The Capital of Romania is Bucharest. It has a Parisian atmosphere that began in the early 1900's. It has been redeveloped and advanced since its time in 1960-80's in which poverty dominated Bucharest and much of it's architecture came under collapse. "Romania's capital, the nation's centre of...
Priest drowns baby during Baptism in an Eastern European church. Father Valentin faces charges of accidential homicide following the Baptism of a newborn baby boy which left the infant dead. The baptism was held at a church in Moldova. The baby was six weeks old when the religious...
The Carpathian Sheepdog originated from the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, used by shepherds as a flock guard and watch dog. This large and strong breed weighs 70 to 100 pounds and stands 23 to 29 inches. It has a broad and rectangular body with a head that resembles the wolf. The forehead is...
Roma Gypsies are a fascinating group of people. They are a nomadic group of people who have a massive distrust of governments, and most modern societies. There is a large group that have been assimilated, but mostly they still stick together roaming around in Eastern Europe and travel about selling...
The Kurds are nomadic people who originally came from Southwest Asia particularly in the mountainous areas of Iraq, Turkey and Iran which they refer as the land of the Kurds or Kurdistan. The Kurds has an Indo-European feature and origin and whose lives revolve on herding livestock animals such as...
This flock guard breed originated from the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. This is a relatively new recognized breed. Female dogs stand at a height of 25 to 28 inches while the male has a height standard of 27 to 29 inches. Weight is proportional to the size, ranging from 100 to 120 pounds. This...
Elie Wiesel is one of the few who fortunately survived the Holocaust. He has accounted his Holocaust experience in a novel entitled Night. He was a witness to the death of his parents and family members, and he himself suffered the grim fate of witnessing the executions of other people in Nazi...
The Iron Curtain is a term that has been employed as a way of describing the boundary that basically separate the countries that are part of the Warsaw Pact and those that are part of NATO (North Atlantic Treat Organization). The Iron Curtain was basically in existence from 1945 up until 1991 when...
Calling a dictator crazy is like calling cat fuzzy. It's pretty much a given. Yet some dictators go above and beyond just genocide and repression, and travel so far into balls out madness that you have to give them some sort of credit. These 12 ruthless bastards not only ruled with an iron fist,...
In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane. Within the last century cinema has grown from pioneering silent films into orchestrated musicals, “spaghetti...
