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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: axy on November 27, 2010, 10:11:06 PM
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Well, it is not scoot related, but anyway... take a look at what I survived yesterday. :)
http://www.kia-forums.com/kia-ceed-forum/64342-let-snow-let-snow.html#post320450 (http://www.kia-forums.com/kia-ceed-forum/64342-let-snow-let-snow.html#post320450)
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Wow, axy. You get all the weather over your way!!
Hey, axy, are you anywhere near Yugoslavia in Croatia? I have some friends there so I was just wondering.
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Wow, axy. You get all the weather over your way!!
Hey, axy, are you anywhere near Yugoslavia in Croatia? I have some friends there so I was just wondering.
:)
Yugoslavia is a former state that does not exist in its integral form since 1991.
The new states are Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro.
I am from Croatia.
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Yes, I thought it was a former state. I am thinking they may be closer to Serbia then perhaps. I used to have maps on the wall to tell me such things, but no longer. I can always google a map. Just thought I would ask since you would know. Thanks axy!
Oh, did your fuel sensor arrive yet from that place?
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Yes, I thought it was a former state. I am thinking they may be closer to Serbia then perhaps. I used to have maps on the wall to tell me such things, but no longer. I can always google a map. Just thought I would ask since you would know. Thanks axy!
Oh, did your fuel sensor arrive yet from that place?
If you look from Italy towards east, roughly it goes like this: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia.
Slovenia is a member of EU, Croatia is not yet, but will be soon.
Indeed, it has arrived five days ago!
I have already posted that I have ordered from them also the belt and air filter!
The guys are great!
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I do remember Bosnia-Herzegovina now. I have a good idea where your country is now. I never realized it was so cold there.
Wow, that is awesome! I must have missed the post. It came earlier than expected then! This is good. I hope that place will same you some frustrations with parts. :)
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Can't see pictures, as I'm not a member of that forum.
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I do remember Bosnia-Herzegovina now. I have a good idea where your country is now. I never realized it was so cold there.
I live near the sea, the climate is Mediterranean (meaning, hot summers and mild winters, think California, I guess...) and that's why I posted this message... snow storm at the end of November is not exactly common here...
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Oh, Yes, axy...California has fairly nice year round riding weather...I enjoyed it when I was there. I am thinking that Florida may have offered less smog and some prettier trees and greenery, though. Do you have big cockroaches there in Croatia? I have seen some fairly huge ones in the U.S. in various states. I also recall seeing some very large black bugs similar to beetles...about the size of a small turtle...along the side of the road at night in Georgia. I wonder if you have squirrels that run out in the road in front of your scoot there in the warmer months like we do here.
Perhaps your winter is starting early there this year? Good thing you have those heated grips on your scoot...you may need them! :)
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Oh, Yes, axy...California has fairly nice year round riding weather...I enjoyed it when I was there. I am thinking that Florida may have offered less smog and some prettier trees and greenery, though. Do you have big cockroaches there in Croatia? I have seen some fairly huge ones in the U.S. in various states. I also recall seeing some very large black bugs similar to beetles...about the size of a small turtle...along the side of the road at night in Georgia. I wonder if you have squirrels that run out in the road in front of your scoot there in the warmer months like we do here.
Perhaps your winter is starting early there this year? Good thing you have those heated grips on your scoot...you may need them! :)
No cockroaches here, at least not in well maintained buildings. :)
Squirrels do not usually run in the road, but unfortunately you can encounter many roadkills - cats, hedgehogs, weasels and sometimes foxes.
Quite often people crash into deers or - bears. Unfortunately, sometimes trains hit bears, or bear mums with cubs. :(
In fact, just 10 kms from my house there is a big forrest with "a tribe" of 11 bears.
Deers are omnipresent.
Just to make it clear, I live in an urban area, in fact, in suburbs of a city of 200.000 inhabitants.
We also have here lynxes, wolves, an animal very similar to North American coyote and a few other critters like otters, beavers, badgers, wild cats etc.
Nothing too exotic. :)
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Hi, axy! :)
Some of my friends from over near your country are visiting this week. If they stop to see me in the next day or two, I will have one of them (or their children) type a nice holiday greeting in your language for you and your family. :)
I'm still wondering if the fox you have is the red fox. I like them. I almost hit a bear cub here with a car one time. He ran across the road right in front of me. He was BIG for being a cub! I probably would have cried if I hadn't been able to stop in time and ended up hitting him. I would like to see the lynx one day. They look beautiful in pictures. Some people actually hunt coyotes here. They put ads on Craigslist that they will clear your land of coyotes for you for free if you contact them.
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I think it should be the red fox.
