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Val .
{K:4973} 10/24/2003
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http://www.davidcerny.cz/cz/vaclav.html
author sculpture: David Cerny
;-)
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Val .
{K:4973} 10/24/2003
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;-)
good work
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Amancio Couto
{K:15720} 10/21/2003
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Great shot! Interesting!!!
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Harlan Heald
{K:15732} 10/19/2003
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Excellent capture! Seems like he hasn't quite got it perfected, but he is on the right track.
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{K:16329} 10/19/2003
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Beautiful! [the 6s in the rating here are all wrong]
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m.c. lopez
{K:14766} 10/18/2003
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reminds me
of Bram Stocker's Dracula
by Coppola !
great gothic pic
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Peter Skjold Petersen
{K:971} 10/18/2003
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perfekt light, and compo.
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 10/17/2003
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thank you so much, rhonda!
prague is a wonderful city, you could spend a month only with strolling around in the streets
:)
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^j^ .
{K:8554} 10/17/2003
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I don't like to be rude but this has to be said...
This is really a fuc-king stunt !!!
:)
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17687} 10/17/2003
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Couldn't resist reading more about this King:
The square is named after the 10th century Bohemian hero Vaclav. He's known to English speakers as Good King Wenceslas, although Czecs say that the leader was not actually a king. A large bronze equestrian statue of Vaclav stands in front of the national museum at one end of the square. An old legend says that Vaclav and his valiant knights are asleep in a mountain cave outside of Praha, and they will awake and come to the rescue in the nation's hour of greatest need. A rather typically Czec story runs thus: In the 1950's the Communist leader received reports that the mounted statue of Vaclav had gotten off its pedestal and was galloping towards the mountains outside of town. The horrified leader sent his propaganda minister in a fast car to intercept Vaclav. The propaganda minister caught up with Vaclav, and said that although things may look bleak, Vaclav and his knights were not needed as The Party had everything well in hand. The minister then explained at length and in glowing terms the Communist Party's 5 year plan. Vaclav then turned his steed around and headed back to his square, saying, "Yes, I can see that this is not my country's hour of greatest need. The country will be in much worse shape in another 5 years!"
Maybe this legend of him leaving the pedestal has something to do with it or the fact that Czechs do not believe he was really a king.
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 10/17/2003
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fascinating, it would be interesting to know the significance (I know we don't know) I am sure it could have a very interesting story...
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lowell whipple girbes
{K:13151} 10/17/2003
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wow !!!!!!!!
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 10/17/2003
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:) not only in prague. absurdistan's everywhere
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lavendu ...
{K:4882} 10/17/2003
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seems to be the king of absurdistan.
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Paco Ferrer
{K:8586} 10/17/2003
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Curious King...I wouldn't like to be his horse!
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Tomo Radovanovic
{K:12788} 10/17/2003
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thanks for sharing this photo
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Vladislav Klima
{K:3660} 10/17/2003
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Interesting shot. To maybe... : but some symbols exalt always czech history.
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artlicht welten
{K:450} 10/17/2003
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a horse you want to ride,
you will better not kill before.
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a subversive sculpture
with east-european eye twinkering............
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:)
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Michael Holm
{K:7931} 10/17/2003
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This is some kinky King...Is the horse smiling?
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 10/16/2003
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nobody knows (except the artist)
:)
it's a sculptur hanging down the art-deco-ceiling in a shooping mall from the 20ies near vaclav square in prague. outside at a certain distance you can find the monument of the king in its correct position
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maybe czech history turned upside down by the events of the last centuries?
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John Lamb
{K:9687} 10/16/2003
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Fabio, What is the significance of the the King sitting on the upturned horse? Regards John
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