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unusual facts about Polish American


Ed Kasid

Edward I. Kasid (August 13, 1923 – November 3, 1989) was a Polish American professional basketball player who spent one season in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Toronto Huskies during the 1947–48 season.


All Saints Cathedral, Chicago

There are strong parallels between the church's internal painting scheme with its art nouveau-like flairs and the painter of many of Kraków's most famous Gothic churches Stanisław Wyspiański, making the church unique in this respect among Chicago's Polish churches.

It's Polka Time

Also known as simply Polka Time, the program featured authentic polka music, performed out of Chicago, primarily by authentic Polish-Americans.

Kensington, Brooklyn

Kensington is a very diverse neighborhood, containing Ukrainian, South Asian (Bangladeshi and Pakistani), Chinese, Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic, Irish, Polish, Italian, Albanian, Russian, Latino, Mexican, Australian and Caribbean communities.

Position weight matrix

The perceptron algorithm was suggested by Polish American mathematician Andrzej Ehrenfeucht in order to create a matrix of weights which could distinguish true binding sites from other non-functional sites with similar sequences.

Sobieski, Minnesota

The House of Sobieski was a noble family with a prominent role in Polish history, and the choice of name reflects the large Polish American element in the town's population.

St. Wenceslaus in Baltimore

In recent years, the ethnic character of St. Wenceslaus parish has undergone a gradual change from a majority Czech parish to one that is multicultural and multiracial, first as many Poles and Lithuanians moved into the neighborhood, and then as the neighborhood shifted to having an African American majority.

Zbysław Ciołkosz

Zbysław Ciołkosz (23 March 1902 – 25 June 1960) was a prolific Polish American aircraft designer, whose work includes the P.Z.L. 27, PWS-20, LWS-3 Mewa, RWD-11, LWS-6 Żubr, PWS-1, PWS-54, PWS-19, LWS-2, and PWS-52.


see also

Adamowski

Helenka Adamowska-Pantaleoni, Polish-American humanitarian and founding director of U.S. Fund for UNICEF (sister of Tadeusz Adamowski and niece of Timothee Adamowski)

Avenel, New Jersey

Dagmara Wozniak (born 1988), Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer.

Bernard Glueck

Bernard Glueck, Sr. (1884–1972), Polish-American forensic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; opened first prison psychiatric clinic, testified at the Leopold and Loeb trial, president of American Psychopathological Association

Brzezinka

(The family name of the Polish American statesman Zbigniew Brzezinski is derived from the same).

Chalupka

Franciszek Chalupka, (1856–1909), Polish-American clergy in New England

Cornelian Dende

Cornelian Dende OFM (Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1915-31 August 1996) also known as "Father Justin," was a Polish-American Franciscan priest, director of "The Rosary Hour," a Polish-language weekly radio program from Buffalo, New York.

Edward Mazur

Edward Mazur (born 1946) is a Polish-American businessman accused by Poland's prosecutors of contracting in 1998 the murder of Polish National Police chief, General Marek Papała.

Greenstick fracture

It was discovered by British-American orthopedist, John Insall, and Polish-American orthopedist, Michael Slupecki.

Hieronim Derdowski

In this role he gained a reputation as a strong voice for the Polish-American community, also known as Polonia.

History of the Polish Americans in Metro Detroit

Many Poles had moved from Hamtramck, and Troy became the center of the Polish-American community.

James S. Pula

James S. Pula (born 18 February 1946, Utica, New York) is an award-winning Polish-American historian, professor, author, and Polonia activist.

Laura Ulewicz

Born in Detroit, Michigan to Polish-American auto workers with strong union ties, she lived in Chicago and New York before moving to San Francisco in 1950.

Narleski

Ray Narleski was a Polish-American baseball player, who played for the Cleveland Indians from 1954 to 1958, and for the Detroit Tigers in 1959.

North Park, Chicago

The Good Counsel Province of the Polish Felician Sisters is headquartered in this neighborhood, as is Chicago's PBS station, WTTW, in the Chicago Production Center.

Piast Institute

With a Board of Directors composed of Polish-American leaders, an international network of Institute Fellows, and a staff led by Dr. Radzilowski as president and Mrs. Skrzyniarz as executive vice president, Piast Institute has evolved into the only think tank in North America devoted to Polish and Polish-American affairs.

Polish Museum of America

The Helena Modjeska exhibit is a collection of theater costumes, posters and artifacts dealing with famed Polish-American Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska that were donated by Chicago journalist Anthony Czarnecki in 1947.

Rachel Vetter Huang

Rachel Vetter Huang was born in Edmonton, Canada, and spent her childhood in Chicago, Illinois, and Lexington, Massachusetts, where she studied violin with the Polish-American violinist Roman Totenberg, Professor of Music at Boston University.

Rygiel

Jim Rygiel (born 1955), Polish-American visual effects supervisor

Solomon Rubinstein

Solomon Rubinstein (1868, Poland - 27 November 1931, Los Angeles, USA) was a Polish–American chess master.

The Legend of the White Horse

Legend of the White Horse (original title: Biały smok) is a 1986 Polish-American adventure children's film directed by Jerzy Domaradzki and Janusz Morgenstern, based on the magic realism novel White Horse, Dark Dragon by Robert C. Fleet, who also wrote the screenplay.

Ulam

Adam Ulam (1922–2000), Polish-American professor of history and political science at Harvard University