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	Poland - LoveToKnow 1911
		It is to him that Poland owed the important acquisition of the greater part of Red Russia, or Galicia, which enabled her to secure her fair share of the northern and eastern trade.
		Poland, as the next neighbour of Hungary, was more seriously affected than any other European power by this catastrophe, but her politicians differed as to the best way of facing it.
		All the.more disquieting was the internal condition of the country, due mainly to the invasion of Poland by the Reformation, and the coincidence of this invasion with an internal revolution of a quasi-democratic character, which aimed at substituting the rule of the szlachta for the rule of the senate.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Poland (15907 words)

	History of Poland
		Independence for Poland was one of the 14 points enunciated by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Many Polish Americans enlisted in the military services to further this aim, and the United States worked at the postwar conference to ensure its implementation.
		Poland was entering into an extended crisis that would change the course of its future development.
		Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived near the middle of the 10th century.
	infotut.com /geography/Poland (3496 words)

	Why Poland? Why Biotechnology? Why Now?
		Lech Wałesa, leader of "Solidarnosc" (1980 - 1990), President of Republic of Poland (1990 - 1995), founder of the Lech Walesa Institute Foundation (1995).
		Lech Wałesa is active in social and political life in Poland and abroad, propagating respect for freedom, democracy, free market economy and the state of law.
		Bartosz A. Grzybowski was born in 1972 in Gdynia, Poland.
	www.pano-boston.org /bio/speakers.html (1556 words)

	Symbols of Poland: The White Eagle
		Czech became the founder of the nation and state of the Czechs.
		Lech took the presence of the white eagle and its nest to be a good omen.
		Thereafter Poland's Kings were elected, but they continued to use the same quartered coat of arms, superimposing in the center of it their personal or family emblem.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/eagle.html (1314 words)

	Facts about Poland
		Poland today is ethnically almost homogeneous (98% Polish), in contrast with the World War II period, when there were significant ethnic minorities--4.5 million Ukrainians, 3 million Jews, 1 million Belorussians, and 800,000 Germans.
		Most Germans left Poland at the end of the war, while many Ukrainians and Belorussians lived in territories incorporated into the then-U.S.S.R. Small Ukrainian, Belorussian, Slovakian, and Lithuanian minorities reside along the borders, and a German minority is concentrated near the southwest city of Opole.
		However, Poland is the leading producer in Europe of potatoes and rye and is one of the world's largest producers of sugar beets.
	www.factsmonk.com /facts_about_poland (2779 words)

	Poland - MSN Encarta
		Poland established or renewed diplomatic relations with the European Community (now the European Union), the republics of the former USSR, the Vatican, and Israel, and signed cooperation treaties with the newly unified Germany and a number of other European states.
		The administrative reform, which took effect on January 1, 1999, was part of Poland's efforts to bring its laws and procedures in line with EU standards for admission.
		Shortly after the parliamentary elections, Lech Kaczyński of the PiS won Poland’s presidency in a separate vote.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559758_14/Poland.html (1264 words)

	World InfoZone - Poland Facts
		Lech is said to be the founder of Poland.
		Poland was a member of COMECON, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (1949-91) and the Warsaw Treaty Organization.
		Poland is one of the Baltic Sea States.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Poland (633 words)

	CNN Cold War - Profile: Lech Walesa
		Born September 29, 1943, in Popowo, Poland, Lech Walesa was the son of a carpenter.
		In 1981 however, Defense Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski was appointed prime minister in a year of increasing social unrest and dissatisfaction in Poland.
		As president he led the country through industrial privatization, Poland's first set of totally free parliamentary elections in 1991, and international relations with the newly emerging states of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the well-established Western powers.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/walesa (724 words)

	Poland travel guide - Wikitravel
		Poland was first united as a country and baptised in the middle of the X century.
		Poland regained its independence on November 11th, 1918 with the end of the World War I. Soon, in 1920-21, the newly-reborn country was urged to fight for its borders again, this time defending itself from the invasion of Soviet communists marching westwards to conquer Europe.
		As Poland is a member of the European Union, citizens of the EU and of the countries belonging to the European Economic Area (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein), as well as Swiss nationals, can enter Poland with a valid passport or identity card.
	wikitravel.org /en/Poland (6404 words)

	Poland as you like! - About Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In 1989 the first partially-free elections in Poland's post-World War II history concluded the Solidarity movement's struggle for freedom and resulted in the defeat of Poland's communist rulers.
		The White Eagle is said to have originated when Poland’s legendary founder Lech saw a white eagle’s nest, and considering this a good omen, founded the city of Gniezno (from gniazdo - nest).
		Poland enjoys a temperate climate, with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters and mild summers with frequent showers and thunder showers.
	www.poland.as /poland/365,,1,1,0,0 (1216 words)

