Category: Inspirational people
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The story of Romanian men and women who were elected mayors in European cities
Berlin, Gorlitz, Stavenhagen, Germany and Paramo de Boedo, Spain all have one thing in common- Romanians as their mayors or deputy mayors. We will look in this article at who they are and how they were chosen by their locals to care for their cities. Ramona Pop- deputy mayor for Berlin, Germany Ramona Pop…
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“All of my needs are perfectly met in Romania: my need for freedom, for beauty, for mountains, nature”- Janneke Klop, Dutch hiker and traveling guide author
“Romania is nothing short of breathtaking. It offers an almost bewildering array of options to the adventurous traveller.” Janneke Klop. Many trips, hikes, and tracks through Romania’s mountains have made Janneke Klop, a Dutch young woman a self-declared “roamaniac”, which means she has fallen in love with Romania in such a way that she has…
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Meet Aurelia, a full-time professional blogger and traveler
Traveling the world, being financially independent, and enjoying life without restrictions. Remote working is the way of the future and some of us have figured this out way before it became the norm. Aurelia Teslaru is a full-time professional blogger and a full-time traveler who enjoys a life of freedom and adventure. Since she started…
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Romanian midwife praised in national NHS campaign in UK
A Romanian midwife has become the image of the National Health Service in the UK and her photograph has been featured all over the country on bus stops and billboards. Claudia Anghel is one of the three people chosen in the Midlands ( area of the UK) for a special project that celebrates 72 years…
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Monica Ulmanu and her team win Pulitzer Prize for climate change story
Monica Ulmanu and her team have won one of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The team was awarded for the “2C:Beyond the Limit” series which is considered a ” groundbreaking series that showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet.” The team has written the series for The Washington Post and…
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Brancusi, the greatest sculptor that ever lived. An inspiring life story
Brancusi is a pioneer of modernism and one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century. His art was exhibited in famous and prominent museums and art halls like the Guggenheim museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, London, Bozar, Brussels and the Museum of Modern Art, New…
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Silicon Valley’s youngest millionaire, Romanian Sebastian Dobrincu
Meet the youngest Silicon valley’s millionaire, Romanian Sebastian Dobrincu. At age 17 he has founded his own IT company called Storyheap, which is now a very successful social media marketing platform. How Sebastian took the world by storm He was only 7 years old when he started to show interest in programming. Born in Botosani…
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Romanian diaspora invite truck drivers to have Christmas dinner thanks to campaign
Truck drivers don’t have the best Christmas. They are on the road nonstop and they sleep in their 2 metres cabin. The only way to connect with their family is via a smartphone. It doesn’t sound like a very merry Christmas, does it? Sometimes truck drivers meet in a parking lot and enjoy a small…
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Romanian woman creates miniature versions of real traditional houses and the details will amaze you
She builds realistic miniature houses with incredible detail. Models of houses that exist in real life and are still dear to the people they belonged to, or to their grandparents or parents. Houses that were filled with beautiful memories of life in the countryside, of amazing summers, spent during childhood, of laughs, harvest, and joy.…
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Daniel Dines: the story of an IT programmer who has become the richest man in Romania
If you didn’t know, there are 16,000 millionaires in dollars in Romania, and 3,720 Romanians with a wealth of over 5 million dollars. But how many billionaires do we have? Well, not many, if you can count to 2 until last year. While the richest man in Romania was for several years, the well known…
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