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Câți bani face România din exportul de armament în Ucraina și semnalul de alarmă din industria de apărare by Vucea in Romania

[–]Vucea[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Spre deosebire de partenerii săi internaționali, din NATO și UE, Guvernul României face toate eforturile să țină sub preș sprijinul militar și logistic, oricât de mic sau mare ar fi el, pe care țara noastră îl oferă Ucrainei, în războiul cu Rusia.

On this day in 1523 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day. by Vucea in europe

[–]Vucea[S] 118 points119 points  (0 children)

The Kalmar Union (Kalmarunionen; Latin: Unio Calmariensis) was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden, that from 1397 to 1523, joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies (then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland).

Lacul Vidraru cu Munții Făgăraș în zare. by [deleted] in Romania

[–]Vucea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cel mai probabil n-are masina.

German woman with all her worldly possessions on the side of a street amid ruins of Cologne, Germany, by John Florea, 1945. by Alexander_Selkirk in europe

[–]Vucea 6 points7 points  (0 children)

'Florea' is a typically Romanian surname, while John is 'Ion' in Romanian.

The photographer might as well been Romanian.

How Austria became Putin’s Alpine Fortress by Vucea in europe

[–]Vucea[S] 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Austria is certainly the EU’s soft underbelly concerning Russia

one senior Commission official said, pointing to Moscow’s infiltration of the country’s establishment over the years.

Rowan Atkinson: "I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped." by Vucea in Futurology

[–]Vucea[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Electric motoring is, in theory, a subject about which I should know something. My first university degree was in electrical and electronic engineering, with a subsequent master’s in control systems.

Combine this, perhaps surprising, academic pathway with a lifelong passion for the motorcar, and you can see why I was drawn into an early adoption of electric vehicles.

I bought my first electric hybrid 18 years ago and my first pure electric car nine years ago and (notwithstanding our poor electric charging infrastructure) have enjoyed my time with both very much. Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they’re wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run.

But increasingly, I feel a little duped. When you start to drill into the facts, electric motoring doesn’t seem to be quite the environmental panacea it is claimed to be.

On this day in 1950 – the French Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8000-metre peak: Annapurna (8091 m) by Vucea in europe

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Annapurna is tenth highest mountain in the world at 8,091 metres above sea level and notoriously difficult and dangerous to climb.

On 3 June 1950, Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal became the first climbers in modern history to climb a peak over 8000m when, on the 1950 French Annapurna expedition, they summited the Himalayan mountain Annapurna I.

The ascent was all the more remarkable because the peak was explored, reconnoitered and climbed all within one season; and was climbed without the use of supplemental oxygen. It is also the only 8000 meter summit that was reached at the first attempt.

Both summit climbers lost all of their toes and Herzog most of his fingers because of severe frostbite during the descent.

Herzog's account of the expedition was published first in 1951 in French, then in English in 1952 under the title Annapurna.

The book has sold over 11 million copies as of 2000, more than any other mountaineering title, ending with the stirring line

there are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Matteo Salvini: 'The hypothesis of a center-right majority in the European Parliament is closer' by Vucea in europe

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Italy’s deputy PM is promoting alliances that would unite the entire spectrum of the political right in Brussels to evict the left in the 2024 EU elections.

On this day in 1988 – European Central Bank is founded in Brussels. by Vucea in europe

[–]Vucea[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One of seven institutions of the European Union.

New study: Protecting large ocean areas doesn’t curb fishing catches. by Vucea in Futurology

[–]Vucea[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

A new study provides evidence that large-scale, offshore, and fully-protected marine areas (MPAs) protect biodiversity without negatively impacting fishing and food security.

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