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BIRD Aerosystems, the leading developer of Airborne Missile Protection Systems (AMPS) and Special Mission Aircraft Solutions (ASIO), will participate in this year's International Defence and Security Technologies Fair in Brno next week.

Monoxylon is the Greek term for a vessel chiselled out from a single tree trunk. It's also the name of a Czech-led experimental archaeological expedition, which first set off in such a craft back in 1995.

Translator, literary scholar and historical sociologist Martin Tharp's current research focuses on the working-class counterculture of post-1968 Czechoslovakia. He finds that – dissident groups such as Charter 77 aside – the "underground" social movement comprised a diffuse and generalised sentiment of an "emotive-artistic resistance to state cultural control" and censorship.

When one thinks of an outdoor amusement park, one thinks of long lines of people, walking around big asphalt parking lots, concrete walkways, looking at steel rides and waiting for a chance to participate. Is there a chance to do some ridiculous things, have fun, burn some stress and avoid the uncomfortable masses? The answer is Action Park, Prague.