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  POSEN (GERMANY) - LoveToKnow Article on POSEN (GERMANY)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
POSEN, an eastern province of the kingdom of Prussia, in the German Empire, bounded N. by the Prussian province of West Prussia, E. by Russian Poland and S. and W. respectively by the Prussian provinces of Silesia and Brandenburg.
Posen belongs to the north German plain, and consists of a low plateau intersected by the beds of the Netze, the Warthe and the Obra.
POSEN (Polish Poznan), a city, archiepiscopal see and fortress of Germany, capital of the province of Posen, situated in a wide and sandy plain at the confluence of the Cybina and the Warthe, 150 m.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POSEN_GERMANY_.htm   (2763 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnesen-Posen
On the death of Boleslaw, Posen was severed from Magdeburg in the course of the strife engendered by the national opposition to Germanism.
The church at Posen is the official cathedral of the diocese.
RZEPNICKI, Vitae praesulum Poloniae (2 vols., Posen, 1761--), and KOZLOWSKI, Zwoty prymasowi i arcybiskupow gnieznienskich i poznanskich w skroceniu (i.e., "Brief biographies of the primates and Archbishops of Gnesen and Posen", Posen, 1887).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06590b.htm   (2726 words)

  
 Boston.com / Your Life / Fashion / Young designer Zac Posen thinks big, sees an empire in his future   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But the difference between Posen and the throngs of other young up-and-comers in the fashion world is he doesn't have to answer to anybody when he makes it in to work -- he's the boss.
Posen's first major runway show was in 2002 when he was named a "fresh face in fashion" by GenArt, a nonprofit organization that supports emerging talent in fashion, film and the visual arts; his winter show this year attracted President Bush's daughter Barbara.
Posen says he's heard talk of the "changing of the guard" of American fashion, and he's flattered to be included, but he also says that buzz surfaces every few years -- and the icons are still there.
www.boston.com /yourlife/fashion/articles/2004/09/08/young_designer_zac_posen_thinks_big_sees_an_empire_in_his_future?pg=full   (866 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Music / Sean John label partners with Zac Posen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sean John is making a long-term investment in the growth of the Zac Posen label and the two companies will be equal partners, according to a statement released Wednesday.
Posen is known best for his dresses -- and his ability to draw celebrities such as Claire Danes and President Bush's daughter, Barbara, to his runway shows.
Posen plans to continue expansion of his ready-to-wear collection, which debuted in 2001, while developing an accessories business.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/04/22/sean_john_label_partners_with_zac_posen   (228 words)

  
 Zac Posen: The 'It' guy
Posen, who says he's inspired by "hard-core intelligent women," was impressed by Chicagoans' style in his first-ever visit to here last week.
Posen's done custom designs for Queen Latifah and Broadway star Marissa Janet Winokur, creating the dress the plus-size actress wore when accepting her 2003 Tony Award for the musical "Hairspray." In fact, Vogue editor Anna Wintour asked him to design Winokur's dress right before the Tonys, as several designers declined to dress the full-figured star.
Posen is "very affable, willing to come to the stores and meet with our customers -- and that's the best asset you can have from a designer," says Joan Kaner, Neiman Marcus' senior vice president and fashion director.
www.suntimes.com /output/lifestyles/cst-ftr-zac21.html   (1279 words)

  
 <%Title%> - Concord Monitor Online - Concord, NH 03301   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But the difference between Posen and the throngs of other young up-and-comers in the fashion world is he doesn't have to answer to anybody when he makes it in to work - he's the boss.
Posen says he's heard talk of the "changing of the guard" of American fashion, and he's flattered to be included, but he also says that buzz surfaces every few years - and the icons are still there.
Right now, Posen says he doesn't have a lot of time to enjoy the fruits of his labor - save the occasional dinner party he throws for friends or meal at a restaurant near his new apartment.
www.concordmonitor.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040909/REPOSITORY/409090381/1013/NEWS03   (843 words)

