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Croatian-American boxer FRITZIE ZIVIC
and NIKOLA TESLA
In1941Nikola Tesla,distinugished Croatian-American inventor, invitedFritzie Zivic to thelunch in New York,
as well as his brothers, after one of his successful defences of thetitle of the welter-weight world champion.
Sourcenewsinteractive.post-gazette.com.
From left to right: Joe Zivic, Fritzie Zivic, Nikola Tesla, Jack Zivic,Pete Zivic i Eddie Zivic.
Their father Josip Živčić was born in Bosiljevo in Croatia.
Fritzie Zivic was inducted to theInternational Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993.
Several books werewritten about his life (below is the front page of one of them, Timpav:CHAMP - Fritzie Zivcic -The life and time of the Croat Comet.His four brothers were all boxers, and two of them, Pete and JackZivic, represented the USA at the 1920 Olympic Games at Antwerpen,Belgium. Jack won the for the USA infeatherweight category.
Fritzie Zivic, the Croat Comet, with his family in 1946.
Speech of Dr. Slobodan Lang
Otvaranje izložbeRanjeni Kristdr. Slobodana Langa i g. Ivana Matkovića - Laste dne 10. veljače 2002. u Vinkovcima.
Dr.Slobodan Lang (left) on the Danube river in Croatia. Photo by the courtesy of dr. Slobodan Lang.
Croatian Dream Team in Udbina 2015
Young Croatian family in beautiful national costumes, heading to theChurch of Croatian Martyrs in Udbina, 2015.
The older boy is wearing a typical Lika cap.
This proud family is from the region ofZavaljeinBosnia and Herzgovina,near the town of Bihać.
Zavalje is a part of the Lika-Senj bishopric in Croatia.
Udbina inLika, with itsChurch of CroatianMartyrs, above the legendary Krbava Field.
Aswe can see, Zavalje is in the region where the border between Croatiaand B&H makes an unnatural rectangular twist at the expense ofCroatia.
This twist is a result of communist manipulations in ex-Yugoslaviaimmediately after 1945.
Near the left upper corner of the map are the famousPlitviceLakes. For more detials see theGoogle Maps.
For c omparison we provide von Zuccheri's map from 1848, correspondingto roughly the same area, with indicated the then border:
Edmund von Zuccheri: Carte Generale des Postes du Royaume deHongrie y compris Transylvanie, L'Esclavonie, La Croatie avec unepartie des provinces de Galice, Moravie, Autrice, Illyrie. etc. Reduited'apres la grande cart de Lipszky par E. de Zuccheri. . . . 1848.Sourcegallica.bnf.fr.
Until recently it wasbelieved that the first person to identify the location of Saint Paul'sshipwreck near Mljet was the father of European historigraphy, theGreek emperor and historian Constanine Porphyrogenitus (905-959) who,describing the south Dalmatian islands in his work "On Administeringthe Empire", wrote the following:
Another big island isMljet. It was described by Saint Luke in the Acts where he calls itMelita. Saint Paul was there bitten by the viper but he shook it offinto the fire where it was burned.
However, scholars haverecently discovered new information inThe Geography of distinguishedArmenian scholar Ananias of Shirak, written between 592-636 AD, whichconfirms that SaintPaul stayed in Dalmatia following a shipwreck that happened on theAdriatic island of Melita (Mljet).
The bendictine Abbey of Sv. Marija (St Mary) on an islet on Velikojezero (Great Lake) near the islandof Mljet. Photo by Nikola Piasevoli.
After Porphyrogenitus,the 16th century Italian historian of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) SerafinoRazzi, Dominican and for a while Vicar of Capitular of the RagusanMetropolitan see, claimed the same. He set forth the following:
At the end of thispresentation on the island of Mljet, I shall tell you that many seriouswriters think that this Ragusan Mljet was the very island where SaintPaul the Apostle escaped after the shipwreck and there he was bitten bya viper as written in chapter 28 of the Acts. One of them is thehonorable cardinal Gaetano.
Razzi thought that theshipwreck couldn not have taken place in Malta because Malta wassituated in the African, instead of in the Adriatic Sea.
Đurđević claimed at thebeginning of his book the following
It is interesting thatwhile Malta was under the Spanish government, Đurđević was supported inhis views by both English and French scholars. However, when Malta cameunder the English protectorate, the circumstances changed and theEnglish writers stood up for the Maltese option. Something similarhappened to the French writers when Malta was conquered by NapolenBonaparte.I say and I claim thatbefore the chivalrous Hospitaller Order of St John moved to AfricanMelita, the glory of Saint Paul's shipwreck site had been granted,without any hesitation or doubt, to Illyrian Melita.
The following important scholarly book dealing with the shipwreck of StPaul on the Adriatic island of Mljet has been published in 2015:
Selected articles from theProceedings:
Dr Miho Demović: TWO MILLENIA OF DUBROVNIK TRADITION OF SAINT PAUL'SSHIPWRECK IN THE WATERS OF CROATIAN ISLAND OF MLJET,Conclusion andSummary
Dr Miho Demović:FOLLOWINGHIS SHIPWRECK, ST PAUL THE APOSTLE SAILED TO ROME ON AN ALEXANDRIANSHIP FROM THE ANCIENT HARBOUR OF POLAČE ON MLJET IN THE YEAR 61 A. D.
Dr Miho Demović:THREEFAMOUS SHIPWRECK SURVIVORS FROM DUBROVNIK
Nikola Tesla distinugished Croatian-American scientist and inventor
and his high-school education in Croatia
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) in his laboratory in Colorad Springsin 1899,
with the book RuđerBošković, a famousCroatian scientist.
Martin Sekulić (1833-1905), professor of mathematics and Physics inRakovica (Karlovca),
in Croatia, in the High Real School which Nikola Tesla attended in theyears 1870-1873.
Sekulić is probably the most important professor during entireschooling ofNikola Tesla.
His experiments enthused young Tesla for electricity and magnetism.
He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Zagreb (in the divisionof Natural Sciences and Mathematics).
The working language inthe High Real School (Obere Realschule) inRakovica was German.
Rakovica was then a part of the Croatian Miliatry Frontier,
i.e., (according to the then terminology) of KroatischenMilitär-Grenze, orHrvatskakrajina,or Hrvatska Vojnakrajina.
Later, the name of Hrvatsko-slavonska Vojna krajina was also used.
Some of the subjects that young Nikola Tesla listened to as a studentof the VI'th grade of the (roughly, age of 16).
The source is school yearbookof the RakovacHigh Real School for the period of 1872-1874.
Kroatische Sprache - Croatianlanguage
Mathematics
Physics
These subjects had been described not only in German, but in Croatianlangauge as well:
Hrvatski jezik - Croatianlanguage
Mathematics
Physics
Here we stress that the Croatian Language was the mother tongue ofNikola Tesla. This fact is missing
in literally all biographical sources (including monographs) dealingwith Nikola Tesla.
It is a well documented fact by available school yearbooks from theperiod of 1870-1873.
We conclude with the (duplicate of) matriculation form that NikolaTesla earned in Rakovica in 1873:
The title page of the (duplicate of) Nikola Tesla's matriculationform, issued in Croatia's capital Zagreb in 1885..
As we can see (in the second last line), one of the subjects
Nikola Tesla's final exam wasCroatianlanguage.
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