	The GULLY \| Gay Mundo \| Anti-Gay Panic Sweeps Poland
		Homophobes are on the rampage in Poland, banning or attacking gay pride activities, equating gays with pedophiles in the media, quashing queer studies in universities.
		Poland's Catholic Press Agency reported that the key to Cohen's change from homosexual to heterosexual was, "as he indicates, his meeting of Christ.
		Poland's incestuous marriage of nationalism and religion, whose most virulent and succesful mainstream political embodyment is the rightist League of Polish Families, has dire consequences for queers and women.
	www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/040827_gay_lesbian_poland.html (1855 words)

	www.ilw.org.pl - Fundation - Lech Walesa Institute
		All the Lech Walesa and his Institute's activities aim at consolidating democracy and the free market economy in Poland, as well as at permanently integrating Poland into European structures.
		Lech Walesa is active in socio-political life in Poland and abroad.
		All that had been known was that Lech Walesa was going to participate in it carrying the Olympic flag as a representative of Europe.
	www.ilw.org.pl /english/otfundr.html (848 words)

	Poland marks 26th anniversary of Solidarity - Europe - International Herald Tribune
		WARSAW, Poland Polish President Lech Kaczynski led ceremonies Thursday to mark the 26th anniversary of the birth of Solidarity, the labor union that helped end communism.
		At a separate ceremony outside the Gdansk shipyard, Solidarity founder and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa laid flowers and sang the national anthem at a monument to shipyard workers killed by riot police in 1970.
		The future of the Gdansk yard — and two others in northern Poland — has been in question after EU regulators warned Monday that they risked losing state subsidies unless Warsaw could prove that the aid it was giving was legal.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/08/31/europe/EU_GEN_Poland_Solidarity.php (410 words)

	Poland Maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The changes in agriculture are likely to strain Poland's social fabric, tearing at the heart of the traditional, family-based small farm as the younger generation drifts toward the cities.
		Poland was the first former centrally planned economy in central Europe to end its recession and return to growth in the early 1990s.
		Poland, a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and European Union, applies the EU’s common external tariff to goods from other countries--including the U.S. In the year since it joined the EU, Poland has experienced an overall growth in exports of 30%.
	mapup.com /europe/poland.html (3517 words)

	Poland
		Poland was the only country in Europe where the death penalty was imposed for assisting a person of Jewish origin.
		Among those present at the meetings were representatives of the president of Poland, the Polish government, local authorities of Oswiecim and surrounding communities, the International Council of the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the AJC, the Lauder Foundation and Yad Vashem.
		The ceremony was attended by the mayor of Warsaw and Israel's ambassador to Poland.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/poland/poland.htm (6553 words)

	News - country - Catholic World Report - December 2001
		Twelve years after the fall of Communism, Poland’s Solidarity movement was crushed on Sunday, September 23, in the nation’s fourth free election since 1989; Solidarity failed to win a single seat in parliament.
		Lech Walesa was, as history has already recorded, the Gdansk shipyard worker who founded and led the Solidarity labor union that was instrumental in overthrowing the Communists in Poland.
		Even Lech Walesa admits that there is a sharp distinction between success in human-rights advocacy and success in leading a country.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Igpress/2001-12/poland.html (2410 words)

	CNN.com - Lech Walesa cleared of being communist spy - August 11, 2000
		WARSAW, Poland -- Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity movement that toppled Polish communism in 1989, was cleared Friday of allegations that he was an informant for the old regime's secret police.
		The screening law reflects Poland's often awkward struggle to come to terms with its communist past since the old regime was toppled in 1989.
		The History of Solidarnosc: From Worker Rebellion in 1956 to the Election of Lech Walesa.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/08/11/poland.walesa.03 (696 words)

	CNN.com - Poland's Walesa fights allegations of communist links - August 2, 2000
		WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- The founder of the Solidarity movement that toppled Polish communism continued to fight allegations Wednesday that he lied about past ties with the secret police.
		Lech Walesa is among a dozen contenders in Polish presidential elections who, under a new screening law, must file statements disclosing whether they collaborated with the communist-era police.
		Kwasniewski, Poland's most popular politician in opinion polls, is widely expected to have no trouble winning a second five-year term.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/08/02/poland.walesa.ap (505 words)

	Lech Walesa (9.27.05)
		As a founder and the leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa shaped its first victory, the Gdansk Shipyard Agreements with the Communist government signed on August 31, 1980.
		The Polish Cultural Institute is a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.
		With its extensive contacts in both America and Poland, the Institute is in an excellent position to help such initiatives in a variety of ways that include fund-raising, facilitating contacts in Poland, organizing concurrent panels of artists and scholars, generating press coverage, and developing public outreach.
	www.92y.org /content/lech_walesa.asp (1190 words)

	Lech, Czech and Rus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest mention of Lech, Czech and Rus is found in the Chronicle of Greater Poland written in 1295 in Gniezno or Poznań.
		The legend suggests the common ancestry of the Poles, the Czechs and the Ruthenians (or modern-day Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians) and illustrates the fact that as early as the 13th century, at least three different Slavic peoples were aware of being racially- and linguistically-interrelated, and, indeed, derived from a common root stock.
		Lech, Czech and Rus are also the names given to three large oaks in the garden adjacent to the palace in Rogalin, Greater Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lech,_founder_of_Poland (670 words)

