Latest News - September
2007
Paul M. Simon (SIMPA Books)
has translated the classic Hungarian children's book "Öreg
néne őzikéje" written by Fazekas Anna
into English (The Old Lady and the Fawn) and is publishing it in a
bilingual version using the original illustrations by Róna Emy. Please
visit the website
www.simpabooks.blogspot.com to view sample pages and to place orders.
Hard and soft cover books will be available for shipping in September.
Hungarian Student wins 2005/2006 special award of
Bethesda Chevy Chase (BCC) High School More...
Hungarian
Student Wins 2005/2006 ESOL Award of Chevy Chase/Somerset Village
More...
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Hey there!
Welcome to
the School Pages of the Hungarian Embassy website. On these pages we
want to introduce you to some things that you might not have heard of at
school, but of which we are proud as Hungarians. Our country has
over 1100 years of history behind it and is located in the heart
of Europe. We Hungarians speak "magyar," a unique language
that isn't spoken anywhere else in the World. Just for fun, you can
compare it to English through this website: http://dict.sztaki.hu/english-hungarian
Everything
and anything can be found in our country: from ancient Roman tombs and
monuments to the most modern cinemas, cool concerts, etc. So if you want,
you can get to know Hungary better through this website.
If you are
participating in a Model United Nations project (another Hungarian
invention, by the way) click here to learn more
about Hungary and the UN.
Oh, I just
remembered! You wouldn't be sitting in front of your
computers today if it weren't for the Hungarians who contributed with their
inventions and innovative thinking. Here are some of their
inventions:
János (John von) Neumann
– the
father of modern computers
János Kemény - creator
of the "BASIC" programming language, pioneer of e-mail
László Holakovszky -
inventor of the personal monitor
Charles Simonyi - creator
of Microsoft Word, Excel and Windows
Andrew Grove - constructor
of the Pentium microprocessor
and more:
Ernő Rubik - inventor of "Rubik's Cube"
László József Bíró -
inventor of the ball-point pen
József Galamb -
constructor of the Ford T-Model
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
discovered Vitamin C
Antal Bejczy - developer
of the independent artificial intelligence used in the Mars vehicle
Leó Szilárd - inventor
of the nuclear chain reaction and designer of the first nuclear reactor
Ede (Edward) Teller - inventor of the
thermonuclear chain reaction
Dénes (Dennis) Gábor - inventor
of the hologram
For a near-complete list of
famous Hungarians and Hungarian Americans, click
here.
Enikő and Brigitta
Horváth
BCC High School/MD
