In fertile areas close to market centers, vegetables were grown specifically for the market. In western Slovakia, this was mainly around Bratislava and the...
"Growing Vegetables" In addition to growing grain, raising vegetables also developed as a part of Slovak agrarian culture rather early, as a separate...
Off the topic for the moment, yesterday Lubos and I both attended the local Slovak American Society of Washington, D.C., picnic where we conducted a...
I turned the TV on yesterday some 20 minutes into the game, expecting a total blow out, especially after watching the Paraguay match. Instead it was 1-0. Then ...
EU dismisses Hungary complaint against Slovakia — EUbusiness ... European Union officials on Thursday dismissed a complaint by Hungary that fellow member...
My apologies for no posting yesterday, but it turned into a very busy day. H All opinions and excuses my own "Storing Grain and Potatoes" The last phase of...
Last month, my husband and I were able to visit Slovakia as part of a trip that we had been planning for awhile. My parents thought we were crazy not to take...
Dobry Den. Tomorrow I will be packing to fly to Vienna and meet Helene for her Castles and small villages tour. I am looking forward to seeing where my...
In most of Slovakia, threshing was done in a barn. Only those farmers who were quite poor and did not have a barn threshed in the open air. This was also...
... You certainly know real Slovakia (as opposed to its "halupkized" version), Vilo. It seems that Slovakia's potential new government will consider scaling...
Earlier this year, the Eurozone, including Slovakia's outgoing government, agreed on joint massive loans to Greece in the hope to save its government from...
Paul Hacker, former U.S. Consul and later first Ambassador to Slovakia recalls events before and after the Slovak--Czech separation and Washington's take on...
Dear Friends of the Miss Czech Slovak US Pageant, The 24th annual Miss Czech Slovak US Pageant is less than 50 days away! 13 wonderful contestants will be...
My apologies for not sending out anything yesterday, but for some reason, no one in the library could access their U drive, where I store these texts. Today we...
National Carpatho-Rusyn Society president John Righetti will speak on the topic "Who Are the Rusyns?" at 1 p.m. June 12, at St. Peter & St. Paul Church, in...
In Slovakia, the harvest started at different dates due to large differences in the climate and altitudes. In southern Slovakia harvesting started at the end...
We deleted the thread today. I've seen this scam several times on the news over the past couple weeks. You post a message on your Facebook wall that you are...
Any kind of technical progress requires a whole range of suitable conditions[?]: technical, economic, and social ones, which in the 19th century and in the...
Oftentimes I come across a death record that shows what a person died from, but it is always in Slovak. Most of the time it is difficult to decipher the...
Hi guys, With the World Cup game coming up, I got interested in what may be considered typical Slovak "game food". I couldn't really think of anything so I...
You can read microfilms on line? I don't think you can do that but you can access a lot of information on line. Just go to LDS site and click on "Family...
Please take a look at the pictures/links below: *A link to a Georgian artist in T'bilisi who posts her surrealistic art on her site *The Burmese railway built...
Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop Basil Myron Schott, O.F.M. of Parma, Ohio fell asleep in the Lord June 10, 2010 at Pass avant Hospital. The...
Agrarian-ethnological documentation from neighboring areas shows that this harvesting method was also used more widely in Central Europe and the Balkans....
