Word: bulgaria
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...friend of a friend of a friend who works for the Intelligence Service--otherwise I'd have had to pay 70% of the purchase price in import duties) and finally feeling the holes in the road through the shock system of my family's car. Unmistakably home, unmistakably Bulgaria...
...Christ, the lands surrounding the Mediterranean were bursting with civilization. Pharaohs reigned over Egypt to the south, the empires of Mesopotamia flourished to the east, and the Greeks dominated the Aegean to the north. But just a bit farther north still, another, more enigmatic people ruled the Balkans, where Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Ukraine now lie. Known as the Thracians, they left no temples, no great monuments, no massive tombs. They didn't even have a written language; the only accounts of their society--a confederation of tribes that never achieved true political unity and was finally absorbed into...
...youngest person to head the nation's largest environmental organization in its 105-year history. "We have a lot to celebrate," he tells his listeners, gathered for three days of seminars on such topics as "Dioxins, Endocrine Disruptors and Birth Defects" and "Green Politics in the U.S. and Bulgaria." The recent Brown University graduate recalls how, growing up in Los Angeles, "my T-ball practice was canceled week after week because of smog. Now the air is cleaner." The morning of his speech, he had overflown the Willamette National Forest, its mountaintops scalped by clear-cutting. But rather than preaching...
Although there are numerous varieties, Alexander said that lilacs come from two main species: Syringa Vulgaris, a variety which originates in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Romania, and Syringa Oblata which has its roots in the Korean Peninsula...
...Minnesota. Trained as a concert pianist, Anderson plunged into politics in Minnesota and was an organizer of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Truman named her ambassador to Denmark in 1949, where she rode a bicycle, as most Danes did. In the '60s she headed the legation in Bulgaria where she openly defied the secret police...