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Friday 4 PM - From the airport, take a taxi or 783 airport bus straight to Piata Universitatii and the old medieval merchant district of Lipscani, which escaped the attentions of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who razed much of its surroundings.
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The area, all but abandoned until just a few years ago, is now a dense network of cobbled streets and period buildings in various stages of refurbishment and centre of the city's burgeoning nightlife scene. It's an easy area to wander at random but you
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Emma Dumitrescu, 17-years old, a model, rides in a hot air balloon to show off the world's longest wedding dress train to become the Guinness World Record in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, March 20, 1012. The nearly 3-kilometer (1.86-mile) long ivory... View Photo »
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In Romania, after I accepted Christ, as an attorney I defended churches and individuals against the country's religious and human rights persecution during the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
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Venereal disease, according to this mordant wisecracker, “brought out the good communist in everyone: it was the only thing that really got shared around.” This kind of gallows humor keeps the men and women in “The Last Hundred Days” from going insane.
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Museum of Natural History in Mdina. But the thief left the Maltese flag and plaque that authenticated the sample as real. The sample hasnÂt been recovered. ROMANIAN AUCTION: Moon rock hunter Joe GutheinzÂs students found evidence that the estate of...
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But the thief left the Maltese flag and plaque that authenticated the sample as real. The sample hasn't been recovered. ROMANIAN AUCTION: Moon rock hunter Joe Gutheinz's students found evidence that the estate of executed former Romanian leader Nicolae...
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A model rides in a hot air balloon to show the worlds longest wedding dress train during a Guinness World Record attempt in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, March 20, 1012. Romania has set the world record for the world's longest bridal train. The nearly... View Photo »
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After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It is a mere question of aesthetic level, whether he turns out to be Baudelaire or Bolintineanu, Louis XVI or Nicolae Ceausescu.
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With the removal of long entrenched dictatorial regimes in the Arab world, artists in this region are now faced with the challenge of interpreting in their work the turbulence and the changing social and political order around them. In this context, it...
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In 2007, when the Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d’Or for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days , the high seriousness of the award was in perfect stoic harmony with the total heaviosity of the movie. Set during the last years of the Nicolae...
About Nicolae Ceausescu
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Nicolae Ceauşescu (pronounced [nikoˈlaje tʃauˈʃesku]) (January 26, 1918–December 25, 1989) was the leader of Romania from 1965 until December 1989, when a revolution and coup removed him from power. The self-called revolutionaries' representatives held a two-hour trial and sentenced him to death for crimes against the state, genocide, and... Full Article
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