Category: Inspirational people
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Laurentiu Popa, the Rembrandt of Romania
He is more well known abroad than in Romania and he was named ” Rembrand of Romania”. Laurentiu Popa from Galati is one of the few painters who can paint using the technique of chiaroscuro. The style of chiaroscuro was used by Rembrandt in the 17th century. Laurentiu Popa fell in love with this technique…
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Tibi Useriu wins the 6633 Ultra Marathon the 3rd time!
The year started well for Tibi Useriu as he has managed to win the 6633 Ultra-Marathon Arctic for the third time. He will go down in history for being the only person in the world who has managed to win the marathon three times in a row. The marathon is 618 km long and competitiors…
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Romanian restaurant amongst best 5 in Paris
What do you think when someone says Paris? Beautiful areas to visit, corner cafes and amazing food, probably but you would not be thinking about Romanian food. Well, Vogue magazine has made a top 5 restaurants of the moment in Paris and a restaurant led by two Romanian chefs was lister. The tiny restaurant is…
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Levaditi, the Romanian researcher who was nominated 4 times for the Nobel Prize in Medicine
Have you ever heard of Constantin Levaditi? His name is quite an important one as he was a genius researcher and his name is connected to the anti-polio vaccine, he contributed to the establishment of chemotherapy and the development of antibiotics. He is basically one of the most important Romanian researchers in medicine and he…
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Farcas Stefana: the 26 year old woman captain who drives a 30,000 horsepower ship
She is only 26 and she already has already become a commanding officer of the King Ferdinand frigate, a ship that has 30,000 horse power. Farcas Stefana, from Roman is also fight group commanding officer, observing officer and navigation officer. She has started her career at the young age of 14 when she attended the Campulung…
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Romanian student named honorary citizen of Seoul
Jackie Chan, Mercedes Benz’s CEO and now Silvia Pencu was made an honorary citizen of Seoul. The 24-year-old student has received this title on November 15 this year. The award is only given to famous people and to extraordinary people who already have been living in Seoul for 10-20 years. The title is only given…
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Ciprian Manolescu to be awarded for “landmark article” by the Journal of the American Mathematical Society
He is considered one of the best mathematicians in the world. His name is Ciprian Manolescu and he is a professor at the California University, Los Angeles. Once again he has proven his genius by being awarded the E.H. Moore Research Article Award 2019 for his paper published in the Journal of the American Mathematical…
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Cristina Neagu breaks the world record and becomes the best goalscorer of all times at the European Championship
Handball player Cristina Neagu has become the best goalscorer of all time at the European Championships. The announcement was made during the game with Germany when Cristina has marked her fifth goal in the game. In total Cristina scored 206 goals, one more than Agnes Farkas who used to hold the record. Neagu needed 5…
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Charity develops a travel platform to help people with disabilities
An amazing social foundation called ” Alaturi de voi Romania” ( together with you, Romania) has helped people transform their disabilities in abilities. The association has helped over 150,000 people with disabilities in 15 years since they started. At first, they have worked at first with children infected with AIDS and then the organisation started…
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Romanian student wins the Junior Nobel Prize in Computer Science
A young man who has recently graduated from the University of Manchester will receive the Undergraduate Award, also known as the Junior Nobel Prize. Cristian Bodnar from Bistrita is only 21 and he has finished his studies in Computer Science. His research entitled “Text to Image Synthesis. Using Generative Adversarial Networks” has amazed experts and…