Showing posts with the label Hungary

The Tragedy of Ignaz Semmelweis: The Doctor Who Pioneered Hand-Washing

Jul 10, 2023

Nearly 150 years have passed since the groundbreaking contributions of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch helped lay the foundation of the germ t...

5 Historical Figures Who Were Assassinated in The Lavatory

Apr 24, 2023

When a person is on the toilet, moving bowels, they are in a particularly vulnerable position. They are exposing parts of their body that ar...

The Mechanical Turk: An 18th Century Chess Playing Robot

Nov 29, 2022

In the late 18th century, a Hungarian inventor named Wolfgang von Kempelen presented to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria a sensational mecha...

The Angel Makers of Nagyrév

Aug 1, 2022

About sixty miles southeast of Budapest, on the River Tisza, lies a quiet little village with a horrible past. It was here in Nagyrev, a cen...

Rohonc Codex

Apr 26, 2022

The Rohonc Codex is a 448-page illustrated manuscript book written by an unknown author in an unknown language that has baffled scholars and...

The Wine Cellars of Hercegkút

Nov 25, 2020

The Tokaj wine region in northeastern Hungary has been producing wine since Roman times. Tokaj’s wines were historically prized throughout E...

Telefon Hírmondó, The Telephone Newspaper

Jun 6, 2019

When cell phones were first introduced, they were unattractive, brick-like devices that could do nothing more than make voice calls and sen...

Hungary’s Hyperinflation: The Worst Case of Inflation in History

Aug 29, 2018

The amount of Bolivars needed to buy 2.4 kg of chicken in Venezuela today. Photo credit: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters The economic situa...

Lake Kavicsos, Hungary

Jul 12, 2017

Kavicsos Lake, or “pebble lake” in Hungarian, is a scenic lake about 2 km across located south of Budapest, just a 30-minute ride away from ...

Floating Houses of Lake Bokodi

Feb 17, 2017

Lake Bokodi, in the village of Bokod, about 80 kilometers west of Budapest, Hungary, is an artificial lake created in 1961 by the Oroszlány ...