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Welcome to Raluca’s Index

Find your favourite articles here!

9 min readOct 15, 2021

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Welcome to Raluca’s Index

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Raluca Enescu

Valentine’s Day Special: two amazing power couples who ruled in modern history

A Queen and her King Consort; a President and a First Lady. One in the UK, one in America. They shaped the world as we know it, and did it…

11 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Valentine’s Day Special: two amazing power couples who ruled in modern history

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Raluca Enescu
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The Daily Cuppa

There’s a village in France called Sainte-Verge, and its name is funny to those who speak French.

In French vierge- spelled with an i- means virgin. On the other hand, verge- like the name of the place, officially means rod or staff —…

1 min readFeb 6, 2022

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There’s a village in France called Sainte-Verge, and its name is funny to those who speak French.

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Raluca Enescu
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The Haven

Three foods with confusing names, and the explanation for it

The Jerusalem artichoke does not come from Israel.

3 min readFeb 6, 2022

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Three foods with confusing names, and the explanation for it

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Raluca Enescu
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ILLUMINATION

A physics lesson featuring Betelgeuse and a 19th Century Romantic poet

On the 15th of January in Romania we celebrate the birthday of Mihai Eminescu, our most famous poet. Born in 1950, he is sort of like our…

10 min readFeb 6, 2022

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A physics lesson featuring Betelgeuse and a 19th Century Romantic poet

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Raluca Enescu
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The Daily Cuppa

Canaries were named after dogs (sort of!)

It all has to do with the Canary Islands.

1 min readJan 27, 2022

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Canaries were named after dogs (sort of!)

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Raluca Enescu
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The Daily Cuppa

Here’s a fact that sounds made up but it’s totally true:

One of the learned men who joined King Alfred the Great’s Court in the last decades of the 9th Century was named Werewolf.

1 min readJan 24, 2022

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Here’s a fact that sounds made up but it’s totally true:

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Raluca Enescu

Three Savage and Masterful Insults From Iconic World Leaders

From Napoleon to Winston Churchill to Teddy Roosevelt, the great men of history did not hold back, especially when it came to their closest…

11 min readJan 21, 2022

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Three Savage and Masterful Insults From Iconic World Leaders

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Raluca Enescu
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The Daily Cuppa

Budgets and bellies came to us from the Gauls of Ancient France.

I’m back to Medium after a nearly two months break, and ready to entertain you with interesting etymologies.

1 min readJan 20, 2022

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Budgets and bellies came to us from the Gauls of Ancient France.

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Raluca Enescu

I’m back!

Hi all, this is a very quick note to let you know that, after taking a break from Medium last month, mostly because of getting caught up…

1 min readJan 18, 2022

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I’m back!

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Raluca Enescu

Raluca Enescu

Small charity manager; workers’ rights advocate; data cruncher; purveyor of pretty graphs. Writing in History of Yesterday, Illumination and The Daily Cuppa.

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