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	PolishRoots - Geography & Maps
		It is a known historical fact that Wilno was the capital of the great Duchy of Lithuania from 1323 to 1569; from the Lublin Union to 1794, the main town in the Duchy; on 12 December 1794 became the main town in the Lithuanian guberniya.; from 1802, the guberniya town of the Wilno guberniya.
		Although Wilno was misshapen and badly built, as maintained by the Fleming, as the capital of the mighty ruler it had a prospering trade and a large variety of tradesmen and merchants.
		Wilno was witness and stage to two events one of which left its mark on the historical map of the country during Jan III reign and the other offended the public morals.
	www.polishroots.org /slownik/wilno.htm (19221 words)

	Eastern Poland
		When the venerable academy of Wilno was, already under Russian sovereignty, transformed into a complete university entrusted to the curatorship of Prince Adam Czartoryski, at one time the friend of Aleksander I, it rapidly became the largest and most influential centre of Polish learning and education that so far had existed.
		In the provinces of Wilno, Lwow, Volhynia and Nowogrodek the proportion ranges from 21.20 to 24.10 percent, and is lowest in that of Tarnopol with 16.40 percent.
		Underwear was made at Lwow, gloves at Wilno, shoes and rubber articles in the west of the province of Lwow, and at Lida in the province of Nowogrodek.
	felsztyn.tripod.com /id17.html (14296 words)

	Milosz's A B C's
		Wilno always was a city verging on a fairy tale, although when I lived there I never noticed that aspect of it.
		The Wilno Review was a publication of Polish-speaking Wilno, but it took a stand against the incorporation of Wilno into Poland and in favor of restoring the multiethnic Grand Duchy, with Wilno as its capital, and criticized Józef Pilsudski for renouncing the federal idea.
		The first, in Cambridge, is the Academy of Arts and Sciences, which mixes scientists from various fields with scholars of literature, music, and the fine arts.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/milosz-abc.html (1382 words)

	I LO On-Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zamość Academy is the pride of the town.
		The low salary caused that the Academy became subordinated to the ecclesiastical authority because the majority of the professors held the offices of collegiate church canons.
		Although the Academy did not fulfil its founder's expectation, it functioned as the main education centre in that part of the Commonwealth.
	www.lozam.cor.pl /index_en.php?go=academy (279 words)

	Wilno currently the capital city of Lithuania.
		Wilno is the capital of the present day Lithuania and one of the country's oldest cities.
		Having declared Wilno his "Royal Town", Gediminas created the conditions for its subsequent growth as well as the political, economical and cultural center of Lithuania.
		The most significant event in the cultural life of 16th century Lithuania was the founding of the Wilno Academy in 1579, which was endowed with the rights and privileges of a university.
	www.kresy.co.uk /wilno.html (308 words)

	Walery Goetel: Geologist, Ecologist, Conservationist
		In 1913 he received a doctorate in geology and paleontology from the University of Wilno for his studies of the geology of the Tatra Mountains.
		An avid mountaineer, and in the years 1907-1914 was the first to scale a number of difficult faces and to open an number of new routes in the Tatras.
		He was away visiting Lwów (Lviv) when on November 6, 1939, the Gestapo invited the professors of the Jagiellonian University and the Academy to a meeting at which they arrested all 183 professors in attendance and sent them to a concentration camp.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/goetel.html (734 words)

	The Mineyko family
		The farm was 49 kilometers from Wilno and 15 kilometers from Oszmiana.
		She was born in 1906 in Wilno and spent her childhood in the same city.
		The Soviets recaptured Wilno and Zygmunt was taken prisoner and released in February 1946.
	www.interlog.com /~mineykok/info.html (13073 words)

	Biografie Genealogia Polska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Then he studied at the Academy in Wilno and in subsequent years he continued his studies in Rome.
		After returning from abroad, he took up teaching in Po³ock, and between 1627 and 1633, in Wilno Academy, he lectured in rhetoric, philosophy and theology.
		In this academy, he acquired his doctor’s degree in philosophy (1632) and theology (1636).
	biografie.genealogiapolska.pl /classifieds.php?a=2&b=1229 (1637 words)

	the New Pantagruel: Hymns in the Whorehouse
		He studied law at the centuries-old university in Wilno (present-day Vilnius), one of the most ethnically mixed centers of the interwar Polish republic, a space in which faiths and tongues overlapped.
		Indeed, the environment of Wilno, with its diversity of languages, literatures, religions, and ideas, had profound effect on Milosz, and it remained throughout his life the ideal of what Europe could be.
		Milosz’s career as a poet had begun in 1931, as a law student in Wilno, with a 20-year-old’s visions of a civilization on the brink of catastrophe, a scene of “machines throbbing quicker than the heart,” of “lopped-off heads” and “cats floating on their backs,” of red banners, military trains, and the cries of children.
	www.newpantagruel.com /issues/2.1/miloszs_century.php?page=all (2207 words)

