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Constantin Brancusi, 1948 -by Florence Homolka [+]

Brașov, România I love this city!!!

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Maria Tanase si Mihail Sadoveanu

Continuing the series of Romanians that make us proud, guest writer Mariana Ganea re-discovers Sergiu Celibidache, George Emil Palade and Nicolae Titulescu. Sergiu Celibidache was one of the most important conductors of the 20th century, a well known and appreciated professor and a composer. He was born in 1912 in the city of Roman, an

IOAN CANTACUZINO - Cholera vaccine Ioan C. Cantacuzino was a renowned Romanian physician and bacteriologist.He graduated from the University of Paris' Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Medicine, and worked at several hospitals in Paris, obtaining his doctorate in 1894.Based on investigations in this direction, the doctor has developed a cholera vaccination method, called "Method Cantacuzino", still used today in countries where there are cases of cholera.

Emil Racoviță / 15 November 1868 – 17 November 1947/ was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist in the world to study the arctic life. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic, more than 100 years ago, as well as an influential professor, scholar and researcher.

E.M. Cioran, Eugene Ionesco, Mircea Eliade, Paris 1977. Source:

Regina Elisabeta a României, cunoscută și sub numele de Carmen Sylva, și George Enescu. 1899

Câți dintre voi știu că unele dintre cele mai mari actrițe, cântărețe și savante ale lumii, de la începutul secolului trecut, au origini românești? Apropo.ro a întocmit un clasament al româncelor faimoase din perioada interbelică și vă prezintă în prima parte 20 de nume care au marcat istoria universală.

Emil Cioran și Petre Țuțea

Calea Victoriei în anii '30, tot într-o zi ploioasă. Sursa: Arhivele Naționale ale României