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Similar to aftershocks but on adjacent segments of fault, these storms happen over the course of years, and with some of the later earthquakes as damaging as the early ones.
Such a pattern happened in the North Anatolian fault in Turkey in the 20th century.
Tsunami or a chain of fast moving waves in the ocean caused by powerful earthquakes is a very serious challenge for people's safety and for earthquake engineering.
Those waves can inundate coastal areas, destroy houses and even swipe away whole towns.
This is a danger for the whole mankind.
Unfortunately, tsunamis cannot be prevented.
However, there are warning systems which may warn the population before the big waves reach the land to let them enough time to rush to safety.
Earthquake-proofing
Earthquake-proof buildings are constructed to withstand the destructive force of an earthquake.
This depends upon its type of construction, shape, mass distribution, and rigidity.
Different combinations are used.
Square, rectangular, and shell-shaped buildings can withstand earthquakes better than skyscrapers.
To reduce stress, a building's ground floor can be supported by extremely rigid, empty columns, while the rest of the building is supported by flexible columns inside the empty columns.
Another method is to use rollers or rubber pads to separate the base columns from the ground, allowing the columns to shake parallel to each other during an earthquake.
To help prevent a roof from collapsing, builders make the roof out of light-weight materials.
Outdoor walls are made with stronger and more reinforced materials such as steel or reinforced concrete.
During an earthquake, flexible windows may help hold the windows together so they don’t break.
PBS NewsHour - Predicting Earthquakes
USGS – Largest earthquakes in the world since 1900
The Destruction of Earthquakes  - a list of the worst earthquakes ever recorded
Recent Quakes WorldWide
Earthquake Citizendium
Real Time Seismicity European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC)
Colour or color is a property of light as seen by people.
In Commonwealth English, it is spelled “colour” (notice the U), while in American English it is “color” (no U).
Gray (American English)
Grey (Commonwealth English)
"Primary colours" can be mixed to make other colours.
Red, yellow, and blue are the three traditional primary colours.
The primary colours for television screens and computer monitors are red, green and blue.
Printers and paints use magenta, yellow, and cyan as their primary colours; they may also use black.
Sometimes this set of colours is simply called red, yellow, and blue.
People who can not see colours or have a distorted sense of colour are called colour blind.
Most colour blind people are male.
Colours are sometimes added to food.
Food colouring is used to colour food, but some foods have natural colourings, like beta carotene.
When something has no colour, it is transparent.
An example is air.
List of colours
Scurvy is a disease (sickness).
It is caused by not eating enough vitamin C. But scurvy can be prevented.
It has many symptoms.
People who have scurvy get spots on their skin, especially on their legs.
Their teeth may loosen and/or fall out.
They may bleed from the mouth, nose, and gums (mucus membranes).
A person with scurvy will look pale and feel sad (see depression).
They will not be able to move easily, because their joints hurt.
Scurvy can be easily cured.
Oranges and other fruits can restore normal vitamin levels.
In the past, sailors more commonly got scurvy due to being unable to access these foods.
Fresh fruit could not be kept for long.
The main cause of scurvy is lack of fresh fruits and vegetables.
It is now uncommon.
Signs of scurvy
Not want to eat (loss of appetite)
Feel sad (slight depression)
Lose weight or not get heavier even though they eat a lot
Have loose feces (diarrhea)
Breathe fast (tachypnea)
Be hot (have a high body temperature or fever)
Feel angry (irritability)
Have pains in the legs (and tenderness)
Find it hard to move (pseudo paralysis)
Have swelling of the arms and legs
Bleed from the mouth, nose and gums
Not eating enough food that has vitamin C
Going on a long trip, often at sea, where there is no fresh food
Not having enough food (famine)
Breaking down the vitamin C by over-cooking (like boiling fruit juice)
Eating vitamin C pills or giving it by needle (injection, also known as a shot).
The injection almost always cures scurvy in babies.
Drinking orange juice is another treatment that works in babies.
Before vitamin C was discovered this was the only treatment.
When a person gets help for scurvy, they usually get better very quickly.
Babies start eating again after one or two days of help.
The symptoms get better within seven days.
Food sources
Eating vitamin C prevents scurvy.
How much vitamin C a person needs changes with his or her age and is different for pregnant and lactating women.
The following is the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council's advice on how much vitamin C to eat every day:
Infants (babies): 30–40 mg
Children and adults: 45–60 mg
Pregnant women: 70 mg
Mothers breast feeding: 90–95 mg
Citrus fruits (for example: oranges, limes)
Vitamin deficiencies
It can be made from an atom, or from a group of atoms (molecule).
It is "charged" so it will move near electricity.
This is because atoms are made of three smaller parts:
neutrons (with no charge),
number of protons with positive charges and
equal number of negatively-charged electrons.
An ion has unequal numbers of protons and electrons.
Making an ion from an atom or molecule is called ionization.
The charge on a proton is chosen as +1 (positively charged).
