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Old-fashioned government media is being gobbled up by Facebook propaganda
The cornerstone of Fidesz propaganda has been the friendly media; the number of press outlets used to spread their own messages has been growing for a few governing cycles. Recently, however, as it...
Katalin Karikó's impressive ascension is just a glitch in the matrix
Hungarian scientist Katalin Karikó made news due to her contribution to the development of Pfizer's COVID vaccine. Although there are more women in higher education in Hungary than men, female...
Who was the first Hungarian to set foot in America?
It's very likely that Hungarians had visited America before the colonial period. What is questionable, however, is who the first Hungarian visitor was: was it a man who landed with the Vikings, or a...
The last remaining traces of the brutalities of the fifties
Hungarian photographer Dániel Kovalovszky spent years working on a series of photographs tracking down people who lived through the horrors of the 1950s and the places where all those horrors...
The Hungarian doctor who was mistaken for Mengele, the feared Nazi doctor, and who translated...
Sándor Lénárd switched homelands three times, and although he was forced to flee the Nazis, in Brazil he was once mistaken for Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor. He had the unusual idea of...
The captured American spy plane that crashed during a Hungarian pleasure flight
On August 6th, 1961, a former US spy plane, which had been turned into a passenger plane crashed in Budapest, killing 30 people. But how did it end up in Hungary, and why did it crash?
Meet the 16 year old from Hungary whose idea is to be released by LEGO
A Hungarian high school student won LEGO's idea competition: the foosball table he came up with will be made into an official LEGO model. Meet 16-year-old Donát.
Hundreds returned to Romania – thousands decided to stay
Every year, more and more students cross the border from Hungarian settlements in Romania to continue their secondary education in Hungary. The brain drain is hard on the Hungarian high schools in...
What does goulash have to do with Hungarian gulyás?
If you don't understand Hungarian, you'll probably never know how to make a real stew, goulash or paprikash, and you'll end up with a floury, carroty, potato stew on your plate. How is Hungarian...
Mission: Impossible — Define goulash
It's like the Matrix: you can't explain it, you have to experience it. But we're going to attempt the impossible, and with the help of living legend István Váncsa, we'll do our best to describe the...
