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| Click Here: Crown Home PageLondon's Evening Standard compared Britain's dire railways to Croatia. Don't have the full article but extracts appeare on the Croats in the UK board:"Even Croatia beats Britain on trains". : "Rail services in other European countries - even Croatia - leave Britain's standing. Only 79 per cent of our trains run within five minutes of being on time, and an average journey costs 14p per mile. In Croatia, still recovering from war, trains are on time 92 per cent of the time and cost an average of 1p per mile. All journeys, including the 400-mile journey from Zagreb to Split, cost under £10 each way"Whilst amusing (and no doubt true - I suffer the railways myself) it does show how Croatia is sometimes seen. "Even backward Croatia does better than us!" is the message.Albania of course is the usual country mentioned for in this regard, it seems to be a standard - unfairly I guess - for backwardness.And Croatia is to link up with it for SAA purposes.Brian Gallagherdistributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments. |
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| Click Here: Crown Home PageIt is not widely known that the first hydroelectric power plant in the worldhas been built up in Croatia, on the beautiful Krka waterfalls. It broughtlight to the city of Sibenik. It was built in 1895, one year before NikolaTesla |
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| The Keeper(1996)**+ STARZ5 11:05PM-12:40AM Monday Jan 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Taking in a Haitian rape suspect (Isaach de Bankole) causes marital problems for a liberal Brooklyn prison guard (Giancarlo Esposito) and his wife (Regina Taylor). (1 hr. 30 mins. ) With: Giancarlo Esposito, Regina Taylor, Isaach de Bankole, Ron Brice, O.L. Duke, Arthur French, Shiek Mahmud Bey, Samuel E. Wright. Director: Joe Brewster, Producer: Jordi Torrent, Producer: Joe Brewster. Director of Photography: Igor Sunara Movies. Stereo. Letterboxed. Rated NR. distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments. |
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| Click Here: Crown Home PageMelissa Pintar Obenaufwww.croatiagifts.comobenaufm@alink.comToll Free: 1-877-906-8314 **CROATIAN ARTISTS** "Heart of Croatia" is pleased and honored to present to our customers the work of acclaimed Croatian artists Ivan Generalic, Miho Simunovic, and Milena Soree. Please visit us at www.croatiagifts.com to find out how you can become a proud owner of work by these celebrated Croatian artists. Ivan Generalic is considered by many to be the greatest Croatian naïve painter, as well as one of the greatest painters of the 20th Century in the world. Born in Hlebine, a village in the Croatian region of Podravina in 1914, Ivan Generalic sketched and painted from the time he was a small boy. Wed to his paint brush throughout his life, Generalic's explanation for why he painted was this, "Ask me why I live." Ivan Generalic painted scenes of every day life from his village. His paintings allow us to see village life from an insider's point of view. Village festivals, animals and livestock, market-days, holiday celebrations, autumn harvests, growing grapes and making wine.all became central themes in Generalic paintings. His use of color augmented his skill as an artist, turning ordinary routines of village life into extraordinary paintings. Ivan Generalic is the first painter in a long line of naïve artists from the village of Hlebine. His style, form, and content have provided the inspiration, direction, and impetus for many other heralded artists who have emerged from the Hlebine School. "Heart of Croatia" offers our customers the opportunity to purchase high quality art reproductions. Born in Omis, a town located to the south of Split, watercolorist Miho Simunovic was raised and educated in Zagreb, Croatia. As a young boy, he visited many times the town of Vela Luka on the island of Korcula, where he was inspired to capture the delicate sunlight and varied shades of the spectacular Dalmatian coast. After graduating from art school in Zagreb, Miho Simunovic first worked as a graphic designer in an advertising firm. In 1973, he moved to America and worked as an illustrator. Simunovic now lives in California where he works full-time as a professional watercolor artist. He has traveled back to Croatia many times where he travels up and down the Adriatic, painting scenes that strike his fancy. Miho Simunovic is an artist of sun and shadows, whose goal is to create atmosphere and mood through use of depth, shadow and light. He enjoys capturing the feeling of a day at a particular moment, solidifying that moment in watercolors before it disappears from the world forever.In 1992, Milena Sorée, an award-winning Croatian-American fine art photographer, went to Croatia to record the devastating events taking place and was given a chance of staying and photographing the frontline alongside a Croatian Army unit for eight months. At the end, Sorée had taken over 1300 images of which she chose 35 of the most poignant ones and exhibited them next to 35 other photographs showing peace and serenity of Old World Croatia chosen from her earlier body of work. Since then the Croatian Rose photograph has been selected by the Croatian American Association to be the "Croatian Freedom Award" because of its artistic representation of new life splendor rising out of death and decay; thus symbolizing the rebirth of the Croatian Nation. Milena Sorée has therefore dedicated a part of the sale proceeds from this poster to be donated to the FRIENDS OF VUKOVAR FUND, which is currently accepting donations for the restoration of the Home for Disabled Children in Vukovar, Croatia. Croatian Rose was first displayed in the Capitol Hill Rotunda of the United States Congress in the Spring of 1996 as part of a stunning photographic essay by Milena Sorée entitled CROATIA: WAR AND PEACE. (found under "Featured Items")distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments. |
