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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Razvan Olosu, founder of Novero and savior of former Nokia employees

Novero is a company passionate about creating wireless products that move seamlessly with your life while enhancing your style. By challenging the conventions of today with imagination and high-design, Novero creates mobile lifestyle products that build unique levels of loyalty among sophisticated customers.
Founded by visionary Razvan Olosu via a management buyout of Nokia's Automotive Group, novero is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany and designs wireless solutions for consumers and automotive clients. novero is a multinational company that thinks like a boutique in delivering exceptionally fashioned products that resonate with discriminating buyers.
Olosu has a special place in Germans' minds: he is considered the savior of hundreds of families. In 2008, when the whole Germany were having a grudge against romanians for Nokia was moving factory frommBochum to Cluj, Olosu, a romanian, saved his former employees by taking over the factory and starting a new business.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Gheorghe Dumitru Mureşan the only romanian to ever play in NBA

Ghiţă Mureşan, is a retired Romanian professional basketball player. At 7 ft 7  (2.31 m), he is tied with Sudanese player Manute Bol as the tallest man to ever play in the NBA.
Mureşan was born in Triteni, in the Romanian district of Cluj to a poor family, and played competitive basketball at Cluj University. He played professionally in the French league during the 1992–93 season and was an instant hit with fans. The NBA took interest in him and he was selected by the Washington Bullets in the 1993 NBA Draft. He played in the NBA from 1993 to 1994 showing signs of a promising career that was derailed by injuries. After returning to France and playing for the start of the 1995–96 season with Pau-Orthez, he was named the NBA's Most Improved Player for the 1995–96 season.
Outside of basketball, Mureşan has dabbled in acting, playing the title character in 1998 film My Giant with his co-star, comedian Billy Crystal. He also played a ventriloquist in rap artist Eminem's breakout video "My Name Is", appeared in commercials. On March 11, 2007, he played a game for the Maryland Nighthawks as part of the tallest lineup in the history of basketball.This is also the only basketball game he's ever played where he is not the tallest person on the court.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Universitatea Tehnică “Gh. Asachi”

Gold, Silver and Bronze for the Romanian Olympics at SEEMOUS(South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students). March 2010.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Andrada Ianus - Physics

The 38th Interantional Physics Olympiad was held in Hanoi, Vietnam in July 2008. 82 countrys were present. The best score among female participants was recorded by Andrada Ianus who also got the gold medal for physics.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

E-Mariage

The longest wedding dress train measured 1579 m (5180 ft 5 in) and was unveiled during E-Mariage festival in Bucharest, Romania, on 1 April 2009. Guinness World Record.

Gheorghe Zamfir

Romanian Gheorghe Zamfir - is a Romanian pan flute musician who has received 90 golden and platinum disc awards, released over 200 albums and sold over 40 million recordings.

IIie Nastase

Romanian IIie Nastase - the greatest natural talent to ever swing a racquet,– The tennis judges around the world said “if he was not to exists we were to invent him”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zMCY0_H7GA

Nadia Comaneci

Romanian Nadia Comaneci - 1976 Montreal Olympics – First Perfect 10 in the gymnastics history. The number was not yet invented so it appeared as 1.00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zic_byQoUg&feature=related

Aurel Vlaicu

Romanian Aurel Vlaicu: built the first arrow-shaped airplane.

Traian Vuia

Romanian Traian Vuia: built and flew the first self-propelling heavier-than-air aircraft in Europe.

Radu Teodorescu

Romanian Radu Teodorescu is the owner of the most renouned gym in USA (Manhattan/NY). Some of his clients are: Robert Redford, Cindy Crawford, Candice Berger, Susan Sarandon, Mick Jagger. Starting 1992, him and Cindy Crawford have launched plenty of fitness programs and dvd’s that can now be found on any market in the ...world. I have one at home but had no, bloddy, idea that her trainer was my co-national.

Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu

Romanian Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu was the first, woman, engineer in the world.

Prof Stefania Cory Calomfirescu

Romanian Prof Stefania Cory Calomfirescu has received the millenium gold medal from Cambridge University for her work in neurology studies.

Mircea Lucescu

Romanian Mircea Lucescu, the current coach of Şahtior Donetk, Ukraine, led them towards winning the UEFA cup in 2009. He is in the top five coaches of the world and was nominated the coach of the year in 2009 by UEFA.

Gabriela Szabo

Romanian ,Gabriela Szabo, a track and field athlete, is a three-time world champion, a record holder that made history.
"I have never liked loosing. For me, the second place was like abandoning the race. When I came second, although I had a good timing, it didn't mean anything to me because I was not the winner. Coming second ambitioned me so much that next time I was winning the race." Gabi Szabo
You can see here the ingredients of succ...ess:
-discover where you are good at and do that thing
-train hard, focus on your training
-keep yourself motivated in a positive way
-last but not the least, get all the love you can get to keep you alert!
In a nutshell: do what you are good at with perseverance and love and you’ll make it! Don’t worry too much about disappointments, learn from them because next time you may as well win the battle!

ION ONCESCU

WORLD CHAMPION SKANDENBERG ION ONCESCU 2009.
Romanian Ion Oncescu won his third and fourth world title at the World Arm wrestling Championships held in Kelowna, Canada. He became a first time world champion at the XXIXth World Armwrestling Championships held in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria in October 2007

Bucharest - 1858

In 1858,Bucharest, the capital of Romania, was the first city illuminated with oil (petrol).

Imagine Cup Winners - Sytech Romanian Team

World's no 1, in 2009: ROMANIA, Team Sytech - Adrian Buzgar, Calin Juravle and Andreas Resios. Imagine Cup is an annual competition sponsored and hosted by Microsoft Corp. which brings together young technologists worldwide to help resolve some of the world's toughest challenges.

George Constantinescu-THEORY OF SONICS

ROMANIAN George Constantinescu is the creator of the THEORY OF SONICS, a new science, in which he described the transmission of mechanical energy through vibrations (bridged music and physics). The sonics applies to transportation, oil industry, medicine and not only.

Gheorghe Panculescu and the Eiffel Tower

Eiffel tower was made using iron from (ROMANIA). Gheorghe Panculescu's innovative system for joining the metal girders together, which he invented while working on the designs for the railway line, inspired French engineer Gustave Eiffel's design for the 300m tall tower. Gustave adapted the technology used by Panculesc...u of constructing metal sub-structures on the ground which would be assembled gradually to the tower.

Elisabeta Lipa

ROMANIAN Elisabeta Lipă is the most decorated rower in the history of the Olympics, winning five golds, two silvers and one bronze. She is the only person to win a gold medal in the two premiere rowing events: the single scull and the eight oared boat.

Sandu Popescu

Romanian Sandu Popescu, a member of the Hewlett-Packard Company's Basic Research Institute in the Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious University of Cambridge Adams Prize for the year 2001 for his contributions to the field of quantum information, specifically for his work on quantum non-locality, which led to demonstrations of quantum teleportation.

Michael Cretu's Enigma

Founded by ROMANIAN MICHAEL(Mihai)CRETU in 1990,with over 50 million records sold worldwide, and more than 100 platinum and gold awards internationally to date, 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of ENIGMA.

Timisoara, the fist city to be lit by electric street lamps 1884

The Romanian city,TIMISOARA, was the first mainland European city to be lit by electric street lamps in 1884. It was also the second European town with horse drawn trams(1867).