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3 unusual facts about Bender, Moldova


Inna Gliznuta

Inna Gliznuta (born 18 April 1973 in Bender) is a Moldovan high jumper.

Ochamchira

On 29 September 2009, Ochamchira signed a Friendship and Partnership Agreement with Bender.

Religion in Moldova

According to the most recently available numbers, the Jewish community has approximately 31,300 members, including approximately 20,000 living in Chişinău; 3,100 in Bălți and surrounding areas; 2,200 in Tiraspol; 2,000 in Bender; and 4,000 in small towns.


Alexandru Mironov

Born in the Bessarabian locality of Vertujeni, now part of Moldova, Mironov was from a family which took refuge in southern Romania following the region's second occupation by the Soviet Union before the end of World War II.

Áns saga bogsveigis

Áns saga bogsveigis, the saga of Án the bow-bender, is one of the legendary sagas called the Hrafnistumannasögur surrounding the relatives of Ketil Trout.

Attack of the Killer App

Fry asks, "Since when is the internet about robbing people of their privacy?", to which Bender replies, "August 6th, 1991", which is the date that Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the newsgroup alt.hypertext.

Batushansky

Although there is no place named Batushany, a number of populated places with similar names exist, including Botoşani in Romania's region of Moldavia and the village of Butuceni in the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the Republic of Moldova.

Bridge of Flowers

Bridge of Flowers (event), an event in 1990 by demonstrators who advocated for the unification of Romania and Moldova.

Butnaru

Valentina Butnaru, a journalist and activist from the Republic of Moldova

Darren Bender

Darren Bender became known in the UK TV industry for launching several long-running new film-maker's initiatives (Coming Up & The Other Side) at broadcaster Channel 4.

Diocese of Cahul and Comrat

The Diocese of Cahul and Comrat was established on July 17, 1998, by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to shepherd the Orthodox Church in southern Moldova.

Diocese of Edineț and Briceni

The Diocese of Edineț and Briceni was established on October 6, 1998, by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to organize the Orthodox Church in northern Moldova.

Electrica

The current Electrica company was established in 2000 after the break-up of CONEL and initially had eight branches North Transylvania, South Transylvania, North Muntenia, South Muntenia, Moldova, Oltenia, Dobrogea and Banat.

Faroe Islands national under-21 football team

Faroe Islands had the chance of finishing third in the group going into the final match against Moldova, in Tiraspol.

Football in Moldova

In the qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Moldova beat Montenegro on the latter's home ground by 5-2; a game that is regarded by many Moldovan supporters as the greatest football game played by the Moldovan national team.

Fortune teller machine

In "The Honking", an episode of the animated TV series Futurama, the main characters, wishing to learn about a curse that has afflicted Bender, consult with a fortune teller machine, which, like many of the other machines of the 31st Century is sentient.

Gene Parsons

Gene Parsons currently lives in Caspar, California, spending much of his time running his StringBender company and customizing guitars with his B-Bender device in his machine shop.

German Goldenshteyn

German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn (2 September 1934 – June 10, 2006) was born in the Bessarabian shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Moldova.

Ghenadie Tulbea

Moldova's prime minister Vasile Tarlev also congratulated him for his tremendous triumph at the European Championships, mentioning that "his success has finally made the country's image to the world and his performance has become a model for the young generation".

Grigoriopol transmitter

The Grigoriopol transmitter (Russian designation: Mayak Radio Centre) is a very large broadcasting facility situated near Maiac in Transnistria (Moldova), at the border with Ukraine.

Ilie Cazac

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat said Igor Smirnov, Transnistria's separatist leader, freed Cazac as a result of ongoing negotiations about Moldova and Transnistria that include officials from Russia, the United States and the European Union.

Ilie Șteflea

On 26 August 1916 he was wounded at Daidâr (now Shumentsi, Tutrakan Municipality) during the Battle of Turtucaia and evacuated to Moldova.

Inner City Press

Inner City Press' executive director is Matthew Lee, who is the author of the non-fiction book Predatory Lending: Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City and the novel Predatory Bender and an accredited journalist at the United Nations.

Ion Niculi

He had an important role in the demonstrations at the Iaşi People's House (set up between 1918 and 1921), in printing the newspaper Moldova Roşie ("Red Moldavia") in the nearby village of Vlădiceni, in obtaining important documents needed for underground work, as well as in the activity of other workers' and socialist organisations in Iaşi.

László Dombrovszky

Born as Stanisław Dombrowski in the family of the Polish forest exploitation engineer in Bessarabia (Eastern Moldova), then in the tsarist Russia, László Dombrovszky was a Hungarian painter influenced by the French School of Paris.

Love and Rocket

The song "Daisy Bell" sung by Bender during the first montage for his love of the ship is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Mihai Volontir

Volontir was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Glinjeni, Romania, now part of the present day Rezina district in Moldova).

Moldova at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Moldova qualified a place in the men's singles when Bogdan Macovei finished in the top 38 (with a maximum of three per nation qualifying) during the 2013–14 Luge World Cup.

Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

The members of the professional jury were Ghenadie Ciobanu (Head of Composers Union of Moldova), Anatol Chiriac (Composer), Titus Zhukov (Head of "Likuric" theatre), Natalia Brasnuev (President of OGAE Moldova), Sergey Gavrilice (Editor of "VIP-Magazin"), Vasili Nastase (Editor of "Glasul Natiunii"), Diana Stratulat (Producer) and Victoria Buketaru (radio "Fresh-FM").

Moldova–Romania relations

The Communist government (2001–2009), a vocal advocate of a distinct Moldovan ethnic group, deemed multiple citizenship a threat to Moldovan statehood.

Moldovan wine

The Moldova Wine Guild is a non-profit association established in August 2007 by several of Moldova’s leading private wineries, i.e. Acorex Wine Holding, Vinaria Bostavan, Chateau Vartely, DK-Intertrade, Dionysos-Mereni, Lion-Gri, and Vinaria Purcari.

It was at this time that wines like Negru de Purcari and Romanesti, which have made Moldova famous as a fine wine producer, began to be produced.

Mordova

Moldova, the Republic of Moldova, a country in Eastern Europe

Negru de Purcari

The wine is produced in some Moldovan wineries, mainly in the Purcari area of the Stefan Voda district of Moldova (the Southwestern wine zone); it is locally called the "Queen of England’s wine", because Queen Elizabeth II regularly orders the 1990 vintage.

Oleg Andronic

His uncle Mihai is coach in Moldova, his elder brother is the Moldovan national player Gheorghe Andronic, his younger brother Gicu plays by FC Zimbru-2 Chişinău and his cousins Valeriu Andronic and Igor Andronic, are former members of the nationalside of Moldova.

Paul Alan Levi

Performers of his music include conductors Pierre Boulez, Jesús López-Cobos, Robert DeCormier, Clara Longstreth, Gustav Meier, and Gerard Schwarz; pianist Justin Kolb; and singers Margaret Ahrens, David Bender, Adam Klein, Antonia Lavanne, Douglas Perry, Neva Pilgrim, Lucy Shelton, Sheila Schonbrun, and James Archie Worley, as well as Cantors Richard Botton and Mark Lipson.

Post-communism

Some populations are still poorer today than they were in 1989 (e.g., Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia).

The newly created Social Democratic parties were generally larger and more powerful than the remaining communist parties; only in Russia, Moldova, and the Czech Republic did the Communist Party remain a significant force.

Rosenheim Poltergeist

Science writer and skeptic Kendrick Frazier has criticized Bender's investigation claims, saying that "No full report of the investigations has ever been published, so we are in no position to check to what extent the parapsychologists have been successful in excluding naturalistic explanations."

Serghei Gheorghiev

Serghei Gheorghiev (born 20 October 1991) in Chirsova, Moldova is an ethnic Bulgarian footballer who plays as a Midfielder.

Sour soup

Ciorbă, borş, terms from Moldova for sour soups or fermented wheat bran, essential ingredient to cook ciorbă.

St. Catherine University

Heather M. Hodges ’68 - Former U.S. ambassador to Ecuador and Moldova

Steff Gruber

Between 2005 and 2011 Gruber worked on the documentary Passion Despair in Moldova.

Tanja Becker-Bender

As a chamber musician she appeared in festivals together with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Boris Pergamenschikow and Arnold Steinhardt.

Becker-Bender has performed since age of eleven as a soloist on international stages under the baton of Kurt Masur, Gerd Albrecht, Hubert Soudant and Fabio Luisi with renowned orchestras, such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Teodor Cârnaţ

He graduated Holercani school in 1989 cum laudae, in 1989 was admitted and studied a year at the State University of Sports of Moldova, then changed his mind and in 1990 was admitted to the Faculty of Law of Moldova State University, in 1995 graduated it and works as professor.

The Standby Program

It attracted interest from other artists, including Dara Birnbaum, Nam June Paik, Mary Lucier, Gary Hill, Gretchen Bender, Edin Velez, and Jem Cohen, among others.

Thomas Bender

Bender was also named in the squad for 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification Group 3 matches against Italy and Hungary.

Transnistrian border customs issues

From February 1996 to 2001, there was an agreement between Moldovan and Transnistrian authorities, according to which PMR (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) export and import goods were not subject to Moldovan taxes, PMR was granted the right to use the customs seal of the Republic of Moldova on its goods, and PMR agreed to establish joint customs centers with Moldova on the border with Ukraine.

Transnistrian presidential election, 2006

Three candidates registered to run besides the incumbent Smirnov: Bender MP for the Renewal party Peter Tomaily, Pridnestrovie Communist Party candidate Nadezhda Bondarenko and journalist Andrey Safonov.

Transport in Bălți

When Moldova gained independence, the railway lines became the responsibility of Calea Ferată din Moldova (Railways of Moldova) State company.


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