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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
  Stanislaw
Stanislaw's sole export is a carefully restricted stream of data concerning the planet, its botforms, and its mechosphere.
Stanislaw itself, the fourth planet in the system, is an arean/postgaian world: hot and dusty, with a nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere containing small quantities of water and free oxygen plus trace gases produced by the mechosphere, at an overall pressure of 0.7 atmospheres.
Stanislaw's bots use electrical or fiber-optic wires for internal communication, and use both sound and a large segment of the e-m spectrum for long distance communication.
www.orionsarm.com /worlds/Stanislaw.html   (3151 words)

  
 English2
In 1667 (Maciej) Stanislaw Ustrzycki, senator in 1670, judge in the city of Sanok, with the King’s approval, re-registered the village of Ustrzyki Gorne for Ustrzyki Dolne and the village of Jasien.
Stanislaw Ustrzycki built in the village of Jasien a large Roman Catholic church, the family religion, and the King approved the parish.
King August II appointed Boguslaw Ustrzycki on Feb. 20, 1756 to the position of Marshall of the district of Wloclawek.
home.cogeco.ca /~justrzycki/English2.htm   (932 words)

  
 Herbarz Polski (A)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
STANISLAW AICHINGER from the Duchy of Oswiecim and Zator belongs to this house.
Stanislaw, squire of Kobylany, Sendomir Voivodship, married Anna Mijakowska.
Stanislaw, captain of an armored division, fell in battle with Moscow at Miednice, which was noted by the Sejm in 1662 with the recommendation that his sacrifice be remembered, which the Sejm of 1683 confirmed.
www.pgsa.org /heraldry/herbarzA.htm   (6839 words)

  
 Herbarz Polski (Ba)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
STANISLAW IGNACY BAKOWSKI, Chamberlain of Chelmno, son of Jan Ignacy, the voivode of Malbork, was thrice deputized to the Sejm: for the coronation of King August II in 1697, when he signed the Confirmationern Jurium Gentium; in 1699; and before that, in 1696, to the general convocation in Warsaw.
FRANCISZEK, cousin of Stanislaw and Jacek, is apparently the son of Ludwik, sub-voivode of Malbork, 1673.
Stanislaw Baryczka, heir to Machalowice and Czosnow, cupbearer of Czerniechow, royal secretary, was granted Polish citizenship by the Parliament in 1658, as were Wojciech and Jan. Brought up in Polish camps, he sharpened his knightly skills and proficiency in architectonics.
www.pgsa.org /heraldry/herbarzBa.htm   (7226 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The long reign of King August II was tantamount to the total political and moral disintegration of the state.
The exiled Stanislaw Leszczynski was recalled from France and hastily re-elected by the General Convention to the position of King of Poland.
Stanislaw Leszczynski had to once again flee the country, as the patriotic front collapsed under pressure from Austria and Russia.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/sjk/jazch7.html   (4760 words)

  
 Heydel-Mankoo's Almanach de Polska: The Counts of Poland
Stanislaw, Andrzej, Jan, Michal and Maciej obtained the hereditary title of Count of Galicia from Empress Maria-Theresa on 5th December 1778.
Jerzy (second son of Stanislaw and Catherine Zorawinska) obtained the hereditary title of Count of the Holy Roman Empire from Emperor Ferdinand II on 1st July 1631.
Stanislaw, (son of Josef by his wife Justyna Gorzkowska) obtained the hereditary title of Baron of Galicia from Emperor Josef II on 28th January 1784.
www.geocities.com /polishnobles/Counts.html   (9249 words)

  
 Poniatowski
Prince Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, the nephew of the last king of Poland Stanislaw August Poniatowski, was born and raised in Vienna.
Stanislaw August became his guardian, and throughout their common life span these two great members of the Poniatowski family enjoyed a close, father-son like relationship.
In 1798 died Stanislaw August, the former king, who in the aftermath of the Insurrection abdicated (he resisted the pressure to do so until he learned of the last partition), and lived in Grodno and later in St. Petersburg.
members.core.com /~gugalo   (5709 words)

