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  UPRP - Biogramy w wersji angielskiej
She co-organized the Council of Patent Attorneys of High Schools and initiated the establishment of the Forum of the Polish Community attached to the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys.
She was decorated for her professional and social activity with an Officer’s Cross and with the award of honour "Merits for Inventive Activities".
In the years 1972-1994 he was employed in the Polish Patent Office, successively as a senior specialist, head of a division and as a director of Law and Jurisdiction Department.
www.uprp.pl /English/biogramypoang.htm   (716 words)

  
  Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
Among the "protectors" of the Polish scouting were all presidents of Poland and several high-ranking officers, including general Józef Haller.
At the same time the youngest scouts were involved in so-called small sabotage under auspice of the Wawer organization, which included dropping leaflets or painting the kotwica sign on the walls.
The Polish Scouts were engaged in a variety of duties, varying from helping in the fields of the most poor regions to organizing the visits of Pope John Paul II.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/ZHP   (885 words)

  
 A Chronicle of Scouting in Eastern Europe: Poland
Polish Scouting continued in exile and in spite of the Communists, continued underground in Poland throughout the Communist period.
Polish scouts were fought in the Polish Army during the World War, 1914-18, during rebellions in 1918 and 1919 (against German authorities in the western part of Poland), during the World War 1939-45.
Scouting organizations around the world are assisting in the growth of Scouting in both Eastern Europe and Russia.
www.pinetreeweb.com /rtn-pole.htm   (1314 words)

  
 POLISH NEWS - News&Correspondence - "
While 20,000 Jews were killed during the liquidation of the ghetto, 200,000 Polish civilians died and 100,000 were wounded in the 1944 Uprising, mostly all of them Catholics.
It ended tragically for the Polish inhabitants of Warsaw with a staggering loss of life.
Like so many of the other scouting groups throughout Poland, the Zoska scouts did not disband but joined their elders to fight the enemy.
www.polishnews.com /historia/powstanie_en.htm   (693 words)

  
 Saving Jews: Polish Righteous
She placed the Jewish children with substitute Polish families or in orphanages and convents, the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters of the Family of Mary, with its superior Mother Matylda Getter, q.v.).
400 Jews from Greece, France and Belgium, liberated by the Polish scouting battalion "ZOSKA" from "Gesiowka" (a central camp in the Warsaw ghetto) on Aug. 5, 1944.
These children stayed in a house officially known as being a school for orphans of Polish officers: For their safety, they were instructed in Polish and in the Catholic liturgy, but also in Hebrew, the history of the Israeli people and in the knowledge of the Bible.
www.savingjews.org /righteous/sv.htm   (19290 words)

  
 THE POLISH SCOUTING AND GUIDING ASSOCIATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP) is the Polish national organisation of Scouts and Guides, member of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and the World Association of Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
Polish Scouting and Guiding started in 1910 when Poland was still partitioned between neighbouring countries.
The highest authority of ZHP is the Congress elects the President and the Chief Scout of ZHP.
republika.pl /zhp_stach/ZHPeng.html   (340 words)

  
 Polish contribution to the Allied victory in World War 2 (1939-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
From 1940 to 1945 the Polish squadrons and the Polish pilots serving in British units achieved 621 confirmed kills, and together with campaigns of 1939 and France– 900 confirmed and 189 probable.
Polish Corps that was supposed to defend the eastern coast of Scotland, and 1
In July and August 1944 the Polish troops fought at the bridgeheads on the Western Bank of the Vistula River, and in the battle of Studzianki the Polish armored brigade fought its first battle against the Germans.
www.polishembassy.ie /worldwar.htm   (6148 words)

  
 Virtuti Militari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army, he could award medals of classes I to III with the consent of the Chapter and the IV and V class upon receiving an application from the commander of a division or brigade.
The Polish national feast of May 3 was chosen as the feast of the Virtuti Militari.
During the Polish Defensive War of 1939, the fast German and Soviet advance prevented the Chapter from awarding the medals, especially as Poland's territory was overrun by enemies five weeks after the Invasion of Poland began.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virtuti_Militari   (3246 words)

  
 PolClub - Polish Page on VicNet - Australia
The Polish Community Council's mission is to enrich and enhance the well-being of the Polish-Australian Community within the multicultural context of the Victorian community.
Polish Re-employment Project is a joint initiative of the Polish Community Council of Victoria Inc. and the Australian Polish Community Services Inc. governed by a Consortium comprising representatives of both associations.
The 10th Anniversary of the Polish Community Centre was celebrated with a number of cultural and social events known as the 'Month of Polish Culture', culminating in a visit from Canberra of Dr Agnieszka Morawinska, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland.
home.vicnet.net.au /~polclub/rep_95.htm   (7720 words)

  
 [rec.scouting.*] Games (FAQ 11) Part 2
The scouts from each team with those numbers, run and pick up their sticks and try to get the sponge into the opposite teams goal.
When a number is called, the two scouts with that number race to their goal mouth, pick up the stick and then dribble the puck between the skittles slalom fashion until they reach the end of the line where they can shoot at the opposing teams goal.
The scouts wear the helmets and attack each other with the stick they are wielding.
www.faqs.org /faqs/scouting/games/part2   (9906 words)

  
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And in their concern for the good of the Polish state, they should never contribute to any destruction, destabilization, or weakening of Poland internally or on the international arena, nor should they ever subject it to dependence to some foreign power.
And this is the context for the de-communization debate.
The Polish Round Table was the first event in the calendar of transformations in Central and Eastern Europe.
www.umich.edu /~iinet/PolishRoundTable/rtsession5.html   (14540 words)

