SPORTS MUSEUM DEDICATED TO HUNGARIAN ATHLETES

Here's the link: MAGYARNAPOL - SPORTS MUSEUM

GREAT FLOODS IN HUNGARY

DAILY NEWS HUNGARY - HISTORY OF FLOODING 

A good article that includes photos and videos, paintings and sketches, beginning with 1878 and the Great Flood of Szeged. 

HEVIZ : SWIM IN WORLDS SECOND? LARGEST MAGICAL THERMAL LAKE : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #9

Since the Stone Age people have been enjoying the health benefits of Lake Heviz. As the world's second largest thermal lake, though sometimes it is called the largest,*** you can swim in the waters any time of year. The water is a fairly consistent 28-32 Celsius which is in the mid 80's in Fahrenheit temperature measurement.  This lake is associated with Lake Balaton and is located on the Western end and about five miles from Keszthely. A large refurbished wellness building fronts the lake.

This lake may not be Balaton, but it's huge, covering 511,286 square feet (47,000 square meters.) To give you an idea, an American football field is 57,600 square feet. The water is said to have both hot and cold in the flow and is so strong that the water in the lake can be completely renewed in just 72 hours.

But since all thermal springs and wells usually contain minerals that are thought to be good for what ails you, why would this lake be considered so special?

Because of the fairly even temperature certain bacterias and algae's grow in it and the temperature makes for a suitable habitat for other organisms and plants. One of these plants is the water lilies.

The lake is dotted with these flowers which I know in Asian cultures are symbols of very long life - even eternity.  They are red water lillys.

Among the many sites I read, this one is most interesting: NATIONAL and HISTORICAL SYMBOLS ; HEVIZ which also has an account of the Roman's using the lake.

EXCERPT : the red water-lilly in the lower part of the coast-of-arms ...is the most widely known symbol of Heviz. The red water lily was planted in the water of Lake Hevis in 1898 by Sandor Lovassy, professor of the Agricultural Academy at Keszthely. These water -lilies, native to Bengal, have since then become the lake's favorite sight, bearing a near-symbolic significance.

Image is from WikiArt public domain.  Red water lilly native of Southern India.

*** Perhaps it's difficult to know just how much water a lake has it in, with seasonal fluctuations, climate change, and the mystery of lakes ebbing and flowing from unseen thermal volcanic sources. 

Click on the label Wonderful-Hungary to get to the entire series on this theme.

MY BELOVED SENIOR DOG HAS ANOTHER SEIZURE

It was about 60 days ago that she had her first. This time I realized what was happening, put her in her dog bed and carried the whole thing outside.  And I counted how long it lasted.  About half a minute.  She peed a lot and pooed a little.  Her legs were wobbly when it ended but she was soon walking in circles.  I threw all the things peed and pooed on into the washing machine, and then I gave her a very quick shower with some suds.  I towel dried her and sprayed on her skin conditioner.  I combed her and rubbed her.  I cut some hair around her eyes and mouth. I took her back outside and set her on the grass.  She continued to walk, perhaps not in a circle, but clearly not seeing. When I held her in my arms, she whimpered a little and seemed to fight me. Right now she is sleeping under my bed, which is good.  I have to leave.  I can't get out of it.  

SALATA

 

ZSA ZSA GABOR's ASHES GO TO BUDAPEST

THE GUARDIAN : ZSA ZSA GABOR's ASHES TAKEN TO BUDAPEST FOR BURIAL 

Good picture....

EXCERPT: Gabor's ashes were laid to rest in a prominent cemetery in the capital city alongside other famous Hungarian actors, writers and pets, in a ceremony where a gypsy band played and her favourite yellow and pink roses were on display.

Born Sari Gabor into a wealthy Hungarian family, she was named Miss Hungary in the 1930's.  As the second world war approached, she and her sisters headed for the United States, leaving behind her first husband, Burhan Belge, a Turkish diplomat.

Her last husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, to whom she was married from 1986 until her death aged 99 in 2016, said that in her will she expressed a wish to end up in Hungary.

HUNGARIANESS IS WHAT?

 

What is HUNGARIANESS?