Here is a typical Croatian furry critter:
(http://www.zavelim.eu/images/lisica1.jpg)
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you should put skis on that moped
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Actually, I am working on a project with a friend to make snow chains for People.
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I think I saw a picture online one time with skis attached to a scoot. :D
Snow chains would be great!
Hi, axy. My friends have came and left. Sadly, they did not have a great deal of time to spend this trip so we did not even turn the computer on while they were here. I hope you had a nice holiday. Do you celebrate St. Stephen's Day as well? I read about it on Wikipedia and wondered. If you do, I hope it was a nice day for you. (I don't know who St. Stephen is, but then a lot of folks probably don't know who St. Valentine is either.)
Wow, on the globe it looks like you are possibly closer to Germany than Albania!
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I think I saw a picture online one time with skis attached to a scoot. :D
Snow chains would be great!
Hi, axy. My friends have came and left. Sadly, they did not have a great deal of time to spend this trip so we did not even turn the computer on while they were here. I hope you had a nice holiday. Do you celebrate St. Stephen's Day as well? I read about it on Wikipedia and wondered. If you do, I hope it was a nice day for you. (I don't know who St. Stephen is, but then a lot of folks probably don't know who St. Valentine is either.)
Wow, on the globe it looks like you are possibly closer to Germany than Albania!
Hi,
it is not exactly officially celebrated, but there is St. Stephen's day. It is a bit more of a festivity for those whose name is Stephen/Steven and those that are avid church-goers :).
We have a local "version" of that name in our language.
The closest country to mine is Slovenia, some 25 kms to the west is the border.
Then, there is 70 kms to Italy, a bit more famous country. :)
Albania is to the east, approx. 950 kms to the east, so it is quite far away. There are many other countries between us and them, like Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia...
450 kms to the German border from my city, border to border probably around 300 kms.
The thing is that in 1000 km circle around my city, you have Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia etc.
European countries are relatively small. It's not like central USA where if you travel 5000 kms to the north you can reach Canada and if you go to the south, you can reach Mexico and that's it. :)
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Not far away from the Adriatic sea:
After only 1 month of winter our winter services have surrendered. Budget for this winter nearly exhausted: snowplough, gritter and salt are rationalised for highways.
Our national dept and economy measures aren't any more adequate for a "real" winter.
Even the national railway CEO advised the passengers not to use the train and switch to other means of transport (for us a big sensation!).
Common commuters have to wait for a natural solution on March (or April?) - or fight with the elements.
3 days after the last snow fall I brushed the snow of the scooter and pushed it onto the road. Blue shines the ice:
(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6835/0000124.th.jpg) (http://img600.imageshack.us/i/0000124.jpg/)
Empty parking area appropriate for playing in the snow:
(http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/9894/0000125.th.jpg) (http://img808.imageshack.us/i/0000125.jpg/)
Official minimum temperature in our town was -18.4°C (meteorological airport station), another message was -24°C direct above the snow (usually lower temperatures than at the offical altitude of 2m above ground).
That's already cold, but nothing serious. Official all time record was -45.9°C at Funtensee meteo on Christmas Eve 2001.
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Just the other day I was listening to local radio and they were talking about salt prices going up in Germany.
A lot of salt is being imported from Bosnia and Greece.
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It is looking like a record breaking( COLD ) winter, in parts of the UK last week -27C, today it's 9c, i bought my city 125 late November and have only done 200K! Can't wait for better weather. May chance the salty roads tomorrow, how does everyone else cope with corrosion????
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It is looking like a record breaking( COLD ) winter, in parts of the UK last week -27C, today it's 9c, i bought my city 125 late November and have only done 200K! Can't wait for better weather. May chance the salty roads tomorrow, how does everyone else cope with corrosion????
Buy a new scoot every few years. :)
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Hi,
it is not exactly officially celebrated, but there is St. Stephen's day. It is a bit more of a festivity for those whose name is Stephen/Steven and those that are avid church-goers :).
We have a local "version" of that name in our language.
The closest country to mine is Slovenia, some 25 kms to the west is the border.
Then, there is 70 kms to Italy, a bit more famous country. :)
Albania is to the east, approx. 950 kms to the east, so it is quite far away. There are many other countries between us and them, like Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia...
450 kms to the German border from my city, border to border probably around 300 kms.
The thing is that in 1000 km circle around my city, you have Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia etc.
European countries are relatively small. It's not like central USA where if you travel 5000 kms to the north you can reach Canada and if you go to the south, you can reach Mexico and that's it. :)
Wow! So many different cultures so close together!! Yes, you definitely have the advantage over us there! Your location is favorable for travels to other countries. I did think it looked about 1,000km to Albania on the globe. I could not estimate that Germany was that close, though! You don't drink that German beer do you, axy? I hear it's very strong. That could be a lie, though. :)
I do imagine it was a bit easier to get parts for those Italian scooters you had considering the nearness of Italy to your country.
