As the whole world knows, Hungary and Europe this winter mark the anniversaries of two great cataclysmic events – the first fighting of the 1914–18 war and the final fighting
Today it is apparent that the over-optimistic words of President G. H. W. Bush delivered exactly eleven years before the attack on the World Trade Center, announcing a New World
The performance of a national economy can be explained by a variety of “hard” production factors such as the size and quality of the labour force and the amount of
On 12 June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before West Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and the wall that surrounded the free world’s enclave hundreds of miles inside Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. There, in
In Europe, the Americas and parts of the Middle East, all countries with at least some blonde population, blondes are universally seen as the most beautiful and desirable of all
MIRACULOUS TANGERINE TREES (On the thirtieth anniversary of a photo exhibition) Here is a quiz question for you: which island in the Adriatic is a habitat for the elephant, the
The Germans that survived the carnage at Dobogókő and Pilisszentkereszt scattered in the frost-stiffened Pilis forest. Most of them were captured by the Russians and the wounded locked up in
The Margit Boulevard Military Barracks was the headquarters of an Arrow Cross detachment of the Hungarian military police operating in collaboration with the Gestapo. “You talk. We write”, said the
In 1944 the youngest member of our family was the one and a half year old Csilla, then came Ágnes (10) alias Gigi, Judit (12), and finally myself (13). My
Gyula Illyés (1902–1983)RIVERS, FJORDS, SMALL VILLAGES… Waterloo, Wagram, Mohi – what were they Before their mild and empty names were filled With keenings, and a thousand deaths went sailing Away
Playwright and actress Elizabeth Kuti (b. 1969) was born in England, as the child of an English mother and a Hungarian father. Her award-winning early drama, Treehouses was written during
Like thousands of others, my family left the homeland in 1956 after the Hungárián Revolution when I was only three years old. Although Hungarian was the spoken language in our
One could ask how such extraordinarily large family treasures could emerge here during the Late Antiquity. The western part of Hungary belonged to Pannonia province during Roman times, with the
ATTILA BALÁZS (Novi Sad/Újvidék, 1955), writer, translator, journalist. Author of twelve books of prose. Founder of the cultural magazine Ex Symposion. He worked as editor for the YU Radio- Television,
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