Tag: Hungary
NATOSource: Transatlantic leaders rate Greece as top candidate to be removed from NATO natosource: In a just released Atlantic Council-Foreign Policy survey, experts voted Greece as the country they were most likely to “kick out of NATO.” Heads of state, ministers of defense and foreign affairs, a head of intelligence, plus current and former members of Congress were among the dozens of…
Jókai Mór: Erdély aranykora “Apafi leült, mint valami áldozatra szánt bárány, s első kezdetnek akkora betűt kanyarított a pergamenre, hogy a török fölugrott ijedtében, s azt kérdte, hogy mi az. – Ez egy M betű – válaszolt Apafi. – De hát a többinek is hagyjon kend helyet. – Ez csak kezdőbetű, a többi majd apró lesz. – No hát mondja kegyelmed fennhangon, hogy mit ír. Apafi reszketve írt és mondá: – Minekutána… A basa elkapta előle dühösen a pergament, s ráordított: – Mit "minekutána” és “annakutána”! Mit cikornyázza kegyelmed. Írja kegyelmed úgy, ahogy szokás: “Mi Apafi Mihály, Erdély fejedelme, parancsoljuk…
Hungary says 2 hostages in Syria are alive The Hungarians were snatched Saturday from a company’s offices in southeast Syria, the spokesman said, declining to reveal further details citing security concerns.
I think it’s obvious why I like this. 🙂 theseatofempire: Flags at the United Nations Headquarters, with the Hungarian flag prominent in the center. The flags of all countries of the world are arranged in English alphabetical order in front of the UN, which means the people who are in charge of them must hate any new country created that messes everything up.
The date marks the birthday of one of our biggest poets Attila József. Some of my favorite poems coming along later… 🙂
Actually, I wrote this one on Monday morning, before Pal Schmitt resigned, so when it happened I put it aside. Only now I decided to rewrite a few sentences, extend it with one or two paraghraphs and post it anyway. I would like to state that this is my opinion, I don’t intend to offend anyone with it. So, apparently what entertains foreign media the most in this story is that first Hungarian president Pal Schmitt said he’s not going to resign, then he said he’s not going to resign once more and then he resigned. What happened in my…
Hungary’s president quits over plagiarism Risking that I’ll might have to explain it later: here’s yet another good news for today… 🙂
National Holiday today in Hungary. Commemorating the anniversary of the revolution in 1848. unthought–known: Az 1848/49-es szabadságharc emlékére
The Door, the movie based on Magda Szabó’s famous novel comes out this week in Hungary directed by Academy Award Winning director István Szabó (no relation, it’s a very common name in Hungary). Recently I was lucky enough to attend a public talk with István Szabó about the movie, the cast, the novel and some background stories. We learned that it wasn’t the director’s idea to make this movie, he was asked to do it. The Door is one of the late Magda Szabó’s most well-known pieces of work translated into 38 languages. It is also one of her autobiographical…
