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

Danilo Marić

Danilo Marić was born on August 26, 1938, in Mostar (Kosor), Bosnia and Hercegovina, Europe. Kosor is cetrically village in the Mostar valley – Bisce polje, which has the most rivers in the world: Neretva, Radobolja, Jasenica, Posrt, Buna and Bunica. He was fascinated by these rivers from childhood on, and these waters influenced the development of his character and his literary works.

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Danilo is an engineer, having a Masters degree. He was educated in Blagaj, Mostar, Trstenik and Sarajevo. He worked for over 40 years, 35 years in Mostar and 5 years in Los Angeles, and is now retired. At the dawn of the Yugoslav civil war, on April 3 1992, he left the [Mostar] area as a refugee, and three years later he immigrated to Los Angeles, USA, where he resides 11 years (1995-2006).

Danilo Maric is a fiction writer. He has written 11 novels, 120 short stories, and many poems and plays.

He is marry, and have 3 kids.

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Marina Arsenijević

Marina Arsenijevic (arson-nee-vitch) is the international award-winning pianist and composer, star of the Emmy-nominated Public Television program, “Marina at West Point: Unity through Diversity” which has been broadcast to more than 160 Million viewers with over 350 airings by PBS Stations all across the country. Marina created the program and performed with the 120 member joint ensemble of the West Point Band and West Point Cadet Glee Club. The Concert was recorded LIVE at West Point’s historic Eisenhower Hall and will be broadcast all across the country through 2014.

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In the Mirror

A Collection of Iconographic Essays and Illustrations

By Fr. Stamatis Skliris

The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America is pleased to announce the publication of an outstanding book by Fr. Stamatis Skliris, a disciple of the great twentieth-century theologians Archimandrite Justin Popovich and Bishop Athanasius Yevtich. Fr. Stamatis is a parish priest in Athens and is renowned as an iconographer and as a writer and lecturer on Byzantine iconography.

In the Mirror is the second of a planned collection of works of contemporary theologians. It is an anthology of Fr. Stamatis’ articles which have appeared in Greek and Serbian. In it, he combines adherence to the teachings of the Church Fathers with a vibrant expression of faith through the experience of Christ in the Church. The book is adorned with more than 200 striking icons and illustrations by Fr. Stamatis.

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