	SPECIAL FUND TO AID WORLD’S POOR IS PROPOSED AT UNITED NATIONS CEREMONY TO MARK LAUNCHING OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN ...
		The International Human Solidarity Day was launched at a ceremony at United Nations Headquarters this morning with a call by the former President of Poland for a special “fund of human solidarity” to provide a better life for the world’s poor.
		LECH WAŁĘSA, former President of Poland, in a keynote address, said the world required changes and urgent measures needed to be taken.
		He said the concept of solidarity was present in many cultures, religions and traditions, adding that it should be made the foundation and basic principle of the new contemporary international order.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2006/dev2600.doc.htm (2054 words)

	Walesa looks back on birth of democracy effort in Poland \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		GDANSK, Poland – Solidarity founder Lech Walesa takes credit for setting "everything on the right course" for communist Poland's transition to a democratic market economy.
		Former shipyard electrician Walesa, whose charisma and courage helped topple an empire, said yesterday in an interview that he no longer is needed at home: A quarter-century later, he spends much of his time lecturing abroad, where he is still a hero.
		The Solidarity trade union-turned-democracy movement attracted an estimated 10 million in Poland – about a third of all adults – during its heyday before communist leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski cracked down on it with martial law.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050831/news_1n31walesa.html (574 words)

	Coat of arms of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The coat of arms of Poland consists of a white eagle on a red shield.
		Another interpretation is that it is form of a "heraldic eagle", based on the Golden Eagle.
		The White Eagle is said to have originated when Poland’s legendary founder Lech saw a white eagle’s nest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Poland (533 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Walesa recalls Solidarity triumph
		Poland is remembering the momentous events of 25 years ago, when Solidarity was born - the only mass independent political movement to emerge inside the Soviet bloc.
		The Gdansk Agreement between the Communist authorities and striking workers was signed on 31 August 1980 - and nine years later a wave of protest across eastern Europe demolished the Soviet bloc.
		If someone told me 25 years ago that I would be having this interview with you, that I would be in a free country, in the European Union and in Nato, I wouldn't have believed them.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4194204.stm (951 words)

	INSIDE Chico State:Nobel Peace Prize Winner Lech Walesa Speaks October 12
		Lech Walesa, Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland’s Solidarity Labor Movement, will speak Friday, October 12, at 7:30 pm in Laxson Auditorium.
		Walesa directs the Lech Walesa Institute, whose aim is to advance the ideals of democracy throughout the world.
		His term in office set Poland firmly on the path to becoming a free market democracy, and sparked fundamental democratic changes in Eastern Europe.
	www.csuchico.edu /pub/inside/archive/01_09_27/nobel.html (241 words)

	Was the Pope Polish?
		Through his life, words and writings, Pope John Paul II provided the bedrock upon which we Poles built political and historical greatness and unleashed the hope for freedom that continues to spread.
		Because of his well-timed testimony, we live in a different Poland -- one in which I can express myself freely -- and a different world.
		Lech Walesa is the former president of Poland and founder of the Solidarity movement.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/JPII/Wal.html (479 words)

	Lech Walesa quits Solidarity union
		Lech Walesa, the legendary founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, said Tuesday that he has quit the trade union he founded and led.
		Lech Kaczynski won the presidency and Jaroslaw is now prime minister.
		Walesa founded Solidarity in 1980 at the shipyards in Gdansk at a time when Poland was a single-party communist state.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2006/08/22/walesa-solidarity.html?print (1212 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Lech Walesa: I didn't leave Solidarity - it left me Aug 23, 2006, 15:02 GMT Warsaw - Lech Walesa, legendary leader of Poland's freedom- fighting Solidarity trade union, has parted ways with the organisation after it endorsed twin brothers Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski and their right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party last year.
		Poland's first democratically elected president told an audience of more than 1,000 at Purdue University Thursday night that while he was thankful for what Americans did during the Cold War, he believes they have another chance to help reshape the world through globalization and new ideas.
		Walesa, founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland that led the country out of communism, asked to visit Panna Maria when he was invited to attend the annual convention of the Polish American Congress in Texas this year, said Loretta Niestroy of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=lechwalesa (3738 words)

	Poland's Lech Walesa Quits Solidarity, Founder of Poland's Solidarity Movement Lech Walesa Quits ...
		Founder of Poland's Solidarity movement Lech Walesa quits union that helped end communism
		(AP) Lech Walesa, the charismatic founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, said Tuesday he has formally quit the trade union that he founded and which helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe.
		Walesa also said he plans to stay away from events marking the 26th anniversary of Solidarity's founding on Aug. 31 in part because he disapproves of the union's support for Poland's new conservative leaders.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/08/22/ap/world/mainD8JLIOA02.shtml (258 words)

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