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  2. Bronisława Dłuska - Wikipedia

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    Bronisława Dłuska (Polish pronunciation: [brɔɲiˈswava ˈdwuska]; née Skłodowska; 28 March 1865 [1] – 15 April 1939) was a Polish physician, and co-founder and first director of Warsaw's Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology. She was married to political activist Kazimierz Dłuski, and was an older sister of physicist Marie Curie.

  3. Joseph Conrad - Wikipedia

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    [55] In June 1924, shortly before his death, he apparently expressed a desire that his son John marry a Polish girl and learn Polish, and toyed with the idea of returning for good to now independent Poland. [205] Conrad bridled at being referred to as a Russian or "Slavonic" writer. The only Russian writer he admired was Ivan Turgenev. [172 ...

  4. Józef Skłodowski - Wikipedia

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    From the autumn of 1829, he worked as a teacher at the district school in Biała Podlaska, where he taught Polish, French, and German. He then transferred to a school in Warsaw. After the outbreak of the November Uprising, he joined the Polish army along with a group of students and actively participated in armed combat. [2]

  5. Józef Piłsudski Institute for Research in Modern History of ...

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  7. Education in Poland - Wikipedia

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    Education in Poland is compulsory; every child must receive education from when they are 6 years old until they are 18 years old. [1] It is also mandatory for 6-year-old children to receive one year of kindergarten (Polish: przedszkole, literally pre-school) education, before starting primary school (Polish: szkoła podstawowa) at 6 years old.

  8. Józef Tusk - Wikipedia

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    Józef Tusk (23 March 1907 – 12 June 1987) was a Polish luthier, the grandfather of the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. During World War II , he served in the Wehrmacht , which proved to be controversial during the 2005 Polish presidential election .

  9. Adam Zamoyski - Wikipedia

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    The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture. London: John Murray. — (1992). The Last King of Poland. London: Jonathan Cape. — (1995). The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War. London: John Murray. — (1999). Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776–1871. London ...