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Daily Picture 29-Nov-09: Rural Style Balcony
Rural style balcony, Armeneasca area, Bucharest (©Valentin Mandache) The balcony is adorned with interesting ethnographic wood carved motifs typical of the ancestral peasant art of southern Romania an… more →
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Short Video: Textbook Neo-Romanian Style House
Valentin Mandache wrote 23 hours ago: This is a short video which I shot today in the Cotroceni area of Bucharest, showing an excellent ex … more →
Daily Picture 25-Dec-09: Rare Exposed Brick Neo-Romanian Style Building
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Valentin Mandache wrote 2 days ago: Exposed brick Neo-Romanian style building dating from late 1930s. Victoria area, Bucharest (©Valenti … more →
Stravopoles Church Cloister. Short Video
Valentin Mandache wrote 4 days ago: I just made this short video featuring the cloister of the beautiful and architecturally significant … more →
The Romanian Revolution of 1989- Twenty Years On. A Book Review
Valentin Mandache wrote 6 days ago: The communists dictatorship ruled Romania for 42 years (1947-1989) Twenty years ago this day the ant … more →
'Dancing Jesus' in the New Indian Bible - Swami Devananda Saraswati
IS wrote 1 week ago: On the left is the dancing Jesus illustration in The New Community Bible (Catholic Edition) for Indi … more →
Daily Picture 19-Dec-09: Snowy Neo-Romanian Street Fence
Valentin Mandache wrote 1 week ago: Neo-Romanian style street fence (main diagnostic element: the fence poles inspired by Ottoman Islami … more →
Meet Zelia Bora: Professor of Brazilian Literature
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mandytoomey wrote 1 week ago: “The history of national identity is also the history of myself.” Zelia Bora, a 2006–07 … more →
Daily Picture 18-dec-09: A Brave Remnant of Ottoman Bucharest
Valentin Mandache wrote 1 week ago: Balkan Ottoman style parochial house, Natiunile Unite area, Bucharest (©Valentin Mandache) The capit … more →
Daily Picture 15-Dec-09: Royal Garden Pavilion
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Valentin Mandache wrote 1 week ago: Garden pavilion in the grounds of Cotroceni Royal Palace, Bucharest cca 1903. The structure is built … more →
Daily Picture 14-Dec-09: Deliberate Deterioration of a 'Little Paris' Style House
Valentin Mandache wrote 1 week ago: Picturesque 'Little Paris' style house built at the end of c19th, deliberately left to deter … more →
Daily Picture 12-Dec-09: High-rise Neo-Romanian Style House
Valentin Mandache wrote 2 weeks ago: The Neo-Romanian style houses are noted by their bulky, low rise, medieval citadel like structure. T … more →
St. Thomas in India: An IAS officer revisits a 400-year-old history hoax - V. Sundaram
IS wrote 2 weeks ago: In November 2006 Pope Benedict XVI had categorically stated that St.Thomas never visited South India … more →
Daily Picture 10-Dec-09: Potlogi Palace Access Stairs
Valentin Mandache wrote 2 weeks ago: The access stairs and veranda of Potlogi Palace, located in the environs of Bucharest, one of the ar … more →
Daily Picture 9-Dec-09: Post-Communist Urban Tastes
Valentin Mandache wrote 2 weeks ago: Is this a new and worrying trend in Romania's urban landscaping? Disused Soviet era MIG-21 fight … more →
Dhimmitude: Interview with Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff - S.M. Steinitz
IS wrote 2 weeks ago: “I want to preserve Europe and its democratic and secular values,” says Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, … more →
Video: MUSLIM DEMOGRAPHICS
IS wrote 2 weeks ago: Video: MUSLIM DEMOGRAPHICS more about “Muslim Demographics“, posted with vodpod … more →
Daily Picture 2-Dec-09: Neo-Romanian Juliette Balcony
Valentin Mandache wrote 3 weeks ago: Neo-Romanian style juliette balcony with wood carved peasant ethnographic motifs; late 1920s house i … more →
Daily Picture 29-Nov-09: Rural Style Balcony
Valentin Mandache wrote 4 weeks ago: Rural style balcony, Armeneasca area, Bucharest (©Valentin Mandache) The balcony is adorned with int … more →
Daily Picture 29-Nov-09: Rural Style Balcony
Valentin Mandache wrote 4 weeks ago: Rural style balcony, Armeneasca area, Bucharest (©Valentin Mandache) The balcony is adorned with int … more →
