In this environment, cable TV companies appeared and thrived, providing 15-20 foreign channels for a very low price ( at the time 2 USD or less ), some with Romanian translation, offering high quality news, entertainment and especially movies or cartoons ( one of the ways cable companies advertised was the availability of a cartoon channel, Cartoon Network, appealing to children, which in turn would appeal to their parents ).

Mothers of at least five children would be entitled to significant benefits, while mothers of at least ten children were declared heroine mothers by the Romanian state.

Few women ever sought this status ; instead, the average Romanian family during the time had two to three children ( see Demographics of Romania ).

He called for the Porajmos to be taught in schools, stating that, " We must tell our children that six decades ago children like them were sent by the Romanian state to die of hunger and cold ".

He has upheld over the years his duties as a Patron to a number of charitable organisations including, a North East Charity which has built schools and care centres for mentally and physically handicapped children and Convoy, a charity which Lord Stevens set up to improve the quality of life of Romanian orphans, Aids sufferers and disabled children and for which he was awarded the Star of Romania, by the President of Romania.

He also condemned the foundation ( before his coming ) of the first two elementary schools with general knowledge curriculum aimed at the Jewish children in Bucharest, projects which were encouraged during that period by Romanian officials, who agreed for a while to a better integration of the Jews into Romanian life.

International and Romanian media also called attention to poor conditions in Romanian orphanages and hospitals where abandoned children remained for prolonged periods, while acknowledging some progress made in reforming child protection.

A Căpcăun is a creature in Romanian folklore, depicted as an ogre who kidnaps children or young ladies ( mostly princesses ).

Meanwhile, his family, consisting of his wife, Maria, born Popasu and his two children, Emilia and Titu, travelled to Bucharest, Braşov, Sibiu and Blaj, staying in Braşov for a long while and there, the future critic attended grade fifth at the Romanian gymnasium.

Devshirme < ref > Ottoman, Greek παιδομάζωμα, Paedomazoma-collection of children ;, Mankahavak < nowiki >'</ nowiki >)-child-gathering ; Romanian: tribut de sânge ; Croatian: Danak u krvi, Slovene: Krvni davek, Bosnian and Serbian: Данак у крви / Danak u krvi, Macedonian: Данок во крв / Danok vo krv, and Bulgarian: Кръвен данък / Kraven Danak-blood tax </ ref > was the practice by which the Ottoman Empire forcibly took boys from Christian families, who were selected by skilled scouts to be trained and enrolled in one of the four imperial institutions: the Palace, the Scribes, the Religious and the Military.

The last of his five wives was the Zurich based Romanian mathematics teacher Pia Andronescu, with whom he had 5 children: Myriam, David, Esther, Nathan and Alexandra.

He left the country and having been identified as being bright, was sent to study in Romania, becoming fluent in Romanian and French, and subsequently began medical studies in Poland where he married a Polish woman named Wiesława Hunzvi, with whom he had two children.

She is thought to attack children, and because of this, a large variety of spells ( descântece in Romanian ) are used against her.

* Carol Kane as Helga, the children ’ s Romanian nanny

He was awarded the MBE in 1986 for his services to the sport, and in 1996 he was awarded the OBE for his humanitarian work for children in Romanian orphanages.

During those years, the paper published numerous pieces covering Romanian society, which were primarily noted for their sensationalist and alarmist headlines, such as a claim, published in 1997, that " a quarter of Romania's children live in institutions ".

This Romanian organization provides shelters and homes for street children is a Romanian organization, offering, food, clothing, and a stable daily life.

This Romanian Foundation also feeds street children at the Gara de Nord Train Station.

In 1996, the Moldovan parliament, citing fears of " Romanian expansionism ," rejected a proposal from President Mircea Snegur to change the name of the language to Romanian, and in 2003 a Moldovan-Romanian dictionary was published, purporting to show that the two countries speak different languages.

Solomon Schechter ( Hebrew: שניאור זלמן שכטר ; December 7, 1847 – November, 19 1915 ) was a Moldavian-born Romanian rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement.

** Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator, Communist Party head and President of the Republic ( executed ) ( b. 1918 )

Two notable buildings from this time are the Crețulescu Palace, currently housing cultural institutions including UNESCO's European Centre for Higher Education, and the Cotroceni Palace, the current residence of the Romanian President.