  
 German Genealogy: Province Posen
During the second partition of Poland in 1793 the remainder of the province Posen was annexed by King Friedrich William II of Prussia and called South Prussia.
The capital of the province is Posen (Poznan).
The catholic church was led by the archbishops in Gnesen and Posen.
www.genealogienetz.de /reg/POS/posen_e.html   (2108 words)

  
 SOS OF SWAMI: Posen's run to Breslin is no small potatoes
The Son of Swami, not to mention the Upper Peninsula's favorite son, Tom Izzo, were set to welcome the Watersmeet Nimrods to the Breslin Center today for the Class D semifinals.
So now Posen will come downstate for the first time in school history, and this will be even bigger than the town's annual potato festival.
Posen is a Polish community on M-65 between Rogers City and Alpena where potatoes are the main source of income.
www.freep.com /sports/preps/sos17e_20050317.htm   (389 words)

  
 Posen Consolidated School Tech Plan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Posen economy is diversified, with a combination of farming, government service jobs in the county seat, in education and local businesses.
The United State Department of Education describes Posen schools as a small rural school, meaning less than 600 students and designated by the census to be rural.
Posen Consolidated Schools continually strive to provide every student with the best possible education, preparing all students to function effectively in the society in which they live.
www.posen.k12.mi.us /tech_plan.htm   (3428 words)

  
 Zac Posen only sees big things for his brand
The spring 2005 collection, shown to Fashion Week crowds last Friday, is a further expansion of Posen's line, which has grown from celebrity eveningwear to suits and now sportswear.
Posen's first major runway show was in 2002 when he was named a "fresh face in fashion" by GenArt, a non-profit organization that supports emerging talent in fashion, film and the visual arts; his winter show this year attracted President Bush's daughter Barbara.
Posen says he doesn't have a lot of time to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /lifestyle/190921_zacposen.html   (834 words)

  
 The Province of Posen (Poznan)
This region was the historical center of origin of the Polish Nation in the 10th century and has always been one of the richest and most developed provinces of Poland.
The map below shows the territory of the Province of Poznan (Posen) at the beginning of the 20th century.
Therefore, I have included a short genealogical introduction to this region as well, although it did not belong to the Prussian 'Provinz Posen' but rather to the Kalisz Gubernya of the Kingdom of Poland governed by Russia.
www.polishroots.org /genpoland/pos.htm   (631 words)

  
 For Zac Posen, a Refuge From the Runway - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For Zac Posen, a Refuge From the Runway
Posen's penchant for brilliant colors and Pop Art patterns or the white-hued minimalism of Mr.
Posen think of the fl lacquered klismos-style chairs, which are decorated with carved swans, as a homage to King Ludwig II of Bavaria, whose Neuschwanstein Castle had swans carved into the furnishings and worked into tapestries.
www.nytimes.com /2005/09/15/garden/15pose.html?ex=1284436800&en=740355f4eab0a233&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (688 words)

  
 Neue Rheinsiche Zeitung No. 285 April 1849   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Posen and South Prussia on that occasion received the Hohenzollerns as hereditary rulers in exactly the same way as the Rhine Province in 1815 received them as hereditary rulers, — in accordance with the right of trafficking in people and of kidnapping.
In the Kalisch region alone the area of the estates given away amounted to more than a third of all the Crown and Church lands, and the income from these estates, even according to the miserable estimates of the value of the grants in 1799 alone, was 247,000 talers annually.
In the Posen administrative region the Owinsk estate with its extensive forests was presented to Tresckow, a haberdasher.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1849/04/29b.htm   (847 words)

  
 Zac Posen - New York Fashion Designer - Zac Posen
In 2001, designer Zac Posen was barely old enough to legally toast the immediate success of his start-up business—and at the time, was garnering almost as much press attention for his age as for his comely creations.
A favorite of young Hollywood, Posen’s design style is not exactly trend-oriented; instead, his pieces have a timeless nostalgia to them, with bias-cut silhouettes, ruffled satin draping and fishtail hems that often mirror the mastery of Christian Dior and Madame Vionnet.
At sixteen, the precocious Posen interned at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, under the tutelage of Richard Martin; two years later he interned at Nicole Miller, then served as a design assistant at Tocca.
www.newyorkmetro.com /fashion/fashionshows/designers/bios/zacposen.htm   (299 words)

