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	Jan Žižka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When a temporary armistice was concluded between the partisans of King Sigismund and the citizens of Prague, Žižka marched to Plzeň with his followers, but soon left that city, and, after defeating at Sudomer the partisans of Sigismund, arrived at Tábor, the newly founded stronghold of the advanced Hussites.
		Zizka, who was at the head of the united armies of Tábor and Prague, at first retreated to Kolín, but after having received reinforcements he attacked and defeated Sigismund's army at the village of Nebovidy between Kolín and Kutná Hora (January 6, 1422).
		Zizka was such a well respected general that when he died, his soldiers called themselves the Orphands because they felt like they had lost their father.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Zizka (1272 words)

	ZOBEIR RABAMA - LoveToKnow Article on ZOBEIR RABAMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Zizka took a large part in the organization of the new military community and became one of the four captains of the people (hejtmane) who were at its head.
		Zizka was now engaged in constant warfare with the partisans of Sigismund, particularly with the powerful Romanist, Ulrich of Rosenberg.
		Zizka, who was at the head of the united armies of Tabor and Prague, at first retreated to Kolin; but after having received reinforcements he attacked and defeated Sigismund's army at the village of Nebovid between Kolin and Kutna Hora (January 6, 1422).
	12.1911encyclopedia.org /Z/ZO/ZOBEIR_RABAMA.htm (2354 words)

	Jan Zizka
		Jan Zizka led the storming of Pragues town hall in 1419 and after the death of King Wenceslas took a key role in the organising of armed resistance against forces loyal to the Emperor Sigismund.
		Zizka was responsible for the innovative wagon tactics that served the Hussite cause well over the following years.
		Even blind Zizka continued to direct his army in battle, using the eyes of trusted captains.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /matthaywood/main/Jan_Zizka.htm (394 words)

	Hussites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Zizka's artillery, which was mounted on wheeled carts, was sometimes placed between wagons, but more frequently held in the interior of the wagon fort, emplaced on mounds of earth so they could fire over the wagons.
		When this happened, Zizka would counterattack with his pikes and cavalry, with the usual result that the enemy would be driven from the field.
		Zizka, who eventually was blinded in his good eye as well, was unbeatable.
	www.hyw.com /books/history/Hussites.htm (792 words)

	Zizka, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Before the Hussite Wars, which gave his military genius the opportunity to develop fully, Zizka served under various lords; he fought (1410) on the Polish side in the battle of Tannenberg, in which the Teutonic Knights were defeated.
		In the same year the tension between the Taborites and the moderate Utraquists, whose stronghold was at Prague, flared into open conflict, and late in 1424, Zizka led his army against Prague in order to compel that city to adhere to his uncompromising anti-Catholic policy.
		Although Zizka’s fame is overshadowed by that of other commanders, he ranks with the great military innovators of all time.
	www.bartleby.com /65/zi/Zizka-Jo.html (427 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Zizka, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Having joined the Taborites (the radical Hussite wing), Zizka made Tábor in Bohemia into an almost impregnable fortress and led (July, 1420) the Taborite troops in their victory over Sigismund at Visehrad (now a part of Prague).
		Zizka did not attempt to make them adopt the conventional armament and tactics of the time, but let them make use of such weapons as iron-tipped flails and armored farm wagons, surmounted by small cannons of the howitzer type.
		Zizka thus fully anticipated the principles of tank warfare.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Z/Zizka-J1o.asp (499 words)

	Osprey Publishing - The Hussite Wars 1419—36
		Oman, in his The Art of War in the Middle Ages, suggested that Zizka’s experiences in eastern Europe made him familiar with the Russian gulai-gorod or moveable fortress; but this is most unlikely, since the first recorded use of the gulai-gorod by Muscovite troops is not until the 16th century.
		When Zizka withdrew from Prague to Pilsen in early 1420 he was faced by the challenge of raids mounted by Royalist forces against nearby Hussite towns.
		Zizka had to find somewhere where the terrain would favour his defensive plans; this was not an easy proposition in the countryside of southern Bohemia, but to the south-east of Sudomer was an area of small lakes that had been dammed to make fishponds.
	www.ospreypublishing.com /title_detail.php?ser=MAA&per=41&title=S6658&view=spread&view=extract (763 words)

	Hussite Battles and significant events
		Zizka deployed on high ground where the cavalry were unable to be used and the Royalist artillery were unable to fire effectively, see Hussite tactics.
		Zizka deploys his forces on high ground overlooking the road the Praguers were marching down.
		Zizka waited until half the Praguer army had deployed and were advancing then had his infantry push the ballast wagons down the hill into the enemy centre, these were 'assisted' by fire from the Orebite Cannons.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /matthaywood/main/Hussite_Battles_and_Significant_events.htm (3626 words)

