a world without romania

7/31/2019 A World Without Romania

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A World withoutRomania

Maria Staicu


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The pen Petrache Poenaru

Petrache Poenaru

(17991875) was a

mathematician, physicist,engineer and inventor;

and he invented the

world's first fountain pen

in May 25, 1827.


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Cybernetics Stefan Odobleja

Stefan Odobleja was aRomanian scientist, one ofthe precursors ofcybernetics. His majorwork, Psychologieconsonantiste, hadestablished many of themajor themes of

cybernetics ten yearsbefore the work of NorbertWiener was published in1948.


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The insulin Nicolae Paulescu

Nicolae Paulescu

was a Romanian

physiologist, professor

of medicine, the

discoverer of

antidiabetic hormone

released by thepancreas, called later

insulin.


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The jet plane Henri Coanda

Henri Coanda was

a Romanian inventor,

aerodynamics pioneer

and builder of an

experimental aircraft,

Coanda-1910 which

was the world's first jet.


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The Perfect 10 Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Comaneci isa Romanian gymnast,winner of three Olympicgold medals at the 1976Summer Olympics inMontreal and the first

female gymnast ever tobe awarded a perfect

score of 10 in anOlympic gymnasticevent.


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The Vampire Vlad Tepes

Vlad Tepes, also knownby his patronymic nameDracula, was a three-timeVoivode of Wallachia, ruling

mainly in the period of theincipient Ottoman conquest ofthe Balkans. During his lifetime,his reputation for excessivecruelty spread abroad. The total

number of his victims isestimated in the tens ofthousands. The name of thevampire Count Dracula in BramStoker's 1897 novel Dracula wasinspired by Vlad's patronymic.


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Hystory of religions M. Eliade

Mircea Eliade was aRomanian historian ofreligion, fiction writer,

philosopher, and professor at

the University of Chicago. Histheory that hierophanies formthe basis of religion, splittingthe human experience ofreality into sacred and

profane space and time, has

proved influential. One of hismost influential contributionsto religious studies was histheory of Eternal Return.


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The Happy Graveyard

The Happy Graveyard isa cemetery in the village ofSpna, Maramure. It isfamous for its colourfultombstones with navepaintings describing, in anoriginal and poetic manner, thepersons that are buried thereas well as scenes from theirlives. The Merry Cemeterybecame an open-air museumand a national touristattraction.


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Microsoft the second spokenlanguage

Romania as an IT-Nation. Instead of onlyhiring Romanian experts

in their research andproduction facilities inUSA and Western Europemany multinationals

created rather largecenters in Romania, likeAlcatel,Siemens, Oracle,Infineon and recentlyMicrosoft


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Sculpture Constantin Brancusi

Constantin Brncuiwasa Romanian-born sculptor whomade his career in France. Hisabstract style emphasizes clean

geometrical lines that balanceforms inherent in his materialswith the symbolic allusions ofrepresentational art.Considered the pioneer of

modernism, Brncuiis calledthe patriarch of modernsculpture.


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The most Vibrant Blue

Voroneis a monasteryin Romania, located in thetown of Gura Humorului,Moldavia. It is one of the

famous painted monasteries.

The exterior walls includinga representation of the Last

Judgment on the west wallwere painted in 1547 with abackground of vivid cerulean

blue. This blue is so vibrantthat art historians refer toVoroneblue the same waythey do Titian red.


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Visit Romania!!

Small Country.

Great People.

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