  
 POSEN - Online Information article about POSEN
half in Posen, and on this over 4000 families were settled.
Institute and Vereine (Posen, 1905) ; and the publications of the Historische Gesellschaft fiir die Provinz Posen (Posen, 1882 seq.).
account of the Prussian policy in Posen, from an outside point of view, will be found in the Annual Register, passim.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/POSEN.html   (2158 words)

  
 Posen
Posen is the 33,048th most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.000%; percentile is 82.498 [SourceCBN]
Posen, Illinois, United States [Village]; population was 4,226 in 1990; housing units was 1,612 in 1990; location is 41°38'N 87°41'W; land area is 1.13 square miles (726 acres); FIPS code is 61314 [SourceCBP]
Posen, Michigan, United States [Village]; population was 263 in 1990; housing units was 126 in 1990; location is 45°16'N 83°42'W; land area is 1.00 square miles (641 acres); FIPS code is 66000 [SourceCBP]
www.placesnamed.com /p/o/posen.asp   (162 words)

  
 Posen, Illinois IL, village profile (Cook County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Posen, IL Posen is a village in Cook County, in the Chicago metro area.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Posen was $17,323, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Posen, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $491.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=6580   (397 words)

  
 Posen on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Un modèle de Zac Posen défile le 9 septembre à New york Les robes de cocktail graphiques de Zac Posen ont désormais adopté.
Le styliste Zac Posen, en mai à Londres Un essaim de jeunes créateurs et la reprise économique en vue: la semaine des défi.
Zac Posen attends the annual Winter Dance at the American Museum of Natural History on Thursday, February 17, 2005, in New York City.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-P1osen.asp   (524 words)

  
 Posen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Twelve of these ships were envisioned for the German Navy's "Z" Plan, but none were built, and the concept was dropped in favor of the "O-P-Q" battlecruisers.
In "Grand Fleet" the Posen is finished in 1937 but her sister Pommern, due out the following year, is converted to a new type of aircraft carrier on Göring's express orders.
A slow convoy escorted by British battleship Ramillies and a French cruiser was sighted and engaged by Posen.
www.combinedfleet.com /furashita/posen_f.htm   (271 words)

  
 Lauren and Posen Collections
Posen often proclaims that it is his life ambition "to make women feel sexy" - an impressive claim for a 20-something.
In his latest collection, dresses were made for all body types, as opposed to attempting to force the body to conform to a type.
Zac Posen and Luella had more fun with it all using ribbons and bows on their shoes: the latter across the front of the foot, the former around the ankle, ballet-style.
www.buzzle.com /editorials/2-13-2004-50531.asp   (484 words)

  
 Zac Posen Fall 2005 Ready-to-Wear Collection on Style.com: Runway Review
They saw a fall show in which Posen zeroed in on Hollywood's glamour years, turning out bias-cut liquid silk columns in shimmering pastels, and (paging Joan Crawford) bubble-sleeve blouses with hip-loving skirts.
Posen's alpaca coats seemed oddly informal next to all that flash, and he didn't show much in the way of daywear compared with his efforts for spring.
But that's not what his people come for: The leaner and loucher a gown was, the louder the claps from the Combs-helmed cheering section.
www.style.com /fashionshows/collections/F2005RTW/review/ZPOSEN   (271 words)

