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• the Romanian politician Costică Canacheu campaigns for the official recognition of Aromanians as a national minority in his country?
• the Romanian writer Paul Goma, whose citizenship was revoked by CeauÅŸescu’s regime in 1978, now resides in France as a stateless person?
• the Romanian politician Constantin Argetoianu, who organized repression of the Communist Party and announced the group's effective termination in 1922, spent his final years as a political prisoner of the Communist regime?
• the Romanian poet Anatol E. Baconsky, who debuted as a socialist realist, came to depict the communist regime as an "anti-utopia" shortly before dying in the 1977 earthquake?
• the Romanian magazine Sămănătorul promoted pastoral imagery, antisemitic messages, and its own branch of Symbolist poetry?
• the Romanian organization Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar was created by the Iron Guard in order to rally the working class around fascism?
• the video sharing website Trilulilu is one of the most visited websites in Romania, with an average of 2.2 million unique visitors per month?
• the Xhosa Wars veteran Stephen Bartlett Lakeman (pictured) became an Ottoman pasha and, late in his life, helped create the Romanian National Liberal Party?
• the Dacia Duster is the first concept car entirely made by the Romanian automaker Automobile Dacia?
• the French Church in Bucharest, Romania, is topped by a Gallic rooster?
• the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in ConstanÅ£a, Romania, which twice served as a parish church and twice as a cathedral, was made a monastery as well in 2001?
• the Athénée Palace hotel in Bucharest, Romania, now a Hilton, may have been Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II, and only slightly less so during the Cold War?
• the 1986 Vrancea earthquake in Romania, which damaged roughly 55,000 homes, was felt as far north as Poland and as far southwest as Italy?
• the Arpechim Refinery owned by Petrom produces around sixty percent of all the bitumen used in Romania?
• the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II?
• the Romanian Proclamation of TimiÅŸoara unsuccessfully called for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party officials?
• the Bessarabian-centered agenda with which ViaÅ£a Basarabiei magazine confronted Romanian authorities in the 1930s has been called "ferocious nativism" and an "aberrant form of defense"?
• the choir of Stavropoleos Church, an Eastern Orthodox church in central Bucharest, Romania, sings (neo-)Byzantine music, now a rare occurrence for churches in Romania?
• the bell tower of the Bărboi Church in IaÅŸi, Romania, is over a century older than the present church, and once contained a private library?
• the 1994 French–Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars?
• several works by Romanian Symbolist poet D. Iacobescu, who died around the age of twenty, speak about his losing battle with tuberculosis?
• shortly before the 1989 Revolution, current Romanian Transport Minister Radu Berceanu was questioned at length by the Securitate for allegedly intending to flee the country using a hang glider he had built?
• the English-born activist Maria Rosetti (pictured) was the model for Constantin Daniel Rosenthal's personification of Romania?
• the postmodernist Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu retold Arthurian legends and co-authored poems through e-mail with the American Andrei Codrescu?
• the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-PiteÅŸti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers?
• the Romanian Union of Communist Youth underwent a total of four purges, which resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of members?
• the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza, who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s?
• the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy?
• the Romanian communist politician Valter Roman was active not only in the Romanian Communist Party, but also in the communist parties in Czechoslovakia, France, and Spain?
• the Romanian fascist politician Ion Sân-Giorgiu at first considered Antisemitism to be "an act of poverty of a failed intellectual", but soon changed his position calling Jews a "national cancer"?
• the Ioan Slavici National College in Satu Mare, Romania, has a 200-seat chapel on its campus?
• the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
• the oldest modern human remains in Europe have been discovered in PeÅŸtera cu Oase in south-western Romania?
• the region formed by Ilfov County and Bucharest accounts for 19% of exports and 40% of imports in Romania?
• the name of Chindia Tower (pictured) in TârgoviÅŸte, Romania may be related to the medieval curfew that began at sunset?
• the literary works of Romanian teacher and defrocked Orthodox priest Ion Creangă (pictured) range from primers to erotic stories?
• the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?
• the last autofictional texts by Romanian novelist Mircea Nedelciu, written during his losing battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, compare his own biography with deep-sea diving?
• the single "Hot" by Romanian singer Inna was posted on YouTube and reached 2 million views in under one year?
• the sinking of the Romanian-flagged crude oil carrier MT Unirea was classified by Lloyd's List as the world's largest ship accident of 1982?
• when Romanian diplomat Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist?
• when Giurgiu Cathedral in Romania was inaugurated in 2006, it received a box with the relics of Saint George, but this was stolen the following year?
• two Romanian cathedrals inspired by foreign models include Sibiu's, based on Hagia Sophia, and IaÅŸi's, which resembles Trinità dei Monti?