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Nice pictures, ts1. My, you certainly have the snow this year! And the cold!!
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Wow! So many different cultures so close together!! Yes, you definitely have the advantage over us there! Your location is favorable for travels to other countries. I did think it looked about 1,000km to Albania on the globe. I could not estimate that Germany was that close, though! You don't drink that German beer do you, axy? I hear it's very strong. That could be a lie, though. :)
I do imagine it was a bit easier to get parts for those Italian scooters you had considering the nearness of Italy to your country.
Exactly. :)
And that's why Italian 50 cc scooters are favorite targets for thieves. Usually underage delinquents...
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You don't drink that German beer do you, axy?
There is no "that" German beer. Germany has more than 2000 breweries (mostly small ones), each beer has its own style and taste. As in our neighbouring countries.
The most common beers have about 1/2 as much alcohol as light or medium wine, strong beers about the same level as wine.
But in the extremes (additional brewery processes) you can get alcohol-free beer (becomes more and more popular) or something like liquer.
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There is an online Croatian shop where you can buy beers from all over the world.
Among them, there are a few German beers and even one from USA.
http://www.beershop.hr/ (http://www.beershop.hr/)
The problem is that I do not drink alcohol (had a beer or two and a liter of wine in the past decade).
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LOL! I don't drink alcohol either, axy. I've had less than you in the past decade. :D
I hope you have a happy year in 2011! :)
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Hi, iz kog grada si jasam zhivio u Zagrebu 10 godina inace sam iz skopje.. pozdravljam te .....
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Hi, iz kog grada si jasam zhivio u Zagrebu 10 godina inace sam iz skopje.. pozdravljam te .....
:) Pozdrav, bratko! :)
Iz Rijeke.
Rianna, now we have located your friends. :)
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We Have?? ;D
That is funny.
It may be more correct to say that You have located them, axy. I have no idea what any of that says! :D
I am glad you didn't tell me they were bad words. :)
I love languages, and studying languages, but I can only speak in one language (English) and read and write in two languages and yours is not one of them. From the previous two posts I only understood, "Hi" and what you typed after my name. I did think that I remembered seeing Zagreb or something similar on a map one time, though. When I speak with them again, or if they come for a visit I will tell them of your message. If I am asked what it says, I will say that it says :) and :) and if they want to know more they will have to take a look. ;D
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We Have?? ;D
That is funny.
It may be more correct to say that You have located them, axy. I have no idea what any of that says! :D
I am glad you didn't tell me they were bad words. :)
I love languages, and studying languages, but I can only speak in one language (English) and read and write in two languages and yours is not one of them. From the previous two posts I only understood, "Hi" and what you typed after my name. I did think that I remembered seeing Zagreb or something similar on a map one time, though. When I speak with them again, or if they come for a visit I will tell them of your message. If I am asked what it says, I will say that it says :) and :) and if they want to know more they will have to take a look. ;D
"Pozdrav bratko" means "hello, bro", but "bratko" is not Croatian word for bro, it is a Macedonian word. Your friends are from Macedonia, the most southern ex. Yugoslav state that became autonomous after its dissolution in 1991, bordering with Greece. The difference between Croatian and Macedonian language is quite big: one can claim that the difference is like the one between cockney British and langauage spoken in Louisiana. ;D
Furthermore, he asked me what city I was from and said that he lived in the capital of Croatia for 10 years. I told him that I am from Rijeka, the city where I live.
:)
And you are right, Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia. It is our local version of Washington DC. :)
http://www.zagreb.hr/default.aspx?id=1979 (http://www.zagreb.hr/default.aspx?id=1979)
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Hi, axy! :)
Thank you! So much fun. I didn't really think his wife would have let him type any bad words. :D
The difference between Croatian and Macedonian language is quite big: one can claim that the difference is like the one between cockney British and langauage spoken in Louisiana.
Yes, that IS a big difference! Wow! I am glad you were able to understand then.
When I think of Macedonia, I usually think of Greece for some reason. I will look at my globe again. I will see Macedonia and Rijeka and Zagreb. ;D
Hmm...so you say Pozdrav bratko is like "Hello, bro". I am thinking that "pozdravljam te" looks similar. But I'm not sure it is a greeting since it is at the end of a sentence. Maybe Hello and Goodbye are similar?
See:
Pozdrav bratko
pozdravljam te
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"pozdrav" is a noun ("greeting"), "pozdravljam" is a verb, first person singular ("I greet thee") :)
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This is a late response to a comment made earlier about California. most people have this image that California is always this warms and sunny place were we live on the beach and don't need a coat because it is always 80F/27C outside. I live near Sacramento, the state capital in northern California. I scooted to work yesterday and it was 38F/3C and heavy fog.
