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Showing posts with label Romanian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romanian. Show all posts
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Some outstanding Romanian achievements in aviation
Mid 16th century - Ioan Românul (Johann der Wallache) experimented at Army's Arsenal in Alba-Iulia explosive powders used for reactive projectiles or rockets.
1702 - The outlaw Grigore Pintea built a glider.
1765 - Constantin Nestor from Deva built a glider; his 80 meters flight was described in the French newspaper "La Republique"
1880 - Gheorghe Vaarlam Ghiţescu built a dirigeable baloon.
1884 - Ion Stoica built an ornithopthere.
1905 - Romanian engineers Popescu and Boicescu and Austrian mechanic Schwartz created in Vienna the system of navigation for zeppelins.
1908 - Teodor Dobrescu projected in Slatina a multiplane aircraft.
1909 - George Arion designed an airplane with the propeller directly coupled to the engine.
1909 - Vasile Dimitrescu designed the first stealth airplane in the world, with electric engine and smoke/fog generators (Patent 1428/15 May 1909).
1910 - George Arion built in Bucharest the first aircraft with variable geometry in the world.
1910 - Niculae Ion Vasiliu built in Bucharest an airplane-helicopter, provided with 6 propellers.
1910 - George Brişcu built several models of helicopters.
1911 - Ion Paulat built the first hydroplane in the world.
1913 - Constantin Marinescu designed the first passenger aircraft with a capacity of 15 seats.
1917 - Hermann Oberth designed in Sighişoara a huge military multistage rocket, with liquid fuel. The Austrian and German military authorities were not interested in the project.
1925 - Aurel Biju and Eugene Sziklay participated in air meetings with their own designed parachutes.
1702 - The outlaw Grigore Pintea built a glider.
1765 - Constantin Nestor from Deva built a glider; his 80 meters flight was described in the French newspaper "La Republique"
1880 - Gheorghe Vaarlam Ghiţescu built a dirigeable baloon.
1884 - Ion Stoica built an ornithopthere.
1905 - Romanian engineers Popescu and Boicescu and Austrian mechanic Schwartz created in Vienna the system of navigation for zeppelins.
1908 - Teodor Dobrescu projected in Slatina a multiplane aircraft.
1909 - George Arion designed an airplane with the propeller directly coupled to the engine.
1909 - Vasile Dimitrescu designed the first stealth airplane in the world, with electric engine and smoke/fog generators (Patent 1428/15 May 1909).
1910 - George Arion built in Bucharest the first aircraft with variable geometry in the world.
1910 - Niculae Ion Vasiliu built in Bucharest an airplane-helicopter, provided with 6 propellers.
1910 - George Brişcu built several models of helicopters.
1911 - Ion Paulat built the first hydroplane in the world.
1913 - Constantin Marinescu designed the first passenger aircraft with a capacity of 15 seats.
1917 - Hermann Oberth designed in Sighişoara a huge military multistage rocket, with liquid fuel. The Austrian and German military authorities were not interested in the project.
1925 - Aurel Biju and Eugene Sziklay participated in air meetings with their own designed parachutes.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Other Romanian notable achievements
1701 - Antim Ivireanul printed "Liturghierul greco-arab", the first book in the world printed with mobile letters, and also the first book printed with arab characters.
1825 - The first non-euclidean geometry was published by Janos Bolyai.
1836 - Ion I. Irimie invented, during his college studies, the first matches with Phosphorus (known later as "Swedish matches"), and in 1840 he founded a factory to produce them.
1886 - George Assaky invented an original neurosurgery technique, the remote suture of nerfs.
1887 - The first reactive trolley.
1895 - Dragomir Hurmuzescu had built the first high-voltage dynamo.
1825 - The first non-euclidean geometry was published by Janos Bolyai.
1836 - Ion I. Irimie invented, during his college studies, the first matches with Phosphorus (known later as "Swedish matches"), and in 1840 he founded a factory to produce them.
1886 - George Assaky invented an original neurosurgery technique, the remote suture of nerfs.
1887 - The first reactive trolley.
1895 - Dragomir Hurmuzescu had built the first high-voltage dynamo.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Idel Ianchelevici
Idel Ianchelevici (May 5, 1909, Leova — June 28, 1994, Maison-Laffitte) was a Romanian and Belgian sculptor and draughtsman.
