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

Virtuelni muzej Mihajla Pupina

Obrazovno-istraživačko društvo Mihajlo Pupin, uz podršku Srpske akademije nauka i umetnosti i kompanije Telekom Srbija, premijerno je predstavilo Virtuelni muzej Mihajla Pupina u Galeriji nauke i tehnike SANU u Beogradu. Pored upoznavanja sa važnim i široj javnosti nedovoljno poznatim informacijama o Mihajlu Pupinu, Virtuelni muzej donosi i potpuno nov način predstavljanja naučne i kulturne baštine. Ulaskom u digitalno doba, omogućen je i pristup muzejima putem Interneta, koji ni na koji način ne umanjuje pravi doživljaj posete muzeju.

Projektom Virtuelni muzej Mihajla Pupina odaje se počast brilijantnom naučniku, pronalazaču, profesoru, počasnom doktoru 18 univerziteta, dobitniku mnogih naučnih nagrada i medalja, počasnom konzulu Srbije u SAD. Posetioci će imati priliku da se upoznaju sa životnom pričom srpskog velikana kroz deset celina: putovanje kroz Idvor, Ameriku, profesorski rad i priznanja, tajmlajn, autobiografiju, naučni rad, nacionalno-političke doprinose, legat u Narodnom muzeju, legat u Univerzitetskoj biblioteci, kao i dobročinstva.

Prisutne je na otvaranju muzeja pozdravila autorka projekta, Aleksandra Ninković-Tešić, potpredsednica Obrazovno-istraživačkog društva Mihajlo Pupin. „Ovaj projekat predstavlja važan doprinos srpskoj kulturi i istoriji nauke, zbog čega je i dobio podršku SANU i Telekoma. Kada probate da na jednom mestu sakupite raznoliko i bogato nasleđe susrećete se sa nekoliko velikih izazova. Prvi je što su njegovi mnogobrojni doprinosi toliko raznovrsni, obuhvataju ne samo širok geografski prostor, već s velikim uspehom ulaze u različite, nimalo srodne oblasti. Drugi izazov predstavljaju zaborav i nebriga u koju su utonuli mnogi važni podaci do kojih se teško dolazi. Ova postavka pravljena je s ciljem da otvori što više velikih tema koje nosi Pupinovo nasleđe, da vas pozove na dalje istraživanje i da doprinese poštovanju koje naše društvo treba da ima kada se spomene ime Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin“, izjavila je Ninković-Tešić.

Na značaj Mihajla Pupina, čiji doprinosi su menjali sliku nauke prve polovine dvadesetog veka ukazao je i direktor Galerije nauke i tehnike, akademik Zoran Petrović, koji je istakao i važnost pronalaženja načina da se njegovo nasleđe promoviše.

Posetiocima se takođe obratila i Marija Bošković, direktorka PR sektora kompanije Telekom Srbija: „Mihajlo Pupin je svojim pronalascima ostvario veliki pomak, između ostalog, u razvoju telefonije, i mi u kompaniji Telekom Srbija ponosni smo što nam se ukazala prilika da učestvujemo u takvom projektu i pomognemo da se održi i veliča uspomena na izvanrednog naučnika kakav je bio Mihajlo Pupin. Ono što možemo da obećamo jeste da ćemo nastaviti da ulažemo maksimalan trud da inovacijama pomeramo granice na polju telekomunikacija, baš kao što je to činio Pupin, kako bismo svojim korisnicima obezbedili usluge najvišeg kvaliteta.“

Osim ogromnog doprinosa koje je dao nauci, Mihajlo Pupin je, prema rečima Lajona Felsa u Vašington Postu, bio jedna od najšarmantnijih i najljubaznijih ličnosti XX veka, dok je njegova životna priča uzbudljiva koliko i njegova naučna otkrića. Zbog toga će, sasvim sigurno, obilazak Virtuelnog muzeja Mihajla Pupina, svakom posetiocu biti novo, zanimljivo i veoma poučno iskustvo.

Virtuelni muzej Mihajla Pupina možete posetiti na adresi: www.mihajlopupin.rs


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Metropolitan Christopher (Kovačević)

(1963–1978)

Bishop Christopher came at the helm of the Eastern American and Canadian Diocese when the Diocese was well organized by his two predecessors. He focused on the Church schools and religious education of adults. There was already an Education Department with developed plans and programs. In addition to the Church Educational work during the period of Bishop Christopher’s administration, new Church School Congregations and parishes were organized; new Churches and other facilities were built.

In 1910, Petar Kovacevich left his town of Grahovo and after a lengthy and arduous journey he arrived in the southern part of America, on the shore of the Gulf Coast in the city of Galveston where the oldest organized Serbian parish in America originated in 1862–1864. After four years, in 1914 on St. Vitus Day (Vidovdan), his bride Rista nee Vujačić, a native of Grahovo, arrived and together through hard physical labor they gave birth and raised twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. The ninth born child, Velimir, was born on 25 December 1928, according to the new calendar, which he, despite his baptized name Velimir, was nicknamed Chris by his American friends, by which he was known to his circle of friends and acquaintances.

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Man and the God-Man

by Archimandrite Justin Popovich

"Father Justin Popovich, pan-orthodox witness to the God-revealed and Christ-given Eternal Truth, whose testimony can be even seen within this collection of his articles - that "the mystery of Truth is not in material things, not in ideas, not in symbols, but in Personhood, namely the Theanthropic Person of the Lord Christ, Who said: I am the Truth (John 14:6), Truth perfect, never diminished, always one and the same in its complete fullness - yesterday, today, and forever (Heb.13:8)."

The treasure to be found in this anthology of neopatristic syntheses consists of: "Perfect God and perfect man" - Nativity Epistle, where Fr Justin boldly exclaim that "man is only a true man when he is completely united with God, only and solely in God is man a man, true man, perfect man, a man in whom all the fullness of Godhead lives."; "The God-man" - The foundation of the Truth of Orthodoxy - Ava Justinian language of love in Christ-centered reflections of Truth; "The Supreme Value and Infallible Criterion"- contemporary philosophical reflections on visible and invisible realities; "Sentenced to Immortality" - a homily on the Resurrection or Our Lord Jesus Christ; "Humanistic and Theanthropic Culture"-criticism of European anti-Christian culture; "Humanistic and Theanthropic Education" - indicative pondering of consequences of education without God.. ; "The Theory of Knowledge of Saint Isaac the Syrian" - Faith, prayer, love, humility, grace and freedom, the purification of the intellect, mystery of knowledge; "A Deer in a Lost Paradise" - Ava's renowned poetic essay, a confession, and deepest longing for all-sweetest Jesus...