Fun Facts
ROMANIA
Romania's Danube Delta, a World Heritage site, is the second largest delta in Europe.
The Parliament Palace is the second largest official building in the world, after the Pentagon.
Bram Stoker based his novel "Dracula" on Vlad Dracul, the fifteenth century Wallachian prince.
Gheorghe Marinescu (1863-1938), the professor of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, was the first to see living nervous cells with a microscope.
Grigore Moisil (1906-1973), a professor of mathematical logic and computer science at the University of Bucharest, encouraged Romanian scientists to build a computer in 1957.
The end of the Second World War saw the formation of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova, formerly part of Romania.
POLAND
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) attended the Jagiellonian University at the end of the fifteenth century. Copernicus was an astronomer who published the theory of a sun-centered solar system.
Jan Heweliusz ( 1611-1687) was a Polish astronomer who produced the first accurate maps of the surface of the moon.
Built in the mid seventeenth century the Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica are the largest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe.
Casimir Funk (1884-1967) was born in Warsaw and migrated to the USA in 1920. He is known for his work on the discovery of vitamins and was the first to use the word "vitamin".
During the Second World War Oskar Schindler ran a factory that saved the lives of over a thousand of his Jewish workers. Schindler drew up a list of his staff and persuaded the Nazis that they were essential workers.
The architect Daniel Libeskind was born in Poland in 1946 and became a US citizen in 1965. Libeskind, designed the famous Jewish Museum in Berlin (opened in 2001) and was chosen in February 2003 as the architect to redevelop the World Trade Center site in New York.
From: www.worldinfozone.com