Its name is derived from the Latin name for the Polish capital Warsaw.
December 30 - Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw.
For the successful execution of assigned tasks to free Warsaw Commander of the Order of February 10, 1945 the regiment was given the name "Warsaw".
The Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held in 1955, in Warsaw, the capital of the then People's Republic of Poland.
As part of the changes in the leadership of the country, he resigned from the Politburo in November 1985, a year later was appointed Ambassador to Warsaw, Poland by President Mohammad Najibullah.
As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw.
He remained in Europe in order to attend a congress of the International Union of Students in Warsaw, Poland and finally travelled to Budapest and worked at the headquarters of the World Federation of Democratic Youth for nine months.
Polish leader Józef Piłsudski has written a note of personal thanks to Hoover; one of the streets in Warsaw has been named after him; he also received honorary degrees from the Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University and Lviv University, among other honors (such as several honorary citizenships of various Polish towns).
Antoni Osuchowski (13 June 1849 in Paris - 9 January 1928 in Warsaw) was a Polish lawyer, publicist, philanthropist and national activist in Silesia, Warmia and Mazury.
In 1927, Fokczyński had opened a small radio workshop on Warsaw's New World Street.
In Warsaw, Poland, a powerful storm topples a brick chimney across the street onto a crowd of people.
In June 1927 it was shown at the first Aviation Exhibition in Warsaw.
Belweder is normally used by the President and the government for ceremonial purposes, while the President resides at the "Presidential Palace" in the city center.
In the early 1990s the Institute of High Pressure Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), under the leadership of Dr. Sylwester Porowski developed technology to create gallium nitride crystals with high structural quality and fewer than 100 defects per square centimeter — at least 10,000 times better than the best sapphire-supported crystal.
Their objective was to set up radio communications between Mission HQ in Warsaw, the UK and units of the Polish army.
This was successfully repulsed and the Red Army advanced to the gates of Warsaw only to be pushed back in its turn and defeated on the banks of Vistula.
The CD was inaugurated at its first biennial ministerial conference hosted by the government of Poland in Warsaw on June 25–June 27, 2000.
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London, England (2002)
Sala Kongresowa
Warsaw, Poland (2006)
Gallagher Convention Center,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Founded by the humorist Yosef Tunkel (or Der tunkeler, his pen name, meaning 'The dark one'), the paper was taken on by Jacob Marinoff when Tunkel left to work for an established paper in Warsaw.
Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.
He went on to report from various European centres including Warsaw, Moscow, Prague, Athens, Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest.
In 1939, in Warsaw, he married Ruth Kaminska, the daughter of Polish actress Ida Kaminska.
Programming is prepared by teams of Belarusian journalists working in Warsaw and in Minsk together with a network of reporters in the regions of Belarus.
Because Eva's father, Andrew Nagorski, worked as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, she has had an international upbringing, living in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn and Warsaw, and has travelled extensively.
Nine universities conferred him the title of Doctorate Honoris Causa: Groningen (1914), Leuven (1927), Warsaw (1929), Brussels (1929), Geneva (1930), Jassy (1934), Lausanne (1935), Basel (1936) and Athens (1937).
Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.
Grzegorz Pojmański (born April 16, 1959, in Warsaw), Polish astronomer, worker of Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland.
On May 12, 1983, while celebrating graduating from High School with his friends, Grzegorz Przemyk was arrested by members of the Milicja Obywatelska on Warsaw's Castle Square.
Guilty or Innocent of Using the N Word is a 2006 documentary directed by British director, Bhavna Malkani, in Warsaw, capital of Poland.
His personal best time was 3.37.3 minutes, achieved in July 1977 in Warsaw.
After moving to Warsaw, he became a teacher of mathematics and measuring, and then rector (1799–1801) of Collegium Nobilium.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Warsaw, Illinois, in 1836.
Several tenement houses formerly owned by wealthy Gutgeld family are preserved in Warsaw until today (for e. g. Czerniakowska street no. 174, 176, 205, Rozbrat street no. 28/30, Dmochowskiego street no. 6)
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He was the mayor of Warsaw (1789–1790), during which period he organized the Black Procession on 2 December 1789 (a march of burghers who delivered a petition to the king).