When the fog burned off I could see the mountains where the snow is pack is currently at a depth of 12 feet/2 meters. The ski resorts have reported that over 28 feet (8.5 meters) of snow has fallen since October. These mountains are about 50 miles (80 km) from where I work. I also work about 80 miles (125 km) from the ocean near San Francisco where the water is about 50 F / 11.6 C and the air temps are about the same.
Southern California (Los Angeles/San Diego) the temperatures will stay warmer during the winter , near the coast and the temp will range in the 60s and 70s F. Further from the coast, there is a mountain range and a high desert where the temperatures are similar to Sacramento and lower. Snow and frost are common.
To make a long story short. California has a wide range in the winter from the coldest to some of the warmest in the nation. It also has areas with the deepest snow fall in the nation to areas of high desert that see frost but no snow and areas that never see frost to areas that fog over for more than a month at a time and don't see the sun (sacramento) during the winter days.
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Thank you, TechGuy, for that great explanation and wonderful reminder. I have not been to California for many years. I sometimes forget about the beautiful, varying scenery it has to offer. I do remember travelling once on a beautiful, but very cold, trip on Donner's Pass (I hope I recalled the correct reindeer's name there) up into the mountains when it was covered with snow. I also remember the first time I saw a desert there. The heat was incredible that day and there was concern that the big truck would overheat, but it was an awesome view that made me want to immediately take out the cell phone to call friends back east and tell them about it. I had forgotten about the need for adding or removing layers of clothes several times over the course of a day while travelling the whole of the state making pick-ups and deliveries.
Sometimes I only remember the dang fruit inspectors stopping every truck, the terminal in Fontana near Riverside, City of Industry's warehouse district, the dreaded weigh station on the way out of the state heading back east, the near incident at Edward's Air Force Base or the sensation of Los Angeles morning rush hour traffic when I had been up for close to 24 hours by the time the sunrise happened.
Thank you for bringing back some good memories of your beautiful state. :)
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This is a late response to a comment made earlier about California. most people have this image that California is always this warms and sunny place were we live on the beach and don't need a coat because it is always 80F/27C outside. I live near Sacramento, the state capital in northern California. I scooted to work yesterday and it was 38F/3C and heavy fog.
When the fog burned off I could see the mountains where the snow is pack is currently at a depth of 12 feet/2 meters. The ski resorts have reported that over 28 feet (8.5 meters) of snow has fallen since October. These mountains are about 50 miles (80 km) from where I work. I also work about 80 miles (125 km) from the ocean near San Francisco where the water is about 50 F / 11.6 C and the air temps are about the same.
Southern California (Los Angeles/San Diego) the temperatures will stay warmer during the winter , near the coast and the temp will range in the 60s and 70s F. Further from the coast, there is a mountain range and a high desert where the temperatures are similar to Sacramento and lower. Snow and frost are common.
To make a long story short. California has a wide range in the winter from the coldest to some of the warmest in the nation. It also has areas with the deepest snow fall in the nation to areas of high desert that see frost but no snow and areas that never see frost to areas that fog over for more than a month at a time and don't see the sun (sacramento) during the winter days.
I live in an area that is generally regarded as very warm and sunny, especially by people that live in continental Europe.
However, we have just as many rainy days as in London, that is notorious for being damp and rainy city and almost THREE TIMES the volume of rain compared to London.
It is interesting that this area is favorite destination for retired people from Austria, Italy and Germany that come to spend their winter holidays, only to be reminded that being close to the sea does not always translate into tropical climate. :)
Also, we have a lot of microclimate differences. For example, I live 12 kms from the center of the city, that is on the sea shore. Just 12 kms, and my altitute is 350 m. However, the temperature difference is between 4 and 9 C which is A LOT. :)
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Hi, axy. :)
I'm wondering if you can help me with something. My friends told me about a tragedy that occurred with some people I know of over there somewhere. It happened a few years ago (maybe 3 or 4 years) at a place where people go to wade in the water either to take refreshment or maybe for health reasons because the water is good?? I am thinking this may be something like a natural spring?? Do you know what they are speaking of? I don't know what it's called or how to look it up to see if I can search for an article or information about what happened. I just don't understand enough of what they have told me about these places.
