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Nowicki
Nowicki ( ; feminine: Nowicka; plural: Nowiccy) is a Polish and Jewish surname. It comes from place names such as Nowice, which are derived from the Polish adjective nowy ("new"). The surname is somewhat more frequent in central Poland. It has many forms in other languages. People Nowicki may refer to: * Andrzej Nowicki (other) * Bartosz Nowicki (born 1984), Polish athlete * Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (born 1929), British occult author * Franciszek Nowicki (1864–1935), Polish poet and socialist activist * Henryk Nowicki (1902–1969), known as Jerzy Zawieyski, Polish writer and activist * Jan Nowicki (1939–2022), Polish actor * Janet Nowicki (born 1953), American figure skater * Jerzy Nowicki (1933–2013), Polish sport shooter * Maciej Nowicki (born 1941), Polish politician * Matthew Nowicki (1910–1950), Polish architect * Maksymilian Nowicki (1826–1890), Polish zoologist * Mieczysław Nowicki (born 1951), Polish road bicycle racer * Tadeusz Nowicki (born 1946 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (born 11 June 1929) is a British occult author, third generation psychic, and esoteric practitioner. As an associate of Walter Ernest Butler, she succeeded him as Director of Studies of the Servants of the Light. Early life Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki was born and raised in Jersey Island. Ashcroft-Nowicki's grandmother was a full-blooded Romani and her parents were both third-degree initiates. She grew up in a family tradition dedicated to the occult sciences. During World War II she left with her family to live on the Wirral Peninsula in the northwest of England. She spent her spare time visiting the Roma who used to camp there. There, she learned about the natural world, tarot cards and fortune telling. After the war, the family returned to Jersey and her parents formed a clandestine occult discussion group due to restrictions imposed by Jersey's law. Occult career During the 1960s, Ashcroft-Nowicki entered the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an esoteric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Nowicki
Matthew Nowicki (in Poland known as Maciej Nowicki) (26 June 1910 – 1 September 1950) was a Polish architect. He was chief architect of the new Indian city of Chandigarh. Career Nowicki was born in Chita in Siberia. After the Second World War he received a commission to work on plans for the reconstruction of Poland's capital city, Warsaw. In December 1945 he was posted to New York City as an official delegate of the Polish state, to advertise the rebuilding of Poland.Nick Hodg''Maciej Nowicki: A Passage to India'', Kracow Post, 6 September 2010. Retrieved 2012-01-15. Nowicki was the architect of the J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh built in 1952 after his death. He was a member of the 'Workshop of Peace' team working on the United Nations Headquarters. He was a chair of the Faculty of Architecture at North Carolina State University. His wife, Stanislawa Nowicki, was also an architect who taught from 1951 to 1977 at the University of Pennsylvania. Death Nowicki died around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maciej Nowicki
Maciej Nowicki (born 28 September 1941 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician, manager and scientist. Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Poland in the cabinet of Donald Tusk (from 16 November 2007 to 1 February 2010). Career Nowicki graduated of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology (1964). He commenced employment as researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1964–1970) and then at the Warsaw University of Technology (1970–1986). In 1972 he obtained doctor degree and in 1976 qualified as the assistant professor in the field of atmospheric protection. In 1992 President of the Republic of Poland awarded Professorship to Dr. Maciej Nowicki. In the period of 1989–1991 performed function of deputy minister at the Ministry of the Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry and from 1991 the Minister of the Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Biele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciszek Nowicki
Franciszek Henryk Siła-Nowicki (29 January 1864, in Kraków, Austrian Empire – 3 September 1935, in Zawoja, Poland) was a Young Poland poet, a mountaineer, socialist activist, and designer of the ''Orla Perć'' (Eagle's Path) High Tatras mountain trail. Life Franciszek Nowicki was the son of Maksymilian Nowicki — a zoologist and pioneer Polish conservationist — and Antonina Kasparek, sister of Franciszek Kasparek, professor of international law, rector of Kraków University, and founder of the first chair in international law in Poland. As a university student, Nowicki co-edited (with Kazimierz Tetmajer, Andrzej Niemojewski, Artur Górski and others) a socialist-leaning journal, '' Ognisko'' (Focus). Some years later, he co-founded the Polish Socialist-Democratic Party (''Polska Partia Socjalistyczno-Demokratyczna''). From 1894 he taught at a secondary school ('' gimnazjum''). On February 5, 1901, Nowicki proposed to '' Towarzystwo Tatrzańskie'' (the Tatras Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Nowicki
Jan Nowicki (5 November 1939 – 7 December 2022) was a Polish actor. Biography He appeared in 90 films and television episodes since 1967. Nowicki died on 7 December 2022, at the age of 83. Selected filmography * '''' (1966) * '' Colonel Wolodyjowski'' (1969) * '''' (1971) * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Nowicki
