and 2006, are alive and fit. However, Hungarian ornithologists now located the two Slovak eagles on their territory.
Čachtice received prestigious European award of British journalists
THE ASSOCIATION of travel journalists, the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) made the Čachtice castle and the municipality of Čachtice a runner-up for their Best European Tourism Project. This locality in Trenčín region of western Slovakia was pronounced an exceptional tourism project and recommended to be visited.
Elizabethan University operated only a few years in Bratislava, but its library survives to the present
BRATISLAVA, then called Pressburg, Pozsony or Prešporok, was long without a university. After a short period in the 15th century, there was no education of this kind and local councillors had been pressing for 30 years to found one in their hometown.
SOSNA presented “Hobbit House” to the public
THE CIVIC association SOSNA tries to promote the construction of economical houses from available resources. By the end of October, it presented to the public another interesting building – after the construction of the Ekocentrum in Družstevná pri Hornáde near Košice.
Festival courts US poet
THERE have been a host of festivals recently in Slovakia; sceptics claim that this is due to the Slovak system of state grants. Among all those, one stands out, as it is focused on an ancient art that has found itself somewhat on the margin of public interest nowadays: the art of poetry.
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