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Pavel Josef Savarik was a Slovak philologist. He was born in 1795 at Kobeliarov, Hungary and died in 1861 at Prague. He was a leading figure of the Czech national revival and a pioneer of Slavonic philology and archaeology. He was director of the Serbian Orthodox grammar school at Novi Sad before settling in Prague in 1833. In 1841 he turned down an invitation to occupy the chair of Slavonic philology at Berlin, preferring to remain a private scholar in his own country, researching and writing about the history and languages of the Slav people.
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General Stefanik was a Slovak soldier and airman. He was born around 1884 and died in 1919 in an air-crash. On the outbreak of the Great War he joined the French army as a private, and rose through the ranks to become a general. In 1916 he undertook propaganda work on the Italian front and being already a proficient airmen, made valuable observations while dropping pamphlets among the Czech regiments of the Austrian army. On the formation of the Czecho-Slovak republic be became commander-in-chief and war minister. He was killed in 1919 while flying to Prague when his plane crashed near Pressburg.
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Sten Sture was a Swedish noble and leader. He was born in 1440 and died in 1503. A nephew of Charles VIII, upon his uncle's death in 1470 Sten Sture became regent, despite the preference of many Swedish nobles for the election of Christian I of Denmark. Sten Sture defeated the Danes at Brunkeberg, but was later compelled to acknowledge the Danish suzerainty. Sten Sture is credited with the introduction of printing into Sweden and the founding of the university of Upsala.
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Adriana Karembeu (also known as Adrian Sklenarikova) is a Slovak model and actress. She was born in 1971 at Brezno.
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Latin-2 (ISO 8859-2) is an ISO 8859 computer character set supporting most Latin-written Slavic and Central European languages such as Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak and Slovene.
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The Letov S 328 was a Czech general purpose two-seat equal-span single-bay biplane designed in the early 1930s for the Finnish air force, and used by the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front during the Second World War as a reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft. The Letov S 328 was powered by a 635 hp Walter-built Bristol Pegasus IIM-2 9-cylinder radial piston engine which provided a top speed of 280 kmh and a range of 700 km. Armaments consisted of four 7.7 mm machine-guns, two mounted on the upper wing and two on a flexible mount in the rear cockpit, plus up to 500 kg of bombs could be carried. In 1944 many of the Slovak pilots on the Eastern Front defected to the USSR and the
Letov S 328 was used against the German forces in the occupied USSR.
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The Slovak Virus is a computer virus which infects .COM files. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program. The virus corrupts program or overlay files and data files.
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Rufmariasch is a card game related to the Czech and Slovak Marias and the Hungarian Ulti, played by the Donauschwaben - the German settlers on the banks of the Danube - in 18th and 19th century Hungary.
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Slovakia (properly the Slovak Republic) is a country in central Europe. The language is Slovak, Hungarian and Czech. Slovakia was part of Hungary from the 11th century until 1918 when it was united with the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia to form Czechoslovakia. In 1938 Slovakia declared independence, but became a puppet state of Nazi Germany. A popular revolt occurred in 1944 and Slovakia became once more part of Czechoslovakia in 1945. In 1993 Slovakia and the Czech Republic separated to become independent sates.
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Slovak is a Slavic language spoken in Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia and Montenegro.
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