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7 unusual facts about Radom


Brit HaHayal

The Brit HaHayal was a Revisionist Zionist association of Jewish reservists in the Polish Army formed in December, 1932 in Radom.

Marian Mazur

Marian Mazur (Radom, December 7, 1909 – Warsaw, January 21, 1983) was an expert in cybernetics, and author of: The Cybernetic Theory of Autonomous Systems, 1966; and The Qualitative Theory of Information, 1970.

Radom Ghetto

Radom Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up in March 1941 by Nazi Germany in the city of Radom in occupied Poland, for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of the local Polish Jews.

Radom-Sadków Airport

An existing rail line from Radom railway station to the airport grounds near the planned terminal could be used for passenger service in the future.

Radom, Illinois

Polish was the predominant language here until the introduction of English through television in the 1950s.

Radom was named for Radom in Poland, the city where some of the early settlers came from.

Seweryn Kulesza

Seweryn Roman Kulesza (October 23, 1900, in Radom – May 14, 1983, in Los Angeles, United States) was a Polish horse rider who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.


Czarni Radom

In the 2011–12 season, Czarni Radom players, coached by Wojciech Stępień were finally promoted to the I liga (second level league) and in next season to the PlusLiga.

German AB-Aktion in Poland

Approximately 3,500 members of the Polish intelligentsia were executed at the mass murder sites in Palmiry near Warsaw, Firlej, Wincentynów near Radom, and in the Bliżyn forest near Skarżysko-Kamienna.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Rewolucyjni Mściciele

The group expanded from Łódź to many other towns in the Russian partition of Poland: Warsaw, Częstochowa, Kraków, Radom, Kielce, Sosnowiec, Będzin, Ostrów, Kalisz, Żyrardów and Zgierz.

Robert Prygiel

Robert Prygiel (born 14 April 1976 in Radom) - Polish volleyball player, who played for Poland at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and has played over 136 matches for Polish national team.

Sandomierz Voivodeship

The voivodeship had several starostas, who resided in such towns, as Sandomierz, Radom, Checiny, Opoczno, Nowy Korczyn, Stezyca, Wislica, Pilzno, Stopnica, Solec nad Wisla, Zawichost, Szydlow, Przedborz, Ropczyce, Ryczywol, Radoszyce, Ryki, Zwolen, Golab and others.

Stefan Bembiński

Soon he became active in underground anti-Nazi resistance in the Radom Home Army (AK) where he was the commander of a station in Błotnica.


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