Bulgaria's History - Brief history from the Thracian Kingdom and First Bulgarian Kingdom to today's nation.
Origins of the Nation - A summary of the earlier Bulgarian history and the origin of the nation.
Vassil Levski - A Bulgarian national hero called the Apostle of the Liberty.
Tangra TanNakRa - Foundation aims to revive the truth about the Bulgarian's' historical role and contribution to world civilization and culture.
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-- Holbrook Jackson History We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
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-- Anonymous History
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
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-- Henry Wadsworth Lo You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
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-- Henry Ford Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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-- Abraham Lincoln The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
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Now comes the mystery.
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-- Robert L. Stevenson What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
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-- Anonymous History
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
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-- George Bernard Shaw To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert History
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
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-- Les Brown History
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
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unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 History
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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is a chance."
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-- Oscar Wilde No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) History
