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	Polish History - Part 1
		Boleslaus the Brave defeated the Germans in the long war of 1002-1018.
		Casimir's son, Boleslaus II, the Bold (1054-1079,) reconstituted the Church Metropolis and, as a result of numerous battle victories, reached for the crown in 1076.
		Boleslaus II's brother and successor, Ladislaus Herman, settled for the title of prince and acknowledged a loose dependence on the Empire.
	www.poloniatoday.com /history1.htm (1373 words)

	Encyclopedia: Boleslaus the Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Boleslaus I Long (BolesÅaw I Wysoki) (1127 - December 7 or 8 1201) - Duke of Silesia 1163 - 1172.
		Dukes of Opole According to the statute, constitution or last will of the Polish duke Boleslaus the Wrymouth Poland was divided into the 4-5 hereditary provinces distributed among his sons, and a royal province of Cracow for the eldest to be the high-duke of all Poland.
		Henry the Bearded in a painting by Jan Matejko Henry I the Bearded, Polish: Henryk Brodaty (1163 - March 19, 1238) of the Silesian line of the Piast dynasty of rulers, was duke of Lower Silesia from 1201.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Boleslaus-the-Long (532 words)

	Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parents: Boleslaus III the Wrymouth, Duke of Poland, and Zbyslava of Kiev, daughter of Sviatopolk II of Kiev.
		Children: Boleslaus the Long, Duke of Silesia and Richeza of Poland who married Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Leon.
		In 1163 the province of Silesia was granted to his sons by the Polish duke Boleslaus Kedzierzawy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ladislaus_the_Exile (195 words)

	Sword
		This kind of weapon has been in use from the Bronze Age when the construction of long metal blades was possible for the first time.
		Grus- the historical sword of Boleslaw Krzywousty (Boleslaus the Wrymouthed), medieval prince of Poland
		A tool exists that resembles the sword and it is called a machete (or, in Southern Africa, a panga) and is used to cut through thick vegetation.
	www.themiddleages.net /sword.html (908 words)

	Boleslaus III of Bohemia Biography
		Boleslaus III was a weak ruler in whose chaotic reign, Bohemia became a pawn in the long war between the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and Boleslaus the Brave, King of Poland.
		In 1003 Boleslaus was restored to authority with either German or Polish assistance, however he immediately undermined his position by ordereing a massacre of leading nobles at Visehrad.
		Boleslaus III was blinded and imprisoned, probably dying in captivity some thirty years later.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Boleslaus_III_of_Bohemia.html (175 words)

	The Catholic Encyclopedia - Blessed Cunegundes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She was the daughter of King Bela IV and niece of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and from her infancy it pleased God to give tokens of the eminent sanctity to which she was later to attain.
		Not long after their marriage, the pious couple made a vow of perpetual chastity in the presence of the Bishop of Cracow; and Cunegundes, amidst the splendour and pomp of the royal household, gave herself up to the practice of the severest austerities.
		In 1279, King Boleslaus died, and Cunegundes, despite the entreaties of her people that she should take in hand the government of the kingdom, sold all her earthly possessions for the relief of the poor and entered the monastery of the Poor Clares at Sandeck.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/04569a.htm (403 words)

	Wroclaw -[ruv.net : Information Portal]-
		Long existing as a trading place, it was first recorded in the 10th century as Vratislavia (the origin of its various later names) after Vratislav I, duke of Bohemia (915-921).
		The town was conquered by Boleslaus I of Poland in the 990s.
		Already a place of some importance, it became the capital of the imperial duchy of Silesia in 1138 and of Lower Silesia in 1163, where Silesians had founded a settlement south of the river.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/wr/Wroclaw.html (772 words)

