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Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 05:16 in Robot, chess, hungary, budapest, bratislava, maria theresa, farkas kempelen, amazing turk
The Amazing Turk- Farkas Kempelen’s incredible chess-playing automatonIn 1770, The Turk made its first appearance in front of the Viennese court. On a signal from the Empress Maria Theresa, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen slowly wheeled his creation fo...
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Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 10:51 in hungary budapest chemist pharmacy history society travel journalism article feature europe
If the stormy weather is giving you a headache, it is always worth popping into the local chemist's for some aspirin and having a look around. In Budapest many pharmacies date back to seventeenth century and often have original interiors intact. “T...
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Posted on Friday August 14th, 2009 at 17:55 in travel, society, coffee, tourism, restaurant, drinking, cafe, eating, hungary, budapest, cake, coffee house
I wrote this article on the wonderful coffee house more than ten years ago, however the historical details are still interesting, I think.Renovation work is now beginning on the one-time Centrál Coffee House.Work started on the reconstruction on Jun...
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Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 05:23 in travel, Culture, housing, europe, tourism, accommodation, history, cafe, budapest, sociology, streets, bartók béla út
©LucyMallows2004With its cubic cobble stones and plane trees standing guard along the way, ancient Hungarian craftsman’s workshops and fading neon shop signs, Bartók Béla út, in the eleventh district of Buda, was one of the few streets near the...
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Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 04:04 in travel, Hotel, europe, spa, tourism, accommodation, hungary, budapest, eu, swimming, art nouveau, gellert
When friends visit me from abroad, one of the places definitely on the list for an unmissable, real Budapest experience is the Gellért thermal bath complex. It’s more pricey than most, but no other bath gives quite the same feeling of history, cul...
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Posted on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 11:13 in budapest, pioneer, csilleberc, children's railway
ÚTTÖRÔ = (literally) path-breaking, trail blazing, pioneering out into unknown territory.This year the Hungarian Pioneer is 62 years old.There is hardly a family photo album in Hungary that doesn’t contain a picture of a child in a red nylon nec...
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