Hungary

Geza Vermes dies at 88; scholar wrote about Dead Sea Scrolls

2013-05-15 17:18:00

Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched gears, penning his doctoral thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

Janos Starker dies at 88; renowned cellist won a Grammy in 1997

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, died Sunday at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 88 and had been in declining health. Since 1958, Starker had been a professor at the Indiana...

Janos Starker, world-famous cellist, dies at 88

2013-04-28 17:43:00

Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, has died. He was 88. Starker, who died Sunday in Bloomington, Ind., had been in terminal care for the last few weeks, according to reports from wire...

Appellate court says case against Hungary over looted artwork can proceed

2013-04-19 11:56:00

The heirs of the Budapest-based Jewish banker Baron Mor Lipot Herzog have cleared a major legal hurdle in their decades-long quest to force Hungary to return dozens of artworks from Herzog's collection that were looted during World War II. In 2010,...

Allan B. Calhamer dies at 81; inventor of Diplomacy game

2013-03-07 19:16:00

The origins of the board game Diplomacy can be traced to an old geography book that Allan B. Calhamer discovered while rummaging around with a friend in the attic of his boyhood home in suburban Chicago. Calhamer was fascinated by the exotic countries...

‘Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome’ star on secret Cylon agenda

2013-02-23 10:22:33

Balthazar Korab dies at 86; architect-photographer with wide-ranging eye

2013-02-01 05:00:00

Balthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal...

U.S. court considers claim on art stolen by Nazis

2013-01-23 11:08:00

WASHINGTON -- A three-judge federal appellate court heard brief oral arguments Wednesday in what art experts say could be the last great Holocaust-era art restitution case, one with a California connection, but issued no ruling. The unusual case was...

Study finds link between high fructose corn syrup, Type 2 diabetes

2012-11-27 15:33:00

Researchers from USC and the University of Oxford say they have found an association between countries that have more high fructose corn syrup in their food supply and those that have higher rates of diabetes. Countries with higher use of HFCS had an...

Hundreds protest pardon of man who killed Armenian military officer

2012-09-07 09:23:50

Azerbaijan defends freeing convicted killer as Armenians protest

2012-09-07 12:33:56

Hungary demands return of $8 million for Holocaust survivors

2012-08-30 13:44:05

Leo Fitzsimmons and his wife, Gerarda Fitzsimmons, put the toppings on the pizza dough at St. Stephen of Hungary Parish on Friday. They are both from Coopersburg and parishioners at St. Stephen of Hungary Parish.

2013-04-12 00:00:00

McDonald's great wrap push got under way in Hungary well before hitting the States. The Tzatziki versions combine beef, chicken or pork with veggies and that cucumber ambrosia known as tzataki sauce.

2013-04-12 00:00:00

The lights of Budapest, Hungary, reflected in the Danube River.

2013-04-09 15:20:05