  
 May 3rd Doc
At the end of the session at the Castle, King Stanislaw August goes to the Cathedral of St. John, as he is being kissed on the hands by his devoted royal subjects, to repeat the Oath of the Constitution in front of the Altar, in the face of God.
Stanislaw Kostka Potocki, brother of Ignacy, statesman, famed orator, member of the Permanent Council of the Diet.
The last king of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski, patron of arts and science who, although lacking qualities of bold leadership, was one of the most enlightened monarchs in the annals of Europe.
www.polishamericancenter.org /May3rdDoc.htm   (820 words)

  
 Poland - The Three Partitions, 1764-95
Confounding expectations that he would be an obedient servant of his mistress, Stanislaw August encouraged the modernization of his realm's ramshackle political system and achieved a temporary moratorium on use of the individual veto in the Sejm (1764-66).
King Stanislaw August supported the progressive elements in the government and promoted the ideas of foreign political figures such as Edmund Burke and George Washington.
Stanislaw August's process of renovation reached its climax on May 3, 1791, when, after three years of intense debate, the "Four Years' Sejm" produced Europe's first written constitution.
countrystudies.us /poland/11.htm   (1006 words)

  
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Stanislaw was the former Mary Lucy Hiznay, a daughter of the late Andrew Hiznay and Anna Kalafut Hiznay.
Stanislaw was born Nov. 17, 1901, in Austria, a son of John and Mary Hiznay Stanislaw, coming to this country and Youngstown as a young boy.
Stanislaw was born Jan. 20, 1915, in Youngstown, a daughter of Andrew and Barbara Elko Horney.
www.iarelative.com /stan0601.htm   (5037 words)

  
 The Vlnius Clasicism (From the buklet "The Vilnius Classicism". Warsaw, 1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Art and artists were there throughout the different tides of fortune and the changes which they brought, and they reacted to them in different ways for their works were not produced in some vacuum but, most of the time, were commissioned and addressed to a specific audience.
It is a well-known fact that Stanislaw August cultivated a dream, one which unfortunately was not brought to fulfillment, of establishing an Academy of Fine Arts.
Only in 1797, a short time before Stanislaw August died in exile, the first department of painting and drawing was opened at the University of the Former Capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, since become a provincial city of the Russian Empire - Vilnius.
ldmuziejus.mch.mii.lt /Naujausiosparodos/klasicizmasaprVars.en.htm   (1496 words)

  
 Juno Beach Centre - Major-General Stanislaw Maczek
Stanislaw Wladyslaw Maczek, born in Lwòw, Poland, on March 31st, 1892; died in Edinburgh, Scotland, on December 11th, 1994.
On August 5th, Major-General Maczek's troops were placed under the command of Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds' II Canadian Corps, to crush German resistance and reach Falaise.
On August 19th, 1944, the 1st Polish Armoured Division found itself ahead of the 1st Canadian Army as it was about to attempt its great thrust forward in order to close the Falaise Gap.
www.junobeach.org /e/3/can-pep-pol-maczek-e.htm   (721 words)

  
 Dr Richard Butterwick
‘Stanislaw August Poniatowski jako latitudynarysta religijny’ [Stanislaw August Poniatowski as a religious latitudinarian], Wiek Oswiecenia [The Age of Enlightenment], XIV (1998).
‘Stanislaw August Poniatowski - patriota oswiecony i kosmopolityczny’ [Stanislaw August Poniatowski - an enlightened and cosmopolitan patriot], Wiek Oswiecenia, XV(1999).
Stanislaw August Poniatowski, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and politesse in England’, SVEC [Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century’], 2003:07.
www.qub.ac.uk /schools/SchoolofHistory/SchoolContactDetails/StaffListing/DrRichardButterwick   (612 words)