The charge on an electron is opposite to the charge on the proton.
The charge on the electron is -1 (negatively charged).
An atom that is ionized makes two parts, one positive, and one negatively charged.
For example, a neutral hydrogen atom has one proton and one electron.
Ionizing the atom breaks it into two parts: (1) a positively charged hydrogen ion, H+ (2) a negatively charged electron.
A liquid with ions is called an electrolyte.
A gas with lots of ions is called a plasma.
When ions move, it is called electricity.
For example, in a wire, the metal ions do not move, but the electrons move as electricity.
A positive ion and a negative ion will move together.
Two ions of the same charge will move apart.
When ions move they also make magnetic fields.
Many ions are colourless.
Elements in the main groups in the Periodic Table form colourless ions.
Some ions are coloured.
The transition metals usually form coloured ions.
In physics, atomic nuclei that have been completely ionized are called charged particles.
These are ones in alpha radiation.
Ionization happens by giving atoms high energy.
This is done using electrical voltage or by high-energy ionizing radiation or high temperature.
Polyatomic ions are formed from a number of atoms.
Polyatomic ions usually consist of all non-metal atoms.
But sometimes the polyatomic ion can have a metallic atom too.
They are attracted to cathodes (negatively charged electrodes).
(Cation is pronounced "cat eye on", not "kay shun".)
All simple metal ions are cations.
Negative ions are called anions.
They are attracted to anodes (positively charged electrodes).
All simple non-metal ions (except H+, which is a proton) are anions.
Michael Faraday was the first person to write a theory about ions, in 1830.
In his theory, he said what the portions of molecules were like that moved to anions or cations.
Svante August Arrhenius showed how this happened.
He wrote this in his doctoral dissertation in 1884 (University of Uppsala).
The university did not accept his theory at first (he only just passed his degree).
But in 1903, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the same idea.
In Greek ion is like the word "go". "
Anion" and "cation" mean "up-goer" and "down-goer". "
Anode" and "cathode" are "way up" and "way down".
Common ions
Cognitive science studies how people make their ideas and what makes thoughts logical.
It is often seen as the result of several different scientific fields working together.
These fields are psychology (a study of the mind), neuroscience (biological study of the brain), computer science (the creation of programs and computers), and linguistics (the study of language).
It does not refer to the sum of all these disciplines.
It refers to their intersection on specific problems.
Cognitive Science Movie Index: A broad list of movies showcasing themes in the Cognitive Sciences
List of leading thinkers in cognitive science
Dr. Carl Stahmer's history page at the University of Santa Barbara
Anthropology [anth-row-pahl-O-gee] is the study of human beings in the past and present.
The word anthropology has two roots: [ anthrop- ] and [ -ology ].
Anthrop- means “about human beings,” and -ology means “a type of science."
Anthropology is a type of science about human beings.
A person who studies anthropology is called an anthropologist.
Anthropology is a biological and historical social science that helps us learn how groups of people are the same, and how they are different in all parts of the world.
Anthropologists do research in many places and study how people live now and how they may have lived in the past.
They research in modern cities, small villages, tribes, and in the countryside.
Four fields
Archaeology - The study of how people lived in the past.
Biological anthropology - The study of how people adapt to where they live and how bodies changed over time (evolution).
Linguistic anthropology - The study of how people speak and the words they use.
Sociocultural anthropology - The study of how people live their lives now and how they may have lived in the past.
It combines social and cultural ideas about people.
Archaeology is the study of humans from the past.
People who study archaeology are called archaeologists.
Archaeologists look at things that past people left behind to know how they lived.
They look at tools, bones, and past houses to see how people in the past are not the same as people that live today.
Historical_archaeology: the study of what people wrote down and talked about in the past
Ethnoarchaeology: the study of people's things
Experimental archaeology: tests different ways to study archaeology
Community archaeology: makes sure that other people can help study anthropology
Cultural resources management: studies the past cultures and arts of humans
They look at how humans live in nature and how their bodies change because of where they live.
They also study how human beings and apes and monkeys are alike.
Sometimes biological anthropologists study human and animal bones to learn about how past humans lived.
They are also called physical anthropologists.
Paleoanthropology: the study of human bones from a very long time ago
Bioarchaeology: the study of human bones from the past (but not as long ago as paleoanthropology)
Primatology: the study of monkeys and apes
Paleopathology: the study of human diseases from the past
Human biology: the study of how human bodies work
Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistics is the study of how people talk.
Linguistic anthropologists study sounds and how they go together to make words.
Then they study what the words mean and how people use them.
Linguistic anthropology also studies how language changes what people think and how people change language.
No two people talk the same way, so linguistic anthropologists want to know why that happens.
Languages: how people talk in different places
Communication: how people tell each other things
Socialization: how people learn languages when they are little
Language ideology: how people feel about language
Code-switching: when someone uses more than one language
Socio-Cultural Anthropology
It looks at how human beings understand the world around them and how they act with the people around them.
