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Mystery solved: Kelowna's Quo Vadis Motel (A Second Look)

Castanet 06 Aug 2023
Vintage postcard of the Quo Vadis Motel in Kelowna. In my last column, I noted there was an unidentified motel in the historical photo taken near the intersection of KLO and Lakeshore Roads ... I discovered a novel titled, Quo Vadis, written by the Nobel prize-winning Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, was published in 1896 ... ....
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Polish Cultural Institute continues online Polish literature series

The Am-Pol Eagle 24 Jul 2023
Polish Cultural Institute New York presents Encounters with Polish Literature online and now features "Henryk Sienkiewicz with Stanley Bill." ... Novelist and journalist Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1917) became Poland’s first Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1905.
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Polonia memorabilia to be found in many places

The Am-Pol Eagle 14 Jul 2023
Father Cornelian Dende FATHER CORNELIAN DENDE SAVES. IMPORTANT PIECE. OF POLISH HISTORY ... The Franciscan was told he could have the rare tome because it was just some of the old junk they were throwing out ... The book was Quo Vadis, a novel about the time of Christ by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, which they were reading in English translation ... .
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Poland: The Nation and Its Faith, by Jacek Szela

The Unz Review 04 Jul 2023
He repeated what King John Casimir had done in 1657, which in turn was described by Henryk Sienkiewicz in the above-mentioned historical novel, The Deluge ... was precisely the period described by Henryk Sienkiewicz and filmed by Jerzy Hofmann in The Deluge, as mentioned above).
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Grapevine May 24, 2023: The seven-year itch

The Jerusalem Post 24 May 2023
Henryk Sienkiewicz believed in creating a national mythology at the expense of historical truth in order to “uplift hearts.” Stefan Zeromski believed it was fundamental to recall the dark moments and despicable facts of Polish history, and that it was necessary for ...
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Quo vadis, Część 1/2 - Henryk Sienkiewicz | Audiobook PL

Bitchute 23 Apr 2023
Go to the source via the article link to view the video ....
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History does not bear out leftists’ smear campaign against Pope John Paul II

Life Site 12 Apr 2023
The Polish Left’s priorities ... Naturally, the primary obstacle to achieving these goals is the Catholic Church ... The great Polish artists of the nineteenth century whose work was filled with patriotic fervor – the composer Frederic Chopin, the novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, the poet Adam Mickiewicz – all found spiritual refuge in the Church ... READ ... READ ... St.
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Germans in Russia, Germans in America: The Tragic Failure of Pan-Germania, or What Might Have ...

The Unz Review 20 Feb 2023
Useful links.. https.//infogalactic.com/info/History_of_Germans_in_Russia,_Ukraine_and_the_Soviet_Union ... Something of the Germanic character is conveyed in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s historical epic WITH FIRE AND SWORD ... The point is even the Polish-nationalist Sienkiewicz acknowledged something impressive about the German character ... Shame! ... ....
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A story about Robert Sienkiewicz, not Henryk

The Am-Pol Eagle 27 Jan 2023
Polish writer, Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of “Quo Vadis,” and many other important novels and stories. A street near the Broadway Market a block from Bob’s historic East Side home on Fillmore Avenue is named after Henryk Sienkiewicz, something that Bob points out to people who may not know about it.
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The GOP Is the Unlettered Party. And That’s a Good Thing.

Black Hills Pioneer 09 Jan 2023
The frontrunners will be scrappy populists ... No peons ... A few decades after Tocqueville commented on the constructive genius of normal citizens in America, perceptive foreign observers like Englishman George Ruxton and Pole Henryk Sienkiewicz likewise wandered our land and discovered deep reserves of insight and fair play among our untutored residents.
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Medley...of...readable...toys...for...Christmas

The Am-Pol Eagle 16 Dec 2022
Peeking into a toy store window along New York City’s 5th Ave. the other day, I was reminded of those long, lost days of yesteryear when we all received a vast variety of toys for Christmas ... Answers follow…. ♦ The 1947 film favorite, Miracle on 34th Street ... A) Adam Mickiewicz B) Henryk Sienkiewicz C) Cyprian Norwid D) Jan Styka ... Quiz Answers ... .
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Critics tell Mike Witynski $1.25 is not $1

The Am-Pol Eagle 31 Oct 2022
by David Franczyk. EARLY ANTI-POLONISM ... This included the hundreds of thousands of newcomers flocking to places like Buffalo, “Za Chlebem,” for “bread” and work, quoting the title of the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, chronicling a Polish family’s immigration to the United States ... Dr ... DESCENDENTS OF POLISH IMMIGRANTS SOAR CORPORATE HEIGHTS ... .
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Ukraine, novels and czarnina

The Am-Pol Eagle 29 Jul 2022
I've read that Henryk Sienkiewicz, the first writer anywhere to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, was once so popular that many Poles named their children after the characters in his historical novels. Is Sienkiewicz still popular? Is he still read? ... The most popular are the novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz and E.L.
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‘Quo Vadis’: Rome Burns Under Nero, While Early Christians Teach Love

The Epoch Times 13 Jul 2022
It forms the centerpiece of MGM’s 1951 epic, inspired by the 1896 eponymous novel by Polish Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz ... ....

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