Category: Inspirational people
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Romanian woman becomes the first foreign Member of Parliament in Spain
More and more expat Romanians become active in their local communities. Recently, Anka Moldovan Feier has become the first foreign deputy ( or MP) of Madrid. She has also become a member of the Popular Party in Spain. Ms Feier was born in 1976 in Cluj-Napoca and has graduated from an Arts History degree in…
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Six year old boy awarded for saving his baby sisters from house fire
Today the Ministry of Interior has awarded a six-year-old child for saving his two sisters from certain death. Emanuel Andrei Bojian has managed to get her one year old sister and three months sister from a house on fire. At the age of six, he was clever enough and courageous enough to grab his little sister…
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Aurel Persu, the Romanian who invented the world’s first aerodynamic car
Romanians are great inventors. They invented the quadcopter, the reaction engine, the cervical screening test and many other inventions that we talked about in a previous article. But have you ever heard of Aurel Persu? This name is quite unknown. But his invention is amazing. Aurel Persu has invented the first aerodynamic car in the…
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Romanian student invents airplane that never needs to land
A student from the Electric Engineering university in Craiova has built an autonomous airplane that can fly without stopping. Arthur Cretu, from Chisinau, has been working on the airplane as a part of his bachelor paper. He managed to build a plane that charges thanks to its solar batteries and for this reason it can fly…
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Dumitru Prunariu: 36 years since the first Romanian cosmonaut traveled into space
Today 14 May 2017 we celebrate 36 years since the first Romanian flew in space. Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu flew on a Soyuz 40 spacecraft and a Salyut 6 space laboratory together with another Romanian cosmonaut, Dumitru Dediu. Prunariu was born in 1952 in Brasov and graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest with a degree in…
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Guardian angel Policeman takes 9 year old gold medalist under his wing
A policeman from the Special Action section has taken a poor 9 year old boy under his wing. Dumitru Musat has discovered the boy in a martial arts training room. He noticed that he was always said and he started to talk to him and he found out that he was sad because he…
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Young Romanian praised by Italian media for inventing a life-saving helmet
A young student, Emanuel Chirila has invented a special helmet that protects the head of bikers and also notifies family and authorities when an accident takes place. The notification is made through SMS. The message sends the location of the person and information about the collision. Moreover, the helmet, which was called ” Blue Helmet”…
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82 year old couple run the Alba Iulia Union cross competition holding hands
Over 500 people have participated this weekend at the Union cross this weekend at the Alba Carolina citadel in Alba Iulia. Among the runners there was also an elderly couple, both of 82 years of age, that ran the whole 2,7 kilometres while holding hands. They have been together for 56 years and they both…
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Romanian-American couple who moved to Maramures:”We love Romanians’ willingness to give and help”
After travelling the world, spending time in the US, UK and Hungary, a Romanian-American couple has moved to Maramures in search for a simple life. Here, in the beautiful village of Breb, Cheryl and Roland have gotten closer to nature, they have started to create their own clothes and shoes and they are documenting it all…
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Two Romanian brothers risk their lives to save 9 people during Italian earthquake
Two Romanian brothers have saved 9 people during the earthquake that devastated Italy. It is well known that Italy has a high number of Romanian expats and many of them have been affected by the earthquake. During the event many people have helped save lives and two of them were Romanian brothers Marian and Daniel…
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