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Forgetting is universally considered the second death; and when we talk about personalities, their loss from memory also means the loss of landmarks, models and life stories that are part of our common treasury. In this episode we remember several Romanians whose activity meant something in their time and made a difference for the future, people who either dedicated a large part of their lives to their passion and the general good, or ended up giving their life for their creeds, but whom the ironies of contemporaries, the carelessness of the next generations, premature death or misunderstanding of the extent of the contribution deprived him of the deserved posterity: 1. Stuntman Tudor Stavru 2. Conul Iancu Kalinderu 3. Captain Valter Mărăcineanu 4. Maica Smara (Smaranda Gheorghiu) 5. Neurosurgeon Sofia Ionescu-Ogrezeanu 6. Explorer Iuliu Popper 7. Corneliu M. Popescu, the best translator of Mihei Eminescu in English BIBLIOGRAPHY: ANDRONESCU, Alexandrina; BULEI, Ion, "Cultural history studies and researches"; BARZA, Vlad, Iuliu Popper – The extraordinary destiny of the Romanian who made history "at the end of the world" and his adventures with lights and shadows, in Tierra del Fuego"; BULEI, Ion, "When the age was born"; DRAGOMIR, Silviu N., "A lesser-known Bucharest" - "The murder in Batistei Street"; EMINESCU, Mihai, "Poems", translated by Corneliu M. Popescu; MARIA, Queen of Romania, "The Story of My Life"; MĂRCULESCU, Cornel, "Maica Smara and the pandurul from Vladimiri"; MOCANU, Vasile I., "Figures of heroes - Captain Nicolae Valter Mărăcineanu"; OPRISAN, Cătălin, "Eminescu died, the second time, 45 years ago. And we desecrated his memory!"; PĐUREAN, Florin, "D'ale lui Conu' Iancu Kalinderu. Critical views on the life of an academic"; PREDESCU, Alexandru, "Old Bucharest times"; TATULESCU, Maria, "Smara Gheorghiu, animator of Romanian education and culture", in: "Studies and articles on history"; VELESCU, Oliver, "Ion Kalinderu. Documents and Testimonies”;