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L'Equipe.fr Actu Basket-Hand-Volley -
18 hours and 41 minutes ago
Sérieusement touchée (luxation) le week-end dernier à la cheville droite avec
son club de l'USK Prague, Sandra Le Dréan...
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L'Equipe.fr Actu Sport -
18 hours and 41 minutes ago
Sérieusement touchée (luxation) le week-end dernier à la cheville droite avec
son club de l'USK Prague, Sandra Le Dréan...
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TimesOnline: Britain -
1 days and 3 hours ago
As he lived just before the invention of the telescope, Tycho Brahe relied on his keen eyes to make
observations that changed the science. Yet his face was more remarkable for a different feature: a
golden nose. In 1566, when Tycho was a 20-year-old student at the University of Rostock in Germany,
he became embroiled in a drunken argument with another Danish nobleman named Manderup Parsbjerg. A
duel ensued – in the dark – in the course of which
Parsbjerg’s rapier lopped off much of the bridge of the future astronomer’s nose. To
mask the damage, Tycho – like Galileo Galilei, he is generally known by his
first name – designed himself a metallic nose-job. Using an alloy of silver and
gold, he fashioned a false nose that is said to have been remarkably realistic. Thenceforth, he
carried a special paste around with him – historians differ on whether this was
for reattaching the nose, or for polishing it. The man with the golden nose may, in fact, have had
several replacements. When his body was exhumed in 1901, on the 300th anniversary of his death, no
precious prosthesis was found. His skull however, was stained green where the nose would have been.
This may indicate that copper – which oxidises to a green colour
– was used to build his nose. Some speculate that he had a lighter copper nose
for everyday use, and saved the heavier silver-gold version for special occasions. Alternatively, a
grave robber might have stolen the precious metal, and substituted a cheap alternative.
Tycho’s nasal appendage was far from his only unusual possession: at his family seat,
Knutstorp castle, he kept a pet moose. His prized companion met a tragic end, falling downstairs
after drinking beer at a banquet. Another member of the nobleman’s unorthodox household was a
dwarf named Jepp, whom Tycho considered to be clairvoyant. Tycho, who at one stage owned 1 per cent
of all the wealth in Denmark, would often order silence at his feasts and make his guests listen to
Jepp’s pronouncements. For all his quirks, however, Tycho was an astronomer of immense
stature. Besides observing the supernova of 1572, he catalogued more than a thousand new stars, and
made some of the most accurate measurements of celestial movements yet accomplished. In his latter
years, when working in Prague, he employed Johannes Kepler as his assistant. After Tycho’s
death, Kepler was to use his master’s records of the movement of Mars to establish the laws
of planetary motion. Tycho, however, was off the scent on one critical astronomical matter: though
well aware of Copernicus’s theory that the Earth orbits the Sun, he was unable to accept it.
Instead, he proposed his own idiosyncratic cosmology, by which the Sun orbited the Earth, while the
remaining planets orbited the Sun.

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Rue89 -
1 days and 10 hours ago
pQui ment? Le magazine tchèque Reflex a href=http://www.reflex.cz/Clanek34399.html
target=_blanka publié le transcript /ad'une discussion qui aurait eu lieu entre Nicolas
Sarkozy et le Premier ministre a ref=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirek_Topol%C3%A1nek
target=_blankMirek Topolanek/a, à Paris, le 31 octobre dernier, au cours d'un
déjeuner de travail. Discussion plutôt débridée, si l'on en croit ce
verbatim tiré d'un document de l'ambassade tchèque à Paris./p pa
href=http://www.rue89.com/2008/12/03/sarkozy-et-les-arabes-pataques-entre-paris-et-pragueen lire
plus/a/p
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Sport24.com -
1 days and 15 hours ago
p La seconde partie de la 4e journée de la phase de poules de la Coupe UEFA a lieu jeudi
soir. A suivre notamment le match opposant Wolfsburg à Portsmouth, en très grande
difficulté dans la compétition, ou encore la rencontre décisive entre le
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L'actualité du sport avec Sport 365 -
1 days and 20 hours ago
 L'ex-meilleure joueuse française de LFB en 2005, Sandra Le Dréan, s'est
très sérieusement blessée à la cheville droite lors d’une
rencontre de championnat tchèque entre Prague et Valosun Brno.
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Open"Source::critere -
2 days and 7 hours ago
Après la présentation mi-novembre de son slogan "l'Europe sans barrières" et
de son logo, la future présidence tchèque du Conseil a lancé le 1er
décembre son site officiel www.eu2009.cz. ...
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Routard.com -
2 days and 15 hours ago
Les Alsaciens ne sont pas les seuls à succomber aux délices des marchés de
Noël. De Nuremberg à Stockholm, en passant par Prague et Bruxelles, découvrez
notre sélection des meilleurs...
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