	The Artist
		Born on July 23, 1895 in Wilno, Lithuania, Cybis received various athletic awards for gymnastic excellence during his school days in Warsaw.
		In 1915, he attended St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts while his father, a noted architect and engineer, said to have designed Peterhoff, the summer palace of the mother of Czarina Maria Fiodorowna, was designing and building in Russia.
		Upon graduation, Cybis was appointed a professor at the Academy and traveled extensively throughout Europe recording his experiences in his art while studying the old masters and emulating their techniques.
	www.cybisporcelain.com /artist.htm (270 words)

	[No title]
		Kraków Academy established a Chair of Astronomy in 1406 and a Chair of Astrology in 1459.
		Certainly this observatory was connected to Kraków Academy, since they had the same director, however these are significant instruments which were listed in Stroobant as separate from the Academy.
		He was professor of mathematics and astronomy, and director of the observatory, at the Jagiellonian Academy.
	www.europa.com /~telscope/tspoland.txt (7287 words)

	Polish History - Part 9
		This coincided with the persecution of everything that represented Polishness in the eastern territories of the former Republic, the destruction of the flourishing University of Wilno [now called Vilnius] and the rebellion of the Decembrists in Russia (1825).
		The signal for revolt was given by the July Revolution in France, the uprising in Belgium and the Russian plans to intervene militarily, providing for the use of the Kingdom's army to put down the freedom movements.
		Ignacy Domeyko, one of the founders of modern science in Chile, was a graduate of the University of Wilno.
	www.poloniatoday.com /history9.htm (1785 words)

	[No title]
		In 1930 he was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Stefan Batory in Wilno, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania).
		In 1961 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (United States), then in 1964 to the Argentina Academy of Sciences.
		Further academies elected him such as the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Palermo in 1967.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/rsolecki/antoni_zygmund.html (1021 words)

	Vilnius, Lithuania - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Vilnius or Vilnyus (Russian Vilna; Polish Wilno), capital and largest city of Lithuania, on the Neris (Viliya) River, in the southeastern part of the country.
		The city's university, founded in 1579 as a Jesuit academy, is the oldest in Lithuania.
		The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, research institutes, and several theaters and museums are also here.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /vilnius_lithuania.htm (351 words)

	Political Science - Poland (Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe)
		In 1945-50, a Political Science Academy aimed at preparing cadres for diplomacy was established and existed for a few years.
		In 1972 the Committee of Political Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences was established as a consultative body, elected by the Polish community of political scientists.
		The first is the Institute of Psychology, where important empirical projects were accomplished in the late 1980s and in the 1990s, covering themes as diversified as attitudes toward democracy, authoritarianism, youths’ political attitudes, etc., all falling under the rubric of political psychology.
	www.cee-socialscience.net /archive/politicalscience/poland/report1.html (8008 words)

	Vintage Works - Special Exhibitions
		It was this publication that made Fedynand Ruszczyc, a well-known landscape painter and a professor in the department of fine arts at the Stephan Batory University at Wilno, aware of Bulhak by about November 10th of that year.
		Working with Ruszczyc, Bulhak photographed and published the architecture and monuments of Wilno and other areas in Poland and Lithuania beginning in 1919, although he had taken images of Lithuania as early as 1906.
		In 1927 he helped found the Wilno Photo-Club, which became one of the most important photography groups in Poland during the pre-war years.
	www.vintageworks.net /exhibit/showcase_descrp.php/15/1/1/0 (1435 words)

	Wilno in 16th Century
		Wilno was a European Renaissance city with its gates open towards the East
		Religious concord reigned in the capital and the whole country, stemming from the tradition of tolerance inherited from the pagan times when the Lithuanian dukes who were sent to rule over Slavonic cities would peacefully convert to Orthodox religion.
		It immediately started to build a higher educational system as a counterbalance to Protestant schools, and founded a college that was promoted to the status of an academy in 1579.
	www.kresy.co.uk /wilno_16cent.html (741 words)

	Czesław Miłosz
		The family decided to settle in then Polish Wilno in 1921, where Czesław Miłosz finished gymnasium in 1929 and began studies of Polish literature and finally law at the Stefan Batory University.
		In 1936 Miłosz was made a commentator on literature for Radio Wilno, but he was dismissed after a year for his “leftist” views.
		In 1982 he gave the Norton Lectures at Harvard University and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.
	www.universityofcalifornia.edu /senate/inmemoriam/czeslawmilosz.htm (1180 words)