	Aisle Say (PA):PASSION
		Director Jiri Zizka has taken an intimate chamber musical and instead of basking in the intimacy has made it seem remote and estranged from the audience by his overuse of scrims behind which members of the cast are continually hidden.
		So, instead of the audience being in the boudoir with the lovers where we can enjoy their "Happiness" (the name of the opening song that flows on and on like a river of joy.) we are now peeking in from the outside window like voyeurs.
		Zizka has actors stand behind gauzy scrims while they are singing or vanish altogether from the stage when someone is singing to them.
	www.aislesay.com /PA-PASSION.html (973 words)

	ESPN Fantasy Hockey 2006: Player News Archive
		Zizka was assigned to Manchester of the AHL, the Associated Press reports.
		Zizka was called up from Manchester of the AHL, pending a diagnosis to Mattias Norstrom's arm injury, the LA Times reports.
		Zizka, Tim Gleason, and Martin Strbak could all see action at the beginning of the season, due to various injuries to Kings defensemen, the LA Times reports.
	games.espn.go.com /cgi/fhl/playernewsarchive?statsId=2816 (306 words)

	Jan Zizka - 23-02-2000 - Radio Prague
		Jan Zizka then returned to Prague and became a minor official at the king's court, and also served one of the wealthier nobles at the court.
		Jan Zizka left Prague and went to Plzen, but it soon became clear that the Catholic forces there were too strong for him, so he moved to South Bohemia, where he helped found the stronghold of Tabor.
		Zizka decide that his troops would stay on the hill, so that his troops could ambush the crusaders from behind.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/37448 (1513 words)

	Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Zizka thanked all those attending, saying, “It is gratifying to know there is an interest on the part of all attending to help solve these problems.
		Zizka reported that much of the property that is zoned commercial in Freedom Township has been reported as “undevelopable” because it lies in a floodplain.
		Zizka reported some examples of the flooding problems that have occurred in the last few years, including a log encountered a couple of years ago by Community Ambulance as it was transporting a patient to Robinson Memorial Hospital.
	www.weeklyvillager.com /Features.htm (6885 words)

	pw: philadelphia weekly online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But while Zizka hopes to illuminate von Mahlsdorf's inconsistencies, she says what really interests her is the relationship between Wright (who interviewed von Mahlsdorf extensively, and is also one of the primary characters in the play) and von Mahlsdorf.
		Another reason for using two actors, Zizka says, is to explore Wright's attempts to reveal the von Mahlsdorf myth, a mystique the elderly German woman proudly guards.
		Zizka agrees that growing up in Czechoslovakia influences her approach to the play.
	www.philadelphiaweekly.com /view.php?id=10468 (735 words)

	Jan Zizka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Zizka turned this loss into an advantage, having his men fight with the tools they were most used to using.
		They travelled to battle in farm wagons - with the Hussite women fighting alongside the men - and when they were engaged in battle, they arranged the wagons in a circle, as a sort of temporary (and portable) fortress.
		Zizka was also the first to use artillery in battle (it had theretofore only been used to beseige castles), and was a master at keeping up morale.
	archiv.radio.cz /history/zizka.html (361 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Zizka, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Zizka, John ZIZKA, JOHN [Zizka, John], Czech Jan Å½iÅ¾ka, d.
		A priest, he joined the Hussite movement (see Hussites) and distinguished himself as a captain under John Zizka in the Hussite Wars.
		Hussite Wars HUSSITE WARS [Hussite Wars] series of conflicts in the 15th cent., caused by the rise of the Hussites in Bohemia and Moravia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/14189.html (446 words)

	Invisible Adjunct: Pursue a Liberal Arts Degree and Join the Ranks of the Non-Industrial Proletariat?
		Zizka offered an interesting response in the comments to my earlier post, "A Question for Anyone Who Cares to Respond." I now discover this equally provocative piece at his website.
		One thought that I had after reading Zizka's essay on the usefulness of the BA is that I am of two minds about the value of separating work-aimed education/training and education to enrich the person.
		I suppose that Zizka is hopeful that separating the two educational tracks will serve to distinguish knowledge from skills-training, but I wonder how many average people would make the effort to seek out the former if they were not socially required to do so.
	www.invisibleadjunct.com /archives/000118.html (3415 words)

	Page 30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Hussites were now being led in part by Jan Zizka, a minor noble who was a genuine military innovator.
		He had the idea of taking the wagons of the peasants, which in Bohemia typically had tall sides, and linking them together in a circle to form a defensive shield.
		Zizka's innovation essentially created a kind of mobile infantry force that could respond to attacks quickly, evne while on the march.
	history.boisestate.edu /hy309/heresy/30.html (199 words)

	Norwich Bulletin - www.norwichbulletin.com - Norwich, Conn. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cody will replace Michael Zizka, who had been town attorney the past two years under a different first selectman.
		Santoro said Zizka helped rectify some legal affairs when he was hired.
		Santoro said Zizka addressed a number of town lawsuits, including those involving the Department of Environmental Protection, a sex offender issue, planning and zoning regulations and land use.
	www.norwichbulletin.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060104/NEWS01/601040335/1002 (290 words)

