Author Topic: Interesting facts about Serbia,and Serbs... (Read 15639 times)

Nik_Srb · « **on:** February 15, 2009, 09:43:32 AM »

Ok i wanted to make a thread like this one,well the name of the thread says it all

i often find interesting facts about some famous serbs,or famous serb influences...
And i all ways wanted to tell ppl here these interesting facts,so i decided to make this thread,so feel free to post here,i'll start...

Nik_Srb · « **Reply #1 on:** February 15, 2009, 10:00:10 AM »

Religion
Main article: Serbian Orthodox Church

Fresco from Visoki Dečani, Visoki Dečani, Serbia, 1200sConversion of the South Slavs from paganism to Christianity began in the 7th century, long before the Great Schism, the split between the Orthodox East and the Roman Catholic West, the Serbs were fully christian 870 by Byzantine Christian Missionairies (Saints) Cyril and Methodius. After the Schism, those who lived under the Orthodox sphere of influence became Orthodox and those who lived under the Catholic sphere of influence became Catholic, thus, Croats were Catholic and Serbs - Orthodox Christian. Later, with the arrival of the Ottoman Empire, many Slavs converted to Islam. Some ethnologists consider that the distinct Serb, Croatian and Bosniak identities were drawn from religion rather than ethnicity.

wikipedia.

btw Mileva Marić was the co-author of the theory of relativity.

Sirbata · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2009, 11:10:20 PM »

We all know about Nikola Tesla, but did you know that Einsteins wife was also a scientist and a Serb?

http://www.pbs.org/opb/einsteinswife/milevastory/index.htm

Nik_Srb · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2009, 04:41:09 AM »

you might find this guy interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Paige ^^

Jasmina · « **Reply #4 on:** February 17, 2009, 08:00:22 AM »

How about Tennis:

Ana Ivanovic, Novak Djokovic, Jelena Jankovic, Dragana Zarić
Nenad Zimonjić, Slobodan Živojinović, Janko Tipsarević, Tatjana Ječmenica

Spectator · « **Reply #5 on:** February 17, 2009, 08:08:17 AM »

Quote from: Jasmina on February 17, 2009, 08:00:22 AM

How about Tennis:

Ana Ivanovic, Novak Djokovic, Jelena Jankovic, Dragana Zarić
Nenad Zimonjić, Slobodan Živojinović, Janko Tipsarević, Tatjana Ječmenica

I heard about Ana Jovanovic and Jelena Jankovic, they are one of the best in the world.
Don't know anything about the others. Did they play in the past?

Jasmina · « **Reply #6 on:** February 17, 2009, 08:32:17 AM »

NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS ONE OF THE BEST TENNIS PLAYERS in the world!
The rest of them still play, but the are not that good like those 3!
Boba zivojinovic was the best server in the past!

Spectator · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2009, 08:46:41 AM »

Quote from: Jasmina on February 17, 2009, 08:32:17 AM

NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS ONE OF THE BEST TENNIS PLAYERS in the world!
The rest of them still play, but the are not that good like those 3!
Boba zivojinovic was the best server in the past!

Serbia is also good in team sports like soccer, basketball, volleyball etc.

By the way, thanks for locking that thread. It's painful to see quarrels here.

CCCC

Kerber · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2009, 09:32:26 AM »

Quote from: Spectator on February 17, 2009, 08:46:41 AM

Quote from: Jasmina on February 17, 2009, 08:32:17 AM
NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS ONE OF THE BEST TENNIS PLAYERS in the world!
The rest of them still play, but the are not that good like those 3!
Boba zivojinovic was the best server in the past!

Serbia is also good in team sports like soccer, basketball, volleyball etc.

By the way, thanks for locking that thread. It's painful to see quarrels here.

CCCC

Dejan Bodiroga vs Carmelo Anthony and US basketball team:
1.

2.

Bodiroga was a legend of European basketball.

Jasmina · « **Reply #9 on:** February 17, 2009, 09:56:05 AM »

Quote from: Kerber on February 17, 2009, 09:32:26 AM

Quote from: Spectator on February 17, 2009, 08:46:41 AM
Quote from: Jasmina on February 17, 2009, 08:32:17 AM
NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS ONE OF THE BEST TENNIS PLAYERS in the world!
The rest of them still play, but the are not that good like those 3!
Boba zivojinovic was the best server in the past!

Serbia is also good in team sports like soccer, basketball, volleyball etc.

By the way, thanks for locking that thread. It's painful to see quarrels here.

CCCC
Dejan Bodiroga vs Carmelo Anthony and US basketball team:
1.
2.

Bodiroga was a legend of European basketball.

I met Bodiroga!!! I took a picture with him! I'm tall, but he was a Giant!

Spectator · « **Reply #10 on:** February 17, 2009, 01:30:10 PM »

Quote from: Sirbata on February 16, 2009, 11:10:20 PM

We all know about Nikola Tesla

I don't know much about Nikola Tesla. I only know that he was a great physicist and physical magnetic field unit is called in his honor - Tesla. I also know some people call him "Master of Lightning" (why?)

It's interesting that he was critical of Einstein theory of relativity:

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magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Beograd · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2009, 02:48:37 PM »

Actor(Academy Award winner)- Karl Malden(Mladen Sekulovic)

Nik_Srb · « **Reply #12 on:** February 17, 2009, 04:35:55 PM »

Quote from: Spectator on February 17, 2009, 01:30:10 PM

Quote from: Sirbata on February 16, 2009, 11:10:20 PM
We all know about Nikola Tesla

I don't know much about Nikola Tesla. I only know that he was a great physicist and physical magnetic field unit is called in his honor - Tesla. I also know some people call him "Master of Lightning" (why?)

