"kids helped them cleaning up from Wimbledon Common. The Womble characters were portrayed by dwarf actors Kenny Baker as Bungo the drummer, Eileen Baker as Tobermory the keyboardist, Sadie Corre as Madame Cholet the saxophonist, Tony Friel as Wellington the lead guitarist, John Lummiss as MacWomble the rhythm guitarist, Jack Purvis as Great Uncle Bulgaria the violinist and music director, Albert Wilkinson as Tomsk the bassist, and Marcus Powell as Orinoco the lead singer. Womble voices were provided by David Jason, Janet Brown, Jon Pertwee, John Graham and Lionel Jeffries. An accompanying soundtrack was released by CBS featuring a selection"
"in the former Soviet Union. Medieval Bulgaria was the most important cultural centre of the Slavic peoples at the end of the 9th and throughout the 10th century. The two literary schools of Preslav and Ohrid developed a rich literary and cultural activity with authors of the rank of Constantine of Preslav, John Exarch, Chernorizets Hrabar, Clement and Naum of Ohrid. Bulgaria exerted similar influence on her neighbouring countries in the mid- to late 14th century, at the time of the Tarnovo Literary School, with the work of Patriarch Evtimiy, Gregory Tsamblak, Constantine of Kostenets (Konstantin Kostenechki). Bulgarian cultural influence"
"Gainsbourg, Leonard Nimoy, Vira Farmiga and Taissa Farmiga, grandparents - Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvester Stallone, Kirk Douglas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg, Edward Dmytryk, Lenny Kravitz and Zoë Kravitz, illusionist David Copperfield, animator Bill Tytla. Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of Russian and European influence. Ukrainian producers are active in international co-productions, while Ukrainian actors, directors and crew feature regularly in Russian (and formerly Soviet) films. Successful films have been based on Ukrainian people, stories or events, including Battleship Potemkin,"
"Elisabeth Branicka. Boffo was responsible for transforming Odessa into the open-air museum of Neoclassical architecture, rivalling St. Petersburg in the north of Imperial Russia. The Potocki Palace, Shidlovsky, and Vorontsov Palaces in Odessa were built to his designs, as was the Czarnomski Palace near Bershad (1817). The latter is famed for its uncanny resemblance to the White House. The Potemkin Stairs, Boffo's most ambitious undertaking, was modeled on the earlier Depaldo Stairs, designed by him for the town of Taganrog in 1823. It was Boffo who conceived a 22-metre memorial column for the Kagul battlefield. He also built the Londonskaya"
"Kubrat Knoll on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Kubrat of Great Bulgaria. Kubrat was portrayed by Vassil Mihajlov in the 1981 Bulgarian movie ""Aszparuh"", directed by Ludmil Staikov. Kubrat Kubrat (; ) was the ""ruler of the Onoğundur–Bulgars"", credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in ca. 632. In the ""Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans"" Kubrat is mentioned as ""Kurt"" (), being a member of the Dulo clan and reigning for 60 years having succeeded Gostun of the Ermi clan. The Bulgars, a Turkic nomadic people, originated in the 5th-century Hunnic confederation"
"and others. Major figures in the Bulgarian tradition are Dimitar Taralezhkov, Angel ""Jendema"" Angelov, Yavor ""Yavkata"" Rilov, Velizar ""Valdes"" Vankov, Dimitar Dobrev, Andro Stubel, Branimir ""Bunny"" Stoykov, Dorothea Tabakova, Mihail Belchev, Assen Maslarski, Grisha Trifonov, Plamen Stavrev, Vladimir Levkov, Margarita Drumeva, Maria Batchvarova, Plamen Sivov, and Krasimir Parvanov. Despite the communist isolation, the tradition of the singer-songwriter in Romania flourished beginning with the end of the 1960s and it was put in the context of folk music, with its three main styles in Romania: ethno folk, American-style folk and lyrical (cult) folk. The framework for many of these initiatives came"
"rule, he was temporarily exiled from Sofia to Sliven for a joke he made in public that there were three Toshkos who made Bulgarians laugh (""Toshko"" is the diminutive form of the name Todor in Bulgarian): the Communist leader Todor Zhivkov, the clown Toshko Kozarev and himself. However, in his biography ""Varnenskoto Sofianche Ot Shumen"", Todor Kolev denies having ever said this. He died on 15 February 2013 in Sofia, after serious illness of lung cancer. Todor Kolev (actor) Todor Petrov Kolev (; 26 August 1939 – 15 February 2013) was a leading Bulgarian film and stage actor, singer, comedian"
