Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia after a "velvet divorce" in 1992.
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He could have done more, he thinks, to stop the velvetdivorce from Slovakia in 1993, something that many Czechs have come to lament and which has indeed diminished both halves of the former country.
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Highlights include the crushed velvet wedding dress Hepburn wore when she married Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928 (she got a Mexican divorce from him six years later and never remarried).