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Polish Pilot Hailed For Miraculous Wheeless Landing
pix11.comPassengers arriving from and departing for Poland from Kennedy Airport were hailing the pilot of a LOT Polish Airlines 767 as an international hero after he safely landed his jumbo jet on it's belly, saving himself and 230 others on board from a potential...Tags: Warsaw (Poland), Facebook, Chesley B. Sullenberger III, Kennedy Airport, U.S. Airways
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2 Polish children killed by bomb, likely from WWII
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish children have died after a bomb believed to from World War II exploded in a field where they were playing. Police said the 10-year-old boy died immediately after the explosion on Tuesday and his 9-year-old sister...Tags: Explosions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945), Emergency Incidents, Armed Conflicts
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Midwest Aronia berry group to meet in Iowa
Midwest Aronia Association will hold their First Conference, bringing together the largest gathering of aronia pioneer, growers, and producers in the United States, on April 8-9th in Des Moines, Iowa. Featuring speakers from the US and Poland,...Tags: Iowa, Des Moines (Polk, Iowa), Wisconsin, Agriculture, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Death camp survivor to speak at Jewish center
Editor's note: This corrects the e-mail address for Joanna Clay. Philip Bialowitz made a promise before he escaped the Sobibór death camp in Poland: If he got out, he would share his story with the world. On Sunday, visitors to the Chabad Jewish...Tags: Nazi Party, Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945), Judaism
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Museum of Tolerance hosts Lech Walesa at Solidarity anniversary celebration
Culture MonsterThe Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles this week hosted a 30th anniversary celebration for Solidarity, the Polish trade union that was instrumental in leading to the collapse of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Speaking at the event was...... -
Firefighters rescue deer stranded on Baltic Sea ice floe
L.A. UnleashedWARSAW, Poland -- Polish firefighters dodged treacherous sheets of ice in a risky after-dark rescue of a terrified deer stranded on a floe in the Baltic Sea, a spokesman said Wednesday. The rescue team faced serious hazards navigating among the...... -
Henryk Gorecki dies at 76; composer of 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Henryk Gorecki, a Polish composer famous for his Third Symphony, also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs," died Friday following a serious illness. He was 76.
Gorecki (pronounced Go-RET-ski) died in the cardiology ward at a hospital in his home...Tags: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Entertainment, Christianity, Politics, Hospitals and Clinics
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Elaborate State Funeral Held for Polish First Couple
Associated PressKRAKOW, Poland -- An elaborate state funeral for Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, was held Sunday bereft of many world leaders whose travel plans were paralyzed by the plume of volcanic ash that blanketed Europe. The couple's bodies...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Accidental Death, Government, Barack Obama, Russia
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Book Review: Coming of age as all else unravels in 'A Thousand Peaceful Cities'
A Thousand Peaceful Cities
A Novel
Jerzy Pilch, translated from the Polish by David Frick
Open Letter: 144 pp., $14.95 paper
There's a serious question at the center of Jerzy Pilch's comic novel "A Thousand Peaceful Cities": Is political violence ever...Tags: Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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