• the works of Romanian sociologist and novelist Dan Lungu refer to concealed communist-era phenomena, such as the working class practice of stealing state property?
• the vast Mongol Empire that once stretched from East Asia to Romania was brought down by the Red Turban Rebellion?
• the villagers of the Romanian village of Bigar largely speak Czech rather than Romanian?
• the first Spinka Rebbe, Joseph Meir Weiss, was buried in Romania in 1909, but reinterred in Petah Tikva, Israel in 1972?
• the debut single of Romanian singer Corina entitled Noi Doi reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100?
• the Mikó Citadel of Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania, once used for defensive purposes, now houses an ethnographic museum and a library?
• the Monument to the Heroes of the Military Engineers' Army is dedicated to the Romanian military engineers of World War I, of whom more than a thousand were killed?
• the Mihai Eminescu National College in Satu Mare, Romania, was established in 1634 when Jesuits received approval to open a college in the city?
• the Lupeni Strike of 1929 in Romania was originally blamed on Hungarian propagandists and Comintern activists?
• the July Theses, a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae CeauÅŸescu, were inspired by his visits to Communist China, Korea and Vietnam?
• the Kölcsey Ferenc National College in Satu Mare, Romania, was established in 1557 as a subsidiary of the University of Debrecen?
• the Petrobrazi Refinery owned by Petrom is the most efficient refinery in Romania having a Nelson complexity index of 11.4?
• the RoÅŸia Poieni copper mine represents the largest copper reserve in Romania and the second largest in Europe?
• the appointment of Sever Voinescu as Romanian ambassador to the United States was rejected by a Senate committee on grounds that he was too close to President Traian Băsescu?
• the city of PiteÅŸti was the original site of Seventh-day Adventist activities in Romania?
• the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, and Romania?
• the Union Monument (pictured) in Romania was unveiled in 1927, demolished in 1947 by the Communists, and rebuilt in 1999?
• the Tatarbunary Uprising in Budjak, Bessarabia was led by a pro-Soviet revolutionary committee which called for unification with the Ukrainian SSR and an end to "Romanian occupation"?
• the UNIO High School in Satu Mare, Romania, was established only to train and promote skilled workers for the UNIO Company?
• poet and philanthropist Constant Tonegaru was imprisoned by Romania's regime when one of his aid parcels was redirected toward anti-communist fighters?
• one mixed martial arts fight at the Insomnia Summer Show in Satu Mare, Romania, lasted only seven seconds?
• Romanian politician Teohari Georgescu was dismissed from his post as Interior Minister in 1952 after being simultaneously accused of left-wing and right-wing deviationism?
• Romanian princess Catherine Caradja was nicknamed the "Angel of PloieÅŸti" for her humanitarian deeds by American and British airmen who were taken prisoner during the bombing of Romania in World War II?
• Romanian poet, dissident, and journalist Dorin Tudoran was only allowed to leave Romania for the United States after a 42-day-long hunger strike in 1985?
• Romanian poet Luca Caragiale, the son of celebrated dramatist Ion Luca Caragiale, is said to have been brought to tears by his father's rejection of Symbolism?
• Romanian artist Eugen Taru contributed to the Soviet–Yugoslav propaganda war with large posters depicting Josip Broz Tito as a butcher?
• Romanian businessman Gheorghe Åžtefănescu was executed for selling large quantities of adulterated wine?
• Romanian professional armwrestler Ion Oncescu is the current world champion for both the left and the right arms?
• Romanian violinist Ion Petre Stoican got his recording contract in Communist-era Romania because he caught an American spy?
• Alexandru Papana competed in bobsleigh for Romania at two Winter Olympics and later was involved in test flying the P-61 Black Widow?
• Apartment Building 63 located in Bucharest is the largest single residential building in Romania with a total of 950 apartments and over 1,600 residents?
• Alexandru Ghika, the founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis, was the great-great-grandson of Grigore IV Ghica, Prince of Wallachia?
• Romanian writer Dumitru Å¢epeneag was a founding member of the Oniric group, an avante garde aesthetic movement, which tries to describe a world which cannot be seen?
• Romanian writer Alexandru Odobescu viewed antisemites preventing linguist Lazăr Şăineanu from obtaining naturalization as "cannibals" devouring "a civilized man"?
• Romanian writer Eugène Ionesco deemed critic Åžerban Cioculescu "stupid by obligation" during a cultural debate of the 1930s?
• Romanian actress Ecaterina Nazare appeared in a theatrical version of Shakespeare's sonnets, produced and staged by the National Theatre Bucharest?
• Romanian actor Ion Caramitru figures prominently in theories that the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was not truly a popular uprising but a cover-up for a coup d'état?