I recently went out to a coffee house and got to talking to strangers who were discussing ethnicity and race, and the recent issues that make it a too sensitive subject to discuss.  Several people excused what it was they were about to say by mentioning that they were NOT going to be "politically correct."  There was a Jewish American person and a Native American person there and then me, a representative of Hungarianess - or at least Hungarian-Americaness.  I thought about all the stereotypes I've presented here at MAGYAR AMERICAN BLOGSPOT.  Certainly some of these are silly and some are possibly trouble.  I mentioned how we Hungarians are supposed to be extra hairy people.

Perhaps what was most upsetting is that these people were NOT INTERESTED in the subject.  Perhaps being a Magyar-American is just too European for them.  The Native American person went on with a fractured history lesson of the Hungarians and a Irish-American blurted the whole story about us coming from Attila the Hun...  They drummed me out and went on discussing Black Lives Matter - which, by the way, they were all disgusted with.

Well, a coffee house may be the last bastion of free expression and they are allowed to think as they think.  What spawned this conversation was that the Jewish American walked outside a convenience store where he had purchased a cold soft drink when a Black man who he described as possibly a teenager bashed his face for no good reason with his fists.  He fractured this man's nose, split his lip, and gave him a concussion and a day spent in an emergency room.  Security cameras may have captured the assaults but the police were not interested and gave no home of finding or prosecuting the offender.  He wondered if it was an anti-Semetic attack or simply because he looks White.

What do most Americans who have no Hungarian heritage think of Hungary and Hungarians?

Not much.  That it's a conservative nation that hates gay people...?  That Hungarians are not tolerant about immigrants?

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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THE UNITED STATES SLOWLY WAKES UP BUT IT'S WITH CREAKING BONES and AN ACHING BACK

This morning I walked a bill to the post office.  It took 45 minutes.  After having a bad experience with bill paying on line, I decided to go back to the old fashioned way of doing things, checks and snail mail.  All the street postal boxes have been removed, they say due to mail theft, and mail clipped to the box outside is sometimes clipped for two or three days....

The IRS is backed up.  I'm not looking for a tax return but I know some people who are...

I'm encountering a good number of people who have not taken any vaccination and say they will not.  Some of them are suspicious of the government and/or Big Pharma, but in any case, they are relying on other people to create Herd Immunity.  I pray the new variant doesn't kill them off.

My library reopened but only part of each weekday and not at all on weekends.  They used to provide about 18 Internet computers at that location, which could be used two hours a day.  While closed those were pulled out.  There are new computers but only six of them which can be used one hour a day.  There is hardly anyone in there, way more staff than is necessary.  I suspect that with ebooks and other on line services that can be achieved from home there is not so much borrowing of actual books anymore.  I suspect the library system will dwindle away. 

Slowly the country wakes up, but it's not been a good sleep.  

FIREWORKS - NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO IT

Last year was hell for my dog up till and especially on the evening of July 4th, so I'm not looking forwards to it.  She felt panicky and her body language was that she couldn't get close enough to me for protection, but there was nowhere else to go because the entire neighborhood erupted.  This year, because of her fairly recent seizure, I'm truly afraid that the noise will trigger another. So far she has not had another seizure but it was a dramatic when she had it and I thought I would lose her.  It almost seemed a miracle that within a couple hours she returned to her status before the seizure.  It reminded me of a reboot of a computer. 

Another aspect of the holiday is the state of American Patriotism.

Yes, you can criticize the country and still be patriotic.  Hopefully your observation that things need to be improved comes with some ideas on how to create that change in a positive way.

However, I and many of my friends feel that absolutely everything has become overly political, especially when certain celebrities use their fame to fan the flames, so to speak.  You see, I want entertainment to be relaxing or at least take my attention away from the present for a little while. Whatever the entertainer - be that an actor, musician, sportsperson, whatever - thinks or feels - they are welcome to express on their own time but entire politically correct programs, whole teams held hostage, and so on, is just not right.  And I'm now turning off the program when it turns out it's going to be one more event with some sort of intent to indoctrinate.

UPDATE:  My dog shook and I held her and stroked her for a long time.  Finally, we went to bed and... we woke up to a puddle of pee...