	VLADIMIR - LoveToKnow Article on VLADIMIR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		On the death of Svyatoslav in 972, a long civil war took place between his sons Yaropolk and Oleg, in which Vladimir was involved.
		From 977 to 984 he was in Scandinavia, collecting as many of the viking warriors as he could to assist him to recover Novgorod, and on his return marched against Yaropolk.
		His nephew Svyatpolk, son of his brother and victim Yaropolk, he married to the daughter of Boleslaus of Poland.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VL/VLADIMIR.htm (1064 words)

	Rafal T. Prinke - The Jagged Sword and Polish Rosicrucians
		The legend links it with the first king of Poland, Boleslaus the Brave (ruled 992-1025), who is said to have jagged his sword against the Golden Gate in Kiev on his victorious entry into that city in 1018.
		The sword is 98 centimetres long and is a piece of ceremonial armoury, most probably made at the end of the 12th century.
		As the whole story was printed long before the Fama, it may indicate the existence of a certain tradition which surfaced in different guises and in different places.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/sword.html (3154 words)

	The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini, by John de Plano Carpini (chapter2)
		Also, when the Mongals had fought a long time and could not preuale by warre, they made a great trench vnderneath the ground from the armie vnto the middest of the citie, and there issuing foorth they fought against the citizens, and the remnant also without the walles fought in like manner.
		Two long bowes or one good one at the least, three quiuers full of arrowes, and one axe, and ropes to draw engines withal.
		And hauing done so a long time, they returned to the tent, and placed Cuyne in his throne imperiall, and his Dukes bowed their knees before him.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /h/hakluyt/voyages/carpini/chapter2.html (15225 words)

	Lives of the Saints, May 7, St. Stanislaus of Cracow
		Boleslaus II was at that time King of Poland; he was a prince of good disposition, but spoilt by a long series of victories and successes.
		Boleslaus, with the intention of irrevocably ruining the bishop’s good reputation, suborned the nephews of a man named Paul who had recently died, to swear that their uncle had never been paid for land which the bishop had bought for the Church.
		Boleslaus repented, took refuge in another country for a time, then set out dressed as a pilgrim for Rome.
	magnificat.ca /cal/engl/05-07.htm (729 words)

	Dukes of Silesia - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		According to the statute, constitution or last will of the Polish duke Boleslaus the Wrymouth Poland was divided into the 4-5 hereditary provinces distributed among his sons, and a royal province of Cracow for the eldest to be the high-duke of all Poland.
		One of these provinces, Silesia was given to the Ladislaus the Exile the oldest son of Boleslaus, and subsequenly divided among his descendants and successors, until they died out in 1675.
		1163-1177 Boleslaus I the Long, Mieszko I Platonogi and Konrad, sons of Ladislaus I
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Dukes_of_Silesia (364 words)

	7th Annual Polka Party!
		He miraculously is credited in "The lives of saints" as having been educated at the University of Paris which at that time had not yet even come into existence!
		Upon rising to Bishop of Cracow, the zealous apostle repeatedly came into conflict with Poland's King Boleslaus II, whose scandalous epoch was typified by his unbridled lust, savage cruelty, and acts of rapacity.
		The hair style abuse caused singer Aloosh Janik to permanently lose much of the hair on the top of his head, and turned accordionist Suzan Leeski's (not pictured) hair from her natural bleach blond, to fl.
	aljanik.com (932 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Religion of Russia
		A German chronicler, Dithmar, relates that a Saxon missionary, consecrated archbishop by the Archbishop of Magdeburg, went to Russia, where he preached the Gospel, and was killed with eighteen of his companions on 14 Feb., 1002.
		According to Markovitch, during his long episcopate (1774-1826), Siestrzencewicz was the scourge of the Catholic Church of both rites in Russia.
		The reign of Nicholas I was a long period of persecution and suffering for Catholics in Russia.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13253a.htm (11809 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 11
		But his good intentions did not last long, and he had the beautiful wife of one of his noblemen kidnapped and taken to his palace.
		Pope Saint Gregory VII placed Poland under an interdict and Boleslaus fled the country, dying as a fugitive in Hungary (Attwater, Benedictines, Delaney, Farmer, Walsh, White).
		Stanislaus, the symbol of Polish nationhood, is the patron saint of Poland and Cracow.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0411.htm (2080 words)

