Did you know what Sir John Bowring thought of the Hungarian language?
"The Hungarian language goes far back. It developed in a very peculiar manner and its structure reaches back to times when most of the now spoken European languages did not even exist. It is a language which developed steadily and firmly in itself, and in which there are logic and mathematics with the adaptability and malleability of strength and chords. The Englishman should be proud that his language indicates an epic of human history. One can show forth its origin; and alien layers can be distinguished in it, which gathered together during the contacts with different nations.
Whereas the Hungarian language is like a rubble stone, consisting of only one piece, on which the storms of the time left not a scratch. It's not a calendar that adjusts to the challenges of the ages. It needs no one; it doesn't borrow, does not huckstering, and doesn't give or take from anyone. This language is the oldest and most glorious monument of national sovereignty and mental independence.
What scholars cannot solve, they ignore. In philology it's the same way as in archaeology. The floors of the old Egyptian temples, which were made out of only one rock, can't be explained. No one knows where they came from, or from which mountain the wondrous mass was taken. How they were transported and lifted to the top of the temples.
The genuineness of the Hungarian language is a phenomenon much more wondrous than this. He who solves it shall be analysing the Divine secret; in fact the first thesis of this secret:
and the Word was God."
Did you know?
That the developers of the Atomic Bomb; the Holograph; the Moon Rover; Model T Ford; and the fathers of Binary Code, BASIC and Computer Programming; Nuclear Engineering; the California Wine Industry; the U.S. Cavalry; full-length Motion Pictures; and of the U.S. Aerospace Industry are all Hungarian-Americans?
Dennis Gábor
Did you know?
That the Matches, Television, Hollywood Movies, modern Computers, Supersonic Flight, the Telephone Exchange, the Carburetor, the Zeppelin, the Automatic Gearbox, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Intel Corporation, all owe their existence to Hungarians?
Theodor von Kármán
And what about Joseph Pulitzer, of "Pulitzer Prize" fame?
He was responsible for raising the funds needed to erect the Statue of Liberty. The statue sat disassembled, with New York refusing to pay for construction. Pulitzer's idea was to place the name of anyone giving a donation for the project in his newspaper - now that's snob appeal!
Did you know?
That people with some claim to Hungarian ancestry have been nominated for Oscars 136 times since 1929, when the first ones were handed out, and have taken home 30 of the golden statuettes?
(Associated Press AP-NY-10-26-96 1604EDT)
Can you believe ...
there was a Hungarian King of Madagascar?
Count Moric Benyovszky (1741-1786)
Did you know?
There was an Austro-Hungarian Emperor of Mexico?
Maximilian I.
Reign: April 10, 1864 - May 15, 1867
(He was eventually executed along with his Hungarian Huszárs.)
Did you know what Enrico Fermi thought of Extraterrestrials?
When Nobel Laureate, Enrico Fermi, was asked if he believed in extraterrestrials, he replied:
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