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	Powazki Cemetery: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Powazki Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Powązki Cemetery is the oldest and most famous cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, which is situated in the western part of the city.
		Like many of the old European cemeteries, Powazki's tombstones were created by some of the most renowned Polish sculptors that depict the different styles of architecture and sculpture at various times in history.
		The Jewish Cemetery, located next to the Protestant Cemetery and near the Powazki necropolis, was established between 1799 and 1806.
	www.encyclopedian.com /po/Powazki-Cemetery.html (292 words)

	Powązki Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1790 most cemeteries in the Warsaw city centre were closed due to sanitary reasons and a new Catholic cemetery in the western suburb of Powązki was created.
		It was founded in 1912 as an annex to the Catholic cemetery, but after Poland regained her independence in 1918 it became the state cemetery, where some of the most notable people of the epoch were buried, regardless of their faith.
		A large part of the cemetery is occupied by graves of Polish soldiers who fell in the Warsaw Uprising.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Powazki_Cemetery (681 words)

	Polish Cemetery Guides and Necrologies
		The work presents the history of the old and new Podgorze cemeteries, as well as a brief historical sketch of the Jewish cemeteries, and the parochial cemeteries of the villages that are now a part of the Podgorze subdivision.
		The guide is comprised of four parts: a sketch of the graveyard's history, discussion of the artistic merits of the cemetery, typology of the grave inscriptions, 212 bios of distinguished persons buried at the cemetery.
		The book discusses the history of the Stryjski cemetery (in use until 1893), provides a survey of the graves, gravestones and monuments, and an alphabetical list of the more prominent persons buried at the cemetery, with the dates of birth and death, and their profession.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/Biography/Polishbio/polcems.htm (6664 words)

	List of famous cemeteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists.
		Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw - Among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieslowski and Nobel Prize winning author Wladyslaw Reymont.
		Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where John Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried.
	www.uncover.us /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_famous_cemeteries.html (992 words)

	cemetery
		A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) to which dead bodies are brought (usually with hearses) and buried.
		A cemetery is normally used for human burials but in recent times special cemeteries have been created for the bodies of such animals as dogs, cats and horses.
		In many countries, cemeteries are objects of superstition and legend; they are sometimes used (usually at night-time) for fl magic ceremonies or similar clandestine happenings.
	www.fact-library.com /cemetery.html (416 words)

	Powazki Cemetery -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Like many of the old European cemeteries, Powązki's (A stone that is used to mark a grave) tombstones were created by some of the most renowned Polish sculptors that depict the different styles of architecture and sculpture at various times in history.
		A large part of the (Click link for more info and facts about Powązki Cemetery) Powązki Cemetery is occupied by graves of Polish soldiers who fell in the (Click link for more info and facts about Warsaw Uprising) Warsaw Uprising.
		The (A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties) Jewish Cemetery, located on Okopowa Street next to the Protestant Cemetery and near the Powazki necropolis, was established between 1799 and 1806.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/powazki_cemetery.htm (795 words)

	Powazki Cemetery
		It has also a very large military section for the graves of those who fought and died for their country in the past 200 years including the large number of those involved in the ill-fated 1944 uprising against the Nazis during World War II, the Battle of Warsaw and the September Campaign.
		Like many of the old European cemeteries, Powązki's tombstoness were created by some of the most renowned Polish sculptors that depict the different styles of architecture and sculpture at various times in history.
		The candelight image shown is that of the memorial for Krzysztof Kieślowski;.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/powazki_cemetery (363 words)

	News From Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When visiting old cemeteries in Warsaw you should take a good look at the historic gravestones while you still have a chance, because many of them may be destroyed by time.
		Powazki, the oldest cemetery in Warsaw, houses an especially large number of precious monuments.
		The Lutheran Cemetery, located quite close to Powazki, is an equally ancient and important necropolis.
	www.polishworld.com /polemb/news/1198/warsaw.htm (602 words)

	Warsaw \| Visiting the City \| Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing \| Attractions & Landmarks \| Powazki Cemetery \| ...
		The Powazki cemetery was established in 1790, making it the oldest, and at the same time the most beautiful of Warsaw's cemeteries.
		Powazki is full of beatiful Classicist, Neo-Gothic, Secessionist and Art Deco style tombs, carved in stone as well as made from cast-iron.
		If you visit Powazki, stop at the Catacombs, which were erected in 1792, and became the burial place for the last Polish king August Poniatowski's family members.
	gohop.wcities.com /en/record/150,183851/112/index.html (131 words)