Since 2003 he has served as Artistic Director of the National Theatre in Warsaw.
He is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Professor Krzysztof Jakowicz.
Jazz Jamboree Festival, one of the biggest and oldest jazz festivals in Europe, takes place in Warsaw.
Joe Cutler (born 1968) is a British composer who studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before a scholarship at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland.
Sikorski was born in Zurich, but studied in Warsaw, first music at the Warsaw Conservatory and then philosophy at the University of Warsaw.
Koji Kamoji (born 1935 in Tokyo) is a Japanese/Polish contemporary artist, who lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Ulica Kubusia Puchatka is a street in central Warsaw, Poland named after Winnie-the-Pooh.
Leon Barszczewski (February 20, 1849 in Warsaw – March 19, 1910 in Częstochowa) was a Polish soldier, topographer, explorer of the Central Asia culture, naturalist, and glaciologer.
The family soon returned to Warsaw and the young Labedz decided to follow his father into the medical profession.
Carlotta J. Thompkins (her presumed real name) was born on April 21, 1844 in Warsaw, Kentucky.
This trip was part of a larger one that took her to Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest.
She was born in Warsaw, Poland, spent some time in France and England, and later came to the United States with her parents.
Scheduled passenger trains occasionally run on this section of line, such as the Jan Kiepura, which runs between Amsterdam and Warsaw via Frankfurt, (with a through coach to Moscow).
By the time the Japanese were driven out, the city was in ruins, becoming the second most severely damaged Allied capital city during the war, the first being Warsaw in Poland.
The movement was legalized in 1994, in the same year in Warsaw, a Center of Help was opened.
After king Charles X Gustav of Sweden together with Brandenburg had defeated the Polish army near Warsaw in 1656, its troops passed Missunde, where they made large destruction.
She was the first British winner of the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Warsaw, playing the Shostakovich Sonata and Elgar's concerto.
"Brentwood" was created by Wallace A. Bartlett, a Civil War veteran, former foreman for the Government Printing Office, Patent Office examiner, and inventor originally from Warsaw, New York.
After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Germany, the Von Lubers travel to Warsaw, where the baron sells arms to Polish General Borelski (Albert Bassermann).
Flight testing of the first prototype began in 1931, with the second prototype following in 1932, competing in that year's International Air Meeting in Warsaw and the 1932 Salon de l'Aeronautique at Paris.
Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna im. Aleksandra Zelwerowicza) located in Warsaw
In 1815, the town was organized as the Plantation of Sebasticook, but was incorporated on June 18, 1819 as Warsaw after Warsaw, Poland.
Four engines have survived: OKl27-10 in Skierniewice (as an exhibit), OKl27-26 in Warsaw Railroad Museum (as an exhibit), OKl27-27 in Gdynia (as an exhibit) and OKl27-41 in Chabówka.
The Polish national broadcaster TVP held a national final for the 2010 contest on 14 February in Warsaw, where 10 songs competed to represent Poland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
Central Archives of Historical Records (Polish: Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych) in Warsaw is one of the four national archives of Poland.
Soldiers of the Polish First Army Park otherwise known as Praga Park is a park in Warsaw, Poland.
UN forces push the Red Army back across Europe, and by year's end have reached Warsaw and the Ukrainian border.
According to the book "Lands of Chernihiv-Siveria" published in Warsaw in 1936 of Polish historian from Russia Stefan Maria Kuchinsky
Fourth, in contrast to the glamorous lifestyles depicted in the James Bond canon, Quiller's operational locations are almost always unfriendly (Warsaw in winter, the Sahara Desert under the blazing sun, etc.) and he is aware that his expenses will be scrutinised minutely.
Squadron alone dropped 6,000,000 leaflets during a raid over Warsaw; a mission successfully accomplished, despite difficulties encountered with navigation and atrocious weather conditions.
Rayat ash-Shaghilah sent its own delegation to the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Warsaw, Poland, in 1955.
