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

Predrag Pedja Stojakovic

Predrag Stojakovic was born June 9, 1977 in Slavonska Pozega, Yugoslavia.

He is currently the director of player personal for the Sacramento Kings and the General Manager of the Reno Bighorns.

Stojakovic spent most of his career in the NBA. At 6'9'' he played small forward. He won the NBA Three points shootout two times, was the first European (Serbian-Greek) player to win one of the All Star Weekend Competitions.

Stojakovic made 1,760 three point field goals in his career which ranked 10th all time at the point of his retirement.

Stojakovic played for Crvena zvezda in Yugoslavia and PAOK in Greece, and for in NBA the Kings, Pacers, Hornets, Raptors and Mavericks.

He has won both Gold and Bronze Medals at the FIBA Eurobasket and has been an MVP at this event.

He also participated in the 2000 Olympics.


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Catherine Oxenberg

Catherine Oxenberg was born September 22, 1961 and is the daughter of Princess of the Serbian House of Karadjordjevic.

Catherine was born in New York City, grew up in London and is the eldest daughter of Princess Elizabeth and her former husband Howard Oxenberg who is Jewish.

Princess Elizabeth is the only daughter of Prince Paul who served as regent for King Peter of Yugoslavia.

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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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