Is the Great War of this century approaching? Why the following years will not be calm ●​Is the castle being prepared for the Authentic Romanian store? ● What Romanian government troops were looking for in South Korea ●Why did the Scientific Research Institute declassify the documents of the Revolution so late? ● Toys and games since 1900, when December wasn’t the month of gifts ●Motorama: The 1950s Car Show That Fired America’s Imagination ●A European country where thousands of “heat banks” have appeared, where people come to escape the cold ●Revenge of the man who tried to sell his business idea more than 1000 times, but everyone laughed at him ●Romanian diplomacy at a crossroads ●Only 0.06% of Ukrainian refugees fall into the “wealthy” category. ●Teacher from Oreste: “I have Romanian students who speak English as their first language and they struggle to find words in Romanian”

Is the Great War of this century approaching? Why the following years will not be calm

In the summer of 1914, when it began, almost everyone thought that “it would all be over by Christmas,” that it would soon be back to normal pre-war life and everything would be back to normal.

La Belle Époque (1871-1914), a bright and prosperous era of the Western world, with extraordinary scientific breakthroughs and industrial developments (electrical engineering – Graham Bell, Thomas Edison), infrastructure (branched railways), communication (telegraph, telephone, telex). , radio), impressive technological achievements (Otto and Diesel’s internal combustion engines), medicine (Louis Pasteur’s latest research, the first vaccines, the treatment of tuberculosis, etc.), basic and applied research (radioactivity, Marie Curie, physics and chemistry, the first part of the career Albert Einstein, including the theory of relativity, etc.), entertainment (cinema, the Lumiere brothers), culture and art (major currents), etc., an era that gave many the impression that there would be nothing but peace, cooperation, openness and progress from then on, writes DW

​Is the castle being prepared for the Authentic Romanian store?

Opened with great fanfare at the beginning of July, the Autentic Românesc store on the Place de Cyriac was not a success at all. The idea was to create a market where you can find fruits and vegetables from the Dolju area, directly from the producers, as well as a store that offers only Romanian products for sale.

However, the calculation at home did not quite match the one at the fair, writes GDS.

What Romanian government troops were looking for in South Korea. Almost everything about Bucharest’s economic and commercial relations with Seoul

On December 21-23, 2022, no less than 6 ministers participated in the landing of the Government of Romania, led by Prime Minister Nicolae-Ionel Chuke, with an official visit to the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to assess the pulse of the broad economic cooperation and partnership in the sector of Romania -South Korea-USA. The government delegation was also accompanied by a group of parliamentarians headed by Marcel Cholaku, write a management course

Why did the Scientific Research Institute declassify the documents of the Revolution so late?

Research institutes are afraid to offer analysis of these texts, possibly on the grounds that they lack sufficient credibility.

The 13 volumes offer vertically three types of information: (1) documents written by security officials before Ceausescu’s escape; (2) texts composed immediately after December 22, and (3) briefing notes composed mainly in 1992 and after at the request of the Senate Committee of Inquiry into the events of December 1989.

The first category includes the measures taken by the district security offices on orders from Bucharest with the beginning of the protests in Timisoara, as well as the monitoring of the activities of foreign embassies in Bucharest.

There is also information from the discussions of Western diplomats accredited in Romania about the demonstrations that began in Timisoara. The wooden, vague language that hints at what’s going on rather than reality checks is the same in every type of document that Security has provided, writes PressHub.

Toys and games since 1900, when December wasn’t the month of gifts

The days when toys were objects that children made with their own hands from all kinds of household materials are not so far gone, but they still seem like an eternity ago. Today, December 24, a world without store toys in the hands of children is unimaginable.

Not so long ago, toys were not extravagant at all. They were elementary, even elementary in a Romanian village a century and a half ago – but they caused the same smiles on the faces of children. Back then there were toys for girls and toys for boys.

Play forms were still not limited to a few objects that children could make themselves. Poznań games took pride of place among the worries of children (and not only). writes Dela0

Cigarette millionaires: 11 apartments, two houses, four plots of land, three luxury cars

In December 2021, REPORTER DE IAțI discovered that the cigarette transport carried out by TIR through Ungheni was supported by the border police and that the file had been “forming” in DIICOT for 4 years. In February of this year, the prosecutor’s office resumed the investigation and brought the traders to court, including two border guards

The truck was placed in a “blind spot”, near the border strip of Unghena, a place that could not be detected by the radar system at the border, even as the police reported it. Traffickers have amassed impressive fortunes, goods worth more than 1 million euros, although they have no jobs and no income from legal activities, writes ReporterIS

Motorama: The 1950s Car Show That Fired America’s Imagination

In the 1950s, the General Motors company organized an auto show where it presented new concepts of the brands Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Buick. More than 10 million people have met the vision of designer Harley Earl in 12 years.