"manage his collection. Today, one of the key locations the public can see his art is at the Vineyard Hotel, Newbury, Berkshire, England. Boris Smirnoff Boris Smirnoff (1903 - 2007) was a Franco-Russian cubist, avant-gardist and analytical art painter. Boris Smirnoff was born in Russia. He had two brothers - Alexander and Vladimir. He was the youngest son. Vladimir was known as the artist-amateur and the futurist, big admirer of David Burliuk and Vasily Kamensky. His family escaped to France in 1917 after the October Revolution in Russia. Boris behind them, and stayed in Petrograd. He is learning as artist"
"(English title) ... a.k.a. ""Dusk"" – Europe (English title) ... a.k.a. ""Flight to the Ropotamo"" – Europe (English title) There are some cartoons made from his children stories: ... a.k.a. ""Opera for a Hazelnut"" – Europe (English title) ... a.k.a. ""Sigh of Relief"" – Europe (English title) ...aka Chimi. many of them published in the cultural journals and newspapers: (more to come) (in Bulgarian) Boris Aprilov Boris Aprilov () (21 March 1921 – 10 April 1995) was a Bulgarian writer, playwright, satirist and humourist, dramaturge, well known for his novels, plays and screenplays, and mostly for his children's literature. Also"
"Todorov’s visit on the 25th anniversary of the theatre International Festival of the Arts for Children in Šibenik, Dalmatia, with Booboo International Festival of Puppet Theatres in Lugano, Switzerland, with Booboo and Miniatures International Festival in Magdeburg, GDR International Festival of Puppet Theatres in Mistelbach, Austria, with Booboo Turkey, with Booboo and The Duckling India, with Booboo, The Duckling, The Naughty Boy and Miniatures 13th World Congress of UNIMA in Washington, the USA, with Chimi Cienfuegos, Santa Clara, Camagüey and Havana, Cuba, with Chimi and Wave Your Magic Wand Holidays of Morning Star in London, UK, with Puppet from Puppet"
"a bust of Diderot in 1772. When Falconet saw its quality it is said that he destroyed the one he had made himself of Diderot. The bust is in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Then followed busts of Henry IV of France, Sully, Voltaire, and possibly one of D'Alembert (now lost?). Also several of the Empress herself, the Grand Duke Paul I and his wife the Grand Duchess Natalia, as well as marble medallions of historical characters and people associated with the Russian court; Peter the Great, the Empress Elizabeth, and Lady Cathcart, the wife of Lord Cathcart,"
"revolutionary and political theorist 24. Volodymyr Dal (1801-1872) lexicographer 25. Lina Kostenko (1930-) poet and writer 26. Symon Petliura (1879-1926) leader of the Ukrainian National Republic 27. Leonid Bykov (1928-1979) actor and film producer 28. Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi (1582-1622) military leader 29. Ivan Kotliarevskyi (1769-1838) writer, pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature 30. Volodymyr Ivasiuk (1949-1979) songwriter 31. Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872-1952) soprano 32. Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) anarchist revolutionary 33. Andriy Shevchenko (1976-) politician, former striker for Milan, Chelsea and football manager 34. Danylo of Halychyna (1201-1264) king of Ruthenia 35. Serhiy Bubka (1963-) former pole vaulter 36. Pylyp Orlyk (1672-1742) Grand Duchy"
"of Bulgaria, was established by her son Nikola Obretenov, in her house. Baba Tonka buried Stefan Karadzha, and managed to preserve his skull. Her sons Angel, Petar, Nikola, and Georgi () took part in different detachments and were killed, or sent into long exile. Her younger daughter, Anastasiya (Анастасия; also called: Siya, Сия) married Zahari Stoyanov — a revolutionary, writer and publicist. Baba Tonka Cove in Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Tonka Obretenova. Tonka Obretenova Tonka Obretenova (), known as Baba Tonka (Баба Тонка), was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in"
"Tarnovo, Malko Tarnovo and Ihtiman. Bulgarian scholars interpret the association of Latins and Greeks with legendary ancient giants as a result of the wars that medieval Bulgaria waged against these people. Humans who were often forced to wage war were thought to be inherently strong and bulky. Ispolini were known under a large number of alternative names, depending on the region of Bulgaria. Ispolin The ispolin (; pronounced , plural исполини ""ispolini"") is a legendary giant in Bulgarian mythology. While the appearance of the ispolin varied according to the myth and region, ispolini were believed to have inhabited the Earth"
