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

Humana akcija: Biblioteka iz Londona poklanja knjige na srpskom našoj deci i iseljenicima u Americi

Elektronski projekat E-biblioteka iz Londona je odlučila da pokloni 1.000 e-knjiga (iBooks) našim ljudima u SAD tokom perioda izolacije i karantina, odnosno više hiljada knjiga našim ljudima širom sveta i u Srbiji.

U pitanju su knjige visoke vrednosti za decu, mlade i odrasle, naših najpoznatijih pisaca i pesnika, od Ršumovića i Simovića do Crnjanskog, Mihajla Pupina, Vuka Draškovića ili savremenih klasika kao što je Duško Kovačević.

E-biblioteka želi da pomogne našim ljudima tokom perioda izolacije, posebno porodicama sa malom decom koji će tokom ovog perioda imati priliku da uživaju u znanju i učenju srpskog jezika. Potrebno je javiti se na e-mail adresu This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. sa odabranim naslovima (do tri naslova po porodici).

Svi ponuđeni naslovi se nalaze na adresi: www.malabiblioteka.net/ipad.php.

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Marta Milosevic-Brankovic

Marta Milosevic-Brankovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She has captured the attention of audience and critics alike since her concerto debut at Ganz Rudolph Hall in Chicago in 2005 where one of the most famous pianists alive, Abbey Simon (Professor at the Juilliard School) personally attended the concert and highly acclaimed her performance of Bach and Chopin. At the age of six Marta took her first piano lesson and already a year later she played her first public concert. She was 21 when she graduated at the Music Art Academy in Belgrade as the youngest student with the highest GPA in the generation. She received her early musical training in class of Russian Professor Jakuthon Mlhailovich, a graduate from the Moscow Conservatory. At the same time she has also completed Media studies at the University of Art in Belgrade. During her studies, she worked with eminent artists from her country and auended a number of piano master courses of the following Professors: Sijavus Gadzijev (Moscow). Tamara Stefanovic (Koeln). Dr. David Abot (Zurich-New York), Dr. Tatjana Rankovich (New York), Dr. Omitry Rachmanov (Chicago-New York) and many others.

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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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