From the Zenit News Agency: Jewish Group’s Publication Honors John Paul II Anti-Defamation League Marking 1st Anniversary of His Death NEW YORK, MARCH 27, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Anti-Defamation League has issued a new publication focusing on Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Israel and the Middle East in 2000. The publication aims to commemorate […]
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By Michael Szporer The first organization of American Poles was the Association of Poles in America (Stowarzyszenie Polak? w Ameryce) founded in 1830 by the veterans of Revolution of 1830 (November Uprising). Jan of Kolono, a Polish sailor under the sponsorship of the King of Denmark reached the Labrador and explored the Atlantic coast as
Did you know that the largest underground resistance army during World War II was the Polish Home Army? The Home Army, 300,000 strong at its peak, is credited with supplying the Allies with constant intelligence information from the eastern front, providing information about the V-1 rocket in Peenemunde, secretly sending Britain a V-2 rocket, the
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The end of the 18th century produced three constitutions considered the first modern constitutions in the World. The American Constitution of September 17, 1787 was the oldest. The second in the World and the first in Europe was the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 preceding the French September Constitution by several months. The American
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Available from The Edwin Mellen Press or at Amazon A preface from Daniel Gerould, Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, City University of New York Theater is culturally bound to its own time and place in immediate ways that poetry, painting, and music are not. Above all, theater is performance
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