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| Click Here: Crown Home Pagewww.CENTRALEUROPENEWS.COM New hypermarket opens in Zagreb Metro AG said its unit Metro Cash & Carry GmbH has invested about 20 million euros in its new outlet in Zagreb, which opened on Thursday, December 6. Some 350 jobs have been created through the investment, and Metro plans to open another four outlets in the next few years in Croatia, the company said. More articles about Croatia, Privatisation & FDI, Retail & Consumer distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments. |
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| Click Here: Crown Home PageFrom: Gerard , Hilda Foley To: KNPMurphy@aol.comCc: Program@KOCE.orgSubject: Yugoslavia documentaryDear Mr. Murphy:Regarding the recently aired documentary :"Yugoslavia Yesterday, Todayand Tomorrow" the criticism lies not so much in what was presented butin what was omitted. Considering that it was sponsored by ICN, whosechairman is Serb national Milan Panic, a person very involved inYugoslav/Serb politics, it should not come as a surprise. Several statements were made which were misleading and therefore wouldnot be understood by the viewership in the right context. It wasmentioned that in WWI Croatia and Slovenia "alined themselves" againstSerbia. There is no explanation that both countries were at that timepart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and consequently had no choice. Second, there is no mention of Serbia's often brutal subjugation and themurders of Croatia's intelligentsia in both Yugoslavias. No mention ofthe killing of four Croatian Representatives, including the much admiredpacifist leader Stjepan Radic in the Parliament in Belgrade in 1928. Allof this is also part of Yugoslavia's history. The Croatian Nazi puppet state of WWII is mentioned, where tens ofthousands of Serbs and Jews were killed, but no mention is made of theequally brutal Serb Nazi puppet state of WWII under Serb general Nedic,where also tens of thousands of Jews and other nationalities were killed.Serbs proudly declared to the Germans that "Belgrade is now Jew-free"!Then there is the myth, too often perpetuated by Serb propaganda, thatSerb partisans drove the Germans out of Yugoslavia. Nothing could befurther from the truth. The antifascist partisans were organized byCroats in June of 1941, their leader was Josip Broz "Tito" - half Croat,half Slovene, and while he was a communist, the large majority of theCroatians that comprised the partisan movement fighting the Germans andItalians were simply antifascist freedom fighters. The Serbs wereroyalist Chetniks, who mostly fought against the partisans and oftencollaborated with the Germans and Italians. Their brutality caused afascist Italian major to threaten them with the withdrawing of supplies, yet one of their leaders, Orthodox priest Djuic, lived happily ever afterhere in So. California instead of being extradited to Yugoslavia on warcrime charges. Croatia's city Vukovar, that was demolished by the Serbs in 1991 ismentioned, but given the impression that "it had a large Serb population"It was 37%, and that included Yugoslav military personnel living there.The 63% of non-Serbs, mostly Croats, were brutally driven out, which wasshown in the film. The film shows the market place bombing in Sarajevo, cleverly puttingdoubt as to who did it - suggesting that the Bosnian Muslims did it tothemselves - but it did not mention the worst massacre of the whole war,the 7,000 Bosnians murdered in Srebrenica. Is it because no one in thewhole world could have doubt as to who did it?The crux of the matter is, no one should have the right to revise historyand documentaries should not be presented which do not tell the wholestory. Sincerely,Hilda M. FoleyNational Federation of Croatian Americansdistributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments. |
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| Click Here: Crown Home PageFor a sample how to make easy for us Croatians to get politically active please see the interactive political web page at the National Organization for Women www.now.org/congressThere you will find everything you need to be an effective voice for women's rights. Choose an issue, type in your zip code, and send an instant letter (which you can edit as you wish) to the media or your representatives in Congress.Katarina TepeshOp-edThere are many sites with such a mechanism. CROWN intention is to have the same, but specifically designed for Croatians around the world. One doesn't exclude the other, so it is always a great thing to have an access to the info. Great find Katarina. Everybody else ... make a bookmark note and use it. If anybody else finds similar mechanism, please report it to CROWN. We will build one and more we know better it will be.NBdistributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments. |
