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Obrad Vučurović
Obrad Vučurović (Serbian: Обрад Вучуровић), (April 1, 1922 - September 18, 2013) was a Serbian rocket engineer and general of the Yugoslav People's Army. He was leading figure in the development of rocket technology at the Military Technical Institute (VTI-Vojnotehnički Institut) in Belgrade for the Yugoslav land forces. Military career He finished primary school in 1932 and high school in 1941. On July 13, 1941, he joined the partisans. He completed the war as a major in the OZNA, later moving to the UDBA. After the war he enrolled mechanical engineering faculty in Zagreb, among other things he studied with Wernher von Braun's students, who taught as visiting professors in Zagreb. One of his teachers became head of the Aerospace Center in Stuttgart. Pavle Savić, head of the Yugoslavis nuclear research program, recommended Obrad Vučurović to Paris for two courses. There he studied weapons and nuclear technology. In Paris he obtained knowledge on rocket tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krivošije
Krivošije ( sr-cyrl, Кривошије, ) are a historical tribe and microregion in southwestern Montenegro, located on a high plateau belonging to the Orjen mountain range, north of the Bay of Kotor. Krivošije was historically located at a tripoint between the Principality of Montenegro, Austro-Hungarian (formerly Venetian) Bay of Kotor and Ottoman Sanjak of Herzegovina. Name It is speculated that the name of the region is derived from the last name Krivošić, which is mentioned in 15th century Ragusan sources. In Serbo-Croatian language, ''krivi'' (neutral form ''krivo'') means "bent" or "crooked" оr "guilty", while ''šije'' (singular: ''šija'') means "necks", and it may be derived from some ancestor with a deformity. It might also be derived from the word ''krv'' meaning blood, as in linked by blood relationships. Origin During William James Stillman's travels, an American Journalist, in 1904, he listed the Krivošije (''Crivoscians'') as a Slavonic tribe. Geogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