Born to Jewish parents in Leova, Bessarabia, he left Romania for Belgium in 1928 to devote himself entirely to his passion for sculpture and drawing. After completing his military service back home, he returned to Liège and registered at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de la Ville, where he was awarded First Prize for statuary art in 1933.
La Cracheuse, 1943, Brussels
The same year, he married Elisabeth Frenay and moved to Brussels. He took part in the design of the Romanian pavilion for the Exposition Internationale Universelle in Brussels in 1935 and went on to hold a variety of exhibitions of his own in Brussels, Tel-Aviv, Paris, Amsterdam and several other cities.
Le plongeur, Liège
1945 was the watershed year: Ianchelevici obtained Belgian citizenship, and his famous statue L'Appel ("The Call") was officially unveiled in La Louvière. 10 years later, Ianchelevici was awarded a grant to work in the Belgian Congo, where he designed three statues intended to supplement the famous Stanley-monument in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) and produced a number of outstanding drawings. He subsequently exhibited his work in countries throughout the world. In 1950, he settled in France, at Maison-Laffitte, where he remained until his death on at the age of 86. A cultural center in the town now bears his name.
Homme assis aux jambes croisées, pencil, 1945
The works of Ianchelevici literally step out of the medium. There is no void, no gap: the composition is entirely dictated by the mass and form of its volume (Paternel). From 1945 onwards, Ianchelevici began sculpting marble and stone - two notoriously difficult materials which require simplification of form. Limbs grew longer and more supple and the themes moved on, taking inspiration from the unformed, girlish figures of his young subjects. The artist's career underwent a major change at this point, as he embarked upon a ceaseless quest for simpler forms and more schematic faces (Eve, 1980). Alongside his sculpting, Ianchelevici never stopped drawing. His drawings are works of art in their own right, and not always sketches for his sculptures. In both disciplines, however, he draws on the same themes and strives for the same simplicity of form. (From Wikipedia. Visit also Le Musée Ianchelevici)
Born to Jewish parents in Leova, Bessarabia, he left Romania for Belgium in 1928 to devote himself entirely to his passion for sculpture and drawing. After completing his military service back home, he returned to Liège and registered at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de la Ville, where he was awarded First Prize for statuary art in 1933.
The same year, he married Elisabeth Frenay and moved to Brussels. He took part in the design of the Romanian pavilion for the Exposition Internationale Universelle in Brussels in 1935 and went on to hold a variety of exhibitions of his own in Brussels, Tel-Aviv, Paris, Amsterdam and several other cities.
1945 was the watershed year: Ianchelevici obtained Belgian citizenship, and his famous statue L'Appel ("The Call") was officially unveiled in La Louvière. 10 years later, Ianchelevici was awarded a grant to work in the Belgian Congo, where he designed three statues intended to supplement the famous Stanley-monument in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) and produced a number of outstanding drawings. He subsequently exhibited his work in countries throughout the world. In 1950, he settled in France, at Maison-Laffitte, where he remained until his death on at the age of 86. A cultural center in the town now bears his name.
The works of Ianchelevici literally step out of the medium. There is no void, no gap: the composition is entirely dictated by the mass and form of its volume (Paternel). From 1945 onwards, Ianchelevici began sculpting marble and stone - two notoriously difficult materials which require simplification of form. Limbs grew longer and more supple and the themes moved on, taking inspiration from the unformed, girlish figures of his young subjects. The artist's career underwent a major change at this point, as he embarked upon a ceaseless quest for simpler forms and more schematic faces (Eve, 1980). Alongside his sculpting, Ianchelevici never stopped drawing. His drawings are works of art in their own right, and not always sketches for his sculptures. In both disciplines, however, he draws on the same themes and strives for the same simplicity of form. (From Wikipedia. Visit also Le Musée Ianchelevici)
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Cabbage rolls
Sarmale (cabbage rolls) is a traditional Romanian food, served at nearly every wedding and holiday (and there are MANY)... The recipe is somewhat different in the Romanian regions, but here is a traditional one:
Ingredients
500gr ground beef
500gr ground pork ( do not use the lean kind - it will enhance the flavor if you use the regular one)
1 spoon tomato paste
salt and pepper
2 spoons rice uncooked
1 large or 2 small cabbage heads
1 large onion
250g smoked bacon cut in small pieces
500 gr (1 can) wine sauerkraut
1 spoon whole peppers
salt and pepper
3 tbsp tomato paste
1 laurel leaf
1 small smoked pork hock - just for taste
water
Directions
1. Filling: Mix the ground beef, ground pork, tomato paste, salt and pepper (after taste - if you use the cabbage pickled in brine, remember that it can be quite salty!) and rice. Set it on the side at room temperature while you prepare the leaves of the cabbage.
