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Diary for my daughter 06.11.2024 - Raoul Şorban

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I was resting this morning as the majority of the night in was staying awake to watch the American election, which, surprisingly or not, Donald Trump is the new president of the United States of America as he wins in over 270 States. It is quite different their election compared with our election here in Europe, but maybe in a future story, I will try to explain how their voting system is working. I am fine today, not so much to do. So... let's go to your today story... Raoul Şorban  Raoul Șorban (September 4, 1912 – July 19, 2006) was a Romanian painter, journalist, writer, essayist, art historian, academic, and memoirist. Biography His father, the composer Guilelm Șorban, descended from an old ethnic Romanian noble family in Transylvania; his grandmother was of Alsatian origin. Born in Dej (then Dés, Kingdom of Hungary), Șorban studied painting and music in Italy (at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory

Diary for my daughter 05.11.2024 - Aurel Baranga

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 Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! It was quite a cold morning here when I was to take your grandfather to work at 05:30. Now it is sunny and nice outside,  let's say 15 degrees. I will go to take him at 14 to sort out with my Tessera Sanitare (that means something as a medical card here). Afterwards, we will go to let your grandfather's car go to a mechanic as needed to change oil, filters, and to fix something on it. So... I think it's time for your today story... Aurel Baranga  Aurel Baranga (born Aurel Leibovici; June 20, 1913 – June 10, 1979) was a Romanian playwright and poet. Born into a Jewish family in Bucharest, his parents were company clerk Jean Leibovici and his wife Paulina. He graduated from Matei Basarab High School in 1931 and from the University of Bucharest's medical faculty in 1938. His first published work appeared in 1929 in Bilete de Papagal. Together with Gherasim Luca, he edited Alge magazine in 1

Diary for my daughter 04.11.2024 - Zaharia Stancu

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I had a nice day yesterday, I went with your grandfather to the mall, we had lunch there, we watched the football games and relaxed. Today, I started my exercises on bike and some manual exercises, and I had a walk. I made some tidying, and now I am resting. Later on, when your grandfather comes from work, we will go out for the mall. It is a nice day outside here, nearly 17 degrees in November. So... i think it's time to go to your today story... Zaharia Stancu Zaharia Stancu (Romanian pronunciation: [zahaˈri.a ˈstaŋku]; October 7, 1902 – December 5, 1974) was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher. He was also the director of the National Theatre Bucharest, the President of the Writers' Union of Romania, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. Biography Stancu was born in 1902 in Salcia, a village in Teleorman County, Romania. After leaving school at the age of thirteen

Diary for my daughter 02.11.2024 - Eulalie

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I woke up at 9 and last night. I don't remember when I was falling asleep as I was very tired after driving and all day I was awake, doing some stuff here. Today, I still have to tidy up some clothes. I will go out with your grandfather to take a dry clothes machine, search the prices as is black Friday. It is a warm day outside today. Last night, it was warm as well as it was 15 degrees. So.. let's go to your today story... Eulalie "Eulalie", or "Eulalie — A Song", is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the July 1845 issue of The American Review and reprinted shortly thereafter in the August 9, 1845 issue of the Broadway Journal. Summary The poem is a bridal song about a man who overcomes his sadness by marrying the beautiful Eulalie. The woman's love here has a transformative effect on the narrator, taking him from a "world of moan" to one of happines

Diary for my daughter 01.11.2024 - The Raven

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! Last night, I decided to drive on Italy at 02 in the morning as some guys had an argument on the corridor of the block of flats where I was booked the room in Arad. It's was a good learning experience, and it was quite hard as I needed to drive into the mist weather. The advantage it was that I managed to be in at home here in Italy at 11:45. It was quite a record. So... let's go to your today story... The Raven "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a distraught lover who is paid a visit by a mysterious raven that repeatedly speaks a single word. The lover, often identified as a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further antagonize the protagonist with its rep

Diary for my daughter 31.10.2024 - Constantin Rădulescu-Motru

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I am in Arad now. I was starting driving from Rovinari to Arad at 9 a.m., and at 13, I was here. I have been to have lunch with some friends, after I was to see the art museum , after I been to the dentist for a clean and check. Now i have a shower and keep waiting for the anaesthetic effect to go out from my mouth. It was a nice day outside here today, but in the evening, it is a bit cold. So.. let's go to your today story... Constantin Rădulescu-Motru Constantin Rădulescu-Motru (Romanian pronunciation: [konstanˈtin rəduˈlesku ˈmotru]; born Constantin Rădulescu, he added the surname Motru in 1892; February 15, 1868 – March 6, 1957) was a Romanian philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, logician, academic, dramatist, as well as left-nationalist politician. A member of the Romanian Academy after 1923, he was its vice president in 1935–1938, 1941–1944, and its president between 1938 and 1941. Early lif

Diary for my daughter 30.10.2024 - Henri H. Stahl

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today!  I am outside now at the bench, sitting with some neighbours to chat as tomorrow I will leave for Italy. But with a stop to Arad and the next day, I will start driving to Italy. I started to prepare the luggage, and I still had to prepare the clothes, some Romanian food and I already took some Zacusca and another food at cans. I will get ready slowly for leaving. It is a nice day outside today, another 25 degrees. So.. let's go to your today story... Henri H. Stahl Henri H. Stahl (also known as Henry H. Stahl or H. H. Stahl; 1901 – 9 September 1991) was a Romanian Marxist cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, sociologist, and social historian. Biography Born in Bucharest to a family of Alsatian and French-Swiss ancestry, he was the son of Henri Stahl (a promoter of stenography), as well as the younger brother of the sociologist and Social Democratic Party activist Șerban Voinea [no], and of the nove

Diary for my daughter 29.10.2024 - Mircea Vulcănescu

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I am at the countryside now with your grandmother. We been in the morning to buy some cabbage as here in Romania for winter we put cabbage for winter, we prepared it and now I am resting and bit. Later on, I will go back to the town, and I will wash the car to be cleaned for the road as after tomorrow I will start driving to Italy. With a stop for night in Arad. It's another sunny day here today as we have 20 degrees outside. So.. let's go to your today story... Mircea Vulcănescu Mircea Aurel Vulcănescu (3 March 1904 – 28 October 1952) was a Romanian philosopher, economist, ethics teacher, sociologist, and politician. Undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance from 1941 to 1944 in the Nazi-aligned government of Ion Antonescu, he was arrested in 1946 and convicted as a war criminal. Biography He was born in Bucharest on March 3, 1904, the second child of Mihail Vulcănescu, a financial controller wi