Socio-cultural anthropologists study living people by going to their homes and learning about who those people are and what they do.
They write about people in places all over the world to see why people are different.
Some socio-cultural anthropologists study medicine in these places and some look at how babies grow up in other places.
Witchcraft: the practice of magic
Taboo: things that are not allowed
Gender identity: what gender someone thinks they are
Cultural materialism: how people and societies change
Rites of passage: how people celebrate change, especially as someone gets older
Other Kinds of Anthropology
Even though there are four main kinds of anthropology, there are a lot of different kinds of anthropology within the four main kinds.
the study of women and anthropology.
Feminist Anthropology is also used to study equal rights for women.
the study of humans and the law.
uses science to study the history of humans and their things.
Applied anthropology
uses the different ways to study anthropology to answer questions.
Anthropology of media
the study of human dancing, music, and art.
the study of human health and how people use medicine around the world.
Evolutionary anthropology
the study of how human biology and culture has changed from the past to the present.
Rules of Anthropology
Like everything in life, anthropology has a set of rules that every anthropologist needs to follow.
The rules try to make sure that no one gets hurt or mad when studying other people.
Here are some of the rules:
To make sure no one gets hurt when studying anthropology
To respect and be nice to humans and animals
To make sure any items used to study people are well taken care of
To work as a team
Franz Boas (1858-1942)
Boas is known as the "Father" of American anthropology because he helped spread anthropology throughout the United States.
He studied socio-cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology.
Claude Levi Strauss (1908-2009)
Levi Strauss studied how humans think and act the same everywhere around the world.
Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Durkheim studied how people in societies make new ideas and groups.
Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942)
Malinowski studied how people in different places act and how they are different from people in other places.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
Mead studied how there are different ways people raise babies and how those babies grow up.
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950)
Mauss studied how different people use magic and how people give presents.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955)
Radcliffe-Brown studied how people put their lives in order in different places all over the world.
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1861
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871
Thomas Henry Huxley, Man's Place in Nature, 1863
Rudolf Virchow, Anthropological Papers, 1891
Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape, 1967
Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 1971
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976
E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature, 1979
E.O. Wilson, Consilience: the unity of knowledge, 1998
E.O. Wilson, The social Conquest of Earth, 2012
Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee, 1991
Jared Diamond, Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed, 2005
Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: how cooking made us human, 2009
Ulf Hannerz, Anthropology's World: life in a twenty-first century discipline, 2010
James D. Faubion, An Anthropology of Ethics, 2011
Education is about  learning skills and knowledge.
It also means helping people to learn how to do things and support them to think about what they learn.
It's also important for educators to teach ways to find and use information.
Education needs research to find out how to make it better.
Through education, the knowledge of society, country, and of the world is passed on from generation to generation.
This may include education in morality, for example learning how to act as loyal, honest and effective citizen.
Education may help and guide individuals from one class to other.
Educated individuals and groups can do things like, help less educated people and encourage them to get educated.
Types of education
There are different ways to categorize education, for example by age or subject.
One way is to divide it into formal education, non-formal education, and informal education.
Formal education is usually in school, where a person may learn basic, academic, or trade skills.
Small children often attend a nursery or kindergarten but often formal education begins in elementary school and continues with secondary school.
Post-secondary education (or higher education) is usually at a college or university which may grant an academic degree.
Or, students may go to a City college where they learn practical skills.
This way learners can become qualified to be plumbers, electricians, builders and similar occupations.
These course have arrangements for students to get practical experience.
Apprenticeship was the older way to do this,
Non-formal education includes adult basic education, adult literacy education or school equivalency preparation.
In nonformal education someone (who is not in school) can learn literacy, other basic skills or job skills.
Home education, individualized instruction (such as programmed learning), distance learning and computer-assisted instruction are other possibilities.
Informal education is less organized.
It may be a parent teaching a child how to prepare a meal or ride a bicycle.
People can also get an informal education by reading many books from a library or educational websites.
This may also be called self-education.
Some quite famous men have been largely self-educated, like Alfred Russell Wallace.
Unschooling is when kids learn as they go and do not go to traditional school buildings.
Instead, they go on websites, play games, or engage in normal hobbies and learn along the way.
The experience of children with "unstructured" lives is that they get into trouble.
Deschooling is a more drastic approach.
It advocates abolishing schools.
It was put forward in the USA of the 1960s and 1970s.
It is no longer an active movement.
Many public schools (U.S. terminology) provide a free education through the government.
Parents may send their own children to a private school, but they must pay for it.
In some poorer places, some children cannot go to school, because their countries do not make education available, or because their families do not have enough money, or because the children have to work for money, or because the society has prejudice against education for girls.
There are primary schools and secondary schools.
In many places they are government funded.
Colleges and universities usually charge fees (tuition payments) which may be different in different countries.
Homeschooling – education at home
Special education – education of students who have a disability
The army is the part of a country's military that fights on the ground.
People in the army are called soldiers.