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| Click Here: Crown Home PageSLAVIC FORUM 2002Canons and ClassicsGraduate Student Conferenceon Russian and Central/East EuropeanLiterature, Linguistics and CultureApril 12-13, 2002Deadline for submission of abstracts: FEBRUARY 1, 2002The University of Chicago Slavic Department's annual conference, The SlavicForum will be held on the campus of the University of Chicago on April12th and 13th, 2002. We invite graduate students working in the literaturesand cultures of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe to submit abstracts for atwenty-minute presentation. This year we are pleased to continue ourexpansion of the conference to include those working in Linguistics.Although we willgladly consider proposals for any work in these fields, Slavic Forum 2002would like to encourage papers which focus on the classics and/or canons oftheparticular fields represented in the conference.Slavic Forum 2002 will publish the proceedings of the conferenceelectronically. Selected papers may appear in the first issue of The SlavicForum Almanac. Information about the Slavic Forum, including programs >from past conferences, can be found at the University of Chicago GraduateSlavic Society web site |
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| Click Here: Crown Home PageA Short History of the University© by Darko Zubrinic, Zagreb (1995) The first high school institution in Croatia was founded by the Dominicans in Zadar in 1396 as the `studium generale' for theology. Its international character can be seen from the fact that one of its first students had been fra Bonaventura of Ferrara (inscribed in 1396). In its earliest period it had twenty students from Italy, two from Poland and one from Germany. This institution had the privilege of conferring doctorates of theology. It existed until 1806, when it was canceled during the French (Napoleon's) occupation. Unfortunately, in that period many documents witnessing the early history of the Croatian University had been destroyed. Leopold I., the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued a Diploma in 1669, by which the status and privileges of a university were accorded to the Jesuit Academy in the Royal Free City of Zagreb. This represents the beginning of the University of Zagreb. The Jesuits also started the first grammar school in Zagreb in 1607. Croatia was at that time one of the states of the Holy Roman Empire and bore the old name: the Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia. Let us mention some of the Universities that were founded before and after the Universities of Zadar and Zagreb: Bologna 1219, Padova 1220, Paris 1220, Oxford 1249, Lisabon 1290, Rome 1303, Cambridge 1318, Florence 1321, Praha 1348, Krakow 1364, Vienna 1365, Erfurt 1379, Heidelberg 1385, ZADAR 1396, Rostock 1419, Glasgow 1453, Tubingen 1477, Uppsala 1477, Copenhagen 1479, Mainz 1494, Edinburgh 1582, Dublin 1591, Lwow 1661, ZAGREB 1669, LEPOGLAVA (1674-1782), Göttingen 1736, Erlangen 1743, Moscow 1775, Berlin 1809, Saint Petersburg 1819, London 1825, Helsinki 1826, Kiev 1834, Athens 1834, Tokyo 1881, Constantinople 1900, etc.The Jesuit Academy was oriented mainly to theology, philosophy, law and classical philology. From 1747 there was also a chair for controversistic, aiming to study all the open questions existing between the Eastern and Western Church, conditioned obviously by the presence of Pravoslavs (Orthodox Christians) in Croatia.The Paulines from Lepoglava near Varazdin organized a three year study of philosophy in 1656 (with lectures on logic, mathematics, physics, metaphysics and ethics) and a four year study of theology in 1683. By the rescripts of Pope Clement X in 1671 and Emperor Leopold I in 1674 it became `studium generale' with a right of conferring doctorates. The Pauline order was canceled in 1786 by a decision of Austrian archduke Joseph II. The huge building of the Lepoglava Puline Academy, which represents one of the most important monuments of sacral architecture in Croatia, was transformed into prison in 1854. It was a tremendous loss for Croatian education and culture.During the French rule in Dalmatia (1805-1813) the Gymnasium of Zadar was transformed to Lyceum in 1806. After the Illyrian province had been founded it became a Central school with lectures on seven academic disciplines from engineering to medicine and law, having the right of conferring academic titles. So, this institution acted as a university with seven faculties, but unfortunately it was canceled in 1811.The University in modern sense, including science and engineering, was founded in Zagreb in 1874, thanks to the efforts of the great Croatian Maecenas bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer (born in Osijek, 1815-1905). It had three faculties: Law, Theology and Philosophy, from which soon many new faculties developed. Ivan Mazuranic, a great Croatian poet and statesman (1814-1890), was the Ban (Viceroy) and the president of the Croatian government when the University was opened.J.J. Strossmayer became internationally known for his speech against the dogma of papal infallibility at the Vatican synod held in 1869-70. He was also one of the originators of the unhappy idea of Yugoslavia, a common state for southern Slavs to live in. He founded the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb in 1866, long before Yugoslavia was created as a state (first as the Kingodom of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes