Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Monday, March 15, 2010

15th March 1848

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Today is, as you may have noticed, March 15th. Not much special about that for most people, aside from that whole ides of March / et tu brut...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

A bit of China that is forever Austro-Hungarian

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This morning (well, it was before lunch, but probably not technically morning), we went to an exhibition at the castle here in town of stere...
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Monday, July 02, 2007

Reunion

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No, not the French island off East Africa. I have never been to a school reunion. Not of my secondary school, not of my (excuse British-is...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

East and West Pakistan

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Taking off from Dhaka and subsequently landing in Karachi is a study in contrasts – you rise above this incredibly wet and green world, cris...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

October 23rd

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Bit of a busy week, round these parts as I am in sole charge of the little ones, but we'll see if I can get through a quick post about M...
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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Who are the Szekely?

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I was searching through Google News to see whether any English language media had reported anything about the whole March 15th thing here, a...
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Saturday, February 18, 2006

The Wisdom of the Ages

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It is a well known fact that Norman Wisdom is incredibly famous in Albania. Norman Wisdom, in case you are not Albanian, is a British “slap...
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Friday, September 16, 2005

Remembering Virgil Sahleanu

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This month marks 5 years since the assassination of Trade Union leader Virgil Sahleanu in Iasi under the apparent orders of the former manag...
Thursday, June 16, 2005

Cozma-ic realignment

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15 years ago this week there was a major upheaval in Bucharest. Following the ousting of Ceausescu in what amounted (despite public revolut...
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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Peregri Nation

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Csikszereda is slowly filling up. I just popped over the road to by some lunch and there are tons of people out there. There's music p...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Contexts Part II: Transylvania

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Transylvania is known the world over as the home of vampires. In the time I have been here, I have to confess I haven’t seen a single one. ...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Context pt 1: Romania

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I thought I ought to provide some context, as you probably don’t know much about Romania. I am basing this assumption on my own ignorance be...
Sunday, September 05, 2004

Systematisation

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Ceaşescu’s regime was notable for a number of reasons, none of them especially positive, but one which distinguished it from most other regi...
Tuesday, August 03, 2004

The Csango Valley

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The Csango valley lies between Csikszereda and Moldavia in the Carpathians. A 20 km drive east of here leads you over a pass and into this m...