• Romania's Daewoo Mangalia shipyard has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?
• Romania's PiteÅŸti prison housed the largest and most intensive form of brainwashing through torture ever carried out in the Eastern bloc?
• fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks, an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania's best-known creators of comic strips?
• exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?
• 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18, 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?
• Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
• Romania's ruling Social Democratic–Democratic Liberal coalition was divided over Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu's intervention in the appointment of school directors?
• Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru?
• Romanian socialist Constantin Mille (pictured) amused himself by fabricating news about his activities and having them published in the Conservative Party press?
• Romanian Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic Alexandru Macedonski sat on a throne during meetings of his esoteric circle?
• Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu is a seventh-generation jurist?
• Romanian euro millionaire businessman and politician Relu Fenechiu was reportedly responsible for the appointment of Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu and two other cabinet members in 2007?
• Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu, removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric?
• Romanian DJ David Deejay was the first artist in the country to release two songs simultaneously, I Can Feel and So Bizzare [sic], with the last becoming a number one hit?
• Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
• Dimitrie Gerota, who is considered to be Romania's first radiologist, was forced to abandon this field after his hand had to be amputated as a result of radiodermatitis?
• five USAAF airmen were awarded the Medal of Honor following Operation Tidal Wave, a low-level bombing of Romanian oil refineries on 1 August 1943?
• former Romanian boxer Gogea Mitu is listed by the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest professional boxer?
• during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States?
• because it reflects Hungarian phonology, the original middle name of singer and comedian Ioan Gyuri Pascu was misspelled on his Romanian-issued birth certificate?
• actress Dina Cocea was known in Romania as the "Queen of the Theater" and received the country's highest civil award, the Order of the Star of Romania?
• as of 2007, Romania has an installed wind power capacity of only seven megawatts?
• former Romanian secret police chief Nicolae PleÅŸiţă, notorious for his dealings with Carlos the Jackal, admitted dragging dissident writer Paul Goma around his cell by his beard?
• in 114 years of existence the ConstanÅ£a Shipyard in Romania constructed 432 ships with a total of over four million metric tons deadweight (DWT)?
• modern Romania's most notorious serial killer, Ion Râmaru, was himself the son of a serial killer?
• on July 1, 1940, Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi, killing 53 people according to official sources, but more than 165 people according to Jewish sources?
• many works of the Romanian Symbolist poet Traian Demetrescu survived as popular romanzas after their author died from tuberculosis in 1896?
• incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?
• in 2007, three specimens of the Caspian whipsnake were found in GalaÅ£i County, the first in Moldavia (eastern Romania) since 1937?
• in the Jilava Massacre, perpetrated in Romania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
• a series of measures taken by Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu, including official persecution of Jews, failed to sway Adolf Hitler from his demand that Romania cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary?
• The Reenactment, a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, was banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in tormenting young delinquents?
• Maria Antonescu, wife of Romania's World War II dictator Ion Antonescu, presided over charities financed though the extortion of local Jews?
• Mihail Moruzov, Romania's first modern espionage chief, was shot as part of the Jilava Massacre, while his successor Eugen Cristescu died in prison?
• Lake Ceauru in southwestern Romania does not exist, despite appearing on maps today?
• Iuliu Ilyés, the current mayor of Satu Mare, Romania, has twice been elected to the office with close to double the vote of his opponent?
• Ionel Fernic made the first parachute jump in Romania on May 31, 1936, at an aviation meeting held on the Băneasa Airport in Bucharest?
• Iordan Chimet, who opposed the Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters in his country?
• Mitică, a character in the works of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale, has become, especially in Transylvania, a stereotype of both Bucharesters and Wallachians?
• Omar Hayssam, a Syrian-born Romanian financier, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005?
• Kir Ianulea, a 1909 novella by Romanian author Ion Luca Caragiale, relocated Niccolò Machiavelli's Belfagor arcidiavolo into Phanariote-era Bucharest?
• Simbolul was a Romanian literary magazine published by Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, later two of Dadaism's founders, while they were still in high school?
• Stephen's Tower in Baia Mare, Romania has had four fires in its history, three caused by lightning?
• the Soviet Union annexed Western Ukraine in 1939 following the invasion of Poland and an ultimatum to Romania?
• Operation Uranus led to the encirclement of the German Sixth Army and portions of the Fourth Panzer Army, as well as surviving remnants of two Romanian armies, totaling over 200,000 soldiers?
• Romgaz is the largest natural gas producer in Romania?
• "the light arises in the East", an apparently pro-Soviet slogan coined by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu in 1945, is seen by some as a coded warning to his fellow Freemasons about communization?