A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Jelena Rosich

Jelena Rosich (November 3, 1969 Kikinda, Serbia) is a writer of short stories. She graduated from the University of Novi Sad in English Language and Literature in 1992, and immigrated with her family to the United States in 1998.

Her first book of short stories "Dalilin prsten" was published in 1993 (Matica Srpska, Novi Sad) and her second book of stories "Dan kada je Miz Lili postala ono sto je oduvek bila" (Arhipelag, Beograd 2012) won the award "Stevan Sremac" for the book of the year in Serbian language.

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Jelena's work is included in several anthologies of short stories such as "Mala kutija" by Mihajlo Pantic (Jugoslovenska knjiga, Beograd 2001), and "Tajno drustvo" by Vasa Pavkovic (Kov, Vrsac 1997).

She lives with her husband and four children in Mequon, Wisconsin.


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Aleksandar Kavčić

Adjunct Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kavčić received a degree in electrical engineering from Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany, and a doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

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The Hagia Sophia

The Mystical Light of the Great Church and its Architectural Dress

by Charalambos P. Stathakis

Dear reader, as you run like the rest of us along the dizzy main road, stop, stay aside for a while. Let the others be dizzy, and take the secret underground trail, which will lead you through the dewdrops of the leaves, the crystal smile of the sun, the city’s underground galler- ies, your knowledge, and your feelings, to the doorstep of the Hagia Sophia. Because all dew- drops, all sunrays, and all beauty lead there. That is what you will be told by my friend, the author, whom I am fond of and whom I send you to, Charalambos Stathakis: the doctor, the warm and humane researcher, the scientist devoted to his work and his patients, who has given a series of scientific papers, who, nevertheless, retains a nest of beauty untouched in his heart, which makes him outstanding—even though he is not a specialist in architecture, nor a historian, nor a theologian, nor a Byzantinist—it makes him stand out in all these together and in entirety.

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