Thanks! :)
Wow, axy. I have read some about the history of your country on Wikipedia. It is difficult to read and understand it all at once. There has been much division, fighting and struggling in the past 20 years involving several countries. Were you living there in the 90's? On a lighter note, I love the beautiful pictures on Wikipedia of your country. Are you waters there really that clear and blue? :)
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Hi, axy. :)
I'm wondering if you can help me with something. My friends told me about a tragedy that occurred with some people I know of over there somewhere. It happened a few years ago (maybe 3 or 4 years) at a place where people go to wade in the water either to take refreshment or maybe for health reasons because the water is good?? I am thinking this may be something like a natural spring?? Do you know what they are speaking of? I don't know what it's called or how to look it up to see if I can search for an article or information about what happened. I just don't understand enough of what they have told me about these places.
Thanks! :)
Wow, axy. I have read some about the history of your country on Wikipedia. It is difficult to read and understand it all at once. There has been much division, fighting and struggling in the past 20 years involving several countries. Were you living there in the 90's? On a lighter note, I love the beautiful pictures on Wikipedia of your country. Are you waters there really that clear and blue? :)
History stuff: it can be confusing to foreigners, but it could be explained easily in oral form, not written though. :) Generally, dissolutions of countries can lead to wars and disputes and that is what happened here, especially when many different nations are involved. Yes, I have been living here all my life but my city was out of any war zone and life was, suprisingly, completely normal.
Tragedy stuff: the only such occurence I can think of was a tragedy in the National park of Kornati - http://www.kornati.hr/eng/index.asp (http://www.kornati.hr/eng/index.asp) three years ago.
There was an eruptive fire that killed 13 firefighters and only one of them survived.
Here you can find some more info in English:
http://secretdalmatia.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/kornati-tragedy-death-in-paradise/ (http://secretdalmatia.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/kornati-tragedy-death-in-paradise/)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Croatian_coast_fires (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Croatian_coast_fires) (look for Kornati tragedy paragraph).
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Thank you very much, axy. It was in 2007 and this looks like it might be what I was looking for. The pictures of this National park look like what was described to me. I'm not 100% certain because I thought they mentioned females taken to the hospital as well and I'm assuming the firefighters were males. This could have been a mistake on my part though. I may have misunderstood the gender or a familial term. I appreciate you taking the time to look those up and post the links for me and wanted to make a quick post to say thank you. :)
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To educate you and others on the forum and provide some fresh info if you play trivia game or go to Who wants to be a millionaire, here are a few things you probably did not know:
1. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of many things (among them, system for long range transport of AC electricity used throughout the world, and alternator used also in our scoots) was Croatian, from a village maybe 100 kms away from my city. He was of Serbian origin but was born in Croatia and later moved to USA.
2. Parachute was invented by a Croatian from city Dubrovnik (that is very popular tourist destination for many celebrities that are all over the media when they spend their holidays here - John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sir Roger Moore and Mickey Rourkey are regular there). This guy was crazy enough to jump off the tower in Venice in 16th century to prove that it works. He survived...
3. Necktie was invented by Croatian mercenaries who used to wear it during their tenure in Thirty Years' War in 17th century. French used to call it "cravate", mercenaries were therefore called "Croates", English word for us now is "Croats" and Croatian word for necktie is "kravata". Interesting? :)
3. Springfield XD is very popular gun (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/cc/20100924150200 (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/cc/20100924150200)!SpringfieldXd45acp.jpg) that is a weapon of choice for FBI, CIA, American S.W.A.T. teams and many special forces around the world. It is a product of Croatian factory (here it is called HS2000 where 2000 is the year when it was introduced and HS are initial letters of Croatian words "Croatian Gun").
4. If you saw mineral water in your shopping centers called Jana (http://www.janawater.com/ (http://www.janawater.com/)), it is a Croatian product exported to USA. It was an official water of the Super Bowl, I think a year or two ago. Croatia has second largest reserves of drinking water in Europe and in every town and village we usually drink water from the tap because it is chemically and bacteriologically *more pure* than bottled water. Btw. Jana is a derivative of old female Croatian name. (not pronounced like Jane, but "Yanna").
5. Double Entry Bookkeeping as a basis of every modern accounting was invented in 15th century in Croatia (in the same city where the guy had invented a parachute! ;)
6. Forensic investigation principles are invented by a Croatian in early 20th century (his name was Eduard Miloslavic - all his principles are used even today - for example, I work as a forensic investigator and still use and teach principles that are more than 100 years old). Later he went to USA.
7. Fingerprint technology was invented also in early 20th century by a Croatian named Vucetic. He also moved to USA. :)
8. Finally, airships ("Zeppelins") were invented by a Croatian Jew Schwartz, and the invention was stolen by Count Zeppelin. The same guy invented also dural aluminum (also called Schwartz Aluminum), used extensively in aeronautic industry.
Well, that's it, not too shabby for an unknown Slavic tribe. :)
p.s. Obviously, I have nothing better to do now! :)
:)
There you go.
