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August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
[a] [3] [17] The textbook has been described as critical of Western popular culture and the West's shift away from Christianity, aligning with Roszkowski's broader body of work, including books such as Świat Chrystusa (The World of Christ) and Roztrzaskane lustro. Upadek cywilizacji zachodniej (Shattered Mirror: The Fall of Western Civilization).
Poznań was the seat the German Central Bureau for Resettlement (UWZ, Umwandererzentralstelle), a special German institution established in November 1939 to coordinate the expulsion of Poles from occupied Polish territories. [25] Poznań's Jewish population, which had numbered 2,000 in 1939, [26] was largely murdered in the Holocaust.
Poznań (Polish: [ˈpɔznaj̃] or ⓘ) [a] is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. [7] The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (Jarmark Świętojański), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect.
Fort VII, officially Konzentrationslager Posen (renamed later), was a Nazi German death camp set up in Poznań in German-occupied Poland during World War II, located in one of the 19th-century forts circling the city.
The Poznań Society of Friends of Learning or Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences (Polish: Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk, PTPN) is a learned society in Poznań, Poland, established in 1857, by scholars and scientists in all branches of learning. It has been one of the largest and most important general learned ...
1701 – Baroque Poznań Fara completed. 1704 – 9 August: Battle of Poznań during the Swedish invasion of Poland (1701–1706). 1710 – Plague. [2] 1736 – Flood. [2] 1763 – Prince Frederick Mounted Regiment of the Polish Crown Army stationed in Poznań. [7] 1775 – 1st Polish Infantry Regiment of the Polish Crown Army stationed in ...
The uprising in Poznań had started on 20 March 1848, [17] and inspired by the events in Berlin, a demonstration in Poznań was organized. As the authorities agreed to creation of a delegation that would bring proposals from the Polish side to Berlin and to the Prussian king, the Polish National Committee was created in Poznań. [1]