	Henryk Wieniawski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He gave a farewell concert in Odessa on April 1879 and died the following year in Moscow.
		He is interred in the Powazki Cemetery in Warsaw.
		Henryk Wieniawski was considered a violinist of genius and wrote some of the most important works in the violin repertoire, including two extremely difficult violin concertos, the second of which (D minor, 1862) is more often performed than the first (F# minor, 1853).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henryk_Wieniawski (411 words)

	0083 Antoni Wajszczuk
		The Funeral Holy Mass was celebrated in the church of the Holiest Redeemer (Kosciol Najswietszego Zbawiciela), after which the coffins were transported to the Powazki Military Cemetery.
		Individual graves of soldiers of this Battalion are scattered over the whole military cemetery and several other cemeteries.
		Common grave of the fallen soldiers of the 135 Platoon in the Powazki Military Cemetery in Warsaw
	www.wajszczuk.v.pl /english/drzewo/tekst/0083antoni.htm (1064 words)

	Fairview Cemetery -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In addition to many of the city's business and cultural elite, at (Provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia) Halifax's Fairview Cemetery, 121 victims of the (Click link for more info and facts about Titanic) Titanic disaster are interred, several of whom have never been identified.
		Known as "Jock", he was a violinist in the ship's orchestra.
		John's grave is like most of the Titanic graves at Fairview Cemetery.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fa/Fairview_Cemetery.htm (253 words)

	List of famous cemeteries explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
		Brompton Cemetery- Opened in 1840, it is one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries and is the final resting place for a number of prominent persons including Samuel Cunard, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sir Charles Fremantle amongst others.
		Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery at Kensal Green in London is the final resting place for a number of notables including Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Sax Rohmer and Krystyna Skarbek.
	www.wordspider.net /li/list-of-famous-cemeteries.html (1548 words)

	Church of the Holy Cross
		Like lives of many geniuses, his bright life was broken off early when he died from tuberculosis at the age of 39.
		According to his wish, his body was buried in Paris in Pere Lachaise Cemetery and his heart at last returned to Warsaw.
		His body was buried in the Powazki Cemetery.
	www.warsaw-hotels.net /eng/guide/sights/holycross.html (439 words)

	Powazki Cemetery - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Powazki Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Powazki Cemetery - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Powazki Cemetery.
		Here you will find more informations about Powazki Cemetery.
		The orginal Powazki Cemetery article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Powazki-Cemetery.html (487 words)

	ipedia.com: Wladyslaw Reymont Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reymont died in 1925 and was interred in the Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland.
		He died in Warsaw and was buried in the Powązki Cemetery.
		The urn with his heart was laid in one of the pillars of the Holy Cross Church.
	www.ipedia.com /wladyslaw_reymont.html (1850 words)

	WHAT WARSAW REMEMBERS
		Mounds of flowers and candles adorn thousands of graves at Powazki cemetery of the young men and women of the Polish Home Army (AK) who at "W" hour -- 17:00 on Tuesday Aug. 1 -- launched the largest insurgency in German-occupied Europe.
		The Home Army, answering to the government in exile in London, launched the uprising, in part, to liberate Warsaw before or concurrently with the Red Army so as to not leave Poland's postwar fate to Stalin's mercies.
		I was in Powazki on Aug. 1, 1989, amazed by waves of people streaming in, singing war songs and chanting Solidarity slogans.
	www.apacouncil.org /news/Warsaw/Warsaw.html (886 words)

	LETTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Golebioska-Gold, Alicja ps."Lusia", nurse in AK, "Zoska" unit, killed in Warsaw uprising 16.9.44 on 20 Krag Str., Buried Warsaw Powazki cemetery.
		Anisfeld Ozjasz ps."Artur"; A.K.; fell in Warsaw Uprising 8 August 1944; buried Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw.
		Stasia; liason officer A.K.; fell in Warsaw Uprising Czerniakow; buried Jewish Cemetery Warsaw.
	www.citinet.net /ak/polska_40_f2.html (1548 words)

	Countries: List of famous cemeteries
		Canada * Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia - the RMS Titanic cemetery.
		Mexico * Panteon de D—lores, Mexico City Poland * Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw - Among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieslowski and Nobel Prize winning author Wladyslaw Reymont.
		* Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England * Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England * Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where John Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried.
	www.morelawinfo.com /Countries/List_of_cemeteries.shtml (816 words)

