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Nikola Tesla's Youngest Descendant, Serbian Refugee
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Posted on 12/22/2009 2:06:44 AM PST by kronos77

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To: rawhide
It is an uncanny resembleance!

Tesla....he invented tomorrow!

21 posted on 12/22/2009 6:51:40 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Promoted by God to be a mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...................Thanks, Susan!)
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To: kronos77
Funny how the Croats keeping trying to claim him, they always have a knack for stealing someone else's history.

There are a lot of Mandic's in the Chicago area.

22 posted on 12/27/2009 9:08:31 PM PST by montyspython ("I don't believe in 'no win' scenarios." - James T. Kirk)
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These quotes are telling and describe Croatian hypocrisy quite nicely.

"It is not surprising that Croats, who generally feel no shame over misappropriating the great inventor’s name and ethnic roots, see no contradiction in claiming Nikola Tesla as their own on the one hand and, on the other, committing monstrous genocides twice in 20th century against Tesla’s kith and kin — the Serbian population in Krajina."

"Tesla’s descendants are a living proof of Croat hypocrisy and shamelessness, among them Danijela, who was only 5-years-old when Croat army under Franjo Tudjman launched another pogrom on Krajina Serbs, codenamed operation “Storm” (Oluja), in 1995. Without a father who passed away two years before, Danijela was forced to flee her village Raduč, where all the Teslas come from, with her mother Milka and more than 250,000 other Krajina Serbs. Their family house was dynamited and torched by the raging Croat army, but Danijela Tesla managed to reach Serbia."

23 posted on 12/27/2009 9:11:36 PM PST by montyspython ("I don't believe in 'no win' scenarios." - James T. Kirk)
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From Wikipedia:

Tesla was born to Serbian parents in the village of Smiljan, Austrian Empire near the town of Gospić, found in the territory of modern day Croatia.

His family moved to Gospić in 1862.

Tesla went to school in Karlovac.

Tesla then studied electrical engineering at the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz (1875).

Tesla was later persuaded by his father to attend the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, which he attended for the summer term of 1880.

In 1936, Tesla wrote in a telegram to Vladko Maček: "I'm equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland. Long live all Yugoslavs."

These are facts. He was born of Serbian parents, raised in Croatia, and educated in Croatia and the Austrian Empire. Tesla was a brilliant man whose memory should not be dragged into the pit of ethnic hatred. He himself did not harbor this hatred.

24 posted on 01/07/2010 9:08:34 AM PST by grand wazoo
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There was no Croatia at that time.


25 posted on 01/22/2010 6:11:37 AM PST by RolandOfGilead
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Of course there was. It was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Croatia Historical Atlas

Tesla referred to Croatia as his "Fatherland".

26 posted on 01/23/2010 6:39:50 PM PST by grand wazoo
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That’s like saying Croatia was part of the Roman Empire, that’s nonsense.
There was no Croatia at that time, there was only Austro-Hungarian empire.


27 posted on 01/24/2010 4:09:15 AM PST by RolandOfGilead
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To: kronos77

Too bad Tesla was a pinko.


28 posted on 01/24/2010 7:19:44 AM PST by gilor (Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
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To: RolandOfGilead
That’s like saying Croatia was part of the Roman Empire, that’s nonsense. There was no Croatia at that time, there was only Austro-Hungarian empire.

Dalmatia and Pannonia were part of the Roman Empire. Croatia has existed since the arrival of the Croatians in the 7th century. The first Croatian Kingdom was established in 925 AD. Whether it was part of a larger entity or not does not mean that it did not exist. Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina still existed as part of Yugoslavia.

29 posted on 01/24/2010 6:39:19 PM PST by grand wazoo
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To: kronos77

This article lacks facts.
Nikola had ZERO descendants (never married nor procreated). Any Tesla or Mandic’/h relatives alive today were only produced by his siblings/cousins.

Re: quote from article “ “My father Dane is Nikola Tesla’s grand-grandchild — Nikola Tesla’s first cousin is the grand-grandfather of my father,” Danijela explains quietly, and only if asked. “..... NOBODY is Tesla’s grand-grand child. He had ZERO children. Then she continues to contradict herself saying Teslas cousin is the grand grandfather.

I am a descendant from his mother’s brother - Mandic’ (Mandich) family. I have met and keep contact with true Tesla relatives. This article is complete bubkis.


30 posted on 05/28/2013 11:07:48 PM PDT by Djuka (article fill of baloney)
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