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HUNGARIANS ARE INVENTION GENIUSES! : HUNGARIAN and HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN STEREOTYPE

Geniuses?!?!  No one of average intelligence in Hungary or Hungarian-America?  It's absolutely true!  Ask anyone!  OK, I'm on the fence about Artificial Intelligence but I cannot resist reporting to you what AI (via Google) had to say on this subject!  Love it!

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RESULTS!

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Hungary is famously home to a disproportionate number of brilliant minds, "The Martians," who laid the foundational building blocks for modern technology, medicine, and daily life.

Discover the top global inventions and scientific breakthroughs from Hungarian geniuses:

The Ballpoint Pen: Invented by Budapest journalist László Bíró, who patented his smudge-free writing tool after noticing that newspaper ink dried much faster than fountain pen ink.

 
The Rubik's Cube: Created by architect Ernő Rubik as a spatial teaching tool, which became the world's best-selling logic puzzle.

 
Vitamin C: First isolated by biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 for his discovery.

Modern Computing: Mathematician John von Neumann developed the "von Neumann architecture," the basic structural principle behind nearly all modern desktop and laptop computers.

Holography: Developed by physicist Dénes Gábor in 1947, which revolutionized image capture and won him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

mRNA Vaccines: The pioneering research that paved the way for mRNA technology was developed by Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Karikó.

The Ford Model T: The mechanical genius József Galamb served as the chief engineer at Ford and was the lead developer of the legendary Model T.

Nuclear Energy: Physicist Leó Szilárd first conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, which jump-started the Manhattan Project alongside fellow Hungarian minds like Edward Teller.

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Go ahead and BRAG!

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SZEKESFEHERVAR : KING SAINT STEPHEN AND MANY OTHER HUNGARIAN KINGS : SACRED CITY and CORONATION SITE : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #35

HUNGARIAN CONSERVATIVE : CORNATION OF SAINT KING STEPHEN and OTHER HUNGARIAN KINGS 

Excerpt: Yet, the connection between the medieval foundation of the state, King St Stephen, and Fehérvár (meaning ‘white castle’), 60 kilometres from Buda, is still inseparable. Even the modern name of the town, Székesfehérvár, in use since the 16th century, is a reference to the royal throne (with the Hungarian ‘szék’ meaning ‘chair’ or ‘throne’). Concerning the royal seat, Fehérvár’s sacral–dynastic character is undoubtedly in its favour: namely, the burial here of the first Hungarian king St Stephen (reigned 1000–1038) and his son Prince Emeric (d. 1031). Both were canonized in 1083, and their tombs became a pilgrimage site of national fame. In the middle of the 11th century the Hungarian annals refer to the city as a ‘metropolis’ (literally ‘mother city’). The royal treasury and coronation insignia (which were temporarily transferred to Visegrád in the 14th century), the national banner of war, the keeping of the royal archives, and the coronation itself made it one of, if not the primary centre of the country. The strategic location of this non-swampy city was also unrivalled; in 1242 the Mongol armies could not capture it either. As early as 1055, a document that has survived in its original form recorded the earliest words written in Hungarian: ‘military road to Fehérvár’. The founder of the city is undoubtedly King St Stephen, and a few years after his coronation the town is also mentioned in several documents. Besides, the opening of the pilgrimage route to the Holy Land by Stephen around 1020 was at least of similar importance. Heading there, the pilgrims passed through Fehérvár, as did the Crusader armies crossing the Balkans to Constantinople and the Middle East.

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His original burial site was destroyed by the Ottoman's but in the 1930's a new mausoleum was built which contains the 11th-century sarcophagus of the deceased king. But his hand (whch didn't decompose, perhaps proving Stephen's sainthood, is venerated as a relic that is kept in Saint Stephen's Basilica in Budapest.

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

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JUST CUT

 

POTTING

 

BOWER

 

FLORINT PAPER MONEY (Hungarian: forint papírpénz)

RED POPPIES BLOOM IN HUNGARIAN MAY

 

HUNGARIAN HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN STEREOTYPE : WE LOVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH SPA CULTURE AND ARE NOT SHY ABOUT OUR BODIES

 There is no doubt about it. We do! 

In the United States, if you visit some of the less expensive day spas, or places where you can go in natural surroundings to put clay on yourself, scrub with bristle brushes, float around in the shallows on rafts, submit yourself to the strong fingers of a deep tissue therapist, or simply soak in mineral rich thermal waters, YOU WILL FIND HUNGARIANS and HUNGARIAN-AMERICANS.

That's not to say that no one spends on the expensive day spas. The trouble with them is that these days the expensive ones may also put you on a diet that is too extreme for someone who cares not to loose weight, or they may expect you to hit the gym, which is not the Hungarian-American/Hungarian point of going to a spa.

That has been my experience and so you can't argue with it!

