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Nicholas Daddazio's reinvention of Croatian necktie with a pocket for a cellphone
| France and Croatia shared a victory celebration together going back to 1648, when Croatia won the Thirty Years' War for France and Louis XIV celebrated with a parade in Paris to honor the Croatian soldiers, who were wearing red cravats, by having Royalty and ordinary Parisians wear similar cravats made by Louis XIV's tailors. France fell in love with the cravat, as well as the other European countries, and thus began the history of the necktie that evolved in design, shape, fabric, and color for more than four hundred years to the present. Daddazio's designs are a re-invention of the necktie with the added feature of a pocket for a cellphone that makes it practical and functional for this new millennium. |
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Dunja Vejzovic Croatian prima donna
| Croatian mezzo-soprano Dunja Vejzović studied at the Zagreb Academy of Music and began her career at the Zagreb National Theatre. She sang in the leading opera houses in Europe and America. Her versatile repertoire includes amongst other roles Venus in Wagners Tannhauser, Eboli in Don Carlo, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Abigaille in Nabucco, Adalgisa in Norma. She sang under conductors as Herbert von Karayan, Lovro von Matacic, Georges Pretes, Lorin Maazel, Carlos Kleiber, Riccardo Muti, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Metha, Giannandrea Gavazzini, Nello Santi, Eugen Jochum and Armin Jordan.
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Drago Stambuk odlikovan japanskim Ordenom izlazeceg sunca 2019. g.
 | Dne 21. svibnja 2019. Vlada Japana je objavila da će odlikovati dr. Dragu Štambuka, bivšeg veleposlanika Republike Hrvatske u Japanu, Ordenom izlazećeg sunca sa zlatnom i srebrnom zvijezdom, a radi njegovog doprinosa jačanju veza i prijateljskih odnosa između Japana i Republike Hrvatske. Kao veleposlanik Republike Hrvatske u Japanu, osim napora uloženih u jačanje veza između dvije zemlje, dr. Štambuk je radio na razmjeni kroz pjesništvo i haiku poeziju doprinoseći time međusobnom razumijevanju Japana i Hrvatske, ali i širenju haiku poezije ne samo u Hrvatskoj nego u cijelom svijetu. |
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Sandra Wigh Hrascanec Croatian contralto/mezzosoprano singer living in Vienna
 | Croatian contralto/mezzosoprano has a very unique dramatic voice of enormous beauty, warmth, depth and passion, the kind of voice that not only soothes but makes you shiver. Her concerts are always sensational experiance for audience. As a theatrical and inspiring artist, she has performed in more than 500 solo concerts/performances in different ganres, at festivals, readings, varios functions and presentations, mostly in Austria and Croatia, as well in Japan in both 2008 and 2011 (as a part of the Concert Tour). Since November 2014, she has become regular guest by Wagner Gala Concerts "Peter Svensson and friends" in Vienna. |
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Filip Hrgovic makes U.S. boxing debut by winning against Corbin in 60 seconds
 | Corbin came out firing hard and looking to test the younger man. Hrgovic was nonplussed, his eyes focused and looking for an opening. Backing towards the ropes as Corbin came forward, Hrgovic found it. A chopping right hand sent Corbin crashing to the mat. Hrgovic was polite concerning Corbin before looking to the future. "Greg Corbin is a really good fighter... You didn't have time to see the best Hrgovic. I look forward to big fights, strong opponents and to give the US really good fights." |
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Teresa Perinic and the King of Dolls representing Croatia at the Day of Europe in Argentina
 | The Day of Europe has been celebrated on 9th of May 2019 in Buenos Aires. It consisted in Common Stories (Historias Comunes) connecting Europe and Argentina, in which also Croatia has participated. The collection of common stories consists of 20 stories from various European countries, collected in a book. The Croatian story deals with Ljeposlav Perinić, better known throughout the world as The King of Dolls. The title of the story is "From Zagreb to Don Torquato - The King of Dolls". On the photo Teresa Perinic de Bellofatto, daughter of The King of Dolls.
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Michael J. Novosel of Croatian origin recipient of the Medal of Honor for saving 5589 wounded people
| During the Vietnam war, Novosel flew 2,543 missions and extracted 5,589 wounded personnel, among them his own son Michael J. Novosel Jr. The following week, Michael Jr. returned the favor by extracting his father after he was shot down. On the morning of October 2, 1969, Novosel set out to evacuate a group of South Vietnamese soldiers who were surrounded by several thousand North Vietnamese light infantry near the Cambodian border. Radio communication was lost and the soldiers had expended their ammunition. Without air cover or fire support, Novosel flew at low altitude under continuous enemy fire... He completed 15 hazardous extractions, was wounded in a barrage of enemy fire, and momentarily lost control of his helicopter, but when it was over, he had rescued 29 men.
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Hrvojka Mihanovic-Salopek: Veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Diocese of Gospić-Senj
 | We often travel to the Adriatic coast through the spacious, desolate, forested and mountainous expanses of Lika, without being aware that there used to be a highly developed center of medieval Croatian culture and Glagolitic scriptoria. Although the brutal Ottoman invasions wrought devastation, we are attracted to the residual traces of the original old Croatian civilization. This is Hrvojka Mihanovic-Salopek's 11th DVD from the series Stella Maris of Croatia (Croatian Mariological heritage).
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International festival of early music in Dvigrad, Istria, Croatia 2019
 | Alojzije Prosoli (on the photo), the founder and director of the Musica Sacra (Sveta glazba) associationa in Croatia, continues with his activities in promoting classical music in Croatia by organizing the XVIIth International Festival of Early Music, in the medieval town of Dvigrad in Istrian peninsula, Croatia. The festival is organized in unique ambience in the world, in the mediaeval town of Dvigrad, abandoned in 18th century. Dvigrad is placed near the town of Kanfanar in central part of Istrian peninsula.
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Ana Bedrina predlaže 12. svibnja za Dan hrvatskih iseljenika i zaštitnika sv. Leopolda
| I pored svog raseljenog naroda po cijelome svijetu, Hrvatska do sada nije ustanovila Dan hrvatskih iseljenika. Kao katolička zemlja koja ima sv. Josipa za zaštitnika države, mi nemamo zaštitnika za brojno iseljeništvo. Iako bi ga mogli imati, jer imamo brojne uzorne ljude i svece, ali još nije postavljen.samo jedan od njih je u svojoj službi bio pravi iseljenik i s nostalgijom mislio na svoj povratak kući, među svoj narod, pa makar i poslije smrti (citat: "kad bi bar kosti moje mogle počivati na mojoj rodnoj grudi"). I koji je pokazao svoje domoljublje i vjernost domovini kad je žrtvovao svoju slobodu, odbivši talijansko državljanstvo, jer se nije htio odreći svoga hrvatskog državljanstva rekavši da "krv nije voda". |
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