Surf these sites: Aeronautics - Henri Coanda -- Henri Marie Coanda was the second son of Constantin M. Coanda who had five sons and two daughters. H. Coanda was born in Bucharest, Romania on June 7, 1886. As he later stated he has been attracted by the ''miracle of wind'' since he was a boy. Aurel Vlaicu - Romanian aviation pioneer -- Romanian aviation pioneer. Enescu, George (1881 - 1955) -- The greatest of Romanian musicians, George Enescu was equally remarkable as a violinist and as a composer. He contributed significantly to the development of music in his own country, although much of his activity centred on Paris, where he was a pupil of Marsick and for composition of Fauré and Massenet. His violin pupils include Grumiaux, Ferras, Gitlis and Menuhin. Eugene Ionesco - Biography -- Biography and timeline of the author''s life. HENRY COANDA -- Henry Coanda (1886-1972)The most interesting machine, which attracted lots of people, and caused the visitors to gather in a crowd around it, was a red airplane which was missing the propeller; beside it, on a metallic shell, was written: COANDA-1910. This airplane caused the people to be so curious not only because it was missing the propeller, but also because of the fact that it was completely different from what people knew by that time an airplane looked like. Johnny Weissmuller, Tarzan''s Family Tree -- According to his genealogy consultant, Sensible System''s Johnny J. Weissmuller is the first cousin, twice removed to the late actor "Johnny Weissmuller". "Sensible" Johnny''s GRANDFATHER and TARZAN Johnnyb were contemporary first cousins (i.e., sons of brothers). Both were born around the turn of the century (Adam in 1899 and Johnny in 1902 [not 1904])in Timisoara, Romania.... Mircea Eliade-biography etc. -- Eliade was born in Bucharest, Romania. Despite a childhood interest in entomology and botany (which doubtless first attracted his attention to Goethe, a lifelong role model and inspiration), he developed an interest in world literature and was led from there to philology, philosophy, and comparative religion. As a youth he read extensively in Romanian, French, and German, and around 1924-25 he learned Italian and English to read Raffaele Pettazzoni and James George Frazer in the original. Romanians and their contributions to the World -- Constantin Brancusi(1876-1957) Sergiu Celibidach(1912-1996) Emil Cioran (1911-1995) Henri Coanda (1886-1972) Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) George Enescu (1881-1955)Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994) Jean Negulesco(1900-1993)Nicolae Titulescu Tristan Tzaranu Aurel Vlaicu Traian Vuia (1872-) San Diego Aerospace Museum - The Jet Propulsion Age -- Experiments to determine the feasibility of jet propulsion were being conducted a brief seven years after the Wright brothers'' famous flight in 1903. A Romanian, Henri Coanda, built and attempted to fly a very primitive turbine engine airplane near Paris, France, in April 1910.... Stéphane Lupasco - L''homme et l''oeuvre -- Issue of the magazine "rencontres transdisciplinaires" dedicated to the famous Romanian philosopher Stéphane Lupasco.
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