Craig Baxter @CraigBa61695576

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Oli London @OliLondonTV

21 hours ago

Jewish student wearing a Star of David necklace DENIED entry to his own university because he is JEWISH. “I’m a UCLA student. I deserve to go here. We pay tuition. This is our school and they are not letting me walk in.” Masked activists refused to let the student enter.

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Eight Sleep @eightsleep

5 days ago

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Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

21 hours ago

NEW: Jewish UCLA student blocked from entering his own school while he tries attending class. Eli Tsives was refused entry by pro-Palestine students on campus according to his post on IG. "They didn't let me get to class using the main entrance! Instead they forced me to…

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Pieter Voogt @voogt_pieter

18 hours ago

@Culture_Crit Here I disagree: 'The trick is that everyday buildings don't fight for attention.' The trick is that when two beautiful buildings fight for attention or are different in style, nobody cares, because it means just more beauty. Like here in Amsterdam. Nobody complains about this.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

20 hours ago

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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A preservationist spirit has safeguarded the city for centuries, rejecting attempts at sweeping reform. Because Prague clung to its heritage so fiercely, you can feel the weight of history in its streets...

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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And when the Nazis seized Prague's church bells to melt them down for the war effort, ordinary citizens did what they could to hide them away — at great risk.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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It did also suffer some WW2 damage, when American bombers mistook Prague for Dresden and destroyed swathes of buildings in 1945. You wouldn't know it, because most of the lost classicism was quickly restored.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

20 hours ago

Above all, Prague is a product of resilience. It endured the worst the 20th century had to throw at it, surviving decades of communist control with only a few unfortunate monuments to that ideology...

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

20 hours ago

Prague isn't ordered in elegant, uniform rows like Paris, but its eclectic buildings fit somehow harmoniously. The trick is that everyday buildings don't fight for attention — they provide the humble context for great buildings to draw your eye.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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Even the water towers are markers of immense civic pride. The Letná tower could have been a drab, utilitarian block — instead, its builders recognized it would be seen by everyone.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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But the real key to Prague's beauty is not in great monuments — it's in the "unnecessary" beauty. Thousands of hand-carved statues (medieval and modern) adorn the city, and they wouldn't be out of place in great art galleries...

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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Outside the major movements, architectural treasures exist all over the city. The Moorish tradition left its imprints at the Spanish Synagogue, for example:

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Later on came Art Nouveau's injection of creativity. It built wonders like the Municipal House, but splashes of it are found everywhere. It filled unlikely places, like this 1930s window in St Vitus Cathedral...

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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Baroque craftsmen also knew that libraries should be shrines to knowledge. Two of the most enchanting libraries ever built are in Prague: the Strahov Monastery and the Klementinum.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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When the Habsburgs took over, they restored Prague in a campaign of Catholicization. Baroque art and architecture became vehicles of evangelization all over the city — like the statues watching over Charles Bridge.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

21 hours ago

Sometimes, generations were captured in a single building. St. Vitus Cathedral's first stone was laid at Charles' instruction in 1344, but it wasn't completed for 600 years.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

21 hours ago

Generations of builders built around Prague's ancient Romanesque origins. Layers of architectural history slowly built up: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque... You can see them piling up from the banks of the Vltava.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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It's exceptional because it was made the capital of the Holy Roman Empire in 1355. Charles IV made Prague the empire's most beautiful city — commissioning wonders that endure to this day, like Charles Bridge.

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

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Largely sparred from WW2 bombs, Prague is a time capsule of architectural movements — from Gothic to Art Nouveau. A thousand years of history is condensed into a few square miles...