  
 Saving Jews: Polish Righteous
In August 1942 Father Wladyslaw was transferred to the parish at Sluzewiec, but continued his contacts with the resistance movement on behalf of the Jews.
From August 1943 till September 1944 they harbored in their only room and kitchen Dr. Juliusz Landau and his sister Zofia, who were completely dependent on them, (according to the doctor's statement).
Stanislaw Gorski, caught in a roundup, was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp.
www.savingjews.org /righteous/gv.htm   (5629 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Stanislaw August Poniatowski, the Polish king, had as his adherents the powerful patriotic party with Ignacy and Stanislaw Potocki, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Stanislaw Malachowski, the Italian Scipione Piattoli, and Hugo Kollataj, who was the ideological leader of that group.
Burghers in the royal towns (those owned by the magnates were not covered by the Act) were assured personal inviolability, the right of purchasing estates, access to many offices and ranks in the army, and participation in the Seym (with the decisive vote in matters concerned with towns and trade).
Stanislaw August was to be succeeded by the Saxon dynasty.
www.thenagain.info /Webchron/EastEurope/4yseym.html   (412 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | General Stanislaw Skalski
General Stanislaw Skalski, who has died aged 89, was Poland's most successful fighter pilot, credited with destroying at least 22 enemy aircraft and damaging others; he was decorated for gallantry four times by the British and six times by the Polish government in exile.
Stanislaw Skalski was born on October 27 1915 at the village of Kodyn, north of the Russian city of Odessa.
Stanislaw Skalski died in Warsaw on November 12.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/16/db1601.xml   (1231 words)

  
 Stanisław August Poniatowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanisław August Poniatowski (born Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski; January 17, 1732-February 12, 1798) was the last King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764-1795).
After the final, Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanisław August was forced to abdicate (November 25, 1795) and left for St. Petersburg, Russia.
Stanislaw and Prince Joseph Poniatowski in the Light of Their Private Correspondence, in French, edited in Polish by Bronislaw Dembinski, L'viv, 1904.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanislaw_August_Poniatowski   (1172 words)

  
 Franciszka Krasinska
She was born sometime between 1972-44 as the second daughter of Stanislaw Krasinski, the dziedzic [land owner] of Maleszowo and Wegrow, he also was the starosta [elder] of Nowomiejsk.
The king also said that she supported his dethronement -- an unfair accusation because Franciszka condemned the "act of interregnum" as she did the manifesto issued against the Czartoryski family, and was for restoring good relations with the king.
In February 1772 believing in the power of diplomacy and deluding herself with the candidacy of Fryderyk of Hesse [for the Polish throne] she moved to Koszecin only to see the tragic end of the confederation and the destruction of all her plans.
www.poles.org /Krasinska.html   (1536 words)

  
 Poland in the classroom: Poland - A Country Study
Stanislaw entered national lore as a potent symbol of resistance to illegitimate state authority--an allegorical weapon that proved especially effective against the communist regime.
In 1809, under Józef Poniatowski, nephew of Stanislaw II Augustus, the duchy reclaimed the land taken by Austria in the second partition.
In August 1989, the Catholic intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki became prime minister of a government committed to dismantling the communist system and replacing it with a Western-style democracy and a free-market economy.
info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/longhist7.html   (14490 words)

  
 [No title]
Andrew Stanislaw, son of Paul Stanislav (1) and Cicilia (Unknown), was born circa 1901 in Pennsylvania.
William Stanislaw, son of Paul Stanislav (1) and Cicilia (Unknown), was born circa 1903 in Pennsylvania.
Danette A. Stanislaw, daughter of Roger Brian Stanislaw (10) and Claudette A. Cheston, was born Saturday 07 September 1969 in Redford, Michigan.
www.iarelative.com /stan0501.htm   (977 words)

  
 President of The Republic of Poland - Presidential Palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The building of the Palace was begun in 1643 by Crown Field Hetman (Commander-in-Chief) Stanislaw Koniecpolski, owner of the town of Brody (80 km east of Lwow (Lvov)) and numerous latifundia situated in the borderland territories of Poland.
It was bought from Stanislaw Herakliusz and August Hieronim, the descendants of Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, by Michal Kazimierz Radziwill I of the Nieswiez-Olyka line, whose wife Katarzyna was a sister of King Jan III Sobieski.
Karol Stanislaw died as a sick and blind man at the age of 57.
www.president.pl /x.node?id=442   (1300 words)

