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Fun fact: Charles bridge (depicted in the video) was damaged during a flood in 1890. With the water level risen, broken down rafts were beating its arches and t

Fun fact: Charles bridge (depicted in the video) was damaged during a flood in 1890. With the water level risen, broken down rafts were beating its arches and two of them fell apart, along with three pillars that were undermined by the water. During the reconstruction of the pillars, they decided to make them hollow (to cut on the weight) and you can actually go inside! It's not open to the public but there's a video that shows the inside of a pillar number 6 [0]. [0] https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/clanek/jak-vypada-karluv-most-zevnitr-40039150 https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/clanek/jak-vypada-karluv-most-...

aunlead 6y ago
Normally I do not pay attention to ads but was curious to know - what was that Santa selling! And I can't speak a word of Czech. 1:26' into the video - Is that guy praying? Read there are statues of Saints on the bridge. Found an image of 1872 flood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge#/media/File:FFridrich,_Karluv_most,_Praha,_povoden_1872.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge#/media/File:FFr...
- xixixao 6y ago
  The river was used for centuries for transporting wood. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroplavba_v_%C4%8Cech%C3%A1ch https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroplavba_v_%C4%8Cech%C3%A1ch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRowvGeCJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRowvGeCJA
- jiripospisil 6y ago
  > Normally I do not pay attention to ads but was curious to know - what was that Santa selling! Haha, you mean the long bearded guy with a dog sitting next to him? That was a commercial for a search engine [0]. The premise of the commercial is that people come to this wise old man for advice and he seems to know everything, while in reality he just uses the search engine to look up the information. > 1:26' into the video - Is that guy praying? Read there are statues of Saints on the bridge. There's a lot of statues [1] but my first guess would be that the guy was simply begging for money. I could be wrong though. [0] https://search.seznam.cz https://search.seznam.cz [1] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochy_na_Karlov%C4%9B_most%C4%9B https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochy_na_Karlov%C4%9B_most%C4%... (the English version of the page doesn't have that many pictures)

aunlead 6y ago

Normally I do not pay attention to ads but was curious to know - what was that Santa selling! And I can't speak a word of Czech. 1:26' into the video - Is that guy praying? Read there are statues of Saints on the bridge. Found an image of 1872 flood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge#/media/File:FFridrich,_Karluv_most,_Praha,_povoden_1872.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge#/media/File:FFr...

xixixao 6y ago
The river was used for centuries for transporting wood. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroplavba_v_%C4%8Cech%C3%A1ch https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroplavba_v_%C4%8Cech%C3%A1ch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRowvGeCJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRowvGeCJA
jiripospisil 6y ago
> Normally I do not pay attention to ads but was curious to know - what was that Santa selling! Haha, you mean the long bearded guy with a dog sitting next to him? That was a commercial for a search engine [0]. The premise of the commercial is that people come to this wise old man for advice and he seems to know everything, while in reality he just uses the search engine to look up the information. > 1:26' into the video - Is that guy praying? Read there are statues of Saints on the bridge. There's a lot of statues [1] but my first guess would be that the guy was simply begging for money. I could be wrong though. [0] https://search.seznam.cz https://search.seznam.cz [1] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochy_na_Karlov%C4%9B_most%C4%9B https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochy_na_Karlov%C4%9B_most%C4%... (the English version of the page doesn't have that many pictures)