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Transylvania and Symphony
President Kennedy couldn't stay away from his desk for the 75-minute young people's concert played on the White House lawn yesterday by the 85-piece Transylvania Symphony Orchestra from Brevard, N. C..

Transylvania and said
* In Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge, Transylvania is said to be the ancestral home of Yuri.
* The Pied Piper of Hamelin is said to be inspired in a migration of Germans to Transylvania.
After defeating Count Dracula in Transylvania, Donald receives a more complete map pointing to the Maharajah in India, Egypt, a haunted Viking ship, and finally the South Pole, where Donald finds an ancient Viking diary said to reveal the location of the treasure.
As lord lieutenant of the county of Belső-Szolnok, chief captain of Kővár and curator of the Reformed Church of Transylvania, Bánffy exercised considerable political influence outside parliament from 1875 onwards, but his public career may be said to have begun in 1892, when he became speaker of the house of deputies.
It has to be said, however, that the governments of Wallachia and Transylvania remained separate, and Michael never attempted to connect Transylvania to Wallachia, nor interfere in Transylvania's system of government ( by the Estates ).
Alexei Mateevici ( 1888 – 1917 ), author of the current Moldovan anthem Limba noastră said at a congress of Bessarabian teachers in 1917: " Yes, we are Moldovans, sons of the old Moldavia, but we belong to the large body of the Romanian nation, that lives in Romania, Bukovina and Transylvania.

Transylvania and Social
He sided with the Conservative Nicolae Filipescu, who shared his views on the issue of Transylvania, and provoked a conflict within his grouping at a time when the PNL was strengthening itself by incorporating a large part of the Romanian Social Democratic Workers ' Party.

Transylvania and told
The Romanian Ministry of Arts chose to back that exclusivity with the force of law: in August 1922, Sara Kanner, widow of Leopold Kanner, was told by the Ministry that she was welcome to perform Yiddish theater anywhere in Romania outside of Transylvania.
He had so many warriors that he even dared, so we are told, to oppose King Stephen I and to levy tax upon the king ’ s salt as it was being transported from Transylvania.
Another century later, the Fantastic Four appeared in Transylvania on a vacation, when a local, Baron Hugo, told them the legend of Diablo.

Transylvania and about
In August 1940, Ribbentrop oversaw the Second Vienna Award, which saw about 40 % of Transylvania region of Romania returned to Hungary.
However, it also led to the inclusion of various sizable minorities, including Magyars ( ethnic Hungarians ), Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, etc., for a total of about 28 % of the population ( Magyars mostly in Transylvania ; Germans in Transylvania, Bukovina, and Banat ; Ukrainians in part of Bessarabia and Bukovina, Bulgarians in Dobrudja ).
Annual precipitation averages about in central Transylvania, at Iaşi in Moldavia, and only at Constanţa on the Black Sea.
With the support of Sigismund, Stibor become one of the most influential men in late medieval Europe, holding titles as Duke of Transylvania and owning about 25 % of Slovakia of today including 31 castles of which 15 were situated around the 406 km long Váh river with surrounding land that was given to him by Sigismund.
In the second half of the 17th century renewed action against the Protestants in the isolated mountain valleys resulted in the expulsion of Protestant ministers with the peasants who would not give up Protestantism ; about 30, 000 chose compulsory emigration to Transylvania over conversion.
Though featuring none of the characters from the film, the series ( which was to have made use of the film's Prague set ) was about a young cowboy from Texas who becomes a sheriff in Transylvania, has many strange adventures, and encounters many strange creatures.
In July he even proclaimed himself " prince of Wallachia, Transylvania, and all of Moldavia " in Iaşi, thus bringing about the union of the three principalities.
Gheorghiu-Dej spread fears about Hungary wanting to take over Transylvania.
The Origin of the Romanians began to be discussed and in Transylvania, a Latinist movement Şcoala Ardeleană emerged, producing philological studies about the Romanic origin of Romanian and opening Romanian language schools.
Along with a party of about thirty workers, Boone marked a path to the Kentucky River, where he established Boonesborough ( near present-day Lexington, Kentucky ), which was intended to be the capitol of Transylvania.
The Istro-Romanians are the closest ethnic group to the Romanians, and it is believed they left Maramureş, Transylvania about a thousand years ago and settled in Istria, Croatia.
In 1936, he even spoke in favor of Armenian Hungarian archeologist Márton Roska, prosecuted in Romania for challenging official theses about Transylvania, arguing that Transylvania " cannot be defended with prison sentences ".
The Hungarian-speakers from Transylvania, about 32 % at the time ( including a large Hungarian-speaking Jewish community ), and the Germans in Banat did not elect Deputies at the official dissolution of Austro-Hungary, since they were considered represented by the Budapest government of the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungary.
Along with a party of about thirty workers, Boone marked a path to the Kentucky River, where he established Boonesborough ( near present-day Lexington, Kentucky ), which was intended to be the capital of Transylvania.
Part of the book is set in Transylvania, where the main characters search for clues about Dracula.
* Transylvania, a 2006 French film about a young woman who travels to Transylvania looking for a lost love
In the same period, nobles and church authorities in Central Transylvania were concerned about protesting and revolting serfs.
Like Jews living in Hungary, most of the Jews in Northern Transylvania ( about 150, 000 ) were sent to concentration camps during World War II.
For a time, his troupe had the exclusive right to perform Yiddish-language theater in Transylvania, an area which at that time was home to about 300, 000 Jews.
They complained about foreign rule, the behaviour of foreign garrisons, and the Habsburgs ' recognition of Turkish sovereignty in Transylvania ( Principality of Transylvania was usually under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, however it often had dual vassalage-Ottoman Turkish sultans and the Habsburg Hungarian kings-in the 16th and 17th centuries ).

