Prague
About Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Located on the Vltava River, the city has a population of about 1.4 million, making it the twelfth-largest city in the European Union. Its metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 million people.
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Later on in the Popeye run, there was a thing where the original animators were no longer animating it, and it was outsourced to Prague in order for them to make the cartoon. There was a whole series where Tom and Jerry was made in Prague and so on, and none of the animators out there had seen it.
from No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-05 at 00:05:44 · read transcript
Other times Prague came up
The guy who set up the Paz dispenser as we know it, the guy who was in charge of the decision basically was a man called Curtis Alina who was European. He was born in Prague in 1922. He was Jewish and that was not a good time to be born Jewish in Central Europe in Prague. His family were all sent to concentration camps. He was the only surviving member of his family in Europe after the war.
449: No Such Thing As the Blancmange Olympics, 2022-10-21 · listen
Um the guy who set up the pez dispenser as we know it is a guy well the guy who was in charge of the decision basically was a man called curtis alina who was uh european he was born in prague in 1922 He was Jewish, and that was not a good time to be born Jewish in Central Europe in prime.
No Such Thing As the Blancmange Olympics, 2022-10-20 · listen
For example, this is from British. Tanaka, they report that slow or defensive play used to be hugely popular in the field of ping pong and really you're just sitting back waiting for your opponent to make a mistake. I'm quoting directly here, slow or defensive play at one time was so dominant that at the 1936 world championships in Prague an hour was needed to decide a single point. What?
No Such Thing As A Ping Pong Ballbag, 2021-06-25 · listen
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