Many modern armies have vehicles such as tanks, airplanes, and helicopters to help soldiers fight on the ground.
A soldier may be a volunteer (someone who joins something because they want to), or he may be forced by the government to join the army.
Forcing men to join the army is called conscription or draft.
Voluntary armies tend to be small by numbers, but high in confidence and quality.
Drafted armies are large, but often lacking in confidence and in quality: it may be very difficult to force someone to risk his life against his will.
Sometimes an army is made up from mercenaries, who fight just for pay and have little loyalty to the country which they serve.
Soldiers do many things, from shooting enemies, to digging defensive trenches.
They are used to defend their country, or attack another country's army.
It is difficult, and soldiers must be in good shape, both physically and mentally.
They almost always move together, and that way the team can do more things, in a safer way.
They may be assigned to certain places to guard, or they may be told to search a place, or even attack it.
That is up to their commander.
Every soldier answers to someone else, so that way, everything is organized.
Sometimes, when a country's army is busy in different places, and there are not enough soldiers to do more, a country can hire civilians to do some of the army's jobs, like protecting buildings and important people and convoys of trucks traveling from one place to another.
Usually, they hire veterans who were members of the military before leaving and working elsewhere.
Working in the army and wearing the uniform is called service.
A soldier will never say "I work as a Sergeant in the signal corps" but always "I serve as a Sergeant in the signal corps", or other rank, specialty and unit.
Only civilian workers who do not wear uniform speak about "working" in the army.
Military strength
Despite the growing importance of military technology, military activity depends above all on people.
For example, in 2000 the British Army declared: "Man is still the first weapon of war."
The function of the army is based on discipline.
That means that every soldier will unquestionably carry out the orders which he or she has received and will obey his or her superior officer or non-commissioned officer.
There is only one exception: orders which violate the human rights or international law must not be obeyed as it is considered a war crime.
The chain of command is expressed by the military rank system and hierarchy.
A soldier is supplied with weapons, such as guns, knives, and other simple gear for surviving in the battlefield, such as food, water, clothes, and tents.
They must keep good care of the items.
Some soldiers train to be a doctor for the army, or other civilian duties.
Before a soldier joins the army, he must qualify to be in it first.
The person is put through tests, so that the army will know if the recruit can do it or not.
This is sometimes called 'boot camp'.
He must complete mental tests, and physical tests.
It depends on where he is testing that will tell him how hard it will be.
He will also take tests to determine what job he will do in the military.
For instance, he may work with computers and be a member of the signal corps or be a cook for the soldiers, he may have been a construction worker in civilian life and be a military engineer, he may become a truck driver and serve in logistics, or he may be very good with a rifle and be a sniper in the infantry.
There are a lot of jobs that a person can choose to do in the army.
Infantry, foot soldiers who fight with rifles and other light weapons
Cavalry,  mounted soldiers.
Today tank has replaced horses and cavalrymen are called tankers.
Artillery, soldiers who operate cannons, howitzers and mortars.
They provide fire support for infantry.
Military engineers, soldiers who build things and demolish (blow up) things and handle explosives.
Signal corps, soldiers who operate communications, radios, radars, signaling and computers.
Logistics, which carry supplies (food, fuel, ammunition, medicines etc.)
to other branches and replenish them.
Air Force, the part of the military which operate airplanes to bomb or dogfight.
Navy, the part of the military which fights with warships on the sea.
Marines, the part of the military that fights in air, land, and sea.
(‘Theo-’ means God in Greek and ’-logy’ is study, which makes it ’God study’ or ’study of God’).
Somebody who studies theology is called a theologian.
Books or ideas about theology are called theological.
Theology may be studied for many reasons.
Some people study theology to better understand their own religion, while other people study theology so that they can compare religions.
The word ‘theology’ was first used to describe the study of God in Christianity but some now use it to describe the study of religion generally, but not everyone agrees that it is right to do so.
Some people use the words 'comparative theology' in reference to approaching theology within more than one religion at once.
During the High Middle Ages, it was thought that theology was the highest subject learned in universities.
Theology at that time was named "The Queen of the Sciences".
There was a plan for young men to study easy subjects and then harder subjects.
The easiest subjects were called the Trivium.
The next harder subjects were called the Quadrivium.
Finally, young men were expected to study theology.
This meant that the other subjects existed primarily to help with theological thought.
What is theology?
theology.edu
Work (physics), something that happens when a force is applied to an object and a resulting movement takes place
Romania (old spelling: Rumania, Roumania; , ) is a country in southeastern Europe.
It is north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube River.
Part of Romania is circled by the Carpathian Mountains.
It also has a border on the Black Sea.
Most of the Danube Delta is found inside Romania.
Romania shares borders with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine to the far northeast, the Republic of Moldova to the near northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
Romania is a semi-presidential unitary state.
It was created when Moldavia and Wallachia joined together in 1859.
It was given its independence in the Treaty of Berlin of 1878.
