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2 unusual facts about Solidarity Citizens' Committee


Solidarity Citizens' Committee

Every candidate had an article in Gazeta Wyborcza and posters showing them with the figurehead of the opposition, Wałęsa.

The relaunched union weekly Tygodnik Solidarność, then edited by Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and the new Gazeta Wyborcza (today Poland's largest daily paper), edited by Adam Michnik and launched on 8 May 1989, became influential organs for the movement.


Chinley railway station

Originally, the Midland had planned to extend through Buxton, but the LNWR already had a line, so the Midland built a line through Chinley and Buxworth to join the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at New Mills, in an association which became known as the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee.

Cuno Pümpin

Since the 1970s Pümpin has been a well-known lecturer at international congresses and seminars such as the World Economic Forum, and the ISC in St. Gallen, and also Management Center Europe, which is now a part of the American Management Association.

John Niland

While UNSW Vice-Chancellor, he was a foundation director of Universitas 21 and of Australia 's Group of Eight Universities. He also served a term as president of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, and as a member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.

Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee

The "New Mills and Heaton Mersey Railway" was authorised in 1897 from New Mills South Junction, between New Mills and Buxworth through Disley Tunnel.


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