"the Kalmyks moved back from the Volga River to Dzhungaria in the 18th century. There are three cultural subgroups within the Kalmyk nation: ""Turguts"", ""Durbets"" (Durwets), and ""Buzavs"" (Oirats, who joined the Russian Cossacks), as well as some villages of Hoshouts and Zungars. The Durbets subgroup includes the ""Chonos"" tribe (literally meaning ""a tribe of the wolf"", also called ""Shonos"", ""Chinos"", ""A-Shino"", or ""A-Chino""), which is considered to be one of the most ancient tribes in the world, dating back to the 6th to 11th century. Kalmykia staged the 2006 World Chess Championship between Veselin Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik. Most"
"the US and Canada. His grand-nephew, Yuri Shymko, is a Canadian politician and human rights activist living in Toronto, who was elected to Canada's Parliament as well as the Ontario Legislature during the 1980s. ""Lesyshyna Cheliad"" and ""Dva Pryiateli"" (""Two Friends"") were published in the literary almanac ""Dnistrianka"" in 1876. Later that year he wrote his first collection of poetry, ""Ballads and Tales"". His first of the stories in the ""Boryslav"" series were published in 1877. Franko depicted the harsh experience of Ukrainian workers and peasants in his novels ""Boryslav Laughs"" (1881–1882) and ""Boa Constrictor"" (1878). His works deal with"
"In the third category we have a number of prominent individuals who are often not part of the mainstream Ukrainian culture but who have made a significant impact on music in Ukraine, while living outside of its borders. These include historic individuals such as: Bortniansky, Berezovsky, Vedel, Tuptalo and Titov. It also contains Soviet composers such as Mykola Roslavets and Isaak Dunayevsky who were born in Ukraine but who moved to other cultural centres within the Soviet Union. In North America we have Mykola Fomenko, Yuriy Oliynyk, Zinoviy Lawryshyn and Wasyl Sydorenko. During the Baroque period, music was an important"
"it's like running with the wind, because it's funny."" Rumen Petkov Rumen Petkov (; 26 January 1948 – 11 June 2018) was a Bulgarian animator, painter and comic creator. He is best remembered for his animated series ""Choko the Stork and Boko the Frog"", which he also adapted into a comic strip. His influence spawned a new generation of young Bulgarian comics artists, such as Vladimir Nedialkov, Koko Sarkisian, Ivan Kirjakov, Sten Damyanov, and others. Petkov was one of the main artists of the comics magazine """" (""""Rainbow""""), which was the most popular comics magazine for several generations of Bulgarian"
"During the second half of the 7th century his sons split up the Bulgar royal family and spread over Europe, from the Volga river to the shadow of Matese mountains: Bezmer (Ukraine), Kotrag (Volga Bulgaria), Kuber (Balkan Macedonia), Asparukh (Danube Bulgaria) and Alcek (Sepino, Bojano, Isernia). In the ""Nominalia"" the Bezmer (c. 665–668) was the last Dulo ruler on the Northern side of Danube river (of the Old Great Bulgaria), while the Asparukh (c. 681–701) was the first from the Southern side of the river (First Bulgarian Empire). He was followed by Tervel (c. 700–721), and the last ruler of"
"Borovets Borovets (), known as Chamkoria (Чамкория) until the middle of the 20th century, is a popular Bulgarian mountain resort situated in Sofia Province, on the northern slopes of Rila, at an altitude of 1350 m. Borovets is 10 km from Samokov, 73 km from Sofia and 125 km from Plovdiv. Borovets is the oldest Bulgarian winter resort with a history that dates back to 1896. Borovets was originally established at the end of the 19th Century as a hunting place for the Bulgarian Kings. Borovets gradually developed into a modern ski resort with hotels, restaurants, bars and a network"
"composers: Alexander Serov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Léo Delibes, Johannes Brahms. Ballet of the 3 acts became 4. Performers: Nikolay Domashov as Old Man, Sofia Fedorova as Old Woman, Enrichetta Grimaldi as the Golden Fish. A small role of butterfly was performed by the 11-year-old future prominent choreographer Kasyan Goleizovsky. Ballet in this version was several years. There was not more productions. Le Poisson doré Le Poisson doré (""The Golden Fish"") (ru: Золотая рыбка; a.k.a. ""Zolotaia Ribka"") is a ""fantastic ballet"" in 4 acts/6 scenes with prologue and epilogue. The choreography was by Arthur Saint-Léon, and the music by Ludwig Minkus."