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Ha! I love it! Thank you, axy! :) A gal like me can never have too much trivial knowledge. :)
I'd reciprocate and give you some from Virginia, but I'm afraid my memory is lacking so mine would consist totally of information received from Wikipedia and Google. ;D
I did know many of these. I have not seen this mineral water here, though. I will look for it the next time I go to the store.
The one I would be most curious about, though, is this Eduard Miloslavic. It surprises me that I did not recognize his name as this is a subject that interests me.
He survived...
I'm so glad he did! :D
Wow, I haven't seen Mickey Rourke in ages...
Have a great day, axy!
p.s.
Is that a fox in your picture? It looks much bigger than our fox here. :)
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Ha! I love it! Thank you, axy! :) A gal like me can never have too much trivial knowledge. :)
I'd reciprocate and give you some from Virginia, but I'm afraid my memory is lacking so mine would consist totally of information received from Wikipedia and Google. ;D
I did know many of these. I have not seen this mineral water here, though. I will look for it the next time I go to the store.
The one I would be most curious about, though, is this Eduard Miloslavic. It surprises me that I did not recognize his name as this is a subject that interests me.
He survived...
I'm so glad he did! :D
Wow, I haven't seen Mickey Rourke in ages...
Have a great day, axy!
p.s.
Is that a fox in your picture? It looks much bigger than our fox here. :)
Yes, it is. Our forest critters tend to be well fed and taken care of. :)
Take a look at http://www.kuterevo-medvjedi.hr/ (http://www.kuterevo-medvjedi.hr/) , it is a local shelter for bears.
"medvjed" is a bear in Croatian and it roughly means "the one who eats honey". :)
Russians and us have somewhat similar languages. You probably know that their president is Mr. Medvjedev. It would translate like "the one of the bear" or "the one whose father was a bear". :) So much for the trivia stuf... :)
Virginia is somewhat familiar to me: it has 50 % more inhabitants and covers double the area of my country. Of course, I am familiar with its capital, Richmond and know that a few big companies have HQ there (Philip Morris and Capital One,for example). Philip Morris tried hostile takeover of our biggest national tobacco company a few years ago and failed: they are still trying to achieve monopoly on Croatian cigarette market.
However, to a regular TV viewer, Virginia is famous because of Langley where HQ of CIA is. In pretty much every thriller or action movie you can see the agents calling back to Langley when they have a problem. :) :) :)
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Hi, axy! :) You do continue to surprise and entertain me. :) And I do love trivia as well as that Who game you mentioned in an earlier post. I fear I would never become the winner of that million without the occasional lifeline or call of a friend though. I would be able to see the clues in the answers posted on that little screen and still miss them. Those clues come so fast and are easy to miss. And when I play that Trivial Pursuit game I seem to always be missing that last piece of the pie. :D
Wow, languages, animals, places and movies...Such interesting subjects! Is that your language on the page from that link, axy? I see structure and familiarity when I look at it. And those little things above some of the letters. So adorable! My favorite animal is the ocelot. You can only see one here if you visit a zoo though. :)
Oh, yes, I do love Richmond with its museums and theatres. I used to take mini vacations in Petersburg (or maybe it was Chester?) when my son was small. It would be a day of Museums and a movie at the Imax Dome, and then an evening of roller skating on one side of the hotel and a friendly ice cream cone on the other side of the hotel before collapsing from exhaustion. :)
You are correct about the movies and Virginia. I remember one named The Recruit with Colin Farrell and Al Pacino. They mentioned and showed Langley, Quantico and CIA headquarters in Virginia numerous times in that movie. (I once owned a vehicle that was purchased at an auction in Quantico. The owners were from Charlottesville, though, and I had to wonder why they did not just sell it at the auto auction there?? I suppose when you have a car, or means to travel, distance is nothing.) There is a newer movie with Mark Wahlberg and Danny Glover named Shooter, though, axy. They show a beautiful view of a farm that I believe sits at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. I believe it is shown about 2/3 of the way through the movie when they show the large white or yellow letters on the screen. It was a beautiful view in Virginia that is a bit far from Langley. There is an older movie with Sharon Stone in it named Basic Instinct that shows some incredible car chases out west in California somewhere. I believe it is somewhere south of Oakland/Concord/Stockton which I was a bit familiar with at that time. But...she also had another movie that was less popular. This one was filmed in a couple different places, one of them being on the east coast of the U.S. Some of the film is in black and white and some is in color. There is one brief scene in which she enters a small local family owned pharmacy in a somewhat dirty little economically depressed coal mining town in a state to the north of Virginia. Most movie goers will not recognize that state or the town though when playing the movie trivia games. End of movie trivia... :)
Have a great night and day, axy! :)
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Hi, axy! :) You do continue to surprise and entertain me. :) And I do love trivia as well as that Who game you mentioned in an earlier post. I fear I would never become the winner of that million without the occasional lifeline or call of a friend though. I would be able to see the clues in the answers posted on that little screen and still miss them. Those clues come so fast and are easy to miss. And when I play that Trivial Pursuit game I seem to always be missing that last piece of the pie. :D
Wow, languages, animals, places and movies...Such interesting subjects! Is that your language on the page from that link, axy? I see structure and familiarity when I look at it. And those little things above some of the letters. So adorable! My favorite animal is the ocelot. You can only see one here if you visit a zoo though. :)
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Have a great night and day, axy! :)
:) I watched all three movies you mentioned in your post (Shooter, Recruit, Basic instinct). I am your average movie fan. :)
Yes, that is my language. There are "things" above letters because our alphabet does not use a few letters present in English (q, x, w, y) but we have 5-6 extra letters with "things" above letters, so our alphabet has 30 letters instead of English 26.
