Located in the Old Town Square, the Prague Astronomical Clock has ... to represent vanity and a skeleton to depict death. Each hour the clock shows a visualization of time unlike anything else ...

Jonathan Stoneman gives his personal view in Comment. In front of Prague's old town clock tower, in a parade, the figure of death has just emerged from a door in the wall and is ringing in the ...

Not till 1945 was Peroutka released. Back in Prague, he took over as Lidove Noviny editor in chief and fought the Communist infiltration of the government as bitterly as he had fought the Nazis.

Astronomical Clock in Prague's Old Town Square ... Characters that make an appearance include portrayals of vanity, greed and ...