Grayson leads a Maquis force into the heart of Russia to discover the source of the Chimera invasion, but Grayson goes Missing in action during the battle to liberate Warsaw, though rumors spread of a British soldier in Russia that has become known as the "Cloven Killer".
In February 1961, the German Democratic Republic's news agency ADN reported that Kelley had been "harassed", "threatened" and then arrested by police in West Berlin whilst visiting the city in connection with his attendance at a conference for coexistence and disarmament in Warsaw.
In 1939, before the Nazi invasion of Poland reached Łódź, his family fled to Warsaw.
He speaks seven languages, including Russian, was one of the most widely read commentators on Communist affairs, and has reported from Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Bucharest.
Ryszard Białous codename: Jerzy (b. 4 April 1914 in Warsaw - 24 March 1992 in Neuquen, Argentina) was a Polish scoutmaster (harcmistrz) captain of the AK-Szare Szeregi.
The publication continued well into the late 1990s with various owners, while Nowicki left to interview the last survivors of the Warsaw cabaret for his first book, Warsaw: The Cabaret Years (Mercury House, 1992), about cabaret and coffeehouse life between the wars in Warsaw.
In November 2008, ‘A Pirate’s Life for Me’ was taken to Warsaw, Poland, by Etc Media International.
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Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876 - 1901 in Warsaw) Polish poet and translator, brother of a poet Wincenty Korab-Brzozowski and son of a romantic bard Karol Brzozowski.
Prior to his assignment in Jakarta, Mull worked as Deputy Director of the State Department Operations Center, as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, as Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs in the Bureau of European Affairs, and as Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of State.
For the sake of Peace in Europe shortly before the Berlin Wall Fall conducted seven day prayer without food and water on the grave of Karl Marx, burned his finger phalanx and made alone Peace March from Warsaw to said Wall.
During sojourns in Warsaw, Paris, and the fictional island of Nipu (based on Japan, known to natives as Nippon), the protagonist gathers numerous experiences that lead him to a rationalist outlook and teach him how to become a good man, and thus a good citizen.
He sends his nephew to Warsaw, posing as a Serbian pianist, to seek out the identity of the real traitor and thus exonerate himself.
Maciek (Marcin Dorociński) is a Warsaw School of Economics professor visiting from Poland, and she pursues him relentlessly, even going so far as to follow him all the way to Warsaw and ensconcing herself in an apartment right across the street from the apartment where he lives with his wife and family.
He was part of the mission to Poland for the purpose of meeting with mayors in Warsaw and Krakow to work with newly elected officials on how to govern in an atmosphere still clouded due to 30 years of Communist rule.
A month before the outbreak of World War II, in late July 1939, Rejewski and his Cipher Bureau colleagues and superiors, at an official Warsaw conference, initiated French and British military cryptologists into their techniques and technology and gave each of their western allies a German Enigma machine that they had reconstructed.
Tomasz Karol Borkowy (born 17 September 1952, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish actor, but has been working in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s.
The album was recorded in Warsaw in Studio 333 and produced by Bartłomiej Kuźniak and Olivier Heim.
The magazine was created by a group of secondary school pupils from Warsaw in the autumn of 1978 (Wojciech Ciszewski, Wojciech Dutkiewicz, Piotr Kapuściński, Zbigniew Karaczun, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Piotr Rogóyski) associated with the Movement for Defense of Human and Civic Rights (ROPCiO).
Dr. Kaminski holds an M.S. degree in International Economics and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Economics from the Main School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (which has since been renamed Warsaw School of Economics), and an MBA from Fordham University in New York.
Dr. Witold Nazarewicz (born 1954) is a nuclear physicist born in Warsaw, Poland, currently teaching at the University of Tennessee.
Włodzimierz Słobodnik (born September 19, 1900, in Novoukrainka, died July 10, 1991, in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, translator of French, Russian, and Soviet literature, a satirist, and the author of numerous books for young adults.
Szczęsny trained at Agrykola Warsaw as a young player; soon, Legia Warsaw's goalkeeping coach, Krzysztof Dowhań, was so impressed with the young keeper, he allowed him to take part in a training camp with Legia's first team at the age of 15, joining them afterwards.
