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  Mieszko II Lambert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their children were Casimir I of Poland, Rixa of Poland, and Gertrude of Poland.
Mieszko's son, Casimir I, was either expelled by this insurrection, or the insurrection was caused by the aristocracy's expulsion of him.
Greater Poland was so devastated that it ceased to be the core of the Polish kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mieszko_II_of_Poland   (639 words)

  
 Gertrude Blanch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blanch was born Gittel Kaimowitz in Kolno, Poland, arrived in the United States as a child, and attended public schools in New York City.
Thereafter she moved to San Diego and continued to work on numerical solutions to Mathieu functions until her death in 1996, concentrating on the use of continued fractions to achieve highly accurate results in a small number of computational steps.
The Gertrude Blanch Papers, 1932-1996 are stored at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gertrude_Blanch   (497 words)

  
 poland
Son of Poland's King Mieszko II, Casimir succeeded his father in 1034 but was deposed by a rebellion of the nobles in 1037.
Unpopular in Poland, where he was thought to be too favorable to Lithuanians, he courted the support of the lower nobility by giving them the right to refuse taxation.
He was elected king of Poland by the Sejm (parliament) in 1587 and succeeded to the Swedish throne on the death of his father.
website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/poland.htm   (4614 words)

  
 Ella May Wheeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Frank Linnith POLAND was born on 22 Dec 1896 in Milford, Hillsborough, NH, died on 4 Jan 1897 in Milford, Hillsborough, NH, and was buried in Lyndeborough Center.
Annetta Gertrude POLAND was born on 15 Dec 1900 in Marlow, Cheshire, NH.
Forrest Hiram POLAND was born on 11 Apr 1911 in Springfield, NH and died on 2 Oct 1974 in Hillsborough, NH, at age 63.
www.pennswoods.net /~rshogan/Ella_W.htm   (1206 words)

  
 Gertrude Berg
Gertrude Berg portrayed and was the personification of the "Jewish mother" on radio, television, the stage and the screen.
Her mother supervised the kitchen and bookkeeping and Gertrude entertained the guests by writing and performing skits, pantomimes and fortune telling acts.
Gertrude Berg was a writer and actress who brought out the humanity, love and respect that people should have toward each other.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/berg.html   (579 words)

  
 Shalom & Shaina Golda Zweiback Family of Goworowo, Poland
Goworowo is located in the province of Ostroleckie, at 21º36 52º56, 17 km from the town of Rozan; 22 km from the town of Ostroleka; and 126 km NNE of Warsaw.
Goworowo, Ostroleckie, Poland; married Liba Hadas 'Ida' (Libodis) Oronofsky.
Chava Leah, born 1887 in Poland; married Sholom (Samuel) Stelling.
home1.gte.net /ezwiebac/zwieback/shalom_zweiback.htm   (375 words)

  
 Saints of March 17
Saint Gertrude was the younger daughter of Blessed Pepin of Landen and Blessed Itta.
Gertrude was known for her hospitality pilgrims and her encouragement of and generous benefactions to the Irish missionary monks.
At age 30 (656), Gertrude resigned her office in favor of her niece, Saint Wilfetrudis, because she was weakened by her many austerities.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0317.htm   (3844 words)

  
 Gertrude Blanch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gertrude Blanch (1897-1996) was a pioneer in numerical analysis and computation.
She was born in Poland, emigrated to the United States in 1907 and graduated from Brooklyn's eastern District High School in 1914.
She was elected a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1962 and was given the Federal Woman's Award from President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
www.agnesscott.edu /lriddle/women/blanch.htm   (318 words)

  
 Gertrude Belle Elion - A Lifeline
Gertrude B. Elion — part of the Biographical Memoirs series from the National Academy of Sciences.
Russian Emigration to Pittsburgh — Elion's mother emigrated from the region of Russia that later became Poland.
Gertrude Elion — autobiography from the Nobel Foundation.
chemheritage.org /EducationalServices/pharm/chemo/readings/lifeline.htm   (1786 words)

  
 Gertrude Stein's Complex Worldview
Scholars of the life of Gertrude Stein were recently startled to learn that in 1938 the prominent Jewish-American writer had spearheaded a campaign urging the Nobel committee to award its Peace Prize to Adolf Hitler.
According to a new biography of Stein, Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family, by Linda Wagner-Martin, Fay and Stein often discussed "the Führer's qualities of greatness" in the years before the outbreak of war in 1939.
Even after the war, when he was convicted as a collaborationist, Stein and her close companion Alice Toklas remained good friends with Fay and lobbied to free him from prison.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v16/v16n5p22_Weber.html   (812 words)

  
 ZIONISM IN HOLOCAUST POLAND
As soon as the Nazis invaded Poland, the Jews were doomed.
The Nazis permitted, and even forcibly encouraged, Jewish emigration from Germany and Austria until late in 1941, but from the beginning emigration from Poland was reduced to a trickle in order that the flow from Greater Germany would not be obstructed.
Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski and Zygmunt Zaremba of the PPS had convinced General Tshuma, the military commandant, that it was psychologically crucial for the future resistance movement that Poland's capital should not fall without a fight.
www.codoh.com /zionweb/zizad/zizad21.html   (4955 words)

  
 POLISH
The Jagellonian Law Society was formed in Philadelphia in 1983 as a professional and social group for lawyers of Polish ancestry.
5 ft. Bronislaw Pluta was born in Niewodna, in the Galician area of Poland.
Founded in 1944, its major purpose is to promote the Polish image and culture in the United States, to support independence for the people of Poland, and to sponsor social and cultural activities.
www.balchinstitute.org /manuscript_guide/html/polish.html   (2212 words)