	History of the Jews in Poland
		Earlier, Mieszko III, the prince of Great Poland between 1138 and 1202 and the ruler of all Poland in 1173-77 and 1198-1202, employed Jews in his mint as engravers of dies and technical supervisors of all workers.
		In the 14th and 15th centuries the main occupation of Jews in Poland was local and long distance trade.
		During the wars of the middle of the 17th century Jewish wholesale trade, both long distance and foreign, came nearly to a standstill.
	members.core.com /~mikerose/history.html (6801 words)

	Mieszko I of Poland : Mieszko I
		In either 964 or 965 (more probably) he married Dubrawka (or Dobrava), a daughter of Boleslaus I, duke of Bohemia.
		In 978 he married Oda von Haldensleben, daughter of Dietrich (Theoderic) of Haldensleben, count of the North March (965-985), after abducting her from the monastery of Kalbe.
		From his first marriage he had a son, his successor Boleslaus, and a daughter, Swiatoslawa, later the wife (as queen Sigrid the Proud) of Eric the Victorious[?], king of Sweden and then (as queen Gunhild) of king Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, and mother of king Canute of Denmark and England.
	www.fastload.org /mi/Mieszko_I.html (582 words)

	St. Michael Parish - Prayer and Faith - Saints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Francis of Paola believed that heroic mortification was necessary for spiritual growth and added the observance of a perpetual Lenten fast to the traditional monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
		King Boleslaus II of Poland was a powerful man who had won a great victory over the Russians, but was morally corrupt.
		He led by example, and much of his success in accomplishing the long agenda for reform was due to his own exemplary stewardship.
	www.saintmichaelparish.org /PrayerFaith/SaintsMonthly/SaintsApril.htm (2510 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abbey of Leubus
		As long as the war lasted, Leubus was practically a ruin, but after the peace Abbot Arnold (1636-72) restored it in a comparatively short time and embellished the church and buildings.
		The monastery reached its zenith under Ludwig Bauch (1696-1729), under whose rule the enormous and imposing building was erected, which is considered the largest building in Germany and one of the largest in Europe.
		The principal facade is 225 metres bong, the wings are 118 metres long.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09204a.htm (495 words)

	Bautzen - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The first written proof of the city was in 1002.
		In 1018 the Peace of Bautzen was signed between the German king Henry II and the Polish prince Boleslaus I.
		The Treaty left Bautzen under the Polish rule.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Bautzen (214 words)

	Wikinfo \| Gdansk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gdańsk (formerly Danzig) is a famous Baltic Sea city with a long and colorful history.
		The territory was recorded as Scandza ("Gothic coast") by Jordanes, who recorded the Germanic tribes at the Vistula and the Prussian tribes of the Vidivaria, Ulmigeri and Aesti next to the Germanic tribes at the mouth of the Vistula river.
		The area was again recorded after 997 in the Vita Adalbertis, the life of Saint Adalbert of Prague, when it was mentioned as Gdańsk City (urbs Gyddanyzc), the fortress of the King Boleslaus I of Poland.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Gdansk (3752 words)

	Przewodnik miejski po Krakowie - Cracow city guide
		It was the first church in Kazimierz and for a long time the main parish church.
		The front elevation has a Gothic gable but the interior is Baroque with a beautiful high altar (1634-7), massive stalls in the chancel (1624-32) and an 18th century boat-shaped pulpit.
		It was founded by Boleslaus the Chaste together with a monastery for the Augustinian monks brought to Cracow from Prague (known as "marki").
	cityguide.rozeta.com.pl /zabytki_en.html (3663 words)