in 1918, and then renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929). These are the oldest scientific and educational institutions in the south-east Europe.Additional information about J.J. Strossmayer. The Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts was renamed to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) first in 1941 and then again in 1991. It is interesting to note that in former Yugoslavia all the six republics and two Serbian autonomous provinces had their own national Academies, except Croatia, where the term `Yugoslav' was traditionally kept. Let us mention that the first president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded in 1887, was a Croat - prof. Josip Pancic (1814-1888, a botanist, born in the Croatian city of Bribir). We cannot avoid the names of three Czech professors - Karel Zachradnik (1848-1922, mathematics), Gustav Janecek (1848-1929, chemistry) and Vinko Dvorzak (1848-1922, physics) who were invited to initiate the educational and scientific work. The University of Zagreb owes them a great deal for its development.The University of Zagreb todayToday our University is a huge educational and scientific organization comprising 25 faculties and colleges, some 3000 professors and teaching assistants and some 35,000 students (we had 5400 students and postgraduates in 1938). It has a rich cooperation with foreign institutions, but needs a further support in this direction. Great importance has the movement called `Alma Mater Croatica', whose wish and aim is to unite our former students, now scientists scattered about many universities and research centers on the West. `Alma Mater Croatica' is the symbolic name for the Zagreb University.Except in Zagreb, there are very young university centers in Osijek, Split and Rijeka. Parts of the University of Zagreb are in Varazdin and Slavonski Brod.There is an army of as many as 45,000 specialists educated in Croatia, working today mostly in western countries. On one hand, it points out clearly the quality of our Universities, and on the other, the political and economic conditions in Croatia within former Yugoslavia.The University library, founded in 1606, has about 2,500,000 books.A great care is devoted to the living standard of students. About 6000 students live in student dormitories and subsidized student restaurants serve about 20,000 meals daily.The Zagreb University, and our faculty in particular, had many foreign students, primarily from the developing countries.Very rich international cooperation, initiated by prof. Ivan Supek in 1971, has been established through scientific seminars and meetings held at the Inter-university Center for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik. In the aggression of Serbia and Montenegro on Croatia the Center was totally destroyed (1991). It is worth noting that this object, together with its library comprising 30,000 volumes, has been the first to be destroyed in Dubrovnik. These carefully chosen targets reveal one of the major aims of the Serbian aggression in 1991-1995.Croatian Nobel prize winners are:* Ivo Andric, (studied in Zagreb) for literature, 1961. He was a Croat born in Bosnia and educated by the Bosnian Jesuits. His books reflect the interference of different cultures existing in Bosnia.His father Antun, who died during Andric's earliest childhood, was attendant of the Jesuit gymnasium in Travnik, Bosnia, and his mother was a houswife. Ivo Andrich inscribed the same Jesuit gymnasium, and then went to the Sarajevo gymnasium where he was the stipendist of the Croatian Cultural Society "Napredak" ("Progress", cultural society of Bosnian Croats). Then he attended the Faculty of philosophy in Zagreb, Croatian capital. In 1919, after his studies in Zagreb, he moved to Belgrade, where he started his career as a diplomat, working in Rome, Bucharest, Trieste, Graz (where he defended his thesis), Marseille, Paris, Madrid, Bruxelles, Geneve, and finally occupied the position of ambassador of the very young Yugoslav state in Berlin (1939-1941).During his studies at the University of Krakow, Poland, Ivo Andric filled in his matriculation form as follows: religion - Roman Catholic, nationality - Croatian. This form has been reproduced in his biography published in 1978 by V. Topalovic, at that time curator of the Travnik museum, Bosnia. Almost the whole edition has been ordered by some Belgrade institutions and destroyed. Very few copies remained. (Information by dr. R.Glibo).Habent sua fata libelli.* Lavoslav Ruzicka (born in Vukovar, of a Czech father and a Croat mother, attended the gymnasium of Osijek), for discoveries in organic chemistry, professor at the Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland 1939,* Vladimir Prelog, (1906-1998, a Croat born in Sarajevo, studied in Zagreb), for discoveries in organic chemistry, worked at the Technische Hochschule in Zurich, 1975. It is interesting that Nikola Tesla refused to receive the Nobel prize for physics, which he had to share with T.A. Edison. The name of Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian, born in Skopje in Macedonia), Nobel prize winner for peace 1979, cannot be avoided. The Croatian Jesuits had a great role in her spiritual development. The city of Zagreb, where much later she opened a house (1979), was one of the steps on her road to India. distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments. |
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