  
 (Margaret Helen PLUMLEE - Turner POLAND )
Dorothy Mabelle POLAND (6 Mar 1915 - ____)
Nacka Jane POLAND (12 Mar 1872 - 27 Mar 1941)
Nannie Norma POLAND (1 Jun 1869 - 10 Apr 1949)
www.public.asu.edu /~moore/gendex/index/ind0117.html   (352 words)

  
 Women Nobel Prize Winners
By the time she was 16, Marie had already won a gold medal at the Russian lycée in Poland upon the completion of her secondary education.
She won the Nobel Prize for determining the structure of biochemical compounds essential to combating pernicious anemia.
Gertrude Elion is the only woman inventor inducted into The Inventors Hall of Fame.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0801697.html   (446 words)

  
 Gertrude Blanch Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gertrude Blanch, 1897-1996, mathematician, received the B.S. in mathematics with a physics minor from New York University (1932) and the Ph.D. (1935) in algebraic geometry from Cornell University.
Born Gittel Kaimowitz in Kolno, Poland, Blanch emigrated to New York with her family in 1907.
The collection is arranged in five series:  talks and writings by Gertrude Blanch; writings by others; photographs; correspondence; and biographical materials.
www.cbi.umn.edu /collections/inv/cbi00162.html   (1539 words)

  
 Shenkin Story - Gertrude Stein's Narrative
Gertrude went to private school in Pawling, New York and learned to play piano.
Bea Frankel was born in New York in 1920 and died in Florida in 1988.
Gertrude’s husband, Alan Stein, was born in 1909 in Russia/Poland (the border was always shifting), and won a Purple Heart in the battle of the Remagen Bridge during World War II.
shenkin.olivetree.net /documents/shenkin_history_by_gertrude_stein.html   (1921 words)

  
 FRANCIA
Today, the original land of Prussia is divided between Poland and Russia, with most of the German speakers, including those who would have been ethnic Prussians, expelled.
Although soon surrounded by independent Christian states, in Britain and Ireland to the northwest, Spain in the southwest, Hungary and Poland in the east, and the Sandinavian states in the north, the Frankish kingdoms remained the central tentpole (we might even say the axis mundi) of European politics.
As neat halves of Charlemange's empire eventually formed, France in the West and Germany in the East, the stage for the greatest battles of modern war in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries would be set along the seam, from Nieuwpoort (1600) to Ramillies (1706), Waterloo (1815), Verdun (1916), and the Bulge (1944).
www.friesian.com /francia.htm   (14323 words)

  
 Notes on Poland -- Part 3
Though confused, inaccurate and spiced with outright lies, this book was widely circulated and survives to this day.
Wladyslaw married to Agnieszka of the Babenbergs, Daughter of Leopold III of Austria, sister to Leopold IV of Austria, Henry (II) Jasomirgott(?), Bishop Otto of Frisia, Archbishop Conrad of Salzburg, Gertrude, wife of Vladislav of Bohemia, and half-sister to, Conrad (III) Hohenstaufen King of Germany, and Emperor.
Again, chaos in Empire met with chaos in Poland instead of capitalization.
slavic.freeservers.com /Poland3.html   (2679 words)

  
 Edwin St. John Greble, Major General, United States Army
36th Division, American Expeditionary Force, World War I. Buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery, his wife, Gertrude Poland Greble (1866-1947) is buried with him.
His marriage to Gertrude Poland on June 24, 1885, produced two daughters and one son, Edwin, Jr.
He was promoted to brigadier general in the regular army in 1916 and to major general in what was then called the National Army after the American entry into World War I in April 1917.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /e-greble.htm   (418 words)

  
 Hutton and Hutton (1993) A genealogical investigation of the ancestors and descendants of Leslie Newman Poland ...
Hutton and Hutton (1993) A genealogical investigation of the ancestors and descendants of Leslie Newman Poland (1891-1969) and Elsie Gertrude (Dumont) Poland (1894-1971)
A genealogical investigation of the ancestors and descendants of Leslie Newman Poland (1891-1969) and Elsie Gertrude (Dumont) Poland (1894-1971)
To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
www.getcited.org /?PUB=100291067&showStat=Ratings   (131 words)

  
 John de GREY / Maud BASSETT
Bela I of HUNGARY / Richenza Gertrude of POLAND
/--Taksony of HUNGARY /--Mihaly Michael of POLAND
\--Dubrawka of BOHEMIA /--Miescyslaw II of POLAND
www.genpc.com /gen/files/d0036/f0000002.html   (540 words)

  
 Ahnentafel of Alexandria Clare Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
ALEXANDRIA CLARE POLAND born 13 Jul 2000 Walla Walla Walla Walla Co Washington
GERTRUDE SPONHAMMER born 1776 Wonigheim Germany died 9 Dec 1844 probably Gamburg Baden Germany
GERTRUDE SUESNAHM born unknown Germany died unknown Germany
www.oregontrail.net /~mpoland/aacp.html   (7687 words)

  
 GUIDES TO PEACE AND JUSTICE GUIDES TO PEACE AND JUSTICE Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Brittain, Vera, The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers.
Bussey, Gertrude and Margaret Tims, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1915-1965.
Weschler, Lawrence, Solidarity: Poland in the Season of its Passion.
www.san.beck.org /GPJ-Bibliography.html   (6899 words)

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