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12 unusual facts about Vác


Badea Cârțan

In 1895 he travelled to Vác and Szeged to visit imprisoned Romanians, including the signatories of the Transylvanian Memorandum.

Budapest-Nyugati Railway Terminal

Previously another station stood in its place, the end station of Hungary's first railway line, the PestVác line (constructed in 1846).

Christoph Anton Migazzi

In Vác (Waitzen) he erected the cathedral and episcopal palace and founded the "Collegium pauperum nobilium" and the convent.

In 1761 Maria Theresa made him administrator for life of the Bishopric of Vác, and at the same time obtained the cardinal's purple for him from Clement XIII.

Göncöl Foundation

The Göncöl Foundation (Hungarian: Göncöl Alapítvány) is a Hungarian environmental organisation, seated in the Göncöl House in Vác, Hungary.

Henryk Sławik

One of his initiatives was the creation of an orphanage for Jewish children (officially named School for Children of Polish Officers) in Vác.

Nob Hill Gazette

Home delivered to the Bay Area’s most affluent residences, the Nob Hill Gazette is VAC audited with a controlled circulation of 82,000 copies every month.

Vac-Tron

Models of Vac-Tron Equipment have been chosen for projects as diverse as the laying of HVAC cable at the Statue of Liberty, the digging of fence posts for the American Embassy in Moscow, and cleanup of the BP oil spill which occurred recently in the Gulf of Mexico.

Vac-u-form

The Vac-u-form, also called Vac-u-former, was a toy made by Mattel in the 1960s.

Váci KSE

Váci KSE is a Hungarian handball club from Vác, that plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top level championship in Hungary.

Váci NKSE

Váci Női Kézilabda Sportegyesület are a Hungarian women's handball club from Vác, that play in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I.

Zollner

The company also has two production locations in Hungary which are in Vác and Szügy and two production sites in Romania named Satu Mare I and Satu Mare II.


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Agri-Fab, Inc.

Other products made by Agri-Fab are ground-engaging attachments (rock rake, disc cultivator, row crop cultivator, scraper box, tow-behind tiller), an ATV/UTV compatible rough-cut mower, 15 and 25 gallon tow-behind sprayers, and a Mow-N-Vac and Chip-N-Vac (both with Briggs & Stratton engines).

Bertrand Vac

Bertrand Vac was the nom de plume of Quebec novelist and surgeon Aimé Pelletier (b. Aug. 20, 1914, Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, Quebec; d. July 23, 2010, Montreal).

BHÉV

Now integrated to MÁV's (Hungarian State Railways) network: Esztergom HÉV (today suburban railway, since 1931 owned by Hungarian State Railways), Lajosmizse HÉV (suburban railway, a.k.a. Budapest-Tiszai HÉV (1909)), Vác–Budapest–Veresegyház–Gödöllő HÉV (partially abandoned, but the Vác-Veresegyház-Budapest line is still in operation).

Black-crowned Night Heron

In the Falkland Islands, the bird is called "quark", which is an onomatopoeia similar to its name in many other languages, like "kwak" in Dutch and Frisian, "kvakoš noční" in Czech, "квак" in Ukrainian, "кваква" in Russian, "Vạc" in Vietnamese, "Kowak-malam" in Indonesian, and "Waqwa" in Quechua.

Tung Hsiang-lung

In early October 2013 during a legislative session, Tung said the VAC will stop issuing subsidies to ROC veterans that are found to hold PRC citizenship, citing the amendment to article 27 of the Act Governing the Relations Between Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area that was passed in March 2004.

Vácrátót

Next to the large estate and the manor-house, the lands of the farmers of Vácrátót further continued to break up into smaller plots: in 1941, only seventy-five percent of its total population could earn a living from agriculture, fifteen percent of them found jobs outside the village – mainly in the industrial plants of Vác and Újpest.