The Northern Lights, or more scientifically the Aurora Borealis( Aurora was the Roman goddess of the dawn, while the word “boreal” means “north” in Latin) have captivated people’s imagination since the beginning of history as they were totally different from anything encountered by them before. This gave birth to numerous myths as the people of [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Pyramids in Italy? You might say that I am misinformed. Even though the Italic Peninsula has definitely had its share of great civilisations throughout history, none of them created such constructions. However, nature decided to fix this, and so it gave birth to the Ritten pyramids. However, the name of “pyramids” is somewhat misleading. In [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Whoever visits Romania is tempted to visit Transyilvania, the land where it’s believed that count Dracula lived, the fictional character from Stocker’s Novel. Even though Dracula, the blood thirsty vampire, never existed, the land of Transilvania is a great place to be visited within the Eastern European country called Romania. Sibiu (in German refered as [...]
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Sculpture: Constantin Brâncuşi’s sculptures at Tirgu Jiu The Romanian artist was voted one of the most important creators of his time, his works, such as Madame LR, being sold for no less than almost 30 million euros. Many of these works of art are now part of private collections, so there are plenty of them [...]
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