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

Natasha Pavlovich

Natasha Pavlovich is a Serbian-American entrepreneur; an accomplished Hollywood actress, International Beauty Queen, Aviatrix, Future Astronaut, and soon to be published author. She is a descendent of Grand Duke Pavle Radenović of Bosnia (late 14th Century). She was born to Serbian parents and spent her early years in former Yugoslavia before immigrating to America to join relatives in Chicago, Illinois.

Her childhood interests in acting led to a move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. She was accepted into the prestigious Hollywood Professional School, and  graduated with honors at age sixteen. Ms. Pavlovich earned a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. Simultaneously, she attended twelve years of acting school under the direction of legendary Hollywood acting coach, Sal Dano.

While Natasha's beauty earned her international titles, she wasn't always cast in glamorous roles. Hollywood heavyweights took notice of this powerhouse of an actresses  talents, her chameleon like ability to transform into various looks, languages, comedies, and dramas, and speak roles  in Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Czechoslovakian, Serbian, Arabic, and French, in  more than 50 prime time, network television productions. She has worked alongside Academy Аward winning actors, directors, and producers and appeared on hit shows such as: Nip/Tuck, J.A.G, Vegas, Judging Amy, Monk, The Son of the Pink Panther movie, and many others. Natasha also had a recurring role on the popular Serbian television series, Gorki Plodovi, (Bitter Fruit), filmed in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Vinka Ellesin

Vinka Ellesin was a folk singer who sang Serbian music in the sevdalinka style. The national Serbian community referred to her as the "Queen of Sevdalinka". She was born to Serbian immigrants, Djoka and Sophia (Soka) Ellesin, in Akron, Ohio around 1921. By the age of 16, she was singing on a nationally broadcast radio show on WADC. Later, she performed at the Black Whale, a well-known club in Cleveland. In 1938, the bandleader Sammy Kaye invited her to audition to be the lead vocalist in his orchestra, but she turned him down, preferring to continue singing Serbian folk music instead. During World War II, Ellesin performed at the Blue Danube and the Russian Samovar in Detroit, Mich. where she lived. Ellesin stayed in the Pittsburgh area for an extended period of time in the early 1950s while she performed nightly at the Sunrise Inn in Monroeville, Pa. During the 1930s through the 1970s, Ellesin toured throughout North America and Australia while returning to Pittsburgh many times to perform at local Serb National Federation events.

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God Views Us Through Love

by Ignatije (Midic), bishop of Branicevo-Pozarevac

The present volume collects essays and articles written by Bishop Ignatije on man within history and within the Church; on the roots of the Church according to Saint Maximus the Confessor; on how God views us through love; about a call to rediscover our true self in our neighbor; on reconciliation in society and policy; on iconising that which is to come seen in the Iconography of Stamatis Skliris.