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Florescu And Mcnally Vlad Iii Dracula
690 wordsUndoubtedly, we have all heard legends about vampires. These undead creatures were born to live by sucking the blood of innocent humans. But where did these monsters originate? The name Dracula comes from Vlad III of fifteenth century Romania (Porter). Contrary to popular opinion though, Dracula was not a vampire, but rather one of the greatest rulers that had every reigned over Romania. Leblanc states, "Vlad III was born in November or December 1431 in the fortress of Sighisoara, Romania." His ...
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Forty Five Five Minutes
328 wordsThere are schools everywhere, in every country of the world, but it's different from one country to another. I'm going to talk about how school is in Romania. In Romania, as in Canada, there is primary school, highschool, college, and university. In primary school, the grades are from one to four. In highschool, the grades are from five to eight. In college the grades are from nine to twelve, and at university the grades are from thirteen to seventeen. At primary school, pupils are in the same c...
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Free Of Charge Collective Farms
1,526 words... d slots based on predicted demand for given occupations. Stringent entrance exams eliminated a large number of applicants. Some 90 percent of freshmen entering one university department had private tutoring for eight years before taking the tests (Romania Higher Education, 1). It was because the exams were tailored to the course of study, as early as the fifth grade students began planning their specializations, so that they could devote the last four years of elementary school and four year...
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Men And Women Minimum Wages
1,569 words... heat and hot water for as long as a week, and there were regular reports of deaths of elderly men and women because of poor heating. Medical care was unevenly distributed throughout the country for all citizens, not just the elderly. There were substantial differences between urban and rural standards. In the 1980 s, although half the population continued to live in rural areas, only 7, 000 (15. 7 percent) of the 44, 494 physicians worked in the countryside. Consequently, many citizens had t...
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Foreign Currency Foreign Trade
1,529 words... highest yearly value export level registered since 1989. In year 2000, monthly average was USD 863. 9 million (in 1999 monthly average was USD 708. 6 million). Industrial products represented 97. 4 % of total exports in 2000, while products from agriculture and forestry held a weight of only 2. 6 % (Romania export in 2000). In the structure of exports by goods, five sections of goods hold 69. 7 % of total exports: textile matters and articles thereof (24. 2 %), metallurgical products (16. 0 ...
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Century B C Art And Architecture
1,733 words... known as Olympus Pantheon, where Zeus was dominant over the other Gods, personifying lands, fire, love, hate, art, etc. First philosophers had been exploring religion and trying to discover, what is waiting for a man in the other life and does it exist at all? So called nature-philosophers tried to make the faith of people more spiritually meaningful, bring it to archaic materialism. All this finds direct reflection in literature, especially in poetry, which had a bright humanistic tendency....
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Favorite Method Was Impalement Method Was Impalement Power
292 wordsVlad becameDracul Dracula Vlad became quite known for his brutal punishment techniques; he often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs. But his favorite method was impalement on stakes, hence the surname Tepes which means The Impaler in the Romanian language. (1) What is the topic? Kurt W. Treptow s Dracula: Essays on the Life and Tim...
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Austro Hungarian Empire Prime Minister
5,585 wordsSince the 17 th and 18 th centuries, the Carpathian Basin has become one of the most diverse and conflict-ridden macro regions of Europe from both an ethnic and religious perspective. After the fall of the communism the newly emerged democratic states had to face the problem of the minorities. National minorities reacted in a self-defensive way, by re organising and establishing their cultural and political organisations and parties. This established the core for both ethnic tensions and inter-s...
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Balkan Peninsula Roman Empire
1,068 wordsRomania: Not Just a Catchy Title Northernmost on the Balkan Peninsula, Romania stands at the westernmost border of the Black Sea. Lying between 43 oN and 48 oN latitude, and between 20 oE and 29 oE longitude, Romania is situated in a temperate climate zone. It is located north of Bulgaria, south of the Ukraine, east of Serbia and Hungary, and west of Moldova. Romania lies within central Europe, where it sits in line with many other countries which have had revolutions of late. Romania is divided...
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