His poetry was first published in Der yud (Warsaw) in 1901 and from then on his poems, satires, drama and children's stories appeared in Yiddish publications throughout Europe and North America.
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Moving to Warsaw in 1911 he wrote for Der moment, editing its humour pages, Der krumer spiegel, or The Crooked Mirror.
Afterwards, he set out on a tour of the central and eastern European capitols, visiting Warsaw on December 3, Bucharest on December 8, Belgrade on December 12, and Prague on December 15, in each case discussing the European situation with the ministers of the countries in question, and seeking to foster friendly relations with France.
Zbigniew Romaszewski (born 2 January 1940 in Warsaw) is a Polish conservative politician, a Polish senator since 1989, and a human rights activist.
In 1882 a railway station was built here on the railway line that connected Warsaw, Brest and Moscow.
After tests in the wind tunnel in Warsaw, has been offered command of the Air Force project, which was adopted on 28 March 1938, and received the official designation Zmaj R-1.
In 1948 she organized the Department of Musicology at the University of Warsaw and from 1958-75 served as its director.
Zofia Wasilkowska (9 December 1910 in Kalisz – 1 December 1996 in Warsaw), was a Polish communist politician.
Noskowski was born in Warsaw and was originally trained at the Warsaw Conservatory studying violin and composition.
From 1907 he was connected professionally to many theaters in the country, and in the 1920s and 1930s, he was a musical manager and director in Warsaw cabarets ("Wodewil", "Qui pro quo", "Banda", "Perskie Oko", "Morskie Oko", "Ananas", "Wielka Rewia", "Cyganeria").
Zygmunt Załęski (February 13, 1892 – January 12, 1966 in Warsaw), pseudonym Gnatowski, was a Polish national movement activist, politician and publicist.
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Earthquake caused fear in Warsaw (Poland), and in Bulgaria, the cities of Ruse, Varna and Vidin suffered some damage and panic amongst the population.
Adrian Krzyżanowski (born 8 September 1788 in Dębowo - died 21 August 1852 in Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and translator of German literature.
His maternal grandfather, Anatole Pavlovich Boudakovitch, was a Russian-Polish count and colonel in the Imperial Russian Army, who died in battle near Warsaw during World War I.
Antek Rozpylacz ("Antek the Arsonist"), the nom-de-guerre of Antoni Szczęsny Godlewski (1923 in Warsaw – 1944, in Warsaw)
He held several management positions in Polish research institutions, including head of the Process Control Division in the Computer Centre for Building Industry and of the Division of Automatic Control research group, Institute of Glass and Ceramics, both in Warsaw.
By early 2009, Allen Vallarta Wholesale was one of 50 U.S. companies to be invited to a prestigious Department of Commerce Trade Winds Forum in Warsaw, Poland, which Mr. Allen attended with his attorney, Eric Kaufman, and met with senior representatives of several European countries.
Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).
During World War II he remained in Warsaw and after the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 he was arrested by the Germans and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp.
The power station is situated on an important main railway line from Prague/Vienna to Warsaw.
Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).
Feliks Paweł Jarocki (Pacanów, 14 January 1790 - 25 March 1865, Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and entomologist.
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16, a 2011 belly-landing of a Boeing 767-300ER in Warsaw, Poland
According to one story, recorded by poet-journalist Artur Oppman, the duck dwells in the cellars beneath Warsaw's Ostrogski Castle (now home to the Fryderyk Chopin Museum).
Places named Tyszkiewicz Palace, "former Tyszkiewicz Palace", Tiškevičiai Palace, and other historical properties of the family are located in Warsaw, Kraków and Vilnius, as well as in numerous towns of modern Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine (in Palanga, Kretinga, Lahojsk, Raudondvaris, Berdychiv, Biržai, Kavarskas, Deltuva, Trakai, Lentvaris, Seredžius, etc.)
Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams, New York: The Overlook Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59020-088-9 (an historical novel set in the Warsaw Ghetto and narrated by an Ibbur)
In the 1870s, Monighetti designed new interiors for the Skierniewice Palace (near Warsaw), Anichkov Palace and the Yusupov Palace (both in Saint Petersburg).
