A world without Romania Do you know anything about Romania? - TopicsExpress



          

A world without Romania Do you know anything about Romania? What if Ill tell you that Romania isnt the country you know? Do you know where Romania is? What Romania is? WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT THIS? You will tell me. And I will show you why, but first, let me tell you what Romania isnt about! Its not about gypsies, its not about beggars, its not about corruption and its not about dirt. I think all of you know the existence of Gypsies, Roma, Romi, Tigani. Well they are the pickpockets of many countries like America, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, etc. and they beg for money steal and deal. The local authorities usually ask them about nationality and they say We are Romani emigrated from India, but unfortunately Romanians get stuck with this misconception of the ROMA name. Here are a few facts about Romani people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people BUT WAIT! This isnt what I wanted to talk you about. Youre probably wondering already what this lens is about. Do you want to know why should you care about Romania? You should care because Romania is where many inventors were born and without which the world would have looked different today. I bet you didnt know that! NEXT, I will show you Romanian inventions, TRUE FACTS and people you had no idea were born in... Romania! If you try and imagine a world without Romania, it may not be as simple as erasing Italy, Great Britain or United States of America off the world map. If Romania didnt exist, think that the only writing instrument would be the pencil, that there would be fewer pages in the art books, that cybernetics wouldnt be up to the standard it is today and many more such evidence that show the importance of Romania in the global evolution. The Romanian land is the home of one of the most ancient forms of writing. The Tărtăria tablets have been known since the late 19th century excavation at the Neolithic site of Turdaş in Transylvania Romania made by Zsófia Torma, and date back to around 5300 BC. Rediscovered in 1961 by a team led by Nicolae Vlassa, an archaeologist at the Cluj Museum, they bear incised symbols, the Vinča signs, which have been the subject of considerable controversy among archaeologists, some of whom claim that the symbols represent the earliest known form of writing in the world. Much later, a Romanian student, Petrache Poenaru, invented the worlds first fountain pen, an invention for which the French Government issued a patent in 1827. Fountain pens soon replaced dip pens in the entire world. The Romanian academician, Nicolae Constantin Paulescu, was recognized in 1971 as being the real discoverer of insulin. He had made the discovery in 1923, but the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine was awarded to Canadians F.G. Banting and J.J.R. Macleod, for a paper which merely confirmed the findings of Paulescu, only a few months after his original work. He didnt initially receive recognition for his work because the higher profile Canadian paper misquoted his findings. The Nobel Committee later admitted the mistake but never rectified it. The creator of modern cybernetics is Ștefan Odobleja, a Romanian scientist. His major work, “Psychologieconsonantiste”, first published in 1938 and 1939, in Paris, had established many of the major themes regarding cybernetics and systems thinking, ten years before the publishing of Norbert Wiener’s work, an American mathematician, formally regarded as the originator of cybernetics. The uniform-temperature thermoelectric cell – apparently an inexhaustible source of energy, also known as the Karpen cell, was imagined and realized by the Romanian physicist Nicolae Vasilescu – Karpen. His prototype has been working continuously for over 6 decades. A young Romanian aviation passionate, Anastase Dragomir, focused his studies on aircraft safety, focusing on that of the passengers on board. He studied in France and perfected his own system for saving pilots and passengers in case of accidents. In 1930 he obtained a patent for cabin ejection. As improvement went on, it led to the use of ejector seats on supersonic military aircrafts. In 1910, a Romanian aerodynamic pioneer, Henri Coandă, built an aircraft that had a revolutionary motor – it had no propeller. The engine was a primitive piston-powered jet engine, a discovery which led to the invention of the modern gas turbine jet engine. Later, in 1934, he was granted a patent for the Coandă Effect, a principle whose understanding was fundamental to modern flight, and which was used by Coandă in the design of a jet-powered disc-shaped aircraft. Nadia Comăneci, a Romanian gymnast, received the gold medal at Montreal Olympics in 1976, after obtaining the first perfect 10 in the history of gymnastics. The displays at the Olympics were only able to show a grade up to 9.99, so, after a few minutes of debate among the judges, the display wrote “1.00”. The first complete work about the history of religions was written by the Romanian fiction writer, philosopher and Chicago University Professor, Mircea Eliade. His “Treatise on the History of Religions” is known for the coherence and the ability to synthesize different mythologies. Eliade is recognized to be one of the founders of the Chicago school that basically defined the study of religions for the second half of the 20th century. Săpânța, a village in Maramureș county, is well-known for the “Merry Cemetery”. Romanians are the first nation who has seen death as a moment filled with joy and happiness, in anticipation of a better after-life. Stan Ioan Pătrașs work, a local sculptor and painter, gave birth to a new conception of death. For 50 years, the artist had made numerous oak wood crosses and painted them with scenes from the life or occupation of the persons that were buried, and inscribed them with a humorous or satirical poem. The background of the crosses is painted in a stunning shade of blue that has gained the name of Săpânța Blue. Constantin Brâncuși s sculptures are considered real works of art due to his abstract style which leaves an elegant impression. He was a Romanian sculptor with overwhelming contributions to the renewal of the plastic language and vision of contemporary sculpture. Considered to be the pioneer of modernism, Brâncuşi is called the Patriarch of Modern Sculpture. The splendid Voroneț blue (found in the Voroneț Monastery paintings), which is considered to be the most beautiful shade of blue in the world, continues to remain an enigma. Even if it is world renowned, the exact composition of the color, which gives it a fresh and outstanding brightness, was lost along with the death of its author. The gates from Maramureș have gained a well-deserved reputation because of their architecture, true works of art created by simple peasants with a great sense of aesthetics. Oina is a traditional Romanian sport, bearing similarities to baseball and cricket, which has been practiced since the fourteenth century and is one of the oldest original sports in Europe.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:05:30 +0000

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