Did you know that…
- Francesco Illy, the founder of Illy caffè was born in Timisoara, Romania in 1892. He also invented the first automatic steam espresso coffee machine.
- The American mini-series ‘Hatfields & McCoys’ starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton was filmed in Romania.
- The Romanian language is 1,700 years old.
- Soprano Alma Gluck – the first lyrical artist to sell one million records –was born in Iasi, Romania on May 11, 1884.
- Three clay tablets, dated around 5300 BC, discovered in the village of Tartaria, Transylvania, have been the subject of considerable controversy among archaeologists, some claiming the symbols represent the earliest known form of writing in the world.
- In 1938 Romanian Stefan Odobleja was the one who actually set the basic of cybernetics in ‘The Consonantist Psychology’, published in Paris. His work appeared 9 years before Norbert Wiener’s ideas were printed.
- Emil Palade, a Romanian biologist, received the Nobel Prize for his contributions to cell biology.
- George (Gogu) Constantinescu, a Romanian scientist, engineer and inventor, is the creator of the theory of Sonics, a new branch of continuum mechanics, in which he described the transmission of mechanical energy through vibrations.
- Laz?r Edeleanu was the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine and also invented the modern method of refining crude oil.
- Oil was exploited commercially in Romania since 1857 (Ploiesti, Prahova County), two years before oil was discovered in Pennsylvania.
- The first natural gas compression station in Europe was built in S?rm??el, Romania, in 1927.
- Pope John Paul II made a three-day visit to Romania in May 1999, the first papal visit in nearly 1,000 years to a nation of mostly Orthodox Church members.
- Bitdefender is an antivirus software suite developed by Romania-based Software Company called Softwin.