Pelagia Majewska
Pelagia Teresa Majewska (26 April 1933 - 12 July 1988) was a Polish aeroplane and glider pilot-instructor, who won many national and world glider records. She was also a social activist. Early life and education Pelagia Teresa Pietrzak was born on 26 April 1933 in Rowne (now Rivne, Rivne) in Volhynia to Stanisława (d. 1985) and Jan Pietrzak (d. 1942 in Mauthausen concentration camp). After the World War II, Second World War, the surviving family settled in Lublin following the incorporation of Volhynia into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. After completing primary school, she attended the :pl:III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Unii Lubelskiej w Lublinie, III Liceum im. Unii Lubelskie (Union of Lublin, Unia Lubelska Secondary School). She earned her secondary school-leaving certificate in 1950. At school, she belonged to the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association, taking part in athletics and swimming. Flying After her high school graduation, she took up parachuti ...
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Rivne
Rivne (; uk, Рівне ),) also known as Rovno (Russian: Ровно; Polish: Równe; Yiddish: ראָוונע), is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the surrounding Rivne Raion (district created in the USSR) within the oblast.On bringing the name of Rovno city and Rovno Oblast in accordance to rules of Ukrainian spelling
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. 11 June 1991 Administratively, Rivne is incorporated as a cit ...
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Lilienthal Medal-obverse
Lilienthal may refer to: * Lilienthal (surname) * Lilienthal, Lower Saxony, a village in Germany * Lilienthal, the former German name of Białczyn, a village in Poland * Lilienthal Glacier, Graham Land, Antarctica * Lilienthal Island, Antarctica * 13610 Lilienthal, an asteroid * Lilienthal Berlin, a German brand of watches * Berlin Tegel Airport, also called Otto Lilienthal Airport See also * Liliental, a 1978 music group featuring Asmus Tietchens, Conny Plank, Dieter Moebius Dieter Moebius (16 January 1944 – 20 July 2015) was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia. Moebius was studying art at Berlin's Akademie Grafik and ...