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Murder of Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów (pol. Stanisław ze Szczepanowa) by Polish King Bolesław II the Bold

Andrzej Garbuliński

Andrzej Garbuliński was a Polish farmer who lived in the village of Czerna with his family: Władysław, Eleonora,Marian,Helena, Kunegunda,Stanisław, Kazimierz, Jan and two wives Zofia and Kazimiera during the Nazi German occupation of Poland in World War II.

Augustyn Suski

In January 1942 the Tatra Confederation was infiltrated by its own founders' former acquaintance and the Gestapo agent SS-Oberscharführer Heinz Wegner (a.k.a. Stanisław Wegner-Romanowski).

Bernard Mond

Bernard Stanisław Mond (Spanier) (November 14, 1887 in Stanisławów – July 5, 1957 in Kraków) was a Jewish general of Polish Army in the interwar period.

Estreicher

Tadeusz Estreicher (1871–1952), Stanisław's brother, chemist and historian

Ghetto benches

The list included the "elite of Polish scholarship", signatories such as Tadeusz Kotarbiński, sociologists Józef Chałasiński, Stanisław and Maria Ossowska and Jan Stanisław Bystroń, biologists Stanisław Kulczyński and Jan Dembowski, psychologist Władysław Witwicki, physicist Konstanty Zakrzewski, and historians Seweryn Wysłouch, Tadeusz Manteuffel and Natalia Gąsiorowska.

Grigory Valuyev

Stanisław Żółkiewski besieged Tsaryovo-Zaymishche and then led the rest of his army towards Mozhaysk, defeating the Russians at the Battle of Klushino.

Jemiołów

On 1 September 2001 Jemiołów and Banzendorf concluded a partnership between the two villages, signed by their mayors Stanisław Mucha and Peter Wilbers in Banzendorf.

Józef Kiedroń

On 1 August 1905 he married Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa, Polish activist and sister of noted politicians Stanisław and Władysław Grabski.

Józef Retinger

His father, Józef Stanisław Retinger, was the personal legal counsel and adviser to Count Władysław Zamoyski.

Kazimierz Krasiński

In the youth he stayed on the court of King Louis XV and then educated on the Military Cadet School of Stanisław Leszczyński in Lunéville.

Kazimierz Serocki

He studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Stanisław Szpinalski at the State Higher School of Music in Łódź and graduated in 1946.

Krzysztof Gawara

Krzysztof Stanisław Gawara (born March 15, 1958 in Sienno) – is a former Polish football player and former manager of Legia Warsaw.

László Dombrovszky

Born as Stanisław Dombrowski in the family of the Polish forest exploitation engineer in Bessarabia (Eastern Moldova), then in the tsarist Russia, László Dombrovszky was a Hungarian painter influenced by the French School of Paris.

Louise Marie de La Grange d'Arquien

Louise Marie married François Gaston de Béthune, marquis de Chabris, and their children included Louis Marie Victor, comte de Béthune, and Jeanne de Béthune, wife of Count Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski.

National Museum, Kraków

Still more than 1,000 artifacts are missing, including The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (donated to the Museum in 1937 by Stanisław Ursyn-Rusiecki) and priceless others.

Nortom

Nortom was accused of selling anti-German, Anti-Ukrainian and antisemitic books, especially the following titles: Być czy nie być by Stanisław Bełza, Polska i Niemcy by Jędrzej Giertych and I tak nie przemogą. Antykościół, antypolonizm, masoneria by his son Maciej Giertych.

Provisional Council of State

Members of the Council were Józef Brudziński, Stanisław Bukowiecki, Stanisław Dzierzbicki, Ludwik Górski, Józef Higersberger, Marian Januszajtis-Żegota, Kazimierz Natanson, Józef Piłsudski, Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł, Wojciech Rostworowski, Eustachy Sapieha, Stanisław Chaniewski, Stanisław Staniszewski, Władysław Studnicki, Artur Śliwiński.

Stanisław Baranowski

Stanisław Baranowski (25 March 1935 – 27 August 1978) was a Polish glaciologist and leader or member of a number of scientific expeditions to Spitsbergen and Antarctica.

