Carp Murder II

Praha (III)

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December 21st 2007
In December 2006 I arrived in Prague just after the carp sellers had gone home for Christmas. The only remnants of the Christmas carp sales were small piles of bloody snow on street corners and in town squares and fish scales stuck between sidewalk paving stones. This time around I had arrived in Prague a few days earlier. For the days leading up to Christmas I was able to see the carp sellers ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more