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

Tomica 1878 - 1919, Stoje 1884 - 1946, Jane 1911 - 1944, Sophie 1908 - 1989

Предња страна споменика:

ОВЂЕ ПОЧИВАЈУ

   КОСТИ ПОК.

ТОМИЦЕ КОСИКА

    РОЂЕН 15.

ОКТОМБРА 1878.

ГОД. МОКРИНЕ

БОКА КОТОРСКА

ПРЕСТАВИЈОСЕ У

   ВЈЕЧНОСТ 5.

МАРТА 1919. ГОД.

 БИЈОЈЕ ЧЛАН

С. Д. Д. ОСТРОГ. БР.

15  С. С. С. С. ОВАЈ

    СПОМЕНИК

ПОДИЖЕ ЊЕГОВА

СУПРУГА СТОЈЕ.

ВЈЕЧНАМУ ПАМЈАТ. 

 

 

Бочна лева страна споменика:

  СТОЈЕ КОСИЋ

РОЂЕНА U UБЛЕ

БОКА КОТОРСКА

           1884

УМРЛА У ЂАКСОН

          1946

 

Бочна десна страна споменика:

 

      ЈАНЕ КОСИЋ

РОЂЕНА У ЂАКСОН

     КАЛИФ. 1911

    УМРЛА 1944

 

      SOPHIE

      KOSICH

    WAR 3 1908

   NOV 17 1989

 

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Milina Jovanović

Milina Jovanović
Milina Jovanović came to the U.S. from Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1994. She holds a J.D. and a double master’s in interdisciplinary Social Sciences from the University of Belgrade and San José State University. She was a teaching assistant and a research associate at the Sociological and Criminological Institute in Belgrade between 1986 and 1994. As a graduate researcher in the U.S. she compared women’s education and employment in California and Yugoslavia and published the results of her research. Milina contributed to a nationally recognized study on immigrant contributions and integration practices in Santa Clara County (Bridging Borders in Silicon Valley), and co-edited KIN: Knowledge of Immigrant Nationalities. Her book All Roads Lead to Jackson: Serbian American Contributions in Amador County, CA since the Gold Rush was published in 2013 by Sebastian Press. Jovanović’s articles have appeared in Serbia, other parts of the former Yugoslavia, U.S., U.K., Belgium, and France.

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The Hagia Sophia

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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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