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2 days ago · Statue. v. t. e. Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures.
May 13, 2024 · At the time Amnesty filed the complaint, around 26,000 Romani people lived in segregated and substandard settlements and centres in Italy. Currently, more than 15,000 Roma are still living in formal and informal settlements and continue to experience ethnically segregated and discriminatory living conditions in substandard homes.
5 days ago · A NORTH Belfast man is playing a key role in producing a new war-drama feature film exploring the Romani people's fight for survival during the Second World War. Thomas Pollock from independent film production company Lamb Films is director and co-producer of 'Rozkvet'. Set in occupied Czechoslovakia, the film tells the story of a woman’s ...
5 hours ago · Romania is the largest country in Southeastern Europe and the twelfth-largest in Europe, having an area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi). [243] : 17 It lies between latitudes 43° and 49° N and longitudes 20° and 30° E. The terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountains, hills, and plains.
4 days ago · The 11th-century Persian writer, Gardizi, wrote about a Christian people "from the Roman Empire" called N.n.d.r, inhabiting the lands along the Danube. He describes them as "more numerous than the Hungarians, but weaker". Historian Adolf Armbruster identified this people as the Romanians.
5 days ago · The Romanian dialect from Bucharest is standard Romanian (from the region of Muntenia, part of the historical Wallachia ). Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; endonym: limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə] ⓘ, or românește [romɨˈneʃte], lit. 'in Romanian') is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
May 16, 2024 · Irish Travellers speak English as well as their own language, known variously as Cant, Gammon, or Shelta. Cant is influenced by Irish and Hiberno-English and remains a largely unwritten language. According to the 2016 census, there were nearly 31,000 Irish Travellers living in the Republic of Ireland, representing 0.7 percent of the population.
