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Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska
Małgorzata Maria Kidawa-Błońska, née Grabska (born 5 May 1957) is a Polish politician, lawyer, film producer, and sociologist. She was Marshal of the Sejm from 25 June 2015 to 11 November 2015 at the end of the Seventh term's composition of the lower house, after which being voted a Deputy Marshal of the Eighth and Ninth term, each time nominated by the opposition party Civic Platform, under the marshalcy of Marek Kuchciński and Elżbieta Witek, respectively. Kidawa-Błońska served ministerial functions, such as Secretary of State in the Second Cabinet of Donald Tusk (2012–2014) and the Cabinet of Ewa Kopacz (2014–2015) and Press Spokeswoman for both cabinets in 2014 and 2015. She was the Civic Platform nominee for Prime Minister in the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, losing to Law and Justice incumbent Mateusz Morawiecki. In 2019, she was elected the Civic Platform's candidate for Presidency of Poland to stand in the 2020 Polish presidential election. Kidawa ...
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Deputy Marshal Of The Sejm Of The Republic Of Poland
Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Wicemarszałek Sejmu RP) is a person elected to preside over Sejm (Polish lower chamber of parliament) sessions when the Sejm Marshal is not presiding. Throughout the course of the Third Republic, there have always been several Deputy marshals, usually elected from some or all of the various parliamentary caucuses, rather than from the Government majority (although governing parties always have a majority in the Sejm Presidium, which is composed of the Marshal and Deputy Marshals). Third Republic 9th term (2019-present) * Włodzimierz Czarzasty (Democratic Left Alliance) * Małgorzata Gosiewska (Law and Justice) * Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska (Civic Platform) * Ryszard Terlecki (Law and Justice) * Piotr Zgorzelski (Polish People's Party) Under Marshal Elżbieta Witek 8th term (2015-2019) * Małgorzata Gosiewska (Law and Justice) since 12 June 2019 * Beata Mazurek (Law and Justice) 9 January 2018 - 4 June 2019 * Joach ...
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Ursus, Warsaw
Ursus is a district ''( dzielnica)'' of Warsaw, one of the 18 such units into which the city is divided. Between 1952 and 1977 it was a separate city. Until 1954 it was known as ''Czechowice''. History In the area that is today Ursus, there were three villages in the 14th century: Czechowice, Skorosze and Szamoty (later called Gołąbki). Industrialisation in the 20th century contributed to developing these villages. Skorosze became the seat of the municipality, and in the early 1920s the Szamoty area's Zakłady Mechaniczne "Ursus" ( en, Ursus Industrial Plants) (makers of agricultural machinery) were built. Czechowice became a housing estate due to it being in the vicinity of factories. In the 1939, before World War II, it had 7000 inhabitants. Skorosze had a school, police station and train station in its area. In 1952 Czechowice, Skorosze and Szamoty were combined into one city, called Czechowice, which in 1954 changed its name to Ursus (there had been another Czechowic ...
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Second Cabinet Of Donald Tusk
Second Cabinet of Donald Tusk was the government of Poland from 18 November 2011 to 22 September 2014, sitting in the Council of Ministers during the 7th legislature of the Sejm and the 8th legislature of the Senate. It was appointed by President Bronisław Komorowski on 18 November 2011, and passed the vote of confidence in Sejm on 19 November 2011. Led by Donald Tusk, it is a centre-right coalition of two parties: Tusk's liberal conservative Civic Platform (PO) and the agrarian Polish People's Party The Polish People's Party ( pl, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, PSL) is an agrarian political party in Poland. It is currently led by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Its history traces back to 1895, when it held the name People's Party, although i ... (PSL). By law, all vacant ministries will be led by a Deputy Prime Minister in an acting position. {{Navboxes , list = {{Polish Cabinets Tusk, Donald II Cabinet of Donald Tusk II Cabinet of Donald Tusk II 2011 establishments ...
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Chancellery Of The Prime Minister Of Poland
The Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland ( Polish: ''Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów''), or KPRM, is the executive office for the Prime Minister of Poland. Created under the administrative reorganization reforms by the government of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz in 1996 and implemented in the following year, the Chancellery assumed many responsibilities of the previous Office of the Council of Ministers (''Urząd Rady Ministrów''). In addition to serving as the premier's office, the Chancellery oversees the technical, legislative, legal and organizational support for the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers. The current Chief of the Chancellery is Michał Dworczyk. The Chancellery is also the name of the building holding the working offices and support staff of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers. Formerly the Cadet Building, the Chancellery is located along Ujazdów Avenue in the Śródmieście borough of Warsaw. History The ...