  
 POLISH NEWS - White and Red Debutantes 2006
She attended Maria Konopnicka Polish Language School, was involved in Polish Scouting as a Polish Scout, sang in the Polne Kwiatki Children’s Choir, and learned folkloric dancing and singing through the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America.
While in England, he was granted a golden award of the Polish Ex-Combatants Association and a golden Award of the Union of the Polish Disabled Ex-Servicemen.
He is a cofounder and the first president of the Polish Resistance (AK) Foundation in the USA, which was formed in 1984 to take over the educational and charitable work of the veterans of AK, as their ranks deplete.
www.polishnews.com /text/young/debutantes_2006.html   (3117 words)

  
 U.S. Scouting Service Project: Knots - Adult Religious Award
The awards are not BSA awards and are presented by religious organizations for long tenure of service to Scouting, the religion, and the community.
Scouting Service Project, Inc. Website ©1997-2006 may be reproduced and used locally by Scouting volunteers for training purposes consistent with the programs of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) [Links to BSA Sites] or other Scouting and Guiding Organizations.
The US Scouting Service Project, Inc. is a Not-for Profit Corporation chartered in the State of Missouri.
www.usscouts.org /awards/religadult.html   (379 words)

  
 2004
Bachowska is well known to the Polish communities in Seattle, Portland, and Vacouver B.C. for her wonderfully expressive style of singing.
The Polish Scout Troop “Kaszuby” invites to their first meeting of the 2004/2005 school year; both new scouts and cub scouts are invited to attend.
Polish citizens as well citizens of other EU countries who are resident aliens in Poland can vote in the June 13, 2004, elections of Polish representatives to the European Union Parliament while in USA or Canada.
www.polishhome.org /Archive2004.htm   (5572 words)

  
 NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY INDUCTS POLISH GENERAL INTO INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS HALL OF FAME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
In April 2002, General Olszewski was appointed the Commander of the Polish Air and Air Defense Forces, under the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland.
He is also a member of the scientific council of the Institute of Aviation in Warsaw and the Deputy Chairman of the National Council of the Polish Aviation.
These honors include but are not limited to the Officer’s Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order; the Knight’s Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order; the Golden Cross of Merit; the Golden Medal Military Forces in the services to the Country; and the Golden Cross of the Polish Scouting Association.
www.ndu.edu /info/PressReleases/NDUPolishInduct.cfm   (762 words)

  
 U.S. Scouting Service Project - Professor Beaver: Scouter's Reference Room
This material is copyrighted to the authors and may not be reproduced in print or in electronic form without the express consent of the authors.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS Church Distribution Center, Scouting Handbook: Relationships between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America, Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Salt Lake City, Utah (1985).
Scouting Service Project, Inc. Website ©1997-2002 may be reproduced and used locally by Scouting volunteers for training purposes consistent with the programs of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) or other Scouting and Guiding Organizations.
www.usscouts.org /profbvr/reference_room/relemblems.html   (4828 words)

  
 Warsaw Uprising Witnesses: Lidia Markiewicz-Ziental II
Accused by many for not allowing wounded to enter the sewers, his brutality and abuses, however, praised later for bravery in battle by Colonel ‘Wachnowski’ and Second Lieutenant Zawodny – ‘Mis’.
Commander of Szare Szeregi [Gray Ranks, Polish Scouting] from May 1943.
Janusz Zawodny – ‘Mis’, Second Lieutenant, Cross of Valour (Commander of platoon in battalion ‘Lukasinski’ of the Group ‘Sosna’); says how unreal it was for him when while he was leaving the sewers at Warecka Street, a courier helping him to leave gave him a branch of green ivy.
www.warsawuprising.com /witness/markiewicz2.htm   (2052 words)

  
 wgnradio.com - WGN Radio 720 Chicago
Proceeds is going to SouthStar Services, a non-profit organization that provides job training, employment, community living, and support services to over 300 adults with developmental disabilities.
Alphonsus Scouts Annual Spaghetti Dinner will be held Sunday, April 29 from 3:00 to 7:00PM in the St. Alphonsus School Basement (1429 W. Wellington).
The event raises funds needed to help send inner-city Boy Scouts and Venturing Scouts to Summer Camp at Camp Owasippe, and Cub Scouts to Summer Camp.
wgnradio.com /special/com_cal.html   (10803 words)

  
 Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego
After the September Campaign of 1939 the ZHP was delegalized by Germany, but it went underground.
The older scouts carried out sabottage and armed resistance duties.
fleur-de-lys with the letters O-N-C (standing for Ojczyzna, Nauka, Cnota, Polish for Motherland, Education, Virtue)
www.askfactmaster.com /ZHP   (770 words)

  
 Polish Community in the San Francisco Bay Area
Polish Churches in the San Francisco Bay Area
The dinner is supported by the office of the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles, Krystyna Tokarska-Biernacik, the Polish American Congress and the Polish National Alliance.
Visiting Polish scholar seeks to rent a room within reasonable commuting distance to Berkeley campus.
www.poloniasf.org /english/newsletter.php   (379 words)

  
 For English visitors... - 18 Drużyna Starszoharcerska Watra
This is a web page for 18th Venture Scouts And Rangers Troop from Węgrów, Poland.
Polish Scouting And Guiding Association groups both scouts and scouters, that's why members of our troop are boys and girls as well.
Scouting symbols: fleur-de-lys, Scout Cross, and more; besides information about WAGGGS (World Association Of Girl Guidesand Girl Scouts) and WOSM (The World Organization Of Scout Movement)
free.of.pl /z/zhpwatra/english.htm   (296 words)

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