What did both Hitler and Stalin admire about Hungary? It sounds like the question in a university quiz show which no contestant can guess the right answer to. “The water-polo
The First Anniversary of the Red Sludge Disaster Three colours, green, white, and brown dominate the landscape in the village of Kolontár and the town of Devecser, nearly a year
U-Turn in taxing big firms Soon after the change of government in May 2010, the new Parliament voted for a “bank tax” – in fact, a surprisingly high levy on
Europe is recovering from a crisis, but in the course of this recovery it lacks a competitive edge over other continents. Talent is listed in the EU 2020 Strategy as
Preparing for the 2012 Elections Sergey Brin, one of the two inventors and billionaire owners of Google, the world’s largest Internet company, emigrated from Russia in 1979 at the early
The Reconstruction of the Political 2010: What Happened?1 Not long ago, at the close of a televised roundtable conversation, one of the participants, a historian and member of the Hungarian
Hungarian-Americans have faced a daunting task in lobbying for the rights of Hungarian ethnic minorities of East Central Europe. The challenge has been to overcome American predispositions regarding what is
(Excerpts from a book in progress) Go to, go to;You take a precipice for no leap of danger.And woo your own destruction.Shakespeare: King Henry VIII. A small nation wedged between
Ada Kaleh, which means “the island of the fortress” in Turkish, was 1.75 km long and 400–500 metres wide. Due to its great strategic importance, guarding the river after it
The gypsy bands with which we are familiar today began to form in the decades around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Their evolution and transformation have been
Was it for this…(Wordsworth, The Prelude) Hamlet: Give us the foils…King: Give them the foils…(Shakespeare, Hamlet) O joy! that in our embersIs something that doth live…… those obstinate questioningsOf sense and
A New Exhibition at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts Hundreds of mummies were bought in markets in Egypt in the late 19th century, and transported to North America and
Music is a realm of the human spirit – a realm perhaps a bit undervalued at the moment – that can reveal a great deal to us and offer insights
Over the course of the 20th century, and in particular in the latter half, Ferenc Liszt, who during his lifetime and even decades after his death had been known primarily
Now, not St. Gellért but St. Gellért’s maid,1 sing in my room – my mind – as twilight fades, your lips the first to sound Hungarian song under those twilit
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