Transylvania and plans
In the story Morris, who you may remember, died in the process of destroying Dracula, who had fled back to Transylvania when his plans for establishing a British homestead failed awakens in the night to discover that, as the result of an old affair, he has become a vampire.
* In 1818 he returns to his native Transylvania, brewing plans about a great journey to the East.

Transylvania and for
After resisting for 78 days the city fell on 2 September, and Turkish resistance collapsed throughout the region as far as Transylvania and Serbia.
He was later in exile from the Thirty Years ' War in Transylvania, where he remained for the rest of his life.
In 1600, the principalities of Wallachia, Moldova and Transylvania were simultaneously headed by the Wallachian prince Michael the Brave ( Mihai Viteazul ), Ban of Oltenia, but the chance for a unity dissolved after Mihai was killed, only one year later, by the soldiers of an Austrian army general Giorgio Basta.
Mihai Viteazul, who was prince of Transylvania for less than one year, intended for the first time to unite the three principalities and to lay down foundations of a single state in a territory comparable to today's Romania.
The incorrupt arm was divided among European royalty, but the Holy Right of King Saint Stephen was placed in a town built solely for the purpose of keeping it, the town in Transylvania called " Szent Jobb ", or Holy Right.
Transylvania is often associated with vampires ( chiefly due to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and its film adaptations ) and the horror genre in general, while the region is also known for the scenic beauty of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history.
* January 24 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania ( see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time ).
When enemy troops crossed the mountains from Transylvania into Wallachia, Antonescu was ordered to design a defense plan for Bucharest.
He participated in the political campaign to earn recognition at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 for Romania's gains in Transylvania.
The Ottoman Turks cede to Austria all their former territories in Transylvania, Slavonia, Croatia and the whole of Hungary except for the Banat of Temesvar.
The Ottoman victory led to the partition of Hungary for several centuries between the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, and the Principality of Transylvania.
For several years ( 1866 – 1878 ), James Clay allowed the mansion to be used as a residence for the regent of Kentucky University, forerunner of the University of Kentucky and present-day Transylvania University.
Hungarian Ferencváros and Romanian Rapid ( which had won on lots after three draws ) qualified for the final, but did not meet because the northern part of Transylvania ( lost shortly after World War I ) was ceded back to Hungary from Romania.
The Holy Roman Emperor and sovereign of Transylvania Joseph II awarded Romanians citizenship rights for a brief period during the latter decades of the 18th century.
Like many other cities in Transylvania, Brașov is also home for a significant ethnic Hungarian minority.
In Moravia, the Hutterites flourished for over a century, until renewed persecution caused by the Austrian takeover of the Czech lands forced them once again to migrate, first to Transylvania, and, then, in the early 18th century, to Ukraine, in the Russian Empire.
Webster: The location of the town of Webster, Webster Township sits at the original geographical center of the county, which has moved to Cullowhee Township due to land taken away for the formation of Swain and Transylvania counties.
Săptămâna Clujeană is an economic weekly published in the city, that also issues two magazines on successful local people and companies ( Oameni de Succes and Companii de Succes ) every year, while Piaţa A-Z is a newspaper for announcements and advertisements distributed throughout Transylvania.
Gabriel Bethlen Voivode of Transylvania consolidated and enlarged the castle, and gave it to his nephew Stephen Betlen who lived here with his wife Mary Széchy, famed for her beauty.
This started a small scale insurrection across Transylvania that was quickly quieted by the Hungarian army, except for the Apuseni Mountains, on the north of Hunedoara, where the tribune Avram Iancu struggled to keep the Hungarian forces away from controlling the gold mines.

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