  
 FAQ-I: German-Posen
A5: The highest provincial court and for Deutsch-Krone Kreis was the Oberlandesgericht in Posen.
A9: In addition to the deed and mortgage records deposited at the courts (Amtsgerichte) a prime and practically unknown source is the Generalkommission fuer Westpreussen und Posen zu Bromberg with records deposited at the state archives in Bydgoszcz and comprising 116118 volumes for the years 1812-1920.
In the latter decades before 1900 there was a strong migration from Posen province to the Western Prussian provinces, most notably to Rheinland and Westfalen where the booming Ruhr area and its coal and steel companies were the main attraction to the new labor force.
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 Posen Research List Archive 98-1 (POSRL-981)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She was born 7 August 1882 in the province of Posen and died 23 August 1942 at Los Angeles, California.
Samuel KOSLOWSKI was born 1787 at Terchomir, Posen.
He was born at Ottowo, Sassenheim, Posen, Prussia 28 October 1833 and died 28 February 1920 in Cedarburg Township, Ozaukee, Wisconsin; buried 27 September 1912 in the Zur Ruhe Cemetery, Cedarburg Tozaukee, Wisconsin.
cefha.org /de/pos/posrl/posrl-981.html   (3322 words)

  
 Posen Research List Archive - POSRL-991   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
So this needs to be repeated (Posen, Posen) if it was a place where a birth, marriage or death occured in that city and province.
Carl Frederick KELM of Province of Posen; children: 1) Karl KELM, born 23 November 1849, Province of Posen, emigrated to U.S.(Texas) in 1872, married Julianna GLASSMAN in Texas.
I do not know the specific locale in Posen where my ancestor was born, and no record exists for his birth in either the Catholic or Lutheran records for Posen city.
cefha.org /de/pos/posrl/posrl-991.html   (3519 words)

  
 doc calm - Stress and Lifestyle Management with David B. Posen M.D. - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
My name is David Posen, and I have been a doctor for more than 30 years, the last 15 of which I have spent working in the fields of stress management, lifestyle counselling and psychotherapy.
In doc.calm, my weekly column for CANOE, I will be sharing what I've learned about stress from academic sources, from my patients and from my own personal experience.
Read the transcript from Dr. Posen's recent chat.
www.canoe.ca /HealthStress/home.html   (139 words)

  
 MSNBC - Calvin Klein, Zac Posen get all dressed up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons led the applause at Posen’s filled-to-capacity show at the Bryant Park tents, which for the last seven days have been the epicenter of the fashion world.
Posen’s looks were creative yet wearable, and those featuring a metallic gold snake embellishment were stunners.
The vibe at Posen’s show was hip and edgy, while Vera Wang’s presentation, shown at the same venue earlier in the day, had a calmness and elegance to it.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6448213/did/6952825   (665 words)

  
 Posen, IL News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Local news for Posen, IL continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
Authorities say a jackknifed truck that was struck by a bus in a fatal accident in Wisconsin early Sunday was from Indiana.
Two firefighters and two residents were injured Wednesday during a fire at a Blue Island home where the owner was rescued and his son jumped from the second floor.
www.topix.net /city/posen-il   (585 words)

  
 Rising Fashion Star Zac Posen Speaks at HBS - Harbus - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Since his debut, Posen's collection, which includes dresses priced from $700 to $2,200, has grown considerably in its retail presence.
Zac Posen's collections are carried at various stores including Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Bagutta, Jeffrey New York and specialty stores in nine other countries.
Subsequently, Zac and Susan Posen answered a variety of questions regarding such topics as potentially producing another line, international expansion and working for a luxury conglomerate.
www.harbus.org /news/2004/05/03/News/Rising.Fashion.Star.Zac.Posen.Speaks.At.Hbs-677324.shtml   (846 words)

  
 Poznań - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poznań (in Polish pronounced [▶] [ˈpɔznaɲ]; full official name: The Capital City of Poznań, Latin: Posnania, German: Posen, Yiddish: פּױזן "Poyzn") is a city in west-central Poland with over 578,900 inhabitants (2002).
Located by the Warta River, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical center.
It is also referred to in Polish as Stołeczne Miasto Poznań (name used on special occasions), in German as Posen (Haupt- und Residenzstadt Posen between 20 August 1910 and 28 November 1918), and in Latin as Posnania and civitas Posnaniensis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poznan   (1605 words)

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