Word: transylvania
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...shooting was a tragic, dramatic finale to a storybook life that included parachute missions behind enemy lines in World War II as well as great wealth and serious conflicts with the Federal Government. Born to a family of bankers and lawyers on Oct. 8, 1905, in a part of Transylvania that now belongs to Rumania, Deak was educated in Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and France and became fluent in five languages. After taking a job with a foreign exchange brokerage firm in New York City in 1939, he joined the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and later became a senior intelligence...
...least one world-famous violinist was impressed by a Gliga instrument. In a 1995 letter to Gliga, Yehudi Menuhin wrote, "Dear and very fine craftsman ... I shall treasure the instrument you made ..." At his headquarters in Reghin, Gliga displays the Menuhin letter with pride, convinced that the reputation of Transylvania as a center of violin-making excellence will eventually be acknowledged. And that maybe then he will be able to return to his workbench. --Reported by Mihai Radu/Reghin
...Ticket to Transylvania...
...Brad marry and drive off from their home in Denton, Ohio. When their tire blows out, they trudge through the rain to the nearest shelter—a castle owned by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite hosting a convention of aliens from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy Transylvania. Tormented and propositioned, the newlyweds are chased by Frank-N-Furter’s creation named Rocky Horror...
Economic disparities are clearly part of the problem. When people in the Romanian region of Transylvania struggle to put food on the table, watching a neighbor receive preferential treatment because of his birth is divisive. "The key thing is to get all these guys into the E.U. as quickly as possible," says a Western envoy in Bucharest. Even then, ethnic ties will still run deeper than lines...