MaNDAHungarian National Digital Archive

Illustrations of codices and other old books bespeak about doctrines and ideas of a certain period of time, besides the artists’ aesthetical tastes. In certain eras, people thought that beauty originated from God and that it was the artists’ responsibility to reflect God’s glory on works of art appropriately. Thus, they made certain masterpieces with especially great sense of responsibility and carefulness.

You might think that England is the home of horse-racing, but even in the Ancient Rome supporting and gambling fever raged, just look at the huge size of the Circus Maximus in Rome. But it would be hypocrisy to say that horse- and chariot racing became popular only because of the sight and the love of horses. The opportunity for booking and winning – as it was also a kind of gambling – was at least as important. You can have a look into the history of the Hungarian horse-racing. 

Despite that you often think life is too short to spend it waiting, you do spend a great deal of time on waiting during your lives. According to statistics, one spends on average three years with queuing. Either it is queuing or other kind of waiting, they are all manifestation forms of social adaptation, which are organic parts of your lives and culture.

There is a family that has been exercising the confectioner profession for the fifth generation now: they are the family Auguszt. This week, we are looking for the answer for the question ‘what is the secret of the dynasty’.

Cemeteries are not just places that can be interpreted on the emotional level of passing or mourning. There are graveyards that became pilgrimage destinations in the past decades, like the Házsongárdi of Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca), the Père-Lachaise of Paris, or the Fiumei Road Graveyard. This week, through the history of the latter, we are searching for the answer to the question ‘How it became a National Pantheon from a public cemetery?’