Castle Jindřichův Hradec

Castle Jindřichův Hradec

An old building 

Interior of the Rotunda in Adam's Building

with a fancy interior.

Under Wikipedia's list of notable people from the town of Jindřichův Hradec I found:

Stanislaus von Prowazek (1875 – 1915) was a Czech biologist, zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879-1956) discovered the pathogen of epidemic typhus.

Castle Jindřichův Hradec

The jigsaw puzzle page incorrectly identifies this building complex as Castle Český Krumlov. Castle Český Krumlov is 40 miles  southwest of Castle Jindřichův Hradec. 3D map of Castle Jindřichův Hradec is not available, all you get is the 2D satellite image.

Jawa 500 OHV Rumpál

Jawa 500 OHV Rumpál

The Jawa 500 OHV became the very first motorcycle of the new Jawa company in 1929. It is a copy of the Wanderer 500 from the German company Wanderer. The name 'Jawa' was derived from the combination of the names “Janeček” and “Wanderer”.

Features:

• shaft drive
• front leaf spring
• single cylinder but dual exhaust
• external valve springs
• drum brake mounted on the transmission

Just over a thousand units produced between 1929 and 1931.

Jawa 500 OHV rumpal 1929
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Sokol Slet & The Biggest Stadium in the World

The Forgotten Story Of The Largest Stadium Ever Constructed
The Tim Traveller

Very cool. I like the way he ties the history of the building to what was happening in the world.

Dutch F-16s in Eastern Europe

Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon (J062)

F-16 taking off from Leoš Janáček Airport near the city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. Note the heatwave distortion from the exhaust plume.

Okay, it's an F-16, but whose Air Force does it belong to? Might be kind of important since there has been talk about sending F-16s to Ukraine. Ostrava is only 500 miles from Kiev. There is some kind of round symbol on the tail, but it isn't clear enough in this image to determine just what it is. Have no fear F-16.net knows - it's the Royal Netherlands Air Force*.

More poking around turned up this picture:

F-16 tail feathers

The symbol is similar enough that it's likely the same.

On to Ostrava, Ostrava is just northeast of the Moravian Gate, which is a low area between two ranges of mountains. So if you have an army in Czechia and you want to go east into Poland, Ukraine or Russia, you are going to go through Ostrava and the Moravian Gate. I started watching a video the other day about how if Russia really wanted to defend their land against land invasion, they would need to secure several of these passes including the Moravian Gate. Sounds nuts to me, but then I didn't think Russia would invade Ukraine either.

Mošnov, Ostrava Airport
Note the mountains along the northern border of Czechia and all over Slovakia

So having F-16s stationed is Ostrava makes a certain amount of sense. Give those unruly Poles something to think about should they start casting covetous glances at Czechia.

* F-16.net calls it the RNIAF which Google translates to RNLAF, not to be confused with RNAF, the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Funny how all those European countries are hanging on to their royalty.