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Showing posts with label Czech Republic. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Czech Super Model Petra Němcová





Petra Němcová - born 24 June 1979 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic). She became a model after being spotted at the age of 16 during a national talent search.

She was featured on the cover of the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue but appeared also in the editions of 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. She has also modeled for Victoria's Secret, and for many other companies in the women's clothing market.


Petra is a model, television host, author, and philanthropist.






In December 2004, she was injured at the Khao Lak resort in Thailand by a tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; her then-fiancé, photographer Simon Atlee, was killed in the tsunami. Nemcova suffered a broken pelvis and serious internal injuries, but managed to hold onto the top of a palm tree, reportedly for eight hours, until she was rescued and airlifted to an island hospital nearby.



Petra agreed to pose in her hospital bed for Us Weekly, after the magazine agreed to donate $200,000 to the Asian tsunami relief efforts. Petra, started a charitable children's foundation, The Happy Hearts Fund.








2007 was a year of humanitarianism for Petra Nemcova. Not only was she a presenter at the American leg of Live Earth in July 2007, but she also visited Haiti in November with Wyclef Jean as part of a charity-sponsored event. She even became a vegan!



Born and raised in Karvina, in the Czech Republic, Petra Nemcova has taken the modeling world by storm. Ever since a modeling scout discovered her on the streets of her native country.

She has gained the nickname of "Czech Chick".


Ivanka Trump / Daniela Pestova

Supermodel PETRA NEMCOVA has created a new charity calendar full of "Czech chicks" to raise cash for her tsunami charity Happy Hearts Fund. The Supermodels 2008 calendar features sexy shots of Nemcova herself and other Czech Republic stunners, like Ivanka Trump (daughter of Czech supermodel and business woman Ivan Trump and American, Donald Trump) and Daniela Pestova. The shots were taken in Prague and New York




She is so beautiful, on the inside and out, she is using her fame to help those in need which is admirable and inspiring a real sweetie with a big heart. She sets a great example to follow.



English born singer, James blunt, told gorgeous Petra Nemcova: Goodbye My Lover. Looks like she's over it... She was last seen with American Film actor Sean Penn. Czech model Petra, 28, arrived at Sir Elton John's bash with Madonna's ex-husband Sean Penn, 47 - and they looked very much an item.




MEXICO CITY, Mexico, in December. 30, 2008 .- The recognized reality show Life Model of the beautiful super model Petra Nemcova, ended, and the girls were on the verge of hysteria.



The candidates have already known guapas regret in regard to the profession, how to deal with the demands of some photographers and designers, and learned that beauty is not everything outside in life. The models in the wake of their youth, tested what it is like at Fashion Week in New York while Petra and agents discussed which of the girls have an assured future as the award winning models to sign with a major agency.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Prague, music by Zdenek Fibich- Poema

This is Prague (capital city of Czech Republic), in my eyes. Notice the wonderful architecture. The area on which Prague was founded was settled as early as the Paleolithic Age.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Czech Style Chicken and Vegetables

When it comes to cooking not many can top Czech girls. They create delicious dishes with a little Bohemian twist that will send your taste buds on an exotic flavor ride.

This is a simple everyday meal prepared by the skillful hands of a Czech girl.

Chicken and Vegetables sounds pretty simple, but with skills and secrets passed down from her mother and generations before her allow this simple dish to come alive with taste.



The name of this dish "Chicken and Vegetables" known locally as Kure se zeleninou is prepared with potatoes, broccoli, carrots, Brussels sprouts, mushrooms topped off with chicken stuffer with garlic pieces add salt or other spices to taste.


Bake at 350* F for 1 hour and then butter on top of chicken. After the butter add paprika sweet red and bake for another 30 minutes until it is crunchy or crisp.


This hearty dish can quench any mans appetite. American men are very fond of the flavors shared by European ladies.
So go shopping get the ingredients and start cooking.







This Article and Dish and photos were created and Submitted by: Monika (an extremely talented girl from the Czech Republic)

Czech Republic

Czech Republic - Is officially known as The Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is a European Country and is completely surrounded by other countries, which means it has no ports of sea. The Czech Republic shares borders with Poland, Germany, Austria, and Slovakia. The Czech Republic is a member of NATO (since 1999); and the European Union. As of January 1, 2009, the Czech Republic holds the EU Presidency. In 1968, an invasion by Warsaw Pact troops ended the efforts of the country's leaders to liberalize Communist party rule and create "socialism with a human face." Anti-Soviet demonstrations the following year ushered in a period of harsh repression. With the collapse of Soviet authority in 1989, Czechoslovakia regained its freedom through a peaceful "Velvet Revolution." On 1 January 1993, the country underwent a "velvet divorce" into its two national components, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Czech Republic made economic reforms such as fast privatization and flat tax. Annual gross domestic product growth has recently been around 6%. The country is the first former member of the Com econ to achieve the status of a developed country (2006) according to the World Bank. The Czech Republic also ranks best compared to the former Com econ countries in the Human Development Index. The capital city of Prague has been the back drop of many American Films along with other historic regions of Bohemia and Moravia, as well as parts of Silesia.