"The Vasvary Collection of the History of Hungarian-Americans opened in Szeged, Hungary’s Somogyi Library, in 1978. The founder of the Collection, Edmund Vasvary (1888-1977) was a Protestant priest from Szeged. more »

"After having been built for three years, the biggest steam ocean liner of its time hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage on the night of 14 April 1912. Titanic, nicknamed the “unsinkable”, sank within two hours and forty minutes to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The biggest disaster in shipping to date claimed 1517 victims. more »

"György Dragomán's The White King, the story of a child living in a totalitarian dictatorship, was published on 2 January in Britain by Doubleday, and is soon to be published in the States by Houghton Mifflin. more »