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Anniversary of the death of Georgi Dimitrov. Right hand or left sole of Stalin?

by MacBesT on 07/02/2009 04:46 0 comments , 1 views
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Georgi Dimitrov (June 18, 1882 – July 2, 1949) was a Bulgarian politician and a leader of the international communist movement. He began his career as a union organizer in Sofia; after 1917 he became a steadfast Leninist and was instrumental of transforming the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) into a Bolshevik organization. In September 1923 Dimitrov was one of the organizers of a communist armed rebellion in Bulgaria; after its de...

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Stoyan Delchev receives his Honorary Citizen of Plovdiv ribbon and diploma today

by MacBesT on 07/02/2009 04:45 0 comments , 1 views
Categories: Notable Persons, Sports, News, History, Figures of the City, Things to know
 
 


Moscow 1980 Olympic Games gymnastics champion Stoyan Delchev was awarded the prize of Honorary Citizen of Plovdiv several years after the event. But it was today that the Plovdiv current Mayor, Slavcho Atanassov, handed him the blue ribbon and the honorary diploma on the behalf of Plovdiv Municipality.

Stoyan Delchev has been living int he US for the last 18 years in Reno, NV, where he i...
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Article by Liuben Dilov Jr. on the need for the young people to vote

by MacBesT on 07/01/2009 07:52 0 comments , 1 views
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Novinar newspaper has published an article by Liuben Dilov Jr. - it focuses on the 13 reasons for the young people to vote on the upcoming elections.

The article speaks about the place of Bulgaria in the European Union; what kind of choice young people have to make - and that it is their choice to have the chance to live in beauiful cities; to have better politicians, better education, better opportunities; to be closer to their families ...
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ST. COSMAS AND ST. DAMIAN Feastday (The Holy Healers` Day)

by MacBesT on 07/01/2009 07:50 0 comments , 1 views
Categories: News, Traditions & Namedays, Cultural Heritage, History, Things to know



The day of the Christian saints Cosmas and Damian (in BG version: Kozma and Damyan) is considered a very big feastday. No one works on that day to protect themselves from getting sick. That day people pay homage to all popular healers – wise-women, sorceresses and spinning-wheel men. Sacrificial animals are votively slaughtered for health and sick people visit curative springs and leave pieces of their clothes as signs of the nearby "tr...

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Bulgarian Scholar Implants a Human Gene into a Fly

by MacBesT on 06/29/2009 04:23 0 comments , 1 views
Categories: Health, Notable Persons, News, Cultural Heritage, Things to know



Prof. Albena Yordanova and a team of Belgian scholars search for a cure for hereditary polyneuropathy

A unique discovery by a Bulgarian scholar may produce a revolution in the treatment of hereditary polyneuropathy. Assoc. Prof. Albena Yordanova who leads a team of experts in the Belgian city of Antwerp, succeeded in implanting a human gene responsible for the disease into a Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as fruit fly. This experime...
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Today is PETROVDEN (ST. PETER `S Day)

by MacBesT on 06/29/2009 02:53 0 comments , 1 views
Categories: Notable Persons, Traditions & Namedays, Cultural Heritage, History, Things to know



Name day of everyone named Peter, Penka, Kamen, Pencho, Peyo, Pesho, Petrana, Petrana; also Assen, Assya, Apostol, Krum, Chavdar; also Pavel, Pavlin/a, Polya (although they rather celebrate on June 30th).

June 29th the Orthodox Church celebrates the day of the two apostles - Peter and Paul: Petrovden and Pavlovden. In Bulgaria, though, Pavlovden is more popular to be celebrated on the following day, June 30th.

This holiday is in midsumm...

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June 28 1914 – 95 Years Sofia Stock Exchange constituent assembly

by MacBesT on 06/28/2009 02:52 0 comments , 1 views
Categories: Business & Investments, History, Things to know




On February 21 1912, Parliament adopted the first Law on the stock exchanges, which was promulgated in the State Gazette on February 28 the same year. Sofia Stock exchange obtained official permit to start operating and started effective activity on June 28 1914, only a few days before the beginning of World War I. On May 25 1915, the Stock Exchange Regulation was adopted by a Decree. All issuers of securities, such as banks, production ...
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Ivan Vazov (June 27, 1850 - September 22, 1921)

by MacBesT on 06/27/2009 02:50 0 comments , 1 views
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Ivan Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Sopot, a town situated in the Rose valley of Bulgaria.

The date of Vazov's birth is indisputable, although the poet didn't know it exactly. His mother, Suba, was neighbour of Mintcho Vazov's, who liked her beforehand. Ivan Vazov inherited series of human virtues from his father. His mother excessively influenced his development.

After finishing the primary school in So...

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Today is ENYOVDEN (Midsummer Day) June 24, 2009

by MacBesT on 06/24/2009 03:14 0 comments , 5 views
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This ancient Bulgarian ritual is considered the turning point in the mythological calendar of the ancient people – a ritual connected to the summer Equinox, when the day is longest and the night is shortest. Enyovden / Enyo’s Day is a favorite summer holiday for young and old. It practically divides the year into two. It is believed that after that feast, winter sets on its long way to the people. The story of Enyo putting on his furc...

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State Administration Officials day

by MacBesT on 06/23/2009 03:47 0 comments , 4 views
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Today, just for a day, the activities of a State Administration Minister will perform the 18-year-old Stanislav Andreev, student at the American College in Sofia. He will assist Nikolay Vassilev in all his duties today.

At 12.30 PM Stanislav Andreev and Nikolay Vassilev will send with electronic signature the Administration Ethics Standards to all regional administrators. Then the young minister Andreev is expected to have a briefing for ...

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