John-Daniel Jurca

Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! Yesterday, I went to the pharmacy to take new treatments for my knees, and I took more unguent for knees and aspirin, I think that the aspirin it is better as my peon started to get lower now. Today, I had another day of being bound to the house because of my knees. It is a nice day outside here, and later on, I will get ready for my Italian classes and after back at home. So... let's go to your today story... Ioan Axente Sever Ioan Axente Sever (born Ioan Axente; 15 April 1821–13 August 1906) was a Romanian revolutionary in Austria-Hungary who participated in the Transylvanian Revolution of 1848. Biography Early years He was born in Frâua (called Axente Sever since 1931), the son of Iacob Baciu and Ana, née Maxim. From 1831 to 1835 he studied in Blaj. He then returned to pursue his studies at the Gheorghe Lazăr Gymnasium in Sibiu, after which he returned in 1840 to Blaj to study theology and philoso...

Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I woke up around 12 as last night I was sitting until 7 to watch "Da Vinci Demons," and I still have half of the last season to watch. It is a nice day outside, but my pain in the knees still keeps me from not doing exercises or going out to enjoy this weather. Today, I don't have big plans, I just want to stay at home and chill, and later on, I will go shopping with your grandfather. So... let's go to your today story... Rubin Patiția Rubin Patiția (August 21 [O.S. August 9] 1841–June 13, 1918) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian lawyer and political activist. A native of the Transylvania region, he trained as a lawyer, settling in Alba Iulia in the 1870s and using his position to advance the local Romanian community. Patiția achieved prominence as a signatory of the Transylvanian Memorandum in 1892, an act that eventually led Patiția to spend time in prison. Soon after 1900, he be...

Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! My pain in the knees has fluctuations today as now is ir and after dissappear and coming back... quite strange. I woke up at 4, saw a film and after I was going back to bed until 12. It is a nice day outside, sunny, despite that in the nighttime it was -3 degrees. I will stay for another hour and after I will do my homework for Italian classes as in the evening I go to the classes. So... let's go to your today story... Transylvanian Memorandum The Transylvanian Memorandum (Romanian: Memorandumul Transilvaniei) was a petition sent in 1892 by the leaders of the Romanians of Transylvania to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor-King Franz Joseph, asking for equal ethnic rights with the Hungarians, and demanding an end to persecutions and Magyarization attempts. Status After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (Ausgleich), Transylvania again became the integral part of Hungary. Initially Romanians (through th...

Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I was sitting in the house today as I didn't have another option because my knees are still hurting me. Hope that it will get better in the next day's. Tomorrow evening i will go to the Italian classes and I hope that it will be better with my pain until then. It was a nice and sunny day here outside and but I couldn't enjoy it, that way I hope that it will go away that pain. So... let's go to your today story... Gheorghe Pop de Băsești Gheorghe (or George) Pop de Băsești (pronounced [ˈɡe̯orɡe pop de bəˈseʃtʲ, ˈdʒe̯ordʒe -]; 1 August 1835 – 23 February 1919), also known under the nickname Badea Gheorghe or Badea George (roughly "Brother/Uncle George"), was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian politician, philanthropist and patriot, who served as vice president (1881–1902) and president (1902–1919) of the Romanian National Party at a time when Transylvania was part of the Kingdom o...

Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I started the day with a running session of 4 kilometres, had a shower, tidied up in the house, and now I have my coffee, of course, here in Italy everything is starting with a coffee, exactly on my style. Today, I will go later to put some garbage at the recycling point, after me and your grandfather, we will go to do some shopping, and after, we will come back at home and rest. It is a cloudy day but not frozen. So.. let's go to your today story... Ștefan Cicio Pop Ștefan Cicio Pop (1 April 1865 – 16 February 1934) was a Romanian politician. Biography Born in Sajgó, Belső-Szolnok County, Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire, Pop's maternal grandfather was the Greek-Catholic canon Vasile Pop, who supported the boy's expenses during his school years. After attending high school in Szamosújvár (Gherla) and Nagyszeben (Sibiu), he went to the universities of Vienna and Budapest, obtaini...

Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I still have quite big pain in my right ankle, and that is stopping me from doing my exercises, I don't like that... I hope that it is getting better as I don't want to stay too much without exercising. It was a nice and sunny day here outside, and I was just resting in the bed as this pain was quite annoying, and I couldn't do a lot of things as I like to do. Hope that tomorrow it will go... so.. let's go to your today story... Alexandru Vaida-Voevod Alexandru Vaida-Voevod or Vaida-Voievod (27 February 1872 – 19 March 1950) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician who was a supporter and promoter of the union of Transylvania (before 1920 part of Hungary) with the Romanian Old Kingdom. He later served as 28th Prime Minister of Romania. Transylvanian politics Vaida-Voevod was born to a Greek-Catholic family in the Transylvanian village of Alparét, Austria-Hungary (Romanian: Olpret,...

Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well!  Tata is fine today! I am now at home resting. Today, I wasn't out for running as I have a pain in my knee and I didn't wanted to push it too much, but tomorrow I will go, as I don't want to pass two days without exercises. I want to have the Italian courses, and now I have arrived at home, had my dinner, and now I am just resting myself, hoping that pain from my knee it will go. So.. I think it's time for your today story... Iuliu Maniu Iuliu Maniu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈjulju maˈni.u] ⓘ; Maniu Gyula 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was a Romanian lawyer and politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the Union of Transylvania with Romania. Maniu served as Prime Minister of Romania for three terms during 1928–1933, and, with Ion Mihalache, co-founded the National Peasants' Party. Arrested by the ascendant com...

Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well Tata is fine today! Today, I had a quite busy evening as I had my running, exercises, I was cleaning the house, hoovering, tiding, washing the dishes, and applying for some jobs. Now I am just resting a bit and waiting for your grandfather to come back from work, to have dinner and after I will watch a film and relax. Tomorrow, we will see what else I will do. I will have my Italian classes later, but in the daytime, I will do another activity. But until tomorrow.. let's go to your today story... Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia The Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia took place between 19 January and 8 March (Old Style [O.S.] 5 January – 23 February) 1918, as part of the broader Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. It pitted the Kingdom of Romania, Russian Republic, Ukrainian People's Republic and anti-Bolshevik factions of the Moldavian Democratic Republic on one side, against the...