Balcic Castle
Posted on Jan 20, 2012 in Architecture, Construction, Dobrogea, History | 1 comment

Balcic Castle

The Balcic castle was build by Queen Mary of Romania in interbelic period. Castle complex includes a botanical park, residential villas more, a room of smokers, a cellar, a monastery, a source of water and various other buildings. Via:...
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Gipsy palaces
Posted on Jan 18, 2012 in Architecture, Construction, Other | 2 comments

Gipsy palaces

  Not beautiful for most of us, but indeed impressive, huge, weird looking and hard not to look when you pass one.     Via:...
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Antiimperialist propaganda
Posted on Jan 16, 2012 in Comunist period, History, Museum | 0 comments

Antiimperialist propaganda

This album of cartoons represents a gift  offered by German Antifascist Committee of RPR to  Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej , the leader of Romanian Communist Party , at the age of 50 years. Via:...
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Memories from communism. Part I
Posted on Jan 14, 2012 in Comunist period, History, Museum | 0 comments

Memories from communism. Part I

Here are presented few common objects for romanians in communist period.       Via: Communism in Romania
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Romanians at Ellis Island
Posted on Jan 12, 2012 in History, Museum, Transylvania | 0 comments

Romanians at Ellis Island

Ellis Island, between January 1, 1892 and November 12, 1954, was the main entrance of immigrants in the United States. In digital gallery of New York Public Library there is a collection of William Williams (1862-1947) collected by him during the work at Ellis Island Immigration comisioar Immigration Station in New York in 1902-1905 and 1909-1913. The collection contains 97 images taken in the period 1906-1914. There are both overall photographs, exterior and interior, as well as portraits of immigrants registered there. The portraits were made by Augustus Francis...
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