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Easy rider.
Read more: Easy rider.Read about the history of one of Slovenia’s most successful export products: Tomos motorcycles and mopeds. The iconic brand unfortunately disappeared but lives on in the memories of so many people in Slovenia and all over the world.
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Dragon’s den.
Read more: Dragon’s den.Dragons? Johann Weikhard von Valvasor looked up in disbelief at the local farmers while they were pointing at a pale, tube-shaped animal trying to hide under a rock in the Pivka river. But the locals firmly argued back. After a heavy storm, the valley would always fill with a warm, mysterious mist and the flooded…
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Something in the water.
Read more: Something in the water.“What is it… something in the water out there?” President Eisenhower asked, surprised, when he met several medal-winning athletes from Pueblo, Colorado in 1953. Since gaining independence, Slovenia has earned 59 Olympic medals and consistently ranks among the top 10 nations in Olympic medals per capita. Four of these medals were earned at the most…
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Simple math.
Read more: Simple math.I’ll admit it: I absolutely hated logarithmic tables back in school during the seventies. Calculators were already much faster and easier to use, but our teachers insisted we avoid them. They warned us that calculators would make us brainless and lazy. According to them, math had to be learned the hard way. Only then could…