	October 11: Bohemian General John Zizka dies
		Zizka was about sixty when he led the peasant "Warriors of God." He had been a fighter for much of his life and was so successful now that his name inspired dread.
		Zizka, however, was a man of his word.
		When Jan Hus was betrayed by the Council of Constance and burned at the stake in 1415, his Bohemian countrymen, the "Hussites," were not ready to accept defeat.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/10/daily-10-11-2001.shtml (632 words)

	Images
		Zizka was one of the first generals to make extensive use of anti-personnel firearms.
		This illustration from around 1500 shows Zizka leading his troops into battle behind a monstrance containing the Eucharist.
		Behind Zizka, the soldiers carry flails, effective weapons made from threshing instruments.
	www.snowcrest.net /ggriff/Images.html (198 words)

	kuznetzov - HFBoards
		When the latest recall happened and it was Zizka many of us figured that Zizka was logical if he was going to be scratched on a regular basis because it keeps Kuz and Gleason playing.
		Not sure if the Zizka thing had a psychological effect on them or they all just forgot the fundamentals of hockey at the same time.
		We ran kind of a survivor pole on the AHL boards and Zizka was voted off by the posters there.
	hfboards.com /showthread.php?t=49433 (770 words)

	Legends of Hockey -- NHL Player Search -- Player -- Tomas Zizka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tomas Zizka was born October 10, 1979 in Sternberk, Czech Republic.
		Zizka saw action in ten games with the Kings while spending the majority of the year in the AHL with Manchester tallying 43 points (13-40-43)
		A member of the Czech Republic's World Junior team in 1999, Zizka continued to hone his skills in the AHL while seeing limited action with the Kings.
	www.legendsofhockey.net:8080 /LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=16552 (189 words)

	Tales of an Absent Monument by Matthew S. Witkovsky
		The Zizkov Monument is built on a strong foundation of paradoxes, and the exceptional clarity with which it manifests these paradoxes, in both its form and its history, merits attention.
		Stories of Zizka’s patriotic fervor and military prowess galvanized separatist sentiment during the last decades of Habsburg imperial rule—witness the 1869 decision to rename the entire neighborhood “Zizkov”—and a public competition for his statue in 1913 elicited over five dozen submissions.
		The neighborhood’s namesake, Zizka, has played a part in this revival—the name of the pioneer postrevolution bar, “The Shot-Out Eye,” alludes to his legendary blindness—and the monument itself has been used increasingly as a venue for concerts and performances sponsored by the Zizkov municipality.
	www.art-omma.org /issue7/text/Witkovsky.htm (4640 words)

	News
		Zizka also directed the United States premiere of Václav Havel's Temptation, in a co-production with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival.
		Zizka wrote and directed Inquest of Love, a film for PBS/WHYY, which was nominated for an Emmy Award (Mid-Atlantic) and received the Golden Eagle Award for Excellence.
		Jiri Zizka's staging of George Orwell's 1984 was presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and at the Joyce Theater in New York.
	www.philorch.org /styles/poa02e/www/news_20021025.html (1736 words)

	Art Against Land Mines \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 29.11.2005
		The work got Zizka to thinking about how he could take it further.
		Finally, he contacted aid organization Medico International with a unique proposal: He suggested his minefield become part of a traveling exhibition and the individual mines be sold in exchange for donations for the removal of the explosives.
		Parts of Zizka's minefield has been exhibited in the Rotterdam Art Hall, Frankfurt's Schauspielhaus theater and in the German Foreign Office in Berlin, the aim being to reach as many people as possible.
	www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1796258,00.html (548 words)

	AHL - American Hockey League - Springfield vs. Manchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Ticker) -- Tomas Zizka had a career-high four assists and Yanick Lehoux chipped in with a pair of goals and an assist as the Manchester Monarchs cruised to a 6-1 win over the Springfield Falcons.
		Zizka, who surpassed his previous career-high of three on December 21, recorded the first four-point outing of his two-year career.
		Lehoux gave his team a 4-0 lead with 53 seconds remaining the first period and scored the team's fifth unanswered goal at 7:44 of the second with a two-man advantage.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/scores103/103010/20030110AHL--MANCHESTER0.htm (425 words)

	FIC2000-391
		By letter dated June 2, 2000, the respondents responded to the complainant Zizka’s May 26, 2000 request and informed him that the records responsive to his request date back over 15 years and that compliance with his request would unduly burden the resources of the respondent department.
		The respondents suggested that the complainant Zizka narrow the scope of his request or make arrangements to inspect the records and select specific records for copying.
		It is found that in order to comply with the complainants’ request, the respondents would have to identify records that contain specific requested information that is not readily identifiable from the reasonably organized records of the respondent and as such constitutes research.
	www.state.ct.us /foi/2001fd/20010523/FIC2000-391.htm (1003 words)

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