File din trecut: O vizită la Observatorul astronomic
Stories from the past. A visit to the Astronomical Observatory

Summary/Abstract: In this auto-biographic article, a well-known book writer with theological content recalls a story from her life. Ileana Toma (daughter of the Rev. Alexie Bârcă), researcher at the Astronomical Observatory, meets Pantelimon Halippa, an old family acquaintance. He was none other than the Bessarabian and later Romanian journalist and politician, one of the most important promoters of Romanian nationalism in Bessarabia and of this province's union with Romania. He was the president of Sfatul Țării (The Council of the Country), which voted union in 1918. The discussion between the two characters contains numerous historical information and data about that troubled period of Romania.

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