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Fate of Polish WWII museum unclear amid battle over history

Edit The Florida Times Union 29 Jan 2017

GDANSK, Poland — It was supposed to be the first museum in the world to tell the story of World War II in its entirety by focusing on all the nations caught up in that global conflict ... One object on display is a farewell note written on a handkerchief by a Polish politician, Boleslaw Wnuk, before he was executed in 1940 by the Germans in an operation that targeted the Polish intelligentsia ... That would be a dreadful civilization lost.”....

Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman dies in UK at age 91

Edit The Roanoke Times 09 Jan 2017

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most prominent and prolific European sociologists of recent decades, has died at the age of 91 ... "It was the rational world of modern civilization that made the Holocaust thinkable," Bauman wrote ... Bauman was born Nov ... He is survived by his second wife, Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania, the daughter of postwar Polish president Boleslaw Bierut, three daughters and several grandchildren. ....

Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman dies age 91

Edit Belfast Telegraph 09 Jan 2017

Polish-born Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most prominent and prolific European sociologists of recent decades, has died at his home in Leeds. He was 91 ... Share Go To ... "It was the rational world of modern civilization that made the Holocaust thinkable," Mr Bauman wrote ... He is survived by his second wife, Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania, the daughter of post-war Polish president Boleslaw Bierut, three daughters and several grandchildren ... ....

Obituary: Boleslaw Kozub, soldier and butcher

Edit Scotsman 16 Dec 2016

Boleslaw Kozub, soldier and butcher. Born. 13 August 1915  in Raclawice, Poland. Died.  25 November 2016, in Edinburgh, aged 101. When Boleslaw Kozub proudly donned his army uniform and left a little family farewell party to start his national service he had no idea it would be 21 years before he saw his village again ... The city is just south of his birthplace, Raclawice, where he grew up the second youngest of seven children ... ....

Prospex: Drilling in Poland's Onshore Kolo License Begins

Edit Rigzone 12 Dec 2016

Prospex Oil and Gas Plc announces that the Boleslaw-1 well in Poland's onshore Kolo license has been spudded ... ....

Here's how you know the coal industry is all but dead

Edit AOL 07 Nov 2016

Considering the number of bankruptcies to hit the coal industry over the past few years, there's a certain irony in the crazy rally that has seen coal prices triple in 2016 ... 29 PHOTOS. US Coal Mines. See Gallery. US Coal Mines. A Caterpillar Inc ... 13, 2016 ... of ... Miners working about 1,640 feet underground at the Boleslaw Smialy coal mine, a unit of the coal miner Kompania Weglowa, in Laziska Gorne, Silesia, southern Poland, on September 11 ... of....

Property restitution an issue in Poland long after communism

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 23 Oct 2016

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Warsaw court had no questions when a landlord known for brutal evictions sought the return of an apartment house seized under communism from a Jewish woman ... But she refuses to go ... The restitution problem goes back to a 1945 decree by communist leader Boleslaw Bierut that resulted in the seizure of thousands of Warsaw's houses, plots of land and palaces from their owners, many of them Jewish ... ....

Poland profile - Timeline

Edit BBC News 06 Oct 2016

A chronology of key events. ... 1025 - Boleslaw I proclaims the Kingdom of Poland ... ....

US Army promotions to sergeant for July, 2016

Edit Stars and Stripes 24 Jun 2016

See the July, 2016 staff sergeant promotion list here. The following U.S. Army specialists have been selected for promotion to the rank of sergeant, as of July 1, 2016.. ABANDA SOLOMON AFUHU. SPC. 92W. ABREO JUSTIN DEAN. SPC. 11B. ACKEE ANDRE DEXTER. SPC. 31B. ACOSTA BRIAN AGUSTIN. SPC. 15F. ADAMS MARK DEMETRIUS. SPC. 11B. ADELUSI ANDREW OLUMIDE. SPC. 92G. ADEROGBA ADENIKE OLUWAPELUM. SPC. 68W. ADHIKARI BIKASH. SPC. 92Y ... SPC. 92Y ... SPC ... BEDNARSKI STEFAN BOLESLAW ... ....

Amid charred ruins, an old soldier's portrait, a small sign of hope

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 31 May 2016

Perhaps the painting had survived the flames - the cherished, nearly century-old portrait of ......

Story of cities #28: how postwar Warsaw was rebuilt using 18th century paintings

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2016

When Warsaw’s Old Town was destroyed by Hitler’s troops in the second world war, the nation mobilised to rebuild the city with the rubble of its own destruction – and the work of Italian painter Bernardo Bellotto ... Twitter ... Twitter ... In response, when Boleslaw Beirut was made president of Poland after the second world war, his Six Year Plan for Warsaw – a text full of communist propaganda – tackled the issues of housing and light head on....

"Kopec, Genevieve

Edit The Morning Call 05 Jan 2016

Genevieve "Jean" A. Kopec, 95, formerly of Allentown, passed away Saturday, January 2, 2016, in Whitehall Manor. She was the wife of the late Michael J. Kopec ... She was the daughter of the late Boleslaw and Mary Nechetsky ... ....

Eco-laws and the rise of cheap energy fan slow burnout of coal

Edit Business Day 04 Dec 2015

Boleslaw Smialy coal mine, a unit of coal miner Kompania Weglowa, in Laziska Gorne, Silesia, southern Poland. Picture. REUTERS/KACPER PEMPEL. Related articles. Utilities seek new strategies as they face low-carbon world Allianz turns back on coal as returns evaporate Britain signals closure of dirty coal power plants.