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Korwin may refer to: * KORWiN, the previous name of a political party in Poland, now named New Hope * Korwin, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Korwin coat of arms * Korwin-Szymanowski family * Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish politician, writer and the founder of the Liberty party * Alan Korwin, American writer, author and civil- and political-rights activist * Korwin-Litwicki Urban in Tver, Russia See also *Corwin (other) Corwin may refer to: People * Corwin (surname) * Corwin (given name) Places in the United States *Corwin Township, Logan County, Illinois * Corwin, Henry County, Indiana, an extinct town * Corwin, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, an extinct town *Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KORWiN
The New Hope (, NN), previously known as Confederation for the Renewal of the Republic Liberty and Hope (, KORWiN/Liberty), is a right-wing populist political party in Poland. It is currently led by Sławomir Mentzen. It was founded in 2015 by Korwin-Mikke as a result of his removal from Congress of the New Right, his former party. Among the party's other members are Przemysław Wipler, who held a seat in the Polish Sejm and Robert Iwaszkiewicz, Member of the European Parliament. The party's Polish name was originally a backronym of the founder's name Korwin-Mikke, who took part in the 2015 presidential election. In 2018, the party formed a coalition with National Movement called Confederation. The party have currently three members in the Sejm. History The party was formed shortly after Janusz Korwin-Mikke was removed from the chairmanship of the Congress of the New Right (KNP). The pro-Korwin faction of the KNP ended up forming the KORWiN party ahead of the 2015 Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Hope (Poland)
The New Hope (, NN), previously known as Confederation for the Renewal of the Republic Liberty and Hope (, KORWiN/Liberty), is a right-wing populist political party in Poland. It is currently led by Sławomir Mentzen. It was founded in 2015 by Korwin-Mikke as a result of his removal from Congress of the New Right, his former party. Among the party's other members are Przemysław Wipler, who held a seat in the Polish Sejm and Robert Iwaszkiewicz, Member of the European Parliament. The party's Polish name was originally a backronym of the founder's name Korwin-Mikke, who took part in the 2015 presidential election. In 2018, the party formed a coalition with National Movement called Confederation. The party have currently three members in the Sejm. History The party was formed shortly after Janusz Korwin-Mikke was removed from the chairmanship of the Congress of the New Right (KNP). The pro-Korwin faction of the KNP ended up forming the KORWiN party ahead of the 2015 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korwin, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Korwin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Słupca, within Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Słupca and east of the regional capital Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John .... References Villages in Słupca County {{Słupca-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korwin Coat Of Arms
Korwin is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and by the Russian Counts Korwin- Litwicki tracing their origin back to Empress Catherine the Grea History For some reason, an old Polish chivalry Polish clans, clan from Sarmatian breeding, chose raven as his symbol. Perhaps it was their totem symbol because those clans, then pagans, were more ancients than the christening of Poland and the rise of the Kingdom of Piast Dynasty. Many centuries later, we know about it from a grant of privilege to Wawrzęta (or ''Wawrzyniec'' - Lawrence) Korwin z Ślepowrony from Duke Konrad I of Masovia, at Warsaw in 1224, according to Jan Długosz, Bartholomew Paprocki, Count Juliusz Ostrowski, etc. The authors understand the Korwin "proper" actual drawing came to Poland from Hungary, more or less two centuries later. The so-called Roman-Hungarian legend of Korwin starts in the 16th century under the influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korwin-Szymanowski Family
The Korwin-Szymanowski family (Polish plural: Korwin-Szymanowscy, feminine singular: Korwin-Szymanowska) are Polish nobles who probably took their surname from the village of Szymany near Szczuczyn, in the Podlasie region of Poland in the Late Middle Ages. From the 16th-century onwards they were landowners and office holders in Masovia. In the 18th century during the Partitions of Poland, the family adopted the prefix "Korwin" to distinguish their lineage from other families bearing the same name. At the tail end of the 1790s a branch of the family settled on the Dnieper river in what is now Ukraine and produced a number of noted writers and musicians among whom was the composer, Karol Szymanowski. Occurrence of the surname The Szymanowski surname occurs in Northern Europe, from Russia, through the Baltic States and Poland to Germany, France and the United Kingdom. It is also found in the United States, Canada and South America. Alternative spellings are Schimanovsky, Szym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke (; born 27 October 1942), also known by his initials JKM or simply as Korwin, is a Polish far-right politician, paleolibertarian and author. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018. He was the leader of the Congress of the New Right (KNP), which was formed in 2011 from Liberty and Lawfulness, which he led from its formation in 2009, and the Real Politics Union, which he led from 1990 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003. Currently, he is the chairman of the party KORWiN, and since 2019 he is a member of the Sejm, elected from the electoral list of Confederation Liberty and Independence. Biography Birth Janusz Korwin-Mikke was born in German-occupied Warsaw on 27 October 1942. He was the only child of Ryszard Mikke and Maria Rosochacka. His father was the head of an engineering department of the State Aviation Works. After the death of his mother during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, he was under the care of his grandmother and later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Korwin
Alan Korwin (born September 2, 1949) is an American writer, author and civil- and political-rights activist whose work serves the business, legal, news and firearms industries. In 1988, Korwin founded Bloomfield Press, which has grown into the largest publisher and distributor of gun-law books in the nation. It is built around books he has written on the subject, including ''The Arizona Gun Owner's Guide'', ''Your First Gun'', ''After You Shoot'', and the unabridged federal guides ''Gun Laws of America'' and ''Supreme Court Gun Cases''. Invited twice to the U.S. Supreme Court to observe oral argument in Second Amendment gun-rights cases, he witnessed ''D.C. v. Heller'', which led to his 11th book, ''The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed'' and ''McDonald v. Chicago'', in which he was an amicus. Over nearly three decades, he has written 10 of his 14 books on gun law or gun policy. Winner of the 2013 Defender of Liberty Award, conferred by the 600,000-member Second Amendment Foundat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tver
Tver ( rus, Тверь, p=tvʲerʲ) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is northwest of Moscow. Population: Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in the Russian Empire, with a population of 60,000 on 14 January 1913. It is situated at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa Rivers. The city was known as Kalinin ( rus, Кали́нин, Kalínin) from 1931 to 1990. The city is where three rivers meet, splitting the town into northern and southern parts by the Volga River, and divided again into quarters by the Tvertsa River, which splits the left (northern) bank into east and west halves, and the Tmaka River which does the same along the southern bank. History Medieval origins Tver's foundation year is officially accepted to be 1135,Charter of Tver, Article 1 although there is no universal agreement on this date and some estimates place it as late as the second half of the 13th century. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