  
 Polish culture: The Royal Castle in Warsaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sculpture is represented by works of artists associated with the court of King Stanislaw August, including A. Lebrun, J. Monaldi and P. Courdray, and by Italian and French works from the sixteenth to eighteenth century, including busts of European rulers and modern copies of ancient sculptures.
Furniture includes some pieces that stood in the Castle interiors during the reign of Stanislaw August, in particular two console tables with mosaic tops, commissioned in Rome by F. Saluzzo as his gift to the Polish king, designed by V. Peter and made by P. Salvini, and throne chairs designed by the period's artists.
The Sejm interiors include the aforementioned Old Deputies' Hall with re-created coats of arms of 32 lands and voivodships (provinces) of the Republic on the ceiling, as well as the New Deputies' Hall and the Senators' Hall, where the Constitution of 3rd May was adopted.
www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/in_mu_zamek_warszawa   (979 words)

  
 pcpopiel
Popiel's mother was Marianna Pieglowska, a daughter of the Oswiecim castellan Jan. He brought as a dowry the village Owczary (county of Wislica) and she was a heiress of Czaple Wielkie in Krakow province (county of Ksiaz).
In such a manner he was quite stabilized in terms of the estates, he married Konstancja Komorowski (1764), who was orphaned in early childhood by her father Piotr and was grown by her uncle, a primate Adam Komorowski.
His relations with the king Stanislaw August were close, but his correspondence, friendly from the king and martinet from himself does not reveal any particular political intimacy.
members.tripod.com /kingpopiel/english/pcpopiel.htm   (2124 words)

  
 Steve’s Genealogy Blog » Stanislaw Markiewicz in the 1920 Federal Census
Stanislaw Markiewicz arrived in New York City on May 29, 1912.  He then traveled to South Framingham, Massachusetts where he stayed with a friend.  In 1920, he appears in the US Federal Census in Worcester, Massachusetts with a wife and four children.
Stanislaw (and his parents) were born in Poland and spoke Polish; he was an alien who immigrated in 1912
Stanislaw was employed as a moulder in a factory
stephendanko.com /blog/2006/07/27/stanislaw-markiewicz-in-the-1920-federal-census   (252 words)

  
 Niew1a
That privilege was approved in 1420 by Ziemowit IV, Prince of Plock to Sunislaw and to Szymon's sons: Adam, Mikolaj, and Jan. In 1420 Sunislaw of Zakliczewofounded a parochial church in Drozdowo.
This church was erected in 1436 by bishop Stanislaw (1), and was burnt in 1737.
According to Stanislaw Niewodowski research done in the fifties of this century, during the independence insurrections Niewodowskis fought against Russian forces, they were captured and sent to Siberia.
www.geocities.com /a_gulinski/niew1a.htm   (1863 words)

  
 Fr. Stanislaw Makarewicz
The witnesses of this ceremony were: the Illustrious Stanislaw Poniatowski, voivode of Mazowsze and the Illustrious (Maria Zofia) Princess Sieniawska Czartoryska, the daughter of the Ruthenian voivode.
Name: Franciszek Piotr August Stanislaw; The witnesses of the ceremony were: the illustrious August Alexander Prince Czartoryski, the Ruthenian voivode with the illustrious Maria Antonina Rudzinska, daughter of the Czersk castellan.
Turski was nominated on 24 January 1765, as the Chelmno bishop, by King Stanislaw August, and appointed by the Holy See on 22 April.
www.poles.org /Makarewicz.html   (4169 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798 (Oxford Historical ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The attempt by Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95) 'to create anew the Polish world' was one of the most audacious enterprises of reform undertaken by any enlightened monarch in the eighteenth century.
Stanislaw August died in exile, cursed by most of his compatriots to this day.
He shows how Stanislaw's radical plans for reform of Poland's constitution and culture were profoundly influenced by his love of England, and examines the successes and limitations of the Polish Enlightenment.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198207018/ref   (1279 words)

  
 Literary Activities and Attitudes in the Stanislavian Age in Poland (1764-1795): A Social System? Canadian Slavonic ...
During the reign of Stanislaw August (1764-1795), the Commonwealth of the Two Nations (Rzeczpospolita Dwojga Narodów) undertook major reforms despite foreign interference and the threat of foreign aggression.
While figures such as the Piarist Stanislaw Konarski had already introduced the Enlightenment to the country, it was Stanislaw August who used his court in Warsaw as the impetus for the reform of Poland's politics and culture along Enlightenment lines.
As a result, van der Meer's use of the tenu "Stanislavian Age" is unlikely to arouse opposition: Stanislaw August's reign clearly represents the peak of the Polish Enlightenment's power and influence.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200403/ai_n9363971   (870 words)

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