	Chapter II. - PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT.
		In Henry the Fowler's time, and long afterwards, Preussen was a vehemently Heathen country; the natives a Miscellany of rough Serbic Wends, Letts, Swedish Goths, or Dryasdust knows not what;-- very probably a sprinkling of Swedish Goths, from old time, chiefly along the coasts.
		The place--or if not this place, then Gnesen in Poland, the final burial-place of Adalbert, which is better known--has ever since had a kind of sacredness; better or worse expressed by mankind: in the form of canonization, endless pilgrimages, rumored miracles, and such like.
		For shortly afterwards, the neighboring Potentate, Boleslaus Duke of Poland, heart-struck at the event, drew sword on these Heathens, and having (if I remember) gained some victory, bargained to have the Body of Adalbert delivered to him at its weight in gold.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Fred2/00000012.htm (1216 words)

	Jewish History - An Essay in the Philosophy of History By S. M. Dubnow- Chapter 14 from Nalanda Digital Library at NIT ...
		The hoary martyr people which had defied so many storms in its long life was for a moment dazed.
		The impact of these emotions enkindled passionate "longing for Zion" in the heart of the forlorn, homeless martyr.
		The numerous privileges granted the Jews, by Boleslaus of Kalish (1246), Kasimir the Great (1347-1370), Witowt (1388), Kasimir IV (1447), and some of their successors, fortified their position in the extended territory covered by Poland, Lithuania, and the Ukraine.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/jewhist/chapter14.html (3141 words)

	Eeksy-Peeksy
		The man connected to the other end of the bar is Boleslaus the Brave reincarnated and incarnadine.
		From king to plumber, the fall is long and the landing is hard.
		And this, damn it, in a sort of spineless Pascalian wager that copyrights still mean something and that someone, however remotely, might bother to copy something here that was worth keeping to myself: everything here (unless otherwise indicated) is copyright © 2001 - 2005.
	eeksypeeksy.blogspot.com /2002/09/flush-man-connected-to-other-end-of.html (112 words)

	The News Review Online - The Hometown Newspaper of Riverhead Town, Long Island New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She was born on July 27, 1938, to Bruno and Nellie Cybulski in Brooklyn.
		Scesny was born in Cartaret, N.J., to Boleslaus and Anna Scesny on April 7, 1908.
		In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Melissa Leonard Scholarship Foundation, 12 Lakeview Drive, Middle Island, NY 11953.
	www.timesreview.com /nr07-25-02/stories/obit.htm (706 words)

	St. Stephen
		It happened that Boleslaus, duke of Poland, at this same time had sent an embassy to Rome to get the title of king confirmed to him by papal ordinance.
		One effect of the conversion of Hungary was that the road used by pilgrims and crusaders going to the Holy Land was made safer, since the valley of the Danube formed a natural highway for at least a part of the long, difficult journey.
		To support churches and pastors and to relieve the poor, Stephen started the collection of tithes, and every tenth town was required to maintain a church and support a priest.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/STEPHEN.htm (1880 words)

	Saints of June 12
		Daughter of King Bela IV of Hungary, Jolenta was raised by her elder sister Blessed Cunegund (Kinga), wife of Boleslaus V of Poland.
		In 1256, Jolenta married Duke Boleslaus V of Kalisz.
		In art, Onuphrius is an old hermit dressed only in long hair and a loincloth of leaves.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0612.htm (2653 words)

	Search Results for "Herman" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		His rule was one of weakness and decline....
		He wrote two notable long poems, Mei (1889) and Pan (1912).
		In The Caine Mutiny (1951, Pulitzer Prize), he made the protagonist-antagonist Captain Queeg a popular symbol...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Herman (232 words)

	King Boleslaus the Bold (Boleslaw Smialy), Polish, Phim-aÃ»nh/Videos\|KÃ²ch-ngheÃ¤, VHS Video Tape
		The action of this film is set in 1079, the last year of Boleslaus the Bold's rule.
		It is the story of conflict between the king and the Bishop of Cracow, a conflict which ended tragically with the bishop's death.
		The Languages of the World has long been the essential handbook for al language students and linguists.
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