At the end of World War II, some of its land (close by what is now known as Moldova) was occupied by the USSR.
After the Iron Curtain fell in 1989 Romania was liberated from the communist regime.
During the 2000s, Romania made changes to the country, such as reform the democratic system, human rights acts, freedom of speech acts, economy and law.
That let Romania join the European Union on January 1, 2007.
Romania has the 9th biggest area of land and the 7th biggest population (with 19 million people) of the European Union member states.
The capital and biggest city in Romania is Bucharest ( ), with a population of 1.6 million.
One of the cities in Transylvania, Sibiu, was named a European Capital of Culture.
Romania joined NATO on March 29, 2004.
The word Romania (Rumania or România) comes from the Romanian word Român, which comes from the Latin word Romanus which means "Roman".
English texts still used the word Rumania during World War II.
This came from the French word Roumanie.
Prehistory and the Romans
Some of the oldest human remains found in Europe were discovered in Romania.
They were about 42,000 years old.
This may have been when the first Homo sapiens came to Europe.
The world's first and oldest writing comes from people who lived in today's Romania.
Approximately 5300 years BC.
According to archaeology it is not a matter of symbols, but the world's first writings.
It belonged to the Vinča culture which inhabited all of today's Serbia with over 150 Vinča sites and minor parts of Western Romania, northwestern Bulgaria, eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina and Southeastern Hungary.
Herodotus in the fourth book of The Histories, written in about 440 .
Herodotus wrote that the Getae were defeated by the Persian Emperor Darius the Great when he battled the Scythians.
The Getae were called the Dacians by the Romans.
They were Thracians who were living in Dacia, which is where Romania, Moldova and the northern part of Bulgaria are now.
The Dacians attacked the Roman province, the border of which was formed by the Danube, in 87 .
This was during Emperor Domitian's rule.
The Dacians were defeated by the Roman Empire under Emperor Trajan in two battles that lasted from 101  until 106 .
The Roman Empire made Dacia into the province of Roman Dacia.
A lot of ore, such as gold and silver, were found in Roman Dacia.
A lot of gold and silver were found in the Western Carpathians.
Trajan went back to Rome with 165 tons (330,000 pounds) of gold and 330 tons (660,000 pounds) of silver after his conquest.
There were many Romans living in the province of Roman Dacia.
They spoke Vulgar Latin.
They began to write the local languages using the Latin alphabet.
Writing languages with the Latin alphabet is called romanization.
This became the first version of Romanian.
In the 3rd century, the province was attacked by groups of nomadic people like the Goths.
They made the Roman Empire leave Dacia about 271 .
This became the Roman Empire's first abandoned province.
The origin of modern Romanians is widely talked about by historians to this day.
It is thought that the Romanians were formed from large ethnic groups that came from both the south and north parts of the Danube.
Dark Ages and Middle Ages
From 271 to 275, the Goths took over the abandoned Roman province.
They lived in Dacia until the 4th century, when another group of wandering peoples, the Huns, came to Dacia.
The Gepids, Avars, with the Slavic people, were in control of Transylvania through the 8th century.
In the 8th century, however, the country was taken over by the Hungarian Empire.
It was made part of the First Bulgarian Empire, which ended Romania's Dark Ages.
The Bulgarians held Transylvania until the 11th century.
The Pechenegs, the Cumans, and the Uzes were a few of the people later noted in the history of Romania.
In 1310, now called the High Middle Ages, Basarab I started the Romanian principality of Wallachia.
Moldavia was begun by Dragoş around 1352.
During the Middle Ages, Romanians were living in three different areas: Wallachia (Romanian: Ţara Românească—"Romanian Land"), Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova), and Transylvania.
Transylvania belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary from around the 10th century until the 16th century, when it turned into the Principality of Transylvania.
This lasted until 1711.
Wallachia had been on the border of the Ottoman Empire since the 14th century.
As the Ottoman Empire's influence grew, it gradually fell under the suzerainty (control) of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.
The best known ruler of this period was Vlad III the Impaler, also known as Vlad Dracula, or , , Prince of Wallachia, during the years of 1448, 1456–62, and 1476.
While he was the leader of his people, he had an agreement with the Ottoman Empire to stay independent.
Many people in Romania during this time thought of him as a ruler with a great sense of justice and defense for his country.
Moldavia was at its greatest when Stephen the Great was ruling between 1457 and 1504.
He was a great military leader, winning 47 battles and losing only 2.
After every battle he won, Stephen would build a church.
Because he won 47 of the battles that he fought, he ended up building 48 churches.
After Stephen the Great's death, Moldavia came under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century.
Independence and monarchy
When Transylvania was the organic part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire was in control of Wallachia and Moldavia, almost all of the Romanians had limited rights as a citizen.
They stayed this way even when they made up most of the people in those areas.
After Wallachian Revolution of 1821 as in the 1830s was addressed nationalists thoughts and feelings into Romania and became called "National awakening of Romania'"'.