It's interesting that he was critical of Einstein theory of relativity:

Quote
magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Every time you switch your tv,computer,light on etc,know that there was a man called Tesla,not [censored] Edison...
Tesla declined the Nobel peace prise,he didn't want to share it with edison,imo the guy was a total d**k

Kerber · « **Reply #13 on:** February 19, 2009, 06:15:43 AM »

Yes,every man on Earth should thanks Nikola Tesla for having electricity.

george_jtf · « **Reply #14 on:** February 19, 2009, 07:37:12 PM »

For Tesla to be recognized as the true pioneer and leader when it comes to bringing the electricity would make the Serbs look intelligent. Of course, that is impossible due to today's propaganda about Serbs and their history and fight for their tradition and religion.

In the first place, telling typical american who the true pioneer of electricity is would immediatelly have a response "that is a serbian propaganda". Well, let's take a look at the history and see who is lying....good luck on that.
Of course, the true story about the real scientist when it comes to electricity does not expand to every american or for that fact elsewhere in the world. I can almost certainly guarantee you that if you ask almost any physicist about the truth, I am sure that they would unanimously say "Tesla".

See, reading books that do make sense really does pay off. Payoff is called intelligence.

cjd · « **Reply #15 on:** February 19, 2009, 08:02:23 PM »

Quote from: george_jtf on February 19, 2009, 07:37:12 PM

For Tesla to be recognized as the true pioneer and leader when it comes to bringing the electricity would make the Serbs look intelligent. Of course, that is impossible due to today's propaganda about Serbs and their history and fight for their tradition and religion.

In the first place, telling typical american who the true pioneer of electricity is would immediatelly have a response "that is a serbian propaganda". Well, let's take a look at the history and see who is lying....good luck on that.
Of course, the true story about the real scientist when it comes to electricity does not expand to every american or for that fact elsewhere in the world. I can almost certainly guarantee you that if you ask almost any physicist about the truth, I am sure that they would unanimously say "Tesla".

See, reading books that do make sense really does pay off. Payoff is called intelligence.

Yes !!Tesla is responsible for developing the use of AC power which is what we use today. Edison believed in the use of DC which required having a powerhouse every few miles. Tesla sold many of his ideas to George Westinghouse and it allowed Westinghouse to overtake Edison in the battle between Edison's DC distribution system and Westinghouse's AC Tesla's Lab. is still standing here on Long Island N.Y. It sits on some New York State land and may soon be torn down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
http://www.teslascience.org/

Djape · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:51:41 PM »

* Over 500 US Airman were rescued from the Enemy Occupation Forces in Yugoslavia during World War II, and returned safely to friendly control.
* There are EIGHT American Serbs who are recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor!

George Fisher - Texas Revolution
He helped lay the Cornerstone of the Washington Monument in D.C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fisher_(settler)
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/navy/geo_fisher_apr22_1842_1.html
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/FF/ffi16.html
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/giants/austin/austin-fisher-jan34-1.html

Jake Allex - WW1
Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Allex
http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/worldwari.html

Mitchell Paige - WW2
Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by the United States
Mitchell Paige was so popular that they even made a "G.I. Joe" doll of him!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Paige
http://www.thecommunitypaper.com/archive/2008/06_26/index.php
http://olotliny.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/who-was-is-gi-joe/

Lance Peter Sijan - Vietnam
Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Sijan

Živojin Mišić - Field Marshal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDivojin_Mi%C5%A1i%C4%87

Djape · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:54:45 PM »

Science & Inventors

Nikola Tesla - Tesla is known as the inventor of polyphase alternating current.
The famous inventor from the village of Smiljan. Probably the most notable of ALL American Serbs.
His father was a Serbian Orthodox priest, and his mother could trace 8 generations of Serbian Orthodox priests on her side of the family.
http://www.teslasociety.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin - Pupin is famous for so many things: the long distance telephone, being on President Woodrow Wilson's First Air Council, and for earning a Pulitzer Prize for his book called FROM IMMIGRANT TO INVENTOR are just a few!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pupin
http://www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/pupin.html

Mileva Maric Einstein - Serbian Mathematician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Mari%C4%87
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=1462&GRid=8336494&

Mihailo Petrovic - Professor of mathematics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihailo_Petrovi%C4%87

Ivo Andric - Nobel laureate in literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Andri%C4%87

Jovan Cvijić - Serbian geographer, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences, and rector of Belgrade University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovan_Cviji%C4%87

Djape · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:57:53 PM »

Art

Milena Pavlović-Barili - Painter and poet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milena_Pavlovi%C4%87-Barili

Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulovic) Actor (Academy Award winner)-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Malden

Ana Sofrenovic - Serbian actress and UNICEF ambassador
http://www.blic.rs/culture.php?id=3818
http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Sofrenovi%C4%87

Danilo Kis - Writer
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=1462&GRid=8325417&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilo_Ki%C5%A1

Djape · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2009, 01:05:41 PM »

Djape · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2009, 01:11:32 PM »

Further Info

Just in case you happen to be curious

Famous Serbs
http://www.babamim.com/famous_serbs
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=vcsr&GSvcid=1462

Spectator · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2009, 06:42:10 PM »

Thanks for interesting information, Serbian-Australian!