He also arranged and composed for stage productions at the Stary Teatr and Theater Scena STU in Kraków, the National Theatre and the Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw.
In the Summer of 2003, Warsaw was the headlining act of the Tour de Fat, which had 13 dates in the Southwest States.Warsaw is sponsored by Jägermeister and played the Arizona date of the Jägermeister Music Tour opening for Alterbridge in 2004.
He sang as a boy in Warsaw's cathedral and later studied law at the city's university; but after a few years he abandoned his legal training and went to Milan in Italy to study voice.
His younger son, Francesco (born in Klagenfurt in 1783) settled at Warsaw in Congress Poland for the rest of his life, estranged from his father.
Upon his arrival at Warsaw, the king having notice of it, sent for him to his court.
In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950.
After studies at the Warsaw Theological Academy (now: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw he earned at May 15, 1995 the Licentiate, at June 8, 1998 the Doctorate and in 2005 the Habilitation with his book: "Katecheza o małżeństwie i rodzinie w Polsce po Soborze Watykańskim II." (Religious education in the Families in Poland after the Second Vatican Council) at the Pontifical University of John Paul II.
Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski (May 7, 1955 in Rudołowice – April 10, 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison.
The statue at the fair was a replica of a memorial that was converted into bullets by the Germans after they entered Warsaw.
The province's sole international airport, Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport, is located in Bydgoszcz and has connections to a number of European destinations as well as Warsaw, which are all operated by either Irish carrier Ryanair or LOT Polish Airlines.
At the end of 2007, La Caixa had 5,480 branches, of which 5,468 are located throughout Spain and two operating abroad (Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania), and 10 representative offices in Germany, Belgium, China, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
The album's title comes from a line in the song "Copernicus" (included on the album): "Our love will take this globe by storm/If it's London, Warsaw, or New York".
Marian Mazur (Radom, December 7, 1909 – Warsaw, January 21, 1983) was an expert in cybernetics, and author of: The Cybernetic Theory of Autonomous Systems, 1966; and The Qualitative Theory of Information, 1970.
Different capitals of individual former duchies of Mazovia also include Czersk and later Warsaw.
Nathusius Investments Sp.z o.o. is a media investment company with a focus on diversified b2b publishing and event activities based in Warsaw, Poland.
Between 1898 and 1902 Zalman Nożyk, a renowned Warsaw merchant, and his wife Ryfka financed such temple at Twarda street, next to the neighbourhood of Grzybów and Plac Grzybowski.
Between 1851 and 1862, the railway connecting Saint Petersburg and Warsaw via Pskov was built and crossed Luzhsky Uyezd.
From the very beginning patriotic activity of the Society was endangered by the stiff competition with "Blacha", as people of Warsaw called roistering youths grouped around Copper-Roof Palace (quarters of prince Józef Poniatowski), who wore green frock coats with "Jabłonna" inscription on their collars.
He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1929, making his theatrical debut at 21 November that year as Francis Flute in the Vilnius Municipal Theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Born in Warsaw 1898; studied piano at the Warsaw Music Institute and Rome's St. Cecilia Academy.
Tadeusz Nalepa (26 August 1943 in Zgłobień, Poland – 4 March 2007, Warsaw) – was a Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist, and lyricist.
His solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of Johann Paul Schiffelholz (misattributed to Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello) for gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).
The Tomisławice coal mine is a large mine in the centre of Poland in Tomisławice, Greater Poland Voivodeship, 167 km west of the capital, Warsaw.
He received a fellowship from the Department of Education to study in Warsaw, Poland, where he became Doctor in Medicine, and spent two years of internship at Hospital of Medical University of Warsaw.
He sat as a jury member in more than 40 international competitions including the Rachmaninov Competition (which he founded), the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the Bartók-Liszt Competition in Budapest, and international competitions in Montreal, Tokyo, Brussels and others.
In 1851 Plehve's family moved from Meshchovsk to Warsaw, where his father accepted a job as instructor in a gymnasium.
In 1951 the Warsaw University of Technology incorporated the Wawelberg and Rotwand's School of Engineering.