	Poland-Reburial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Instead of returning to Poland after the war, he chose to live in exile in Britain and moved to the United States in 1956 and settled in Washington, where he died in 1960 at the age of 65.
		Ten Polish army soldiers in dress uniforms fired three volleys in salute as the remains of Chrusciel and his wife Waleria were lowered into the ground.
		The funeral at Warsaw's military Powazki cemetery was preceded by a Roman Catholic mass at the garrison church in the Old Town, the scene of most of the fighting during the uprising.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/World/040730/w073088A.html (479 words)

	Concert 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In my memory engraved are familiar scent of chrysanthemums, dry leaves and candles, lots of candles.
		Cemetery full of pilgrims, cleaning graves of the ones who already departed to meet the Creator.
		There is some kind of a quite celebration in the act of placing the white chrysanthemums on the clean graves, lighting candles… Special evening, cold and warm, at the same time… Together again, for the brief moment… Moment of celebration.
	www.verbumllc.com /concert/nov.htm (163 words)

	Warsaw Uprising 60th Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We were traveling by taxi to Powazki Cemetery for another wreath-laying, but at the top of the hour we asked the driver to pull over.
		At the cemetery, more wreaths were laid by official delegations at the “Gloria Victis” monument (Glory to the Defeated).
		Prescott and Powell were lavish in their praise of the bravery, sacrifice and contributions of Poles to the war effort -- Prescott mentioned Enigma, the Battle of Britain, other actions, and the cemeteries in Britain, Italy and elsewhere in Europe where Polish combatants are buried.
	www.pacwashmetrodiv.org /projects/warsaw44/anniv.0801.htm (679 words)

	Waclaw Sierpinski
		Sierpinski was awarded the scientific prize of the first degree in 1949.
		Waclaw Sierpinski is interred in the Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland.
		The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/waclaw_sierpinski.html (821 words)

	Embassy Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Paderewski played it during his last American tour, when he fell ill and had to cancel his concerts.
		He died soon after in 1941 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, with a request that he be moved to Poland when his homeland regaines its independence.
		His request was finally granted in 1992, when his remains were transferred for a hero's burial at Powazki Cemetery in Warsaw.
	www.polishworld.com /polemb/tour/7.htm (338 words)

	List of famous cemeteries - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Arlington National Cemetery - military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home, near Washington, D.C. Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California
		Hollywood Forever Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood, California - burial place of Mel Blanc
		Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California - Bing Crosby, Lawrence Welk, Bela Lugosi are among the Holy Cross residents
	openproxy.ath.cx /li/List_of_famous_cemeteries.html (777 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Poland remembers uprising against Nazis
		Instead of returning to communist Poland after the war, Chrusciel chose to live in exile in Britain and moved to the United States in 1956, settling in Washington, D.C. He died there in 1960 at age 65.
		"He was — and remains — one of our national heroes," Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski said as Chrusciel's remains were interred yesterday at the city's Powazki military cemetery.
		Zbigniew Scibor-Rylski, head of the Warsaw Insurgents' Union, a veterans association, said the 1989 fall of communism and rebirth of democracy in Poland were Chrusciel's dream, one he never got to see.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001993673_uprising31.html (621 words)

	eBay.co.uk - cemetery, DVDs, Postcards, Fiction Books items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		CEMETERY TERROR CUTOUT'S 3 PER PACK GR8 4 HALLOWEEN
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		Lucio Fulci's The House By The Cemetery, Amityville vhs
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	FAMOUS CEMETERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Collville-sur-Mer - honors American soldiers who died during operations in Europe during World War II Greece
		Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, burial site for Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Malcolm X, Aaliyah and other personalities.
		Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles, California - Marilyn Monroe, Frank Zappa, and Billy Wilder are buried here
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/FAMOUS+CEMETERY (1048 words)

	Korbonski - Jews Under Occupation
		Another partisan group was composed of Polish peasants from the village of Polichno, but had a Jewish commanding officer who used the pseudonym of "Szymek"; when he was killed in action, the peasants buried him in a Catholic cemetery as a sign of their respect.
		Among still other partisan groups there was a Jewish unit commanded by Mieczyslaw Gruber; a mixed Polish-Jewish unit under the command of a Jewish veterinarian, Dr. Mieczyslaw Skotnicki, operating in the woods near Parczew; and in the Radom district, a group led by Julian Ajzenman-Kaniewski (pseudonym: Chytry).
		In the cemetery of the town of Nowy Sacz, 300-500 Jews and Poles were shot between 1939 and August 1942--the Poles for sheltering the Jews.
	www.ucis.pitt.edu /eehistory/H200Readings/Topic4-R3.html (7398 words)

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