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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Téa Obreht

Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Serbia), and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading. Her first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, has been published by Random House on March 8 2011. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in Ithaca, New York.

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Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan

by Bishop Athanasius (Yevtich)

In 2013 Christian world celebrates 1700 years since the day when the Providence of God spoke through the holy Emperor Constantine and freedom was given to the Christian faith. Commemorating the 1700 years since the Edict of Milan of 313, Sebastian Press of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church published a book by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan. The book has 72 pages and was translated by Popadija Aleksandra Petrovich. This excellent overview of the historical circumstances that lead to the conversion of the first Christian emperor and to the publication of a document that was called "Edict of Milan", was originally published in Serbian by the Brotherhood of St. Simeon the Myrrh-gusher, Vrnjci 2013. “The Edict of Milan” is calling on civil authorities everywhere to respect the right of believers to worship freely and to express their faith publicly.

The publication of this beautiful pocket-size, full-color, English-language book, has been compiled and designed by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, a disciple of the great twentieth-century theologian Archimandrite Justin Popovich. Bishop Athanasius' thought combines adherence to the teachings of the Church Fathers with a vibrant faith, knowledge of history, and a profound experience of Christ in the Church.

In the conclusion of the book, the author states:"The era of St. Constantine and his mother St. Helena, marks the beginning of what history refers to as Roman, Christian Empire, which was named Byzantium only in recent times in the West. In fact, this was the conception of a Christian Europe. Christian Byzantine culture had a critical effect on Europe; Europe was its heir, and then consciously forgot it. Europe inherited many Byzantine treasures, but unfortunately, also robbed and plundered many others for its own treasuries and museums – not only during the Crusades, but during colonial rule in the Byzantine lands as well. We, the Orthodox Slavs, received a great heritage of the Orthodox Christian East from Byzantium. Primarily, Christ’s Gospel, His faith and His Church, and then, among other things, the Cyrillic alphabet, too."