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Hello my friends,

what about to take another Writing Challenge? Let's make ourself smarter in kind of an interesting way because I am coming up with my this awesome idea :-) You might know, where your friends, you met here come from and where the country is situated in the map.. but what about to get to know something more about their country?

I think, it would be great to share, what your country is famous for. Be it something traditional or something you would surprise others with, just try to write a blog on this topic, no matter if it is going to be an invention, a person, a tradition, a brand, just simply share something, what you consider great and what made your country famous in the world.

So, don't be lazy, hurry up and give it a title:

Writing Challenge: What made my country famous in the world?

Here is my blog:

Like some of you know, I come from Czech republic, which is central European country. Even though this country is small, I think we came up with many interesting things, so let me firstly share some inventions:

1. Can you imagine your cup of tea or coffee without suggar? If not, I bet you might use CUBE SUGGAR. Believe it or not but this invention comes from my country. Once upon a time in 19th century a wife of a guy called Jakub Kryštof Rad complained about being injured while trying to chop up big suggar loaf. He was thinking and thinking and later came up with…

2. Is your vision bad? Do you use the CONTACT LENS? Well, the contact lens were invented by Czech man, his name was Otto Wichterle. What is the most interesting about it? He invented them during the communist era (20th century) and didn't make fortune with it at all. Our government immediately sold this awesome invention to the USA and inventor got just few dollars, which is pretty sad.

3. Are you terrorist? In this case you might know SEMTEX. Unfortunately, we also came up with some bad inventions that killed people around the world and I am pretty ashamed of it. Semtex is plastic explosive that was developed by chemist Stanislav Brebera and was firstly used in Vietnam to help communistic Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.

4. What about the word ROBOT? It is a Czech word that was firstly used by a Czech novelist Karel Čapek in his play called RUR (Rosuum's Universal Robots). The root of this word is robota – hard work and logically somebody who works manually hard and his work is stereotype works like ROBOT - without using brain.

I guess enough, so let me bother you with some Czech popular brands, I hope you might know at least one of them :-D

1. SKODA – if you use a car, you might come across this brand, which is popular all around the world. Skoda originally comes from the Czech republic and is still produced here, even though nowadays it is owned by the Volkswagen group.

2. BATA – are you fashionable? Do you like wearing comfortable shoes? I hope you know this brand that comes from the city called Zlín situated in the Czech republic. In fact, this brand is named after its founder Tomáš Baťa – who ran his business in 1894.

3. PILSNER URQUEL, BUDWEISER – I guess if you like beer, you might have tasted them and I bet you found those beers really awesomeeeeeeeeee because Czech beer is simply the best in the world :-D

4. AVG – almost everybody uses nowadays Internet, so maybe you might be familiar with antivirus called AVG. It was formed by the Czech engineers, who later decided to sell it, so that is why now its seat is in Netherlands, Amsterdam :-/

So, these are in short my interesting points I wanted to share about Czech republic. I hope, you learned something new and I am looking forward to reading your blogs!

The pictures were taken from:

http://www.kalendarakci.atlasceska.cz/cukry-vystava-o-historii-cukru-a-slavkovskem-cukrovaru-zamek-slavkov-u-brna-44019/

http://canov.jergym.cz/vybusnin/PXD/cl/semtex.htm

http://www.johnmulhollandmotors.com/blog/article133/skoda-simply-clever-videos

http://www.fetchlogos.com/logos/shoe-logos/page/3/

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2363430/avg-to-buy-mdm-provider-location-labs-in-usd220m-deal

http://www.hormeda.cz/plzensky-prazdroj/

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2363430/avg-to-buy-mdm-provider-location-labs-in-usd220m-deal