Even then adopted a 3-colored flag, blue-yellow-red, which was later to become a Flag of Romania.
The people who voted in 1859 in Moldavia and Wallachia picked the same person – Alexandru Ioan Cuza – to be the prince in those areas.
He managed to unite the people and nationalism was seen as a useful method.
Alexandru Ioan Cuza walked with cautious steps he was not proclaiming a declaration of independence immediately because he knew it would bring a new war.
Instead he let Moldavia and Wallachia merged in the United Principalities of the Ottoman Empire and increasing self-government to a greater degree.
The new union was at the front of today's Romania.
With cautious steps we freed itself more and Bucharest was established as the capital.
However, farmers had more land when serfdom was abolished, which led to a coup d'état against the Alexandru Ioan Cuza staged by peasants who overthrew the regime.
Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen became the new leader, and was later called Prince Carol I of Romania.
While the Russo-Turkish War was happening, Romania battled on the Russian side.
When the Treaty of Berlin of 1878 was signed, the Great Powers made Romania an independent state.
In return, they had to give Russia three of their southern districts of Bessarabia.
In 1881, the principality became a kingdom, with Prince Carol ruling as King Carol I.
The World Wars and the Great Leaders
When World War I started in August of 1914, Romania said it was a neutral country.
In 1916, the Allies promised to give Romania parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire where many Romanians lived, if Romania started a war against Austria-Hungary.
The Romanian military campaign ended in disaster after Romania's forces were stopped in 1917.
Many died.
Moldova was one of the few parts of Romania that was not captured when it stopped its attackers in 1917.
The Allies won the war, Austria-Hungary had been weakened, and an independent Hungarian republic was proclaimed.
As promised, Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transylvania became part of the Kingdom of Romania in 1918.
After the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, Hungary, as agreed, gave up the claims of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy over Transylvania.
Romania and Bukovina were joined together in 1919 as a result of the Treaty of Saint Germain.
Bessarabia joined with Romania in 1920 when the Treaty of Paris was signed.
Greater Romania
After World War I was much bigger and more nationalist.
The small Kingdom received ("major Transylvania").
The principalities Wallachia, Moldavia and Bessarabia (Moldova) together formed the "Greater Romania" 1918-1940.
"Greater Romania" did not survive World War II.
Romanians called their country România Mare, meaning Great Romania or Greater Romania'', in the time between World War I and World War II.
They called it so because it controlled  of land.
The Great Depression meant social unrest, high unemployment, strikes and riots, especially a miners' strike in 1929 in Valea Jiului and a strike in Griviţas maintenance workshops.
By the mid-1930s, with a recovering Romanian economy, industry grew, although about 80% of Romanians still were engaged in agriculture.
Iron Guard
In end of 1930s, Romania's liberal democracy was slowly being replaced by the fascist dictatorship.
The Archangel Michael Legion, known as the Iron Guard organization, was led by Corneliu Codreanu Zelea.
In 1937 elections the party supported Adolf Hitler and Nazism and got 15.5% of the votes and became the third biggest party.
In 1938 king Carol II of Romania seized power over Romania.
He dissolved all political parties and executed Corneliu Codreanu Zelea along with 12 other leaders.
Carol II of Romania declared the country as neutral when World War II broke out in 1939, but included since the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and northern Bukovina an alliance with Hitler's Germany.
This occurred after field marshal Ion Antonescu forced the authoritarian Carol II of Romania to abdicate.
Antonescu appointed himself "conducator", Romania's dictator, and signed at the November 23 of 1940 three-powers pact with Nazi Germany.
Hitler's Germany was dependent on a continuous importation of fuel and crude oil from the Romanian oil fields of Ploesti.
In 1940, yjr Kingdom of Hungary took over the legitimate domination in Northern Transylvania to the end of the World War II.
In summer of 1941, Romania join Hitler's war against the Soviet Union in combination also Finland, Slovakia and Hungary join Hitlers war.
Romania built concentration camps and began conducting a massive persecution of Jews, of which became very extreme in the city of Iasi.
Holocaust in Romania
Romania participated in the Holocaust.
The author of the book "The Destruction of the European Jews" Raul Hilberg writes follow: "There was / ... / moment when the Germans actually had to intervene and slow the speed with which the Romanian measures were taken."
The hunt for Jews in eastern Romania (including Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transnistria and the city of Iasi) had more the character of pogroms than the German, well-organized camps and transport.
There were pogroms in the city of Iasi.
The homes for the Jewish minority in Iasi were marked with crosses.
On June 27, 1941, Ion Antonescu make a phone call with the city's mayor and Antonescu said into the phone: "clean the city Iasi from the Jews."
And the Holocaust in Romania has began.
Police officers and many civilians went to every Jewish home marked with a cross in the town and murdered thousands of Jews on the same day.
In June 1941, the Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu gave an "illegal secret order" to the special police force.
He ordered the police in cooperation with the Romanian Army and the German SS troops to kill all Jews in east Romania within the next coming years.