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I must apologize to you, axy, and to other movie fans that may read this thread. It appears that I have misquoted facts about the fourth movie whose name I did not mention (according to IMDB anyway, which states it was actually filmed farther north of the location I mentioned). Apparently I remember things wrong and post silly things at 3AM when I can't sleep, especially when I'm up late trying to crack my own passcode for my cell phone voicemail because I was too stupid to write it down in the first place! :D
One day I will live in a place that isn't underground in the woods like a cave where a cell phone actually rings indoors. Oh well, perhaps I will get some sleep and be more rested up for the next round. ;)
Thank you for the explanation of your alphabet though. I did see it on Wikipedia and began reading about the digraphs and such. Perhaps I will look at it more later. :)
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Hi, axy! :)
This globe/marble/atlas thing I have is great. I especially love that when I type in the name of a place and hover over it with the mouse it will give me the longitude and latitude coordinates. And I most especially like that I can then click on it and it will open up a Wikipedia page full of facts for that area. :)
I couldn't find any good maps, but I found some old faded dollar store type maps (the georgefcram .com kind) in a drawer and I put them up on the wall. They are not so special, but each country on the World Map and each state on the U.S. map is color coded.
It's amazing how this big world seems smaller when I can envision the whole of it and how the big picture then becomes clearer. Now I only need a supply of pushpins to decorate them with. :)
I have also found a Rand Mcnally and an AAA map book, but these road maps are terrbily outdated and they are not the laminated type that I can write on with a grease pencil. :(
I do see now that your country is near the Moscow side of Russia to explain some of the similarity in languages. 18 hours of sleep over 6 nights instead of 48 hours has prevented me from understanding the things I see on Wikipedia about your language though. But I do believe I could learn a bit about it since I loved the alphabet. :)
Also, before I forget, I wanted to tell you that my friends were supposed to come for a visit on Thursday, but they were delayed due to some unavoidable business. I did tell them of your message so I expect, if time permits, that they will type in another short message this week when they arrive.
Do you have newspapers there, axy? I am hoping to ask them to bring me a current newspaper. Would they be able to do that? I know there are places here to buy newspapers from around the world, but not in my city. :(
Have a great day, axy! :)
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Also, before I forget, I wanted to tell you that my friends were supposed to come for a visit on Thursday, but they were delayed due to some unavoidable business. I did tell them of your message so I expect, if time permits, that they will type in another short message this week when they arrive.
Do you have newspapers there, axy? I am hoping to ask them to bring me a current newspaper. Would they be able to do that? I know there are places here to buy newspapers from around the world, but not in my city. :(
Have a great day, axy! :)
Hi Rianna,
dozens of daily newspapers and hundreds of periodicals, of course, are printed here.
Btw. I have to disappoint you, the distance between me and Moscow is roughly the distance between East Coast and West Coast USA. :) :)
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Don't worry, axy. I'm not very disappointed. I do know that my thoughts and posts after the midnight hour tend to be senseless. Things always look different in the morning light. :)
Thank you though. I've been trying to think of something small they could bring to me that wouldn't be an inconvenience for them. I think a current newspaper or small magazine of some sort will do well. When I was in Chicago, I could easily buy newspapers from many countries, and I enjoyed looking at them all. The only thing I've seen in print here in another language is a very small paper written in Spanish and it was actually in a city to the north of mine. :)
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Almost all newspapers and periodicals around the world post online versions of their publications Rianna, so click a mouse and save a tree. LOL
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Don't worry, axy. I'm not very disappointed. I do know that my thoughts and posts after the midnight hour tend to be senseless. Things always look different in the morning light. :)
Thank you though. I've been trying to think of something small they could bring to me that wouldn't be an inconvenience for them. I think a current newspaper or small magazine of some sort will do well. When I was in Chicago, I could easily buy newspapers from many countries, and I enjoyed looking at them all. The only thing I've seen in print here in another language is a very small paper written in Spanish and it was actually in a city to the north of mine. :)
Rianna, Miss America 2011 (and Miss Nebraska) is Croatian, Teresa Scanlan. :)
http://www.missamerica.org/competition-info/national-contestants.aspx?state=Nebraska&year=2011&GO=GO (http://www.missamerica.org/competition-info/national-contestants.aspx?state=Nebraska&year=2011&GO=GO)
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Almost all newspapers and periodicals around the world post online versions of their publications Rianna, so click a mouse and save a tree. LOL
But some people appear to think, non-US residents would still live in the trees or caves.
