by Andras M. BadicsTuesday, March 22nd, 2011 According to Hungarian media several thousands of the world’s skyscrapers, including those in Japan that resisted the monstrous 9.0 earthquake, employ safety systems invented by a Hungarian. Sandor Tarics (born September 23, 1913) created the technology in the 70s, which works the same way as the shock absorbers in your car’s suspension. The building will sway drastically like the ones in Japan, but
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Strategy prepared to stop assimilation of ethnic Hungarians in the West
March 28, 2011, 7:51 CET By MTI The government is preparing a strategy to stop the assimilation of ethnic Hungarians living in the West, the co-chair of a Permanent Hungarian Conference (MAERT) subcommittee told MTI on Saturday. Szabolcs Bihari said the strategy is planned to be completed by September and it will be part of a comprehensive nation policy to be developed by the end of the year. Zsuzsanna Repas,
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Being Bilingual May Boost Your Brain Power
by GRETCHEN CUDA-KROEN In an interconnected world, speaking more than one language is becoming increasingly common. Approximately one-fifth of Americans speak a non-English language at home, and globally, as many as two-thirds of children are brought up bilingual. Research suggests that the growing numbers of bilingual speakers may have an advantage that goes beyond communication: It turns out that being bilingual is also good for your brain. Judy and Paul
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Hungarian engineer builds novel wind turbine tower
By: MTI 2011-04-05 07:20 Hungarian engineer Viktor Gyorgyi has built a revolutionary wind turbine tower lacking external blades on his own estate in western Hungary's Felcsut, Nepszabadsag daily reported on Monday. The 29- metre-high structure, with its turbine and generator on the ground rather than high up in the air, is designed to eliminate disadvantages of horizontal axis devices which must take far greater stresses, the inventor told the paper.
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Generosity of Davenport’s long-dead Hungarian count pays for college scholarships today
Alma Gaul | Posted: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 2:00 am In the late 1840s, Count Nicholas Fejervary of Pest, Hungary, could see that the future was dicey for people like him. A revolution seeking to overthrow his country's Austrian oppressors had failed, and in the aftermath, the property of noblemen such as himself was being confiscated. Worse, friends were being executed. Fejervary decided to flee Hungary for a new life
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Hungary Sends Herend China Dinner Set for Royal Wedding
April 28, 2011, 4:05 PM CET By Margit Feher Hungary is giving Prince William and Kate Middleton a set of special, handmade Herend china dinner set made by the iconic Herendi porcelain factory as a wedding present. The Royal Garden decor of the dinner service is a new pattern designed especially for the event. The decor is based on the hallmark Victoria design — the pattern Queen Victoria ordered from
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