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Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár - The History Collection of the Hungarian Electronic Library
Hungary - A Brief History - By István Lázár and covering the period from prehistory to modern age. Includes lists of Hungarian rulers and foreign queens of the house of Arpad.
Hungary - A Brief History - Text of István Lázár's account from prehistory to the present day.
Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 The Forgotten Revolution - Article on the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic led by Bela Kun. By Alan Woods [New Youth Magazine].
Don Mabry's Historic Text Archive: Hungary - Published articles on Hungarian history.
Uprising: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - Full text of David Irving's bestselling book. [PDF]
HABSBURG - H-Net discussion group dedicated to history and culture of the former Habsburg lands and peoples from 1500 to present. Features subject overview, archives, papers, affiliations, book exchange, reviews, search, links to related lists and resources, and subscription details. [English and all languages of the former Habsburg Monarchy.]
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) History If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus History Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal History You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig History The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker History The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) History The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) History I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) History Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken History Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) History "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea History The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett History "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf History The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker History What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. History Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland History When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus History During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell History "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) History "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) History "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley History "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther History
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