The Jews living on the countryside was being killed right on the spot.
The Jews in the cities were first collected in the ghettos and later deported away.
On October 22, 1941 the Soviet union with bombs blow up the Romanian military headquarters in Odessa, and killed 66 Romanian soldiers.
As revenge Ion Antonescu decided that for every dead Romanian officer, 200 Soviet communists must be killed and for each dead soldier, 100 communists must be killed.
All other Communists were imprisoned and Jewish families were taken hostage in the hope that the partisan movement would cease its operations.
The day after in Bucharest, on October 23, 1941, around 5 000 people and the majority were Jews was arrested who later executed by hanging.
In the Soviet village Dalnik, almost 20,000 Jews were incarcerated in to several locked buildings and burned alive.
After the massacre, many of the Jews who remained in Odessa were sent to various concentration camps.
Nearby Odessa on October 25, 1941, approximately 40,000 Jews, was gathering together on a special closed military secured area, and the Jews had to stay outdoors for more than ten days without food or supply.
Many died of cold and starvation.
The survivors were murdered one month later.
At the end of 1943, the Red Army liberated most of Soviet territory and started advancing westward from its borders to defeat Nazi Germany and its allies.
It was in this context that the Soviet forces crossed Romania.
If the Soviet Union could hit Romania, Nazi Germany's last hope is gone, said the military leadership of the Red Army.
Russians deposited the entire 1.5 million soldiers in the attack against Romania and Romania last reserves consisting only of 138 000 soldiers.
During the summer of 1944 it began the attack on Bessarabia (Moldova) and the Romanian army fled the area.
On 2 August, the whole Bessarabia (Moldova) is captured by the Red Army.
The Russians then went a long way in Romania and on 23 August they reached into the Romanian capital Bucharest.
The public opinion turned in the country against Antonescu and of summer 1944 he was deposed and imprisoned.
The new government signed a ceasefire and extradited itself to the Soviet Union.
The Red Army killed the members from the old fascist regime (including Ion Antonescu) on June 1, 1946.
At the end of the war, Romania was allowed to keep the whole of Transylvania in west and Dobruja from south, but lost Bessarabia/Transnistria and Odessa Oblast in the east (with rich oil reserves) which became parts of the Soviet Union.
Bukovina was split in half because in the north part the majority ethnic group was Ukrainian and in the south part Romanian.
The Soviet Union replaced the royal monarchy with a communist regime in 1947.
The Soviet Union took the country's resources, which led to increased poverty in Romania.
Romania and communism
Michael I abdicated the throne and had to leave Romania in 1947 because of the Communists.
Romania changed from a monarchy into a republic.
The USSR occupied Romania until the late 1950s, when Soviet troops left Romania.
During this time, resources in Romania were taken by the Soviet Union due to agreements made by Communist leaders.
After the Soviet troops left Romania, Nicolae Ceauşescu wanted Romania to become more independent from Moscow.
Romania started following slightly different foreign policies than Moscow.
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Romania began talks with Israel and started relations with the Federal Republic of Germany.
Romania started to have their own relations with Arab countries.
Romania officials were allowed to participate in peace talks between Israel and Egypt and between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The national debt Romania owed to other countries went from $3 billion to almost $10 billion between 1977 and 1981.
The amount of money that Romania owed other countries caused them to rely on banks and other lenders from around the world.
President Nicolae Ceauşescu's autarchic ways meant he did not want to rely on other countries and Romania paid back money borrowed from other countries.
This affected the Romanian economy.
To try to stay in power, Ceauşescu had anyone who disagreed with him arrested and put in prison.
Many people were killed or hurt.
Almost 60,000 people were put in psychiatric hospitals.
Ceauşescu eventually lost power and was killed in the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
1989 to 2007
In 1989, the National Salvation Front came into power.
It was led by Ion Iliescu.
When they came into power, several other parties from before World War II were remade.
These included the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party, the National Liberal Party and the Romanian Social Democrat Party.
In April 1990, as a result of several , protests started.
The people who protested did not recognize the results of the election.
This was because they thought that members of the National Salvation Front were communists.
More and more people protested, and it became a demonstration – a very big protest.
This was called the Golaniad, and it became very violent.
When the National Salvation Front lost power, several other parties were made.
These were the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic Party, and a couple of other parties from before the war.
The Social Democratic Party ruled Romania from 1990 until 1996.
Ion Iliescu was the head of state, or person in charge.
After 1996, several other parties came into power and lost it.
In 2004, Traian Băsescu became the president.
After the Cold War, Romania became closer friends with Western Europe.
In 2004, Romania joined NATO and hosted the 2008 summit.
The country applied in June 1993 for membership in the European Union and became an Associated State of the EU in 1995, an Acceding Country in 2004, and a member on January 1, 2007.
Romania is a part of southeastern Europe.
It borders the Black Sea and the Danube River.
The Carpathian Mountains lie in the center.