"by the communists. Shishmanoğlu family The Shishmanoğlu or Shishmanov family () is a notable family of Bulgaria, Ottoman, Russian and Austrian Empire, who are descend from a medieval Bulgarian Royal House of Shishman. Members of the family claim that the genealogical links between the medieval and modern branches of the family have been extensively researched, but scholars are more doubtful. The modern line of the Shishmanoğlu appears in the late 16th century with a legendary hajduk (brigand) Baba Novak, after a gap of over a century from the fall of Second Bulgarian Empire under the rule of the Ottoman Turks."
"as partly Slavicized form. The ""*Dullu"" Simeonov derived from Old Hunnic ""dul + lu"" (mounted, horseman). According to P. B. Golden no such Hunnic word is attested. According to G. Clauson, Old Turkic ""tul"" denotes ""widow, widower"". All theories P. B. Golden considers for now as speculative. Dulo Hill on Livingston Island, near Antarctica, is named after the Bulgarian ruling dynasty Dulo. Dulo The Dulo clan was the ruling dynasty of the Bulgars. The origins of the Bulgars and Dulo clan are not known precisely, there are many theories about their origin. It is generally considered that they - or"
"of Otto von Bismarck of Germany and Benjamin Disraeli of United Kingdom, revised the earlier treaty, and scaled back the proposed Bulgarian state. A widely autonomous Principality of Bulgaria was created, between the Danube and the Stara Planina range, with its seat at the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko Turnovo, and including Sofia. This state was to be under nominal Ottoman sovereignty but was to be ruled by a prince elected by a congress of Bulgarian notables and approved by the Powers. They insisted that the Prince could not be a Russian, but in a compromise Prince Alexander of Battenberg,"
"George Eliot. There were also three major female poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson. In the twentieth century there were also many major female writers, including Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Marianne Moore. Notable female writers in France include Colette and Simone de Beauvoir; and in Russia, Anna Akhmatova. Much of the early period of feminist literary scholarship was given over to the rediscovery and reclamation of texts written by women. Virago Press began to publish its large list of 19th and early 20th-century novels in 1975 and became one of the first"
"praised the rulers who took care of their movement and safe-keeping which always contain short but valuable historical information. The main representatives include: Tarnovo Literary School The Tarnovo Literary School () of the late 14th and 15th century was a major medieval Bulgarian cultural academy with important contribution to the Medieval Bulgarian literature established in the capital of Bulgaria Tarnovo. It was part of the Tarnovo School of Art which was characteristic for the culture of the Second Bulgarian Empire. With the orthographic reform of Saint Evtimiy of Tarnovo and prominent representatives such as Gregory Tsamblak or Constantine of Kostenets"
"court and other wealthy patrons in turn-of-the-century Russia. A La Vieille Russie has bought and sold many of the Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs. A La Vieille Russie, a family enterprise since its founding in Kiev in 1851, left the turmoil of the Revolution and was re-established in Paris around 1920 by Jacques Zolotnitsky, the grandson of the founder, with his nephew Léon Grinberg. The shop became a focal point for émigré aristocracy and intellectual activity, attracting a range of royal and artistic clientele. These clients included Queen Marie of Romania, Grand Duchesses Xenia and Olga (sisters of Tsar Nicholas II),"
