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    Prokop Diviš O.Praem. (Czech pronunciation: [ˈprokop ˈɟɪvɪʃ]; 26 March 1698 – 21 December 1765) was a Czech canon regular, theologian and natural scientist...
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  • Diviš, Czech footballer Lukáš Diviš, Slovak volleyball player Richard Diviš, Czech hockey player Petra Divišová, Czech footballer Václav Prokop Diviš...
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    Barnabite meteorologist, astronomer, and director of Vatican Observatory Václav Prokop Diviš (1698–1765) – Czech priest who studied electrical phenomenons and...
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    technology. The first was the Denis d'or stringed instrument, made by Václav Prokop Diviš in 1748, with 700 electrified strings. In 1760, Jean Baptiste Thillaie...
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  • instrument in history that involved electricity. The Czech theologian Václav Prokop Diviš, who had his parish in the Moravian town Přímětice near Znojmo, was...
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    Lightning Lightning rod fashion The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Václav Prokop Diviš (1698–1765) – Constructor of the first grounded lightning rod, in...
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  • type was the Denis d'or stringed instrument, which was built by Václav Prokop Diviš in 1748. It had 700 strings temporarily electrified to enhance their...
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  • Cori, biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate Leander Czerny, biologist Václav Prokop Diviš, priest, scientist and inventor Josef Dobrovský, philologist and...
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    or "lightning catcher" installed on the roof ridge. In that time Václav Prokop Diviš, a clergyman in Přímětice near Znojmo, had studied plant growth and...
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  • 16 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (died 1758) March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (died 1765) May 8 – Henry...
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    17 – Lady Jane Douglas, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1753) March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1765) April 1 – Steven...
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  • Perspective. Lagrange begins to work on the problem of tautochrone. Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist in the fields of applied...
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  • Pococke, English anthropologist and explorer (born 1704) December 25 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian, natural scientist and pioneer in the field of...
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  • 17 – Lady Jane Douglas, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1753) March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1765) April 1 – Steven...
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    June 1927, Prague) was a Czech painter. He was the son of a tailor named Václav Bruner. He later changed his name to "Dvořák", possibly for patriotic reasons...
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  • Holzinger as laughing man Václav Norman as man with an umbrella Vojta Mirko as builder Marie Hodrová as old lady Felix Prokop as boy Oskar Hák as fat boy...
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    today there is a small exposition on Jewish population in the town. Prokop Diviš (1698–1765), inventor, catholic priest Theodor Brorsen (1819–1895), Danish...
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    invasion of the Saxon army took place here in 1631. City clerk Mikuláš Diviš was nailed to the gallows by the tongue for one hour for welcoming Frederick...
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    Jan Marek Marci, Josef Ressel, František Křižík, Vincenc Strouhal, Prokop Diviš, František Josef Gerstner, Ernst Mach Astronomy – Antonín Mrkos, Antonín...
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    to support nobody, 18.70% voted to support Bašta, 6.09% voted to support Diviš, 5.22% voted to support Pavel, 4.78% voted to support Nerudová, and 4.35%...
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  • Václav Hájek z Libočan († 1553) František Halas (1901–1949) Vítězslav Hálek (1835–1874) Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) Jiří Haussmann (1898–1923) Václav Havel...
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    Radio (in Czech). 26 January 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021. Vodrážka, Prokop (6 October 2021). "Experti: Fialovo zpochybňování vlivu člověka na klima...
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    denunciation and accused, along with many other Czechoslovak citizens (Pelc, Diviš, Reinerová, Kopf, etc.), as an agent of Moscow. He was imprisoned for seven...
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  • Meinel (Aden Meinel) 4530 Smoluchowski (Roman Smoluchowski) 5103 Diviš (Prokop Václav Diviš) 5224 Abbe (Ernst Abbe) 5668 Foucault (Léon Foucault) 6999 Meitner...
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