As for the part about not being shy about our bodies, I'm not claiming that we are immodest. Rather, we are practical. We have a body. Everyone does. And very few people are in excellent shape.  And you do not have to be in excellent shape to enjoy feeling good or soaking in thermal waters with other people, some who are friends, some who are not.

Smile!

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APPLE HARVEST IN HUNGARY - USUALLY IN THE SPRING

 

Apple harvest in Hungary occurs in chief growing regions and can be badly affected by drought.
The fruit is grown in the counties of Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Zala, but the most important production area is still Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg count.

1950 CENSUS FINDER - MORSE AND WEINTRAUB : HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN GENEALOGY

STEVE MORSE ORG 1950 CENSUS UNIFIED FINDER 

Of course, this census finder may help anyone of any ethnic or racial identity searching for ancestors who might appear on the United States 1950 Federal census, but those of you who come to MAGYAR-AMERICAN for genealogy, may find this especially helpful.

The 1950 census as it appears on the National Archives site is simply not easy to navigate and yes, in some places the handwriting isn't great so the spellings are not correct. The NARA site used artificial intelligence to interpret the handwritten! Trying to figure our just how a surname is misspelled can be a waste of time and make you feel crazy! 

(I will include this link on my sidebar that is simply full of wonderful links!)

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES 1950 CENSUS START PAGE : https://1950census.archives.gov/

FUN WITH HUNGARICANA #7 : THE LIBRI REGII in HUNGARICANA : WHAT'S INSIDE?

This post continues on the exploration of the Hungariacana databases.

Please note that there are extensive collections that are not uploaded onto databases. ***

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF HUNGARY - HUNGARICANA - DATABASES - LIBRII REGII

Let's start with what "Librii Regii" means. This are Latin for "Royal Books" just as Királyi Könyvek, is Hungarian for "Royal Books" as well. But they are casually referred to as King's Books.

The collection contains 67 volumes of official records from the Hungarian Chancellery, documenting important state documents issued by the Kings of Hungary and Austria-Hungary between years 1527 and 1867. (So that includes Queen Maria Theresa's time on the throne.) Patents of nobility are just part of this collection. There are also wills, the ownership and transfer of ownership of land (a principal aspect of wealth), as well as many other aspects of royal decrees (laws, policies, and rules). *** However, you may need to ask an archivist at the National Archives of Hungary for some help, unless you can make your way through the Latin handwriting.

When you go to the link you will see a number of images (start pages) and the numbers below them indicate the DATES that are covered.

There are some images that are PRESS PRINTED IN LATIN.

There are some images that are handwritten in LATIN.

And there are some of these in HUNGARIAN.

BECAUSE SOME IMPORTANCE WAS GIVEN TO THESE DOCUMENTS, many were made with an attention to readability and neatness - beauty.

I'm going to link to a book of heraldry - family crests - coat of arms.  These are for the TITLED NOBILITY OF AN ERA and this book has over ONE THOUSAND PAGES. THIS BOOK IS FOR THE YEARS 1901- 1909.

HUNGARICANA ARCHIVES : BOOK IMAGE 71.1 KIRALYI KONYVEK  This is the cover image but you can SEE the artistic representations of each coat of arms.  The very first one has a crow holding an envelope in its mouth.  

YOU WILL ALSO SEE THAT THREE GREEN HILLS ARE PRESENT IN MANY OF THESE COAT OF ARMS...

This motif is so common in Hungarian arms, and I've not found a definitive reason why.  I venture that these indicate the Carpathian mountains and the story of how the tribal people who were seeking a homeland followed a White Stag through. Without reading the information given, I cannot say that this also indicates that the original members of the family were part of that adventure.

You will also see arms with swords. These indicate that the person battled or persevered over the Ottoman Turks who were in control of Hungarian lands for centuries - depending on locations - 

LINK TO MAJOR ARPAD HUNGARICANA - ROYAL BOOK - MAJOR ARPAD image 0082

This particular book may be of interest also because there are a good number of GERMAN SURNAMES included, including some who are listed as Medicinae Doctor (M.D.): Literally "Teacher of Medicine".  However, just as we call PhD educated people "Doctor", the use of this term may be honorary.

Interested in learning more about these databases.  See my past posts.  They will all come up if you click on the label  Pro Tip Hungaricana Fun

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR HUNGARIAN SURNAME MEANS? DO YOU PRONOUNCE IT CORRECTLY?

Many people - including me - go for years not knowing what their Hungarian surname translates to.  Sometimes changes in spelling by ancestors makes it a little different. There are versions that are "Germanic" if not German, Slovak, etc.

It is also not uncommon for Americans with Hungarian surnames to go through life with the surname pronounced in some other-that-Hungarian-way.

I would like to hear from you on this subject!

THE NOBLE

 

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LOVE THEM IN HUNGARIAN

JACKS OR KINGS?

 

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