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

Теслина вечна будност и вечни покој

Сваки народ би требало да зна не само шта никако не би смео да учини него и шта би све морао да учини. Кад је реч о великом, генијалном научнику Николи Тесли и о обавезама нас Срба према њему, онда би требало знати бар две ствари. Прво, да кључну обавезу бриге о имену и делу Николе Тесле не смемо никако препустити некоме другоме него да то мора бити у превасходној надлежности српског народа, његове науке и културе. Друго, Теслина генијалност, његови изуми и стваралачке идеје несумњиво припадају целом свету, свим људима и целокупном универзуму, али бисмо ми, припадници српског народа морали што чвршће и дубље да вежемо сопствену науку и културу за овог генијалног ствараоца како би се тиме непрестано подстицао интелектуални, стваралачки развој свакога од нас.

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Неопходно је, дакле, на све начине утврдити оно што наш народ веже за Теслу, за његово научно и духовно наслеђе. То истовремено значи да бисмо морали знати да је право место за починак праха великог Николе Тесле управо Београд, и то Врачар, на којем се уздиже Храм Светог Саве. Зато на том месту и треба, уз споменике Карађорђу и Светом Сави, да се нађе и споменик Николи Тесли. Врачарски плато би, осим тога, могао постати место на којем би се формирао најстрожи Пантеон оних који су за духовно-историјску судбину српског народа најзаслужнији.

Ваља изразити најдубљу захвалност Српској православној цркви на, пре више година исказаној иницијативи да Никола Тесла нађе свој покој баш уз Храм Светог Саве. Исто тако треба захвалити Влади Републике Србије и Граду Београду што су се, најзад, договорили око онога што бисмо, мање због Тесле а више због нас самих, морали да учинимо. Овим договором као да стичемо додатне разлоге за оптимизам у погледу будућности српског народа. Та будућност у великој мери почива на стваралачком уму Николе Тесле, па ћемо са учвршћењем веза са тим умом свакако имати више права и на саму будућност.

Проф. др Драган Станић,
Председник Матице српске

Извор: Матица српска


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Mitchell Paige

Mitchell Paige was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic efforts on Oct. 26th, 1942 at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

Col. Paige was born in a small western Pennsylvania town of Charleroi, near the Ohio state line. His parents were Serb immigrants who came to the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century from the Serbian Vojna Krajina, which was back then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. .

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Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan

by Bishop Athanasius (Yevtich)

In 2013 Christian world celebrates 1700 years since the day when the Providence of God spoke through the holy Emperor Constantine and freedom was given to the Christian faith. Commemorating the 1700 years since the Edict of Milan of 313, Sebastian Press of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church published a book by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan. The book has 72 pages and was translated by Popadija Aleksandra Petrovich. This excellent overview of the historical circumstances that lead to the conversion of the first Christian emperor and to the publication of a document that was called "Edict of Milan", was originally published in Serbian by the Brotherhood of St. Simeon the Myrrh-gusher, Vrnjci 2013. “The Edict of Milan” is calling on civil authorities everywhere to respect the right of believers to worship freely and to express their faith publicly.

The publication of this beautiful pocket-size, full-color, English-language book, has been compiled and designed by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, a disciple of the great twentieth-century theologian Archimandrite Justin Popovich. Bishop Athanasius' thought combines adherence to the teachings of the Church Fathers with a vibrant faith, knowledge of history, and a profound experience of Christ in the Church.

In the conclusion of the book, the author states:"The era of St. Constantine and his mother St. Helena, marks the beginning of what history refers to as Roman, Christian Empire, which was named Byzantium only in recent times in the West. In fact, this was the conception of a Christian Europe. Christian Byzantine culture had a critical effect on Europe; Europe was its heir, and then consciously forgot it. Europe inherited many Byzantine treasures, but unfortunately, also robbed and plundered many others for its own treasuries and museums – not only during the Crusades, but during colonial rule in the Byzantine lands as well. We, the Orthodox Slavs, received a great heritage of the Orthodox Christian East from Byzantium. Primarily, Christ’s Gospel, His faith and His Church, and then, among other things, the Cyrillic alphabet, too."