Romania is the biggest country in southeast Europe by population.
It is the twelfth-largest country in Europe.
Most of Romania's border with Serbia and Bulgaria is made by the Danube.
The Danube joins the Prut River.
The Prut River makes the Moldovan–Romanian border.
The Danube then flows into the area of the Black Sea inside Romania.
This makes the Danube Delta.
The delta is a biosphere reserve and a biodiversity World Heritage Site.
Some of the other major rivers in Romania are the Siret, the Olt, and the Mureş.
The Siret River runs from the north to the south of Moldavia.
The Olt River runs from the Carpathian Mountains to Oltenia.
The Mureş runs through Transylvania from the east to the west.
The land in Romania is made up of equal parts of mountains, hills, and low-lying areas.
The Carpathian Mountains make up a big part of the center of Romania.
Fourteen of its mountain ranges are taller than .
The tallest mountain in Romania is Moldoveanu Peak, with a peak altitude of .
The Danube is the longest river in Romania.
Its length inside Romania is about .
That is almost half of the length of the entire Danube.
Almost all of the rivers in Romania are either direct or  tributaries of the Danube.
Romania has a climate that changes between temperate and continental climates.
The reason for the climate changes is because Romania is near the coast.
Romania has four different seasons.
The average temperature during the year is  in southern Romania and  in the northern part.
Lots of rain and snow falls on the highest western mountains.
Most of this falls as snow.
In the southern parts of the country, the amount of rain and snow that falls is around .
The lowest temperature ever taken in Romania was , at Braşov in 1944.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Romania was , near Calafat in the 1950s.
Bucharest-Ilfov
The official language of Romania is Romanian.
The Romanian language is an Eastern Romance language.
Romania has its own culture because of where it is found.
It is the point where 3 different areas meet: Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans.
Romanian culture is a mix of all these areas.
The culture of Romania was influenced by the Greeks, Romans, and Slavs.
Romania is a secular state.
This means Romania has no national religion.
The biggest religious group in Romania is the Romanian Orthodox Church.
It is an autocephalous church inside of the Eastern Orthodox communion.
In 2002, this religion made up 86.7% of the population.
Other religions in Romania include Roman Catholicism (4.7%), Protestantism (3.7%), Pentecostalism (1.5%) and the Romanian Greek-Catholicism (0.9%).
It also is the biggest city in Romania, with a population of over 2 millions peoples.
There are 5 other cities in Romania that have a population of more than 300,000 people.
These are Iaşi, Cluj-Napoca, Timişoara, Constanţa, and Craiova.
Romania also has 5 cities that have more than 200,000 people living in them: Galaţi, Braşov, Ploieşti, Brăila, and Oradea.
Romania joined the European Union on January 1, 2007.
Romania's economy is healthy.
Currently, Romania makes around $350 billion in Gross domestic product and a GDP per capita of $16,540.
Long into the 1900s, Romania was still a largely agricultural country.
During Communism 1947-1989, the country had planned economy.
The transition from planned economy to a market economy after the communist regime led to economic collapse in the 1990s, the reasons was that more money was printed, expensive prices and substantial privatization of the companies, which initially leads to skyrocketing unemployment.
The reforms in the 1990s allowed foreign investors for the first time to buy land in Romania.
When it was going explosively good for the industry in the Latin countries such as France, Italy and Spain, these countries began to trade with Romania because it is favorite voice country for them to grow in.
Foreign companies expanding in Romania since then, and spurs the market.
The Romanian school is obligatory for 10 years.
Children also have the opportunity to be part of a voluntary pre-school at an early age 3–6 years.
After school, students can voluntarily take the entrance exam to high school, which has a range of practical and theoretical lines.
There are over 40 higher educational institutions, including five universities and five technical colleges.
Tuition is free and is a hot political commitment even at the university.
The country's minorities have the opportunity to receive instruction in their native language.
Since 1989, education has been reformed.
But it has been slow and the standard of education varies greatly in different parts of the country, education has improved the standard of urban compared to rural areas where quality can be very low.
Romania participates fully in the EU's education program.
Social welfare
The living standards were very low at the end of the Communist era, but the situation was just only improved a little bit during the 1990s.
On the contrary, the living significantly due caused by the large privatization of jobs that resulted in high unemployment and rising prices.
In later years lived yet 2010 nearly 10 percent of the population in absolute poverty and of these, 90% live in rural areas.
The State social insurance system have relatively broad coverage but resources are extremely small.
Reforms have been initiated and in 1999 the health insurance became privatized and paid by the employers and the employees.
Several thousand local trade unions were founded after the revolution, which were later amalgamated (combined) into federations.
These unions and federations have helped organise students, pensioners and the unemployed; because these groups of people all have similar needs, concerns and goals.
The most worrying thing is the fact that there are more pensioners than the number of working people.
because many who dismissed during the privatizations had per-retirement.
Romanian Pensioners average pension at the month is at about 190 euros (equivalent to approximately £250-300 USD).