2. If you use the pickled cabbage, taste it and if it is too salty wash it gently without breaking the leaves. If you use fresh cabbage, you have to add it whole in salted boiling water for 5 -10 minutes (depending how thick the leaves are - as a general rule try to choose the thinnest leaves possible). Once boiled take each leaf carefully and wrap about 1 - 2spoons of meat. The size of the rolls are really personal preference, in Southern Romania they are usually really small and going North towards Moldavia they get really big in size.
3. Separately, in a pan fry the bacon together with the onion until translucent (about 2-3min) and add the sauerkraut, salt (again taste the sauerkraut and see how salty it is), pepper, whole pepper and the tomato paste- cook another 3 minutes. Set it aside.
4. In a deep crock/pan spread evenly at the bottom about 1/3 from the sauerkraut mix. On top of it add one layer of rolls. Add another layer of sauerkraut and another layer of rolls. Finish with a layer of sauerkraut. On top add the small pork hock and the laurel and add water in order to barely cover the rolls.
5. Boil on stove top at med- slow heat approx. 2 hours - 2 1/2 hours. Take out one roll after 2 hours and try to see if it is cooked thoroughly. Once cooked, take out the laurel and the pork hock and discard.
6. Bake at 375F for another 30 minutes until you see a nice crust formed on top of it.
7. You can actually freeze it. In the freezer keeps very well for at least 1 month.
8. Serve it with polenta and top each plate with 2 generous spoons of sour cream. Enjoy!
Amount Per Serving - Calories: 828, Total Fat: 18.9g, Cholesterol: 64mg
Ingredients
500gr ground beef
500gr ground pork ( do not use the lean kind - it will enhance the flavor if you use the regular one)
1 spoon tomato paste
salt and pepper
2 spoons rice uncooked
1 large or 2 small cabbage heads
1 large onion
250g smoked bacon cut in small pieces
500 gr (1 can) wine sauerkraut
1 spoon whole peppers
salt and pepper
3 tbsp tomato paste
1 laurel leaf
1 small smoked pork hock - just for taste
water
Directions
1. Filling: Mix the ground beef, ground pork, tomato paste, salt and pepper (after taste - if you use the cabbage pickled in brine, remember that it can be quite salty!) and rice. Set it on the side at room temperature while you prepare the leaves of the cabbage.
2. If you use the pickled cabbage, taste it and if it is too salty wash it gently without breaking the leaves. If you use fresh cabbage, you have to add it whole in salted boiling water for 5 -10 minutes (depending how thick the leaves are - as a general rule try to choose the thinnest leaves possible). Once boiled take each leaf carefully and wrap about 1 - 2spoons of meat. The size of the rolls are really personal preference, in Southern Romania they are usually really small and going North towards Moldavia they get really big in size.
3. Separately, in a pan fry the bacon together with the onion until translucent (about 2-3min) and add the sauerkraut, salt (again taste the sauerkraut and see how salty it is), pepper, whole pepper and the tomato paste- cook another 3 minutes. Set it aside.
4. In a deep crock/pan spread evenly at the bottom about 1/3 from the sauerkraut mix. On top of it add one layer of rolls. Add another layer of sauerkraut and another layer of rolls. Finish with a layer of sauerkraut. On top add the small pork hock and the laurel and add water in order to barely cover the rolls.
5. Boil on stove top at med- slow heat approx. 2 hours - 2 1/2 hours. Take out one roll after 2 hours and try to see if it is cooked thoroughly. Once cooked, take out the laurel and the pork hock and discard.
6. Bake at 375F for another 30 minutes until you see a nice crust formed on top of it.
7. You can actually freeze it. In the freezer keeps very well for at least 1 month.
8. Serve it with polenta and top each plate with 2 generous spoons of sour cream. Enjoy!
Amount Per Serving - Calories: 828, Total Fat: 18.9g, Cholesterol: 64mg
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