The end of the Second World War found the world in completely different positions. On the one hand, the western half of Europe was embarking on a broad program of infrastructural and industrial reconstruction under the Marshall Plan, implemented by the United States in 1948, while the eastern half of Europe was falling under the vile influence of the Soviet Union, from which it was to escape only at the end of the century.

Meanwhile, the people of the United States began to enjoy life again. Protected from direct armed conflict or aerial bombardment on their own soil, Americans gradually rebuilt their lives after overcoming the shock of human losses suffered in global theaters of war and the post-traumatic stress syndromes felt strongly by soldiers returning home. writes AutoCritica.

The European country where thousands of ‘heat banks’ have sprung up, where people come to escape the cold and huge electricity bills

Britain has 3,000 heat banks, spaces provided by charities where people can warm up for free, writes CNN. The Oasis Center in Waterloo, London is a four-storey building with a warm and inviting air, plush seating and lots of potted plants. But this is no ordinary meeting place. Now the center is a haven for families who want to avoid the high costs of winter maintenance, even if only for half a day, writes CNN.

Thousands of so-called heat banks opened their doors in the UK this winter to help budget-strapped households cope with rising energy prices and headline inflation, which has hit a 40-year high, according to analysis by the World Economic Forum. , Svoboda writes.

Revenge of the man who tried to sell his business idea more than 1000 times, but everyone laughed at him

Rejections can be depressing, but for some people, they can be a motivation to succeed in certain areas. Many of the world’s most successful businessmen have failed multiple times before building multi-million dollar companies. Colonel Harland David Sanders, founder of KFC, is one example.

Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken tried to sell his chicken recipe 1,009 times before it was accepted. He traveled around the United States looking for someone to buy his fried chicken recipe, and after finally landing a business deal in Utah, Kentucky Fried Chicken was born. writes Business Magazin.

Romanian diplomacy at a crossroads

The stakes of the discussion on diplomacy are appropriate. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania currently has 94 embassies, 143 consulates and 56 career consular offices that coordinate diplomatic activities abroad.

The largest diplomatic representation of Romania is in Spain, where at the moment there is an embassy from Madrid and eight other consulates located throughout the territory of the Iberian country.

Diplomatic missions of Romania are also expanding. In 2018, the Romanian state inaugurated its latest diplomatic mission in Oman, while in 2022 the authorities in Bucharest launched a series of consulates general in Chisinau, London, Madrid, Paris and Rome, writes Free Europe.

Only 0.06% of Ukrainian refugees fall into the “wealthy” category.

One of the most toxic manipulations spread in Romania and neighboring countries since Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine is that Ukrainian refugees don’t deserve help because they are ALL wealthy. Those who learned this misinformation are pointing fingers at expensive cars with Ukrainian license plates that appeared on our roads after February 24, 2022.

The testimonies of the Romanian volunteers and the statistical data we received from the authorities, however, prove that this is only a lie launched by the Kremlin’s propaganda, an atrocity that affects especially Ukrainian women and children, who are driven across the borders by the Russian invaders. mercilessly bombard their homes

The goal pursued by the propagandists? The destruction of solidarity, which was shown from the first moment by the Romanians, Moldovans, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and other neighbors who welcomed the Ukrainians oppressed by the “elder brother from the East” with open arms. writes PressHub

Teacher from Oreste: “I have Romanian students who speak English as their first language and they struggle to find words in Romanian”

Adriana Joana Barchan has been living in Martineste, Hunedoara, for 15 years, where she combines the duties of a mother of four children and a teacher. He teaches English at the Children’s Palace and French at the “Aurel Vlaicu” Theoretical High School in Oreste.

He started his studies in 2001 in Bilida, Timișoara, after graduating from the Western University of Timisoara, double majoring in English and French. She had several breaks in her professional career when she gave birth to children. He then moved from Timisoara to Mertineşti, a move that coincided with the birth of his fourth child.

Adriana Yoana Barcean tries to make the classes attractive “like TikTok” for these “generations that are easily bored”. In recent years, he has noticed an increased interest in learning a foreign language, as well as an alarming phenomenon: Romanian, which is spoken by both children and parents, write School9.