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Incredible yet true stories from the last 500 years of the existence of one of the oldest families, which have been unjustly forgotten. Among other things, you will learn why the Odkol family had a soap factory around 1700, which Odkolek had their own breweries, which of them was murdered by their own subjects, or why the name Odkolek was supposed to be on the gallows after the lost battle at Bílá hora. You will also learn which of the Odkoleks was so unlucky that the fate of his daughter led to the legend of the White Lady, and which knight of Odkolek gave up his title and inheritance out of love. And also why the Odkol brothers left Roudnice nad Labem, bought a mill in Prague long before one of them got married in Kampa, when and how the company Fr. Odkolek, why only two sons inherited after the death of its founder, how the Odkoleks lost their tomb in Vyšehrad, and also which Odkolek invented the ejection seat for pilots before World War I. This book is a unique and yet very readable " corrector of errors about the history of the Odkolky".