Janet Poland
Janet Poland is the coauthor of The Art of Parenting Twins, as well as the author of The Sensitive Child and The Demanding Child. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [... more]
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Trakehner Breeders Association of Australia Inc
King Friedrich Wilhelm The First - founded the stud of Trakehnen in 1732 and it was there that the East Prussian Horse, known today as the Trakehner, was developed. (*East Prussia is now a part of Poland). Thoroughbred and Arab blood was used to ... [... more]
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Charles Chadwick
Charles Chadwick has lived and worked in England, Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Brazil, and Poland. He lives in London. This is his first novel. [... more]
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Pope John Paul II
Karol Józef Wojtyla (1920-2005), known as John Paul II since his election to the papacy in 1978, was born in Wadowice, Poland. As a young man he enrolled in a drama school but then was forced to work in a quarry and a chemical factory during the .. [... more]
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John Norris
The German 88 mm was by far the most famous and versatile artillery weapon of World War II. It was first used as an anti-aircraft weapon by the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and saw further service in the German invasions of Poland ... [... more]
Random House |
Oleksiy Rudenko
Ukrainian Armies 1914-55 Oleksiy Rudenko Peter Abbott There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power ... [... more]
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Julia Hartwig
Hailed by Czeslaw Milosz as "the grande dame of Polish poetry" and named "one of the foremost Polish poets of the twentieth century" by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Julia Hartwig has long been considered the gold standard of poetry in her [... more]
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Bogdana Carpenter
Hailed by Czeslaw Milosz as "the grande dame of Polish poetry" and named "one of the foremost Polish poets of the twentieth century" by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Julia Hartwig has long been considered the gold standard of poetry in her [... more]
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Janet Poland
The Unique Joys and Challenges of Raising Twins and Other Multiples Remember when you first heard the news? After regaining the power of speech, you allowed the joy and anxious anticipation to settle in. Though family and friends simply suggest ... [... more]
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Benjamin Bender
Holocaust survivor Bender was 11 years old when the German army invaded his native Poland. He lived in Czestochowa, a backward town steeped in medieval ideas and anti-Semitic attitudes--and thoroughly unprepared for the mechanized terror of the ... [... more]
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Uncivil Society
Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in ... [... more]
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Witold Sarnecki
The history of Poland is a fascinating study of a people struggling to achieve nationhood in the face of internal and external enemies. Poland became a unified Christian state in AD 966 and by the 12th century a knightly class had emerged - a ... [... more]
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