FIND A GRAVE has been useful in my personal genealogy research. It started out as a site used to find the burial places for celebrities (I'm linking to BELA LUGOSI's grave!) but you can use it to find regular deceased folks too!
Click on the title of this post to get to the link!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The official BELA LUGOSI web site!
BELA LUGOSI is probably the best known male Hungarian actor who made it to Hollywood. He starred as Dracula.... Count Dracula of legend... who actually may have been based on a real person VLAD THE IMPALER.
Free Screen Saver at this site.... hmmm... would you like it to be Halloween all year long?
Free Screen Saver at this site.... hmmm... would you like it to be Halloween all year long?
Monday, October 25, 2010
THERE IS NO HALLOWEEN IN HUNGARY
There is no Halloween in Hungary... But of course most Americans do celebrate this holiday beginning in grade school where the cycle of Holidays is usually played out througout the year. For some this is an opportunity to wear a mask and costume and play at some alter-ego for a while. Usually this is playful and silly and there is no harm in it at all.
Personally, I like the pumpkins and gourds, the harvest festival aspect of the American Holiday. I also like the spiritual aspect of it, the idea that at this time of year this world you can celebrate or communicate with your ancestors.
What I can do without is all the fright and gore, the Haunted Houses, the way this celebration has been perverted into something evil rather than reverent. There is no good reason as I see it for EVIL to be associated with this holiday or time of the year, as if evil doesn't exist all the time. I don't think the celebration of ancestors or trying to communicate with them (this is usually through psychicism) is evil either. For most of us, going through the family album or old scrapbooks is good enough.
Personally, I like the pumpkins and gourds, the harvest festival aspect of the American Holiday. I also like the spiritual aspect of it, the idea that at this time of year this world you can celebrate or communicate with your ancestors.
What I can do without is all the fright and gore, the Haunted Houses, the way this celebration has been perverted into something evil rather than reverent. There is no good reason as I see it for EVIL to be associated with this holiday or time of the year, as if evil doesn't exist all the time. I don't think the celebration of ancestors or trying to communicate with them (this is usually through psychicism) is evil either. For most of us, going through the family album or old scrapbooks is good enough.
Friday, October 15, 2010
HUNGARIAN STEREOTYPES : EXCESS WITHOUT REGARD FOR HEALTH
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Just a note: It is August 2022 and though I believe this stereotype is still holding, from what I've been reading it would seem that even Hungarians are on a health-kick, reducing the lard, making smoking against policy in many places. I sure hope this doesn't mean enjoying life less.
Friday, October 8, 2010
RED SLUDGE MAKES IT TO THE DANUBE in HUNGARY - BREAKING NEWS
"The concentration of TOXIC HEAVY METALS where Hungary's massive red sludge spill entered the Danube has dropped to the level allowed in drinking water, authorities said Friday, easing fears that Europe's second longest river would be significantly polluted.
Monday's reservoir break at an ALUNIMA PLANT dumped up to 700,000 cubic meters (184 million gallons) of sludge onto three villages, government officials said, not much less in a few hours than the 200 million gallons the blown-out BP oil well gushed into the Gulf of Mexico over several months."
PABLO GORONDI reports for Associated Press - click on the title to get to the full news article!
Monday's reservoir break at an ALUNIMA PLANT dumped up to 700,000 cubic meters (184 million gallons) of sludge onto three villages, government officials said, not much less in a few hours than the 200 million gallons the blown-out BP oil well gushed into the Gulf of Mexico over several months."
PABLO GORONDI reports for Associated Press - click on the title to get to the full news article!