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March Quiz
5) The medals on the officer’s chest are those awarded to a senior combat officer in the First World War and testify to an extraordinary recognition of his service during the World War and in the inter-war period.
I did some research; and from my brother Alexandru Rufanda (whom I thank from the bottom of my heart), I obtained photos and data about the real officer represented on the stamp. By coincidence his name is also Constantin Moroiu. He was a senior officer in the Targu Mures garrison. In 1932 he was a lieutenant-colonel according to the photographs. I remind you that the true Grand Master of the Grand Romanian National Lodge from 1880, Captain Constantin Moroiu, passed to the Eternal Orient in 1918! My research led to the discovery of a gravestone which commemorates an officer of the rank of lieutenant-colonel named Tiberiu Al Moroiu. Is it possible that this is the real name of the officer represented on the stamp and not Constantin Moroiu, as the seller stated on www.okazii.ro?
I’m going to do more research on this officer but the resemblance between the photo sold and the one on the incorrect stamp is pretty clear.
1 Government approved issuer of commemorative stamps 2 An on-line marketplace
Aussie Q&A
Flex your mental muscles with these twenty brainteasers selected from across the breadth of Australian politics, music, sport and pop cuture!
1 Robert Menzies formed what political party in 1944? 2 Australia’s Governor General David
Hurley was previously Governor of which State? 3 In Australian slang, what is an ankle-biter?
4 What Australian service club was founded in Geelong in 1931? 5 Name the bush kangaroo who was a
‘friend ever true?’
6 What was modelled on New York’s Coney Island and opened at Melbourne’s St Kilda in 1912?
7 Who was Australia’s first Prime
Minister?
8 Tennis great Roger Federer won his first Wimbledon title in 2003, beating which Australian in the final?
9 What Australian breakfast cereal goes with snap, crackle and pop? 10 The early social worker known for her time in aboriginal communities was
Daisy _____? 11 The walking track from Yass to Albury follows the route taken by explorers
Hovell and who? 12 Name the English county which has the same surname of the lead singer in The Seekers? 13 The first female Governor in Australia,
Dame Roma Mitchell, took office in 1991 in which State? 14 In which Australian State is there a town named Bagdad? 15 Australian Howard Florey won a
Nobel Prize for his role in developing which antibiotic? 16 Fil in the blanks: director Peter Weir directed the adaptation of Joan
Lindsay’s book called ______ __
Hanging Rock. 17 What is the health system that all
Australians are entitled to? 18 What is the better-known name for
Perth’s Cricket Ground? 19 Sam Kerr plays for which Australian national team? 20 What is the floral emblem of South
Australia?
