Born in Rome, Italy May 1955. Baptised in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, where my parents were also married in 1954 after their 1953 escape from the former yugoSLAVIA!. Came to the USA on my first birthday. Lived in Buffalo, NY till October 1958. Mostly lived in southern California the last 46 years. I am a technician in a laboratory. I do not write Croatian very well.
Leo Anthony Majich, age 82, was born July 17, 1925 in Los Angeles and died April 10, 2008 in Pasadena after a brief illness. He was a founding member of the Croatian American Association as well as the National Federation of Croatian Americans, serving several terms as its Western Region vice-president.
Dianna Dapkins thought the Internet would be the perfect place to find a rare Croatian wine that her local merchants in rural Shelburne, Mass., don't stock. Sure enough, K&L Wine Merchants, an Internet retailer that also has stores in Hollywood and San Francisco, sells the Plenkovic Zlatan Plavac Barrique for $34.99.
Croatia's navy seized an Italian trawler in Croatian territorial waters on Thursday, in the first such incident since Zagreb enforced a protected fishing zone in the Adriatic despite opposition from the European Union.
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