Stanisław Biniecki

Stanisław Biniecki (July 29, 1907 in Sławno - May 3, 1999) was a Polish chemist.

Stanisław Borek House

It was constructed in 1551 for the canon Stanisław Borka, who was a diplomat and secretary of King Sigismund I the Old.

Stanisław Dziwisz

Dziwisz was born in the village of Raba Wyżna to Stanisław Dziwisz, a railroad worker, and his wife, Zofia Bielarczyk.

Stanisław Gomułka

Stanisław Gomułka (b. 10 September 1940, Krężoły, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) is a Polish economist, former advisor to the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Poland, and a reader in Economics at the London School of Economics up to 2005.

Stanisław Jackowski

Stanisław Jackowski was born in 1887 to Polish parents in Warsaw, in the part of Poland then ruled by the Russian Empire following the Partitions of Poland.

Stanisław Jałowiecki

Stanisław Jałowiecki (born on 26 December 1946 in Tanvald) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lower Silesian Voivodship & Opole Voivodship with the Civic Platform, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Stanisław Janikowski

Stanisław Leopold Janikowski was born in Piotrków, southern Poland, son of Leopold and Zofia (née Krajcewicz).

Stanisław Jaros

Stanisław Jaros (January 19, 1932 – January 5, 1963) was a Polish electrician who was executed for carrying out two assassination attempts of Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka, and one attempt to kill Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg (1830 – 1890) was an early professional portrait photographer who created photogravures of many famous contemporaries including Victor Hugo and Sarah Bernhardt.

Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski

Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876 - 1901 in Warsaw) Polish poet and translator, brother of a poet Wincenty Korab-Brzozowski and son of a romantic bard Karol Brzozowski.

Stanisław Leszczyński

Henceforth a mere pensioner of Charles XII, Stanisław accompanied Krassow's army corps in its retreat to Swedish Pomerania.

Stanisław Młodożeniec

Stanisław Młodożeniec (born 31 January 1895 in Dobrocice - died 21 January 1959 in Warsaw) was a poet, and a founder of Polish futurism.

Stanisław Murzynowski

Stanisław Murzynowski (born 1527/8 in the village of Suszyce, died 1553 in Königsberg (Królewiec, today Kaliningrad)) was a Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation.

Stanisław Parzymies

Stanisław Edward Parzymies (born 11 October 1938 in Krasnystaw) is a Polish international relations scholar, an expert on French-German relations.

Stanisław Pestka

Stanisław Pestka (born 1929 in Rolbik) is a Kashubian poet.

Stanisław Piosik

Stanisław Piosik (born February 25, 1946 in Wolsztyn) is a Polish politician.

Stanisław Rehman

Stanisław Rehman (1838–1899), was a city councillor in Kraków, Poland.

Stanisław Wawrzecki

Stanisław Wawrzecki (1922–March 19, 1965) was a Director of State-Directed Meat Trade in Praga (part of Warsaw), and the last person sentenced to death and executed in Poland for economy-related crimes after 1956.

Stanley White

Captain Stanley "Stan" White (born Stanisław Luszinski) is a fictional character from Robert Daley's 1981 novel Year of the Dragon (in which he is named Arthur Powers) and the 1985 film of the same name.

Tygodnik Powszechny

Later they were joined by Zofia Starowieyska–Morstinowa, Stefan Kisielewski, Leopold Tyrmand, Antoni Gołubiew, Paweł Jasienica (until he was arrested by the Communists in 1948), Stanisław Stomma, Hanna Malewska and Józefa Golmont–Hennelowa.

Wilfrid Michael Voynich

In 1886, after a failed attempt to free fellow-conspirators Piotr Bardowski (1846-1886) and Stanisław Kunicki (1861-1886) from the Warsaw Citadel who had been sentenced to death, he was arrested by Tsarist police and, in 1887, sent to penal servitude at Tunka.

Zajdel

Janusz Zajdel (1938–1985), Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem

Zit

Gentle zits, fictional objects mentioned in a Stanisław Lem story


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