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But some people appear to think, non-US residents would still live in the trees or caves.
You are very naughty boy! :)
To promote understanding between people and dispel these rumors, I will post a few pics I took this afternoon.
They are taken from Roman castle (later medieval fortress) overlooking my hometown and show panoramic view of the city itself towards open sea.
You will notice that we have even mastered the technology of road and skyscraper building! :)
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A few more pics...
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@ Agent Bob
So you think I should ask them for something else from their country? Any ideas?
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@ts1
LOL! I don't think you live in a tree or a cave.
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Hi, axy! :)
She is beautiful...And to have such great goals at only 17 years of age is wonderful.
Oh, axy, you country is beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your pictures!!
You must have a really great camera and some great image software too! I can zoom all the way in and check out the water even. And that view from the rooftop!! Amazing!
It looks like you had a really great day.
I do wonder what MIR JUNAKA means? :)
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I just realized why ts1 said that - you do know, don't you ts1, that it was past 3:30 AM when I decided to ask axy if he had newspapers where he lived?? :D
Okay, you got me...I suppose I could have worded it better. I was making polite conversation, though, in hopes that axy would offer up the name of a specific newspaper, since he always has facts and figures and links handy, and since I would have no idea of the names of such newspapers.
I do love your pics, axy!
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Hi, axy! :)
She is beautiful...And to have such great goals at only 17 years of age is wonderful.
Oh, axy, you country is beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your pictures!!
You must have a really great camera and some great image software too! I can zoom all the way in and check out the water even. And that view from the rooftop!! Amazing!
It looks like you had a really great day.
I do wonder what MIR JUNAKA means? :)
Hi Rianna,
to explain what "mir junaka" means, we have to go 200 years back in history. At the time, my country was a part of Austro-Hungarian empire, and this particular castle was given as a present for the faithful service to the Empire to one of their leading generals/military strategists, general Nugent (who was actually Irish). This building is his mausoleum and "mir junaka" means "peace of the hero". It is a bit strange wording even in my language, but it roughly has the meaning of "may the hero rest in peace". More info on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trsat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trsat) , in English.
If you have heard of Russian space orbital station "MIR", it is the same word, meaning "peace".
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Wow, a 200 year old castle!? Yes, I see the strange wording. Every hero deserves to rest in peace. Thank you for the link, axy. I will look at it, and I will read more about this Irishman.
Have a Great Day today! :)
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Actually, this castle is more than 2000 years old, from the time of Roman empire conquests. It was their fortress.
However, this guy got a hold of it 200 years ago. :)
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Hi, axy! :)
Wow! A 2,000 year old castle?!! Oh, axy, I do so wish you had not told me that, because now I want to see it, and touch it, and experience it inside and out, from the bottom floor to the top. That rooftop view really is amazing!! I love your pics, axy. Thank you!! :)
My friend says to tell you this. I have not looked it up, so I have no idea what it means or why it's important, but after he read all of your posts in this topic in one sitting he wrote this down and told me to tell you this. I hope it's something nice and that it's not offensive or bad words.
BUDI MIRAN
He told me another thing, too, if I can find the paper he wrote it on I will PM it to ya later. I think it's time for this hero to take a long overdue rest. :)
Bye, axy! Have a Great Day, axy!! :)
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Hi, it means "be at peace", but as an imperative, more like "stay quiet". :) :)
In Croatia you'd say that to a restless child, for example.
However, if your friend is Macedonian, the language is quite different than mine, so it can have somewhat different meaning. ;D
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Wow, axy!!
My cousin, the videographer, and my aunt and uncle, the ones with the airplanes, not the ones who are ambassadors and travel the world, both have the EXACT same "tribe" of 11 bears in their backyards, too!! Can you imagine that? It certainly is a small world, isn't it?! :)
I hope you have a great day at work today, axy!! :)