	Vilnius University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On April 1, 1579, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Stefan Batory upgraded the academy and granted it equal rights with the Jagiellonian University of Kraków.
		Thanks to the Rector of the Academy, Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki, the Academy was granted the status of Principal School (Szkoła Główna) in 1783.
		After the Republic of Central Lithuania area was annexed by Poland, the Vilnian Academy was renamed Stefan Batory University (Uniwersytet Stefana Batorego) on August 20, 1919, by the act of Józef Piłsudski.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilno_University (1934 words)

	Milosz Czeslaw
		After graduation, Milosz matriculates in the law department of Stefan Batory University in Wilno; he is active in the Polish Studies Literary Club.
		Milosz escapes from Soviet-occupied Wilno to Nazi-occupied Warsaw, where he joins the socialist resistance.
		A bilingual, Polish-English edition of the Nobel lecture Milosz delivers to the Swedish Academy in December 1980 is published.
	library.thinkquest.org /11959/milosz/00biog.htm (1484 words)

	Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy - Off To A Great Start
		The Academy is a one-year preparatory liberal arts college, offering a grounding in the perennial principles of Catholic truth.
		These spiritual milestones have been combined with weekly hikes on surrounding trails to beautiful look-outs, a walking pilgrimage to the Jubilee shrine of Saint Mary's in Wilno, and a day-trip to Toronto for the 25th anniversary of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.
		Imagine a college where all professors take the oath of fidelity to the Magisterium, where the truth is taught without compromise, where academic rigour is emphasized, where the day-to-day life is infused with a truly Catholic spirit, all nestled within the breathtaking beauty of the Madawaska valley's lakes and hills.
	seatofwisdom.org /site/content/view/90/71 (667 words)

	Komisja Edukacji Narodowej - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Universities - Academy of Warsaw, Academy of Wilno and Academy of Kraków
		After the formative period, in which all the legal borders of the Commission were established, the KEN started to convert schools to the new model.
		The three universities in Warsaw, Wilno and Kraków were granted the right of curatorship over schools of lower degree.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Commission_of_National_Education (888 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Recent economic growth in Ireland is creating a new urban pattern there, sharply distinct from that of Lithuania.
		In 1795 Wilno became the center of a new gubernia consisting of the lands annexed to the Russian Empire.
		Lithuania, one of the three Baltic States and a former republic of the Soviet Union, has experienced similar trends in mortality during the last two decades to those observed in Russia, albeit to a lesser degree.
	www.lycos.com /info/lithuania.html (687 words)

	Sarmatian Review XIV.2:
		Colleges and universities where higher education was obtained: Jagiellonian University, the Zamojski Academy in Zamosc, the Roman Catholic Academy in Wilno [Vilnius], foreign universities in Berlin, Frankfurt, Koeningsberg, Goettingen, Halle, Jena, Leipzig, Paris, Strassbourg, Rome, London, and Edinburgh.
		Polish universities where higher education was obtained, in descending order: Warsaw, 49; Wilno [Vilnius], 45; Jagiellonian, 11; Lwow [Lviv], 8, Wroclaw, 4.
		Year in which the first literary public (open-to-all) prize was awarded: 1820 in Wilno, awards of 400 zlotys and 200 zlotys to students for scholarly dissertations.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/494/litfacts.html (1171 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Vilnius University (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vilnius University (also known as Vilnius State University, The University of Vilnius, Vilniaus Universitetas, formerly Stefan Batory University), is one of the oldest Universities in Eastern Europe and the largest University in Lithuania.
		The Commission of National Education, world's first ministry of education, took control of the Academy in 1773, and transformed it into a modern University.
		The Commission of National Education, the secular authority governing the academy after the dissolution of the Jesuit order, drew up a new statute.
	www.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /browse/wiki/Wilno_Academy (1862 words)

	Memoirs of the University [of Vilnius], Legend of University - Czeslaw Milosz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In present day Poland, the legend of the University of Wilno is due to the very strong impact its alumni have had in the past decades in various domains of life, including politics.
		As a result of those measures, the department of theology was moved to St. Petersburg and reorganized there as a theological academy.
		In my conversations with young people from Poland, I have discovered that Wilno is for them a kind of sanctuary which intrigues them and transforms every voyage there (a rare event) into a pilgrimage.
	www.lituanus.org /1981_2/81_2_04.htm (2112 words)

	The Bruce Medalists: Bohdan Pazynski
		Bohdan Paczynski was born in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), and educated at Warsaw University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1967.
		He worked at the Institute of Astronomy (since 1975 the Nickolas Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences) in Warsaw until 1982, when he moved to Princeton University, where he is now the Lyman Spitzer Jr.
		After observational studies of polarization and absorption in the Galaxy and of variable stars, he turned to theoretical work in stellar evolution and accretion disks around compact stars and in close binary systems.
	www.sonoma.edu /hosts/physastro/brucemedalists/paczynski/Paczynski.html (293 words)

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