Positive News about Romania
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Romanian art publications to be displayed at International book fair in London
Romanian art publications are set to be displayed at Offprint London, one of the largest art publication fairs in Great Britain. The fair opens today at Tate Modern. The event celebrates typographic art and book design from all over the world. The fair is open to collectors but also to the general public. Romania…
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Horia Colibasanu climbs the Everest without supplementary oxygen
Romanian Horia Colibasanu has managed to reach the Everest peak ( 8.848m ) without supplementary oxygen and without the help of Sherpa. The alpinist said that it was very hard and very cold. It took him 12 hours to climb the peak and for a while, he climbed in parallel with the sherpas who were…
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Two asteroids named after Romanian personalities
Two new asteroids have received Romanian names. The asteroid number 10466 received the name Marius-Ioan, after Marius-Ioan Piso, who is the president of the Romanian Space Agency and asteroid 10707 was named Prunariu, after Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, who was the first Romanian cosmonaut.Both asteroids were discovered in 1981. Marius-Ioan Piso has founded the Romanian Space…
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Brancusi sculpture sells for 57.36 million dollars
The famous Sleeping Muse sculpture was sold yesterday for the sum of 57.36 million dollars. Constantin Brancusi’s sculpture was auctioned yesterday at the Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York and it took only 9 minutes of heavy bidding between five bidders. The sculpture was estimated to be sold for 20-30 million…
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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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The best Twitter reactions to Romania’s performance during Eurovision
Although Romania only reached number 7 in the Eurovision contest, fans from all over the world fell in love with the quirky song which combined rap and Yodel. The song was praised by everyone after the team went on stage. Here are some of the best Twitter reactions
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Romanian girls qualify for the Technovation Challenge semifinals
Three Romanian women teams were qualified for the semifinals of Technovation Challenge, which is the largest international mobile programming competition for girls. Each team has to create an application using the AppInventor platform and a business plan and solve a need for today’s society. The participants had to choose between different themes sich as health,…
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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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Romania wins second place at World Ballet Competition in New York
Romania has won the second place in an international ballet competition in New York. Students from a choreography highschool in Bucharest together with their teachers have participated in The Youth America Grand Prix competition. The students have reached the finals, after getting excellent results in the European semifinals in Paris, in November 2016. In the…
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A new species of cuckoo discovered in Romania
A new species of cuckoo was discovered on the Romanian territory this month. The bird was discovered by a German tourist called Rolf Nessing. The tourist was participating in a trip with his friends in Dobrogea where they were birdwatching. The discovery was confirmed by the Romanian Ornithology society which made the announcement on the…
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