"back to Communist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Despite the fact that Yugoslav Macedonian historical scholarship reluctantly acknowledged the Bulgarian ethnic self-identification of the Ilinden IMRO leaders, they were adopted in the national pantheon of Yugoslav Macedonia as ethnic Macedonians. Official Yugoslav historiography asserted a continuity between the Ilinden of 1903 and the Ilinden of ASNOM in 1944 ignoring the fact that the first one included the uprising in the Adrianople part of Thrace region as well. The names of the IMRO revolutionaries were Goce Delchev, Pitu Guli, Dame Gruev and Yane Sandanski were included in the lyrics of the anthem of"
"Dobry Dobry is a book by Monica Shannon first published in 1934 that won the Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to American literature for children in 1935. Bulgarian-born sculptor Atanas Katchamakoff illustrated the book. Dobry is a young boy who lives in a small farming village in Bulgaria with his widowed mother and grandfather. Both of them are dedicated farmers, and Dobry spends much of his early life helping them in the fields. The majority of his free time is spent with his best friend, Neda, the daughter of the village shoemaker. While still young, Dobry discovers a found"
"Accurately or not, it still points to the rivalty between the Bulgars, led by Kubrat from the Dulo clan, and the Khazars, led by the Ashina clan. Omeljan Pritsak further considered the connection of the name of Dulo clan with the name of the old Xiongnu ruling house ""T'u-ko"" (in Early Middle Chinese ""D'uo'klo""). This association could further prove the link between Xiongnu and Huns (as well Huns and Bulgars). Peter B. Golden considers the Turkic association as speculative. Mercia MacDermott claimed that the Dulo clan had the dog as its sacred animal. MacDermott considered that the Bulgarian expression preserved"
"intellectuals like Umberto Eco, David Lynch, Leszek Balcerowicz, Jean Michel Jarre, David Baldacci, Richard D. Precht, Ulrich Beck, Günter Wallraff, George Soros, Zbignjew Brzezinski, Edward Albee, Jose Carreras, Carlos Saura, Terry Gilliam, Claudia Cardinale, Orhan Pamuk, Goran Bregovic, Paolo Taviani, Yuz Aleshkovski, Viktor Erofeev, Istvan Szabo, Alastair Campbell, Joseph Stiglitz, Adam Michnik, Paul Krugman, Mo Yan. For his work Boyko Vassilev has been awarded multiple times: 2016 Sarajevo, Manager of the year: awarded person of the year in media in Eastern and Central Europe 2016 Honored with la Cruz de Oficial del Mérito Civil medal of King of Spain 2015"
"of ""Marle Springer"". Her information led to localization and destruction of the German battleship . Stanislaw Danielewicz worked on breaking Enigma machine ciphers. Karola Uniechowska(1904–1955) was voluntary medical doctor during World War II, she also participated in the Battle of Monte Cassino while Zofia Uniechowska (1909–1993) - achieved Order of Virtuti Militari for conspiracy against Nazi government in Poland. Stefan Ścibor-Bogusławski (1897–1978) was richly awarded Colonel, also for his decisive actions in the Battle of Monte Cassino. Stanisław Chrostowski (1897–1947) was a professor and artist. Maxim Rylski (1895–1969) became a famous poet in Ukraine. There is a park and institution"
"Old Great Bulgaria Old Great Bulgaria or Great Bulgaria (Byzantine Greek: Παλαιά Μεγάλη Βουλγαρία, ""Palaiá Megálē Voulgaría""), also often known by the Latin names ""Magna Bulgaria"" and ""Patria Onoguria"" (""Onogur land""), was a 7th century state formed by the Onogur Bulgars on the western Pontic-Caspian steppe (modern southern Ukraine and southwest Russia). Great Bulgaria was originally centred between the Dniester and lower Volga. The original capital was Phanagoria on the Taman Peninsula between the Black and Azov seas. In the mid-7th century, Great Bulgaria expanded west to include Avar territory and was centered in Poltava. During the late 7th century,"