Jerzy Nowicki (2 January 1933 – December 2013) was a Polish who competed in the , in the , and in the 1968 Summer Olympics
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Andrzej Nowicki (other) (1909-1986)
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Andrzej Nowicki may refer to: * Andrzej Nowicki (philosopher) (1919-2011), Grand Orient of Poland * Andrzej Nowicki (writer) Andrzej Nowicki (1909–1986) was a Polish poet, satirical writer, and translator. He fought in the Polish September Campaign of 1939. He was imprisoned in the German officers' camp Oflag II-C in Woldenberg, and organized cultural activities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Nowicki
Janet Lynn Nowicki (born April 6, 1953) is an American figure skater. She is the 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time world championships medalist, and a seven-time U.S. national champion. Amateur career Lynn began to skate almost as soon as she could walk, and took part in her first exhibition performance at the age of four at Chicago Stadium. By age seven, she was living away from home part of the year, staying with the slightly older skater Kathleen Kranich to be close to her coach Slavka Kohout, who worked out of Rockton, Illinois, but her close-knit family was never far away. Eventually her family moved from the Chicago suburb of Evergreen Park to Rockford, Illinois, some fifteen miles from Rockton and the rink. Janet attended Lincoln Junior High in Rockford. She used her middle name Lynn instead of Nowicki, which was constantly being misspelled and mispronounced. Janet was always forthright about the name change; in her own mind her name was still Nowicki. In 1964, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Zawieyski
Jerzy Zawieyski, born Henryk Nowicki, (2 October 1902, Radogoszcz, Piotrków Governorate – 18 June 1969, Warsaw) was a Polish playwright, prose writer, Catholic political activist and amateur stage actor. He wrote psychological, social, moral and historical novels, dramas, stories, essays and journals. As a secretary of the Towarzystwo Uniwersytetów Robotniczych, he did organizing work for the workers' educational and theatrical movement. Then he was an activist of the Związek Młodzieży Wiejskiej Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. During the German occupation of Poland, he was active in the underground cultural movement. Biography In 1921, Zawieyski made his debut with poems (''Strzępy'') under the pseudonym ''Konar-Nowicki''. In 1926, he graduated from the School of Drama in Kraków. From 1926 to 1928, he was an actor at the Reduta Theatre and editor of the magazine ''Teatr Ludowy''. From 1929 to 1931, he was staying in France, where he worked as an instructor of Polonia ama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartosz Nowicki
Bartosz Nowicki (born 26 February 1984 in Gryfice Gryfice (pronounced ; Kashubian: ''Grëfice''; formerly german: Greifenberg)". 1880. is a historic town in Pomerania, north-western Poland, with 16,600 inhabitants (2017). It is the capital of Gryfice County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (since ...) is a Polish middle distance runner. Achievements Personal bests Outdoors * 800m 1:46.81 (Bydgoszcz 2007) * 1000m 2:21.14 (Königs Wusterhausen 2007) * 1500m 3:36.68 (Rehlingen 2011) * Mile 3:57.19 (London 2011) * 3000 7:58.68 (Rehlingen 2007) Indoors * 800m 1:47.42 (Karlsruhe 2008) * 1500m 3:38.90 (Karlsruhe 2011) * 2000m 5:07.84 (Metz 2013) – NR References IAAF profile 1984 births Living people Polish male middle-distance runners People from Gryfice Sportspeople from West Pomeranian Voivodeship 21st-century Polish people {{Poland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowitzki (surname)
Nowitzki and Nowizki are Germanized forms of the Polish surname Nowicki, also spread across the Baltic region. Notable people with the name include: *Dirk Nowitzki (born 1978), German professional basketball player *Helga Nowitzki, German professional basketball player; mother of Dirk and Silke *Silke Nowitzki (born 1974), German professional basketball player *Tamara Nowitzki (born 1976), Australian swimmer Fictional characters *Ramona Nowitzki, a character from the sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'' See also *Novitsky * Nowicki Nowicki ( ; feminine: Nowicka; plural: Nowiccy) is a Polish and Jewish surname. It comes from place names such as Nowice, which are derived from the Polish adjective nowy ("new"). The surname is somewhat more frequent in central Poland. It has ma ... {{surname, Nowitzki German-language surnames Surnames of Polish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navickas
Navickas is a Lithuanian language family name. Its variants are Novickis and Navickis. Its alternative true form of Lithuanian origin is ''Naujalis''. It corresponds to Polish surname Nowicki and Russian Novitsky/ Novitski. Balarusian: Navitski. The surname may refer to: *Kęstutis Navickas (born 1984), Lithuanian badminton player *Karolis Navickas Karolis Navickas (born 9 April 1990 in Šiauliai, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian rugby union player currently playing for US Bressane in French Rugby Pro D2. Early career Navickas, known as "Bebras" (Beaver) in his home country, has already been in ... (born 1990), Lithuanian rugby union player See also * {{surname, Navickas Lithuanian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
