HUNGARY

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HUNGARY

• Facts you cannot find in an encyclopedia...

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Hungary
Looks like a big, old Wienerschnitzel, doesnt it?
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Hungary

• Our flag...

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History

• In short

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Hungarian history

• We came from the east
• We headed west
• We invaded Europe (for some days)
• But we were stopped
• (at Augsburg)
• ...and got stuck in the middle

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Hungarian history

• In order to become a Christian nation
• we had to cut some of our former leaders in 4
  pieces
• This was done by our first king, St. Stephan

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Hungarian history

• Then came the Mongols (you know Genghis Khan)we
  dont like talking about those times
• We still dont talk about this

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Hungarian history

• Then Matthias Rex invaded Vienna and kicked the
  Turkish ass.
• What a guy!
• We even named a cathedral after him.

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Hungarian history

• Then the Turkish struck back!
• So we practiced cultural understanding
• for 150 (one hundred and fifty) years.
• Then the Austrians kicked out the Turkish
• and liked us so much, they decided to stay for a
  while
• This is getting funny isnt it?

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Hungarian history

• Now it was time to have a world war
• or have two
• So to make the story short
• Austrians, Czechs, Romanians, Serbs, French,
  Germans, Russians(you get the idea)
• However, the Russian liked us as well
• So they decided to stay for 40 years...

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To quickly summarize We havent won a decent war
in the last 500 years...
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Despite all this, we do have some monuments
left...
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Things you already know about Hungary

• We ride horses and fire arrows backwards
• We eat gulasch and paprika (thats why we brush
  our teeth a lot)
• We are rarely on time (you may have noticed)
• We are No. 1 in the world in suicide and
  alcoholism.

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Some things you may not have known...

• We are also No. 1 in the number of Olympic gold
  medals and Nobel prizes per inhabitants
• We discovered the
• ball point pen
• helicopter
• A-bomb
• and of course the Rubiks cube

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Some Famous Hungarians

• Bartók Béla
• Franz Liszt
• Szent-Györgyi Albert (he discovered vitamin C)
• Teller Ede (the father of the A-bomb)
• Egerszegi Krisztina (she won 5 olympic golds)
• Horn Gyula (He let East-German refugees to flee
  to Austria in 1989
• We are very proud of them

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• (you may have noticed we write our names the
  other way around)

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Some More Famous Hungarians

• George Soros
• Tony Curtis
• André Kosztolany
• Zsazsa Gabor
• Mark Knopfler
• Gene Simmons
• Gabor Gyarmati
• Peter Soros
• Szilard Bartok

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Ooops, we almost forgot to show you pictures...

• so here they are

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Were coming to the end now...

• but we thought well share a good quote weve
  heard said about Hungarians...

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A Hungarian is one who enters the revolving door
behind you
...and comes out before you.
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By the time we count to 3 this presentation will
be over...
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we told you so...