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11/05/2012

Dumitru Prunariu

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Dumitru Prunariu

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Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu
(born September 27, 1952) is a retired Romanian astronaut who flew aboard Soyuz 40.



He was selected for spaceflight training in 1978 as a part of the Intercosmos Program. Obtaining the maximum marks during three years of preparation he was selected for a joint space flight with the Russian cosmonaut Leonid Popov. In May 1981 they completed an eight-day space mission on board Soyuz 40 and the Salyut 6 space laboratory where they completed scientific experiments in the fields of astrophysics, space radiation, space technology, space medicine and biology. Prunariu became the 103rd human being to fly into the Outer Space.

In 1981, after completing the flight, he received the awards of Hero of the Socialist Republic of Romania and Hero of the Soviet Union (22 May 1981) and the medal "Golden Star". He was also awarded the Order of Lenin.
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Dumitru Prunariu -
The first Romanian in space
In Soyuz 40 mission


at the border
of two spaces -
Dumitru Prunariu


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3/01/2012

Martenitsa Bulgaria

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Martenitsa

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***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Observance


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Martenitsa (Bulgarian: мартеница, pronounced [ˈmartɛnit͡sa]; plural мартеници martenitsi)
is a small piece of adornment, made of white and red yarn and worn from March 1 until around the end of March (or the first time an individual sees a stork, swallow, or budding tree).

The name of the holiday is Baba Marta. "Baba" (баба) is the Bulgarian word for "grandmother" and Mart (март) is the Bulgarian word for the month of March.
Baba Marta is a Bulgarian tradition related to welcoming the upcoming spring. The month of March, according to Bulgarian folklore, marks the beginning of springtime. Therefore, the first day of March is a traditional holiday associated with sending off winter and welcoming spring.



The same tradition is also held by those in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as in Greek Macedonia and Patras in the Peloponnese.
Romanians also have a similar but not identical holiday on March 1, called "Mărţişor". If and how these two holidays are related is still a matter of debate between ethnologists.
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back from a meeting --
on my keybord waits
a martenitsa





comparing
our martenitsa --
office fun








photos and haiku by
Isabelle Prondzynski
March 2012



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Romania

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2/10/2012

Aurel Vlaicu

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Aurel Vlaicu

November 19, 1882 – September 13, 1913
was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.



Aurel Vlaicu was born in Binţinţi (now renamed Aurel Vlaicu), Geoagiu, Transylvania. He attended Calvinist High School in Orăştie (renamed "Liceul Aurel Vlaicu" in his honour in 1919) and took his Baccalaureate in Sibiu in 1902. He furthered his studies at Technical University of Budapest and Technische Hochschule München in Germany, earning his engineer's diploma in 1907.

After working at Opel car factory in Rüsselsheim, he returned to Binţinţi and built a glider he flew in the summer of 1909. Later that year, he moved to Bucharest, in the Kingdom of Romania, where he began the construction of Vlaicu Nr. I airplane; it flew for the first time on June 17, 1910.

With his Vlaicu Nr. II model, built in 1911, Aurel Vlaicu won several prizes summing 7,500 Austro-Hungarian krone (for precise landing, projectile throwing and tight flying around a pole) in 1912 at Aspern Air Show near Vienna, where he competed against 42 other aviators of the day, including Roland Garros.

Aurel Vlaicu died in 1913 near Câmpina while attempting to cross in flight the Carpathian Mountains in his aged Vlaicu II airplane.
He is buried at the Bellu cemetery, in Bucharest.



Vlaicu was posthumously elected to the Romanian Academy in 1948.
Bucharest City Airport in Băneasa was named after him.

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. Aurel Vlaicu .


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Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.
He died on Semptember 13, 1913,
testing a airplane, crossing the Carphatian Mountains.


Aurel Vlaicu
crossing the Carpathians
viewing the abyss


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2/03/2012

Ion Luca Caragiale

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Ion Luca Caragiale



7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972
Haimanale, județul Prahova, Țara Românească, astăzi I. L. Caragiale, județul Dâmbovița, România – d. 9 iunie 1912, Berlin) a fost un dramaturg, nuvelist, pamfletar, poet, scriitor, director de teatru, comentator politic și ziarist român, de origine greacă. Este considerat a fi cel mai mare dramaturg român și unul dintre cei mai importanți scriitori români.
A fost ales membru post-mortem al Academiei Române.


commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale;
February 13 , 1852 – July 9, 1912
was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. He is considered one of the greatest Romanian playwrights and writers, a leading representative of local humor, and a main representative of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he parted during the second half of his life.

Caragiale's work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences. His plays constituted an important venue for criticism of late 19th-century Romanian society, while in later works of fiction Caragiale adopted the fantasy genre or turned to historical fiction.
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Mr. Goe
by I. L. Caragiale (1852-1912)

So that he could finally be promoted at the end of this school year, grandma, mommy and aunty Mitsa promised to take the young Goe to Bucharest on the King’s anniversary, the 10th of May.



Little do we care if the three dames decide to leave their comfortable spot to come to the capital just to please their son and nephew. It suffices to say that in the early morning, on the central station’s platform in the town of X, the dames, all dressed-up, along with the young Goe, are impatiently waiting for the fast train that is supposed to take them to Bucharest. It is true that once one has decided to assist to such an important national celebration, one must make an early start. The train that they are going to get reaches the north station at ten to eight a.m. Mr. Goe is impatient and he argues in a commanding voice:

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. Ion Luca Caragiale .


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Caragiale-
write a telegram
to Mister Goe


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4/09/2011

Grigorescu Nicolae

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Nicolae Grigorescu

(May 15, 1838—July 21, 1907)

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One of the founders of modern Romanian painting.

In 1877 he was called to accompany the Romanian Army as a "frontline painter" in the Romanian War of Independence. During the battles at the Grivitsa Strongpoint and Oryahovo, he made drawings and sketches which later used in creating larger-scale works.

In 1889 his work was featured in the Universal Exhibition in Paris and at the Romanian Atheneum. Centerpiece exhibits took place at the Romanian Atheneum would follow in 1891, 1895, 1897, 1902, and 1905.

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. Nicolae Grigorescu


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Romanian village life
captured on canvas -
Nicolae Grigorescu


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4/06/2011

Coanda Henri

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Henri Coanda

7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972

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Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others.
He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.

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cold drops
embraces the fuselage in flight
Henri Coanda


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