In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, three of the leaders of the National Patriotic Front, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgar, Gheorghe Ghimpu and Valeriu Graur, as well as a fourth person, Alexandru Soltoianu, the leader of a similar clandestine movement in northern Bukovina ( Bucovina ), were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.

Among foreign visitors welcomed by Sauvé were King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Hussein of Jordan, Pope John Paul II, Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, French president François Mitterrand, Chinese president Li Xiannian, Romanian president Nicolae Ceauşescu, Mother Teresa, and, eventually, President Reagan.

On October 23, 2007, Romanian President Traian Băsescu publicly apologized for his nation's role in the Porajmos, the first time a Romanian leader has done so.

In December 2008 he joined the board of Phorm, an online behaviourial advertising company, and he is a non-executive director of Balli Group PLC and the Honorary President of the British Romanian Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the British Iranian Chamber of Commerce.

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României ( rank of ceremonial knighthood ) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

According to the Romanian Constitution, the President of the Republic shall designate a candidate to the office of Prime Minister, as a result of his consultation with the party which has obtained absolute majority in Parliament, or-unless such majority exists-with the parties represented in Parliament.

Nicolae Cajal, a Romanian Jewish member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences and the President of the Jewish Communities ' Federation of Romania from 1994 to 2004, defended recognition of Paulescu's scientific work, saying there is a need to distinguish between individuals ' private views and their scientific merit and that his father, a student of Paulescu, had admired Paulescu for his scientific skills though he disagreed ( as a Jew ) with Paulescu's anti-Semitic views.

From 1998 to 2004 Prunariu was the President of the Romanian Space Agency, and from 2000 an Associate Professor on Geopolitics within the Faculty of International Business and Economics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania.

Yugoslavia backed Czechoslovakia's leader Alexander Dubček during the 1968 Prague Spring, and then cultivated a special ( albeit incidental ) relation with the maverick Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu.

In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, three of the leaders of the National Patriotic Front, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Gheorghe Ghimpu and Valeriu Graur, as well as a fourth person, Alexandru Şoltoianu, the leader of a similar clandestine movement in northern Bukovina, were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.

Citing fears that the PNL had ensured a grip over Romanian politics, the PNR and the Peasants ' Party united in 1926, and Maniu was the President of the new political force, the National Peasants ' Party ( PNŢ ), for the following seven years, and again between 1937 and 1947.

In the following days he had to step down as President of the Upper House of the Romanian Parliament as he no longer had the support of a party group in the Senate.

During his final years, he was a prominent member and one-time President of the Romanian Academy, and briefly served as Romanian representative to France.

After withdrawing from political life, Kogălniceanu served as Romanian Academy President from 1887 to 1889 ( or 1890 ).

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

* 1920 – Carol Lambrino, Romanian son of Carol II of Romania ( d. 2006 )

* 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist ( d. 1963 )

* 1916 – Ioan Dicezare, Romanian fighter pilot ( d. 2012 )

* 1881 – George Enescu, Romanian composer ( d. 1955 )

* 1968 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.

* 1925 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor ( d. 1977 )

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 1989 – Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and pilot ( b. 1945 )

* 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, critic, and journalist ( b. 1923 )

* 1884 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer ( d. 1935 )

* 2012 – Ioan Dicezare, Romanian fighter pilot ( b. 1916 )

* 1932 – Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist ( b. 1875 )

The lowercase letter o for octet is defined as the symbol for octet in IEC 80000-13 and is commonly used in several non-English languages ( e. g., French and Romanian ), and is also used with metric prefixes ( for example, ko and Mo )

He collected first in the Carpathian Basin ( the then-Kingdom of Hungary ), where he notated Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian and Bulgarian folk music.

By then, news came of the Romanian advance toward Sofia and its imminent fall.

Romania had raised an army and declared war on Bulgaria on 10 July ( 27 June ) as it had from 28 ( 15 ) June officially warned Bulgaria that it would not remain neutral in a new Balkan war, due to Bulgaria's refusal to cede the fortress of Silistra as promised before the First Balkan war in exchange for Romanian neutrality.

He composed about 200 songs, some of which were translated into a variety of languages including English, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Urdu and Arabic.

In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

Romanian Gypsies have used chives in fortune telling.

In Romanian, chimen is caraway, while chimion is cumin.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

One of his earliest surviving works, under the guidance of his anatomy teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a masterfully rendered écorché ( statue of a man with skin removed to reveal the muscles underneath ) which was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum in 1903.

In Romanian folklore the Măiastra is a beautiful golden bird who foretells the future and cures the blind.