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“Sfidarea idiocratiei” Traducere din Engleza a cartii “Continental Drift” de Constantin ROMAN

May 20th, 2006 · Comments Off on “Sfidarea idiocratiei” Traducere din Engleza a cartii “Continental Drift” de Constantin ROMAN · Books, PEOPLE, Reviews

“SFIDAREA IDIOCRATIEI ” Constantin ROMAN Traducere din limba Engleza a cartii “Continetal drift, Colliding Continents, Coverging Cultures”, institute of Physics publishing, Bristol & Philadelphia, 2000, ISBN 07503 0686 6 Universul din care provine Constantin ROMAN este estompat de sita vremii. Odata ajuns in Anglia, meleagurile lasate in urma sunt distruse de sistematizarea revolutiei culturale ale […]

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MEDICAL CARE DURING DICTATORSHIP (“My Second University” Two Reviews by Ionel Taranu & Constantin ROMAN

October 19th, 2005 · Comments Off on MEDICAL CARE DURING DICTATORSHIP (“My Second University” Two Reviews by Ionel Taranu & Constantin ROMAN · Books, PEOPLE, Reviews

MEDICAL CARE UNDER DICTATORSHIP (“My Second University” Two Reviews: Ionel TARANU and Constantin ROMAN) “My Second University – memories from Romanian Communist prisons” by Dr. Stanciu Stroia and Dr. Dan Dusleag, (iUniverse Inc., New York, 2005, 271 pages, Index, illustrations, £10.53 ISBN: 0-595-34639-1) THREE GENERATIONS OF MEDICAL DOCTORS UNDER DICTATORSHIP: Dr. Stanciu Stroia was born […]

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A Russian Childhood (Yalta, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London) Memoirs of Tatiana Nancy GAUBERT

June 21st, 2005 · Comments Off on A Russian Childhood (Yalta, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London) Memoirs of Tatiana Nancy GAUBERT · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, Reviews

Synopsis An Imperial Foundling A Russian Childhood (Yalta, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Yalta, and early Womanhood (London, Paris, Dublin) by Tatiana Nancy (“Romanovna”) GAUBERT What would a crocodile on a silver chain, taken for a walk on the streets of St. Petersburg, have in common with a kneeling British ambassador, vowing eternal love to a Russian […]

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Burton Y. Berry, Romanian Diaries, 1944-1947 (Reviewed by Russell Pittman

May 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on Burton Y. Berry, Romanian Diaries, 1944-1947 (Reviewed by Russell Pittman · Books, Reviews, Uncategorized

Russell Pittman: REVIEW: Burton Y. Berry, Romanian Diaries, 1944-1947 (ed. Cornelia Bodea). Iasi: The Center for Romanian Studies, 2000. 715 pp., ISBN 973-9432-07-7. Price: £ 32.95 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/9739432077/qid=1117437423/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_8_4/202-7237407-5767029 Romanian joke: The first post-1989 commercial American ship arrives at the Romanian harbor of Constanta. A dockworker asks the captain: “What took you guys so long?” The captain […]

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Voices and Shadows of the Carpathians

April 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on Voices and Shadows of the Carpathians · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, quotations, Reviews, Translations

” ………………. Site Index Index: Table of Contents. Postface: A Conspiracy of Silence. “Voices & Shadows of the Carpathians” …………………………………………………………………………………….. An Anthology of Romanian Thought – selected and introduced by Constantin Roman Postface: A Conspiracy of Silence. …………………………… “Now, I am a person who likes simple words. It is true, I had realised before this […]

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“Moving Here” – a Story of Migration to England

August 27th, 2003 · Comments Off on “Moving Here” – a Story of Migration to England · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, Reviews

“MOVING HERE” “Moving Here” is the ultimate database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years of migrations to England. Contributed by: Constantin Roman http://www.movinghere.org.uk/stories/story12/story12.htm I had started to study English as my fourth foreign language after German and French, which were both spoken in the […]

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Anita Nandris-Cudla (1904–1984)

February 19th, 2003 · Comments Off on Anita Nandris-Cudla (1904–1984) · Books, PEOPLE, Reviews

[b]Bucovina 1920’s Match-making:[/b] “So it was decided that I should marry the young man from our village. My father was was not all satisfied. When the engagement was announced, the bridegroom sent, as was the custom, two men called match-makers. When the marriage was decided, the parents of the bride put out some wine and […]

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