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The Sphinx (Romanian: Sfinxul) is a natural rock formation in the Bucegi Natural Park which is in the Bucegi Mountains of Romania. It is located at an altitude of 2,216 metres (7,270 ft) within the Babele complex of rock formations. The first photo of the Great Bucegi Sphinx was probably taken in about the year 1900. This photograph was taken ...
15 July 1902 in Bucharest, Romania 28 July 1970 in Bușteni, Prahova, Romania 1969 [b] "for discovering two new syntheses for the indole nucleus, and a new method of polymerisation of ethylene. [10] Paul Doughty Bartlett (1907–1997) United States: Physiology or Medicine: Victor Babeș: 28 July 1854 in Vienna, Austria 19 October 1926 in ...
Babele (meaning The old women) is the name for an area on the Bucegi Mountains plateau in Romania, within the Southern Carpathians. [1] Babele is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. The name comes from some mushroom shaped rock formations, the result of erosion and varying hardness of the rock layers.
Sfinxul natural rock formation in the Bucegi Mountains. Sfinxul is a natural rock formation in the Bucegi Natural Park which is in the Bucegi Mountains of Romania. This rock formation is named for its resemblance to the Sphinx of Giza, and is located at an altitude of 2,216 metres (7,270 feet) within the Babele complex of rock formations.
It had a magnitude of 7.5, [1] making it the second most powerful earthquake recorded in Romania in the 20th century, after the 10 November 1940 seismic event. The hypocenter was situated in the Vrancea Mountains, the most seismically active part of Romania, at a depth of 85.3 km. [1] [3]
The People's Democratic Front gain 93.2% of the vote. [4] 13 April – A new Constitution is adopted, introducing a "people's democracy." [5] 14 May – at least 10.000 innocent romanian citizens are arrested and sentenced to death or prison for life by communist authorities. The football club FC Dinamo București is founded. [6]
The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș (also called Black March, Hungarian: Fekete Március) [1] refer to incidents between the Hungarians and Romanians in Târgu Mureș and surrounding settlements in Transylvania, Romania in March 1990. The clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania. [2]
Hortensia Bengescu was born in Ivești, Galați County, on 8 December 1876.She was the daughter of General Dimitrie Bengescu and of Zoe (born Ștefănescu). She attended high-school in Bucharest and, aged 20, she married the magistrate Nicolae Papadat but her literary career was delayed because her husband was transferred from town to town (Turnu Măgurele, Buzău, Focșani, Constanța) and ...