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University Of Warsaw
The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializations in humanities, technical, and the natural sciences. The University of Warsaw consists of 126 buildings and educational complexes with over 18 faculties: biology, chemistry, journalism and political science, philosophy and sociology, physics, geography and regional studies, geology, history, applied linguistics and philology, Polish language, pedagogy, economics, law and public administration, psychology, applied social sciences, management and mathematics, computer science and mechanics. The University of Warsaw is one of the top Polish universities. It was ranked by '' Perspektywy'' magazine as best Polish university in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016. International rankings such as ARWU and Universi ...
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Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska
Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska (April 27, 1905 – October 10, 1992) was a Polish painter. She was the daughter of President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski and First Lady Maria Wojciechowska. Biography She graduated from the Female State Junior High School J. Słowacki in Warsaw in 1924, while learning painting and drawing with Tadeusz Marczewski. In the same year, she took up studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under the supervision of Tadeusz Pruszkowski. She graduated in 1930 after a break related to maternity leave and her husband's illness. She stayed in touch with the Brotherhood of Saint. Łukasz. She was a member of Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP). She practised portraits and wall painting, but the mainstream of her work was traditional religious painting. She left about 100, usually unsigned, paintings in Polish churches, including twenty in Warsaw churches. She also drew numerous charcoal portraits, including illustrations for her h ...
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Władysław Jan Grabski
Władysław Jan Grabski (21 October 1901 - 3 November 1970) was a Polish writer, publicist and poet. His work is embedded in the Catholic current. He wrote both historical novels related to the History of Poland as well as contemporary novels. Biography Władysław Jan Grabski was born on 21 October 1901 in Warsaw to Władysław Grabski, Prime Minister of Poland who served three times, and Katarzyna née Lewandowska. He spent his childhood as described in the autobiographical novel Scarves of Childhood in Borów and St. Petersburg. In the years of 1912–1914, he attended the Konopczyński Junior High School. After the outbreak of World War I, he went with his parents to St. Petersburg, where he studied at the Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine, with a six-month break, when, after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in mid-1917, she and her mother and siblings moved to Feodosia in Crimea. In April 1918, after the conclusion of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the whole fam ...
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Maria Wojciechowska
Maria Wojciechowska, née Kiersnowska (Warsaw, 15 December 1869 – Gołąbki, 14 September 1959), was the First Lady of Poland from 1922 to 1926 as the wife of President Stanisław Wojciechowski. Biography Early life Maria Kiersnowska was born on 15 December 1869 in Warsaw as one of the twelve children of Antoni Kiersnowski of the Pobóg coat of arms. She was brought up in the Independence tradition. Her paternal grandfather, Jan Kiersnowski was sent to Siberia for participating in the November uprising, and her maternal uncle, Stanisław Iszora, a priest and vicar from Żołudek (now Belarus) was shot on 22 May 1863, in Vilnius on Łukiszki Square for reading the manifesto of the National Government from the pulpit and urging parishioners to participate in the uprising, becoming the first victim of Murawiow's terror. Career She graduated from the Mariinsky Institute in Vilnius, the highest education available to women at that time, she was a friend of Józef Piłsudski f ...
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Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanisław Wojciechowski (; 15 March 1869 – 9 April 1953) was a Polish politician and scholar who served as President of Poland between 1922 and 1926, during the Second Polish Republic. He was elected president in 1922, following the assassination of his predecessor Gabriel Narutowicz. During his presidency, Wojciechowski and his erstwhile friend Józef Piłsudski disagreed on the political direction of the nation. In 1926, Piłsudski staged a military coup, which resulted in Wojciechowski resigning from office. Early life Stanisław Wojciechowski was born on 15 March 1869 in Kalisz into a Polish noble family with strong ties to the intelligentsia. He was one of seven children of Second Lieutenant Feliks Wojciechowski (1825-1881), a caretaker of a prison in Kalisz who participated during the January Uprising, and his wife Florentyna Vorhoff. He was raised in a spirit of patriotism and devotion to his homeland. In 1888, he graduated in the Men's Classical Junior High Schoo ...
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Władysław Grabski
Władysław Dominik Grabski (; 7 July 1874 – 1 March 1938) was a Polish National Democratic politician, economist and historian. He was the main author of the currency reform in the Second Polish Republic and served as Prime Minister of Poland in 1920 and from 1923 to 1925. He was the brother of Stanisław Grabski and Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa. He was responsible for the creation of the Bank of Poland and implementing the zloty. Grabski's cabinet became the longest standing cabinet in interwar Poland. At the same time, however, Grabski's cabinet was severely criticized. Stanisław Głąbiński, for example, criticized Grabski's inefficiencies in the sphere of international relations, and Wincenty Witos disapproved of Grabski's deficient agricultural reform, as well as his inability to inform the public of the state's real financial situation. Life Władysław Grabski was born in 1874, in a family manor in Borów (a part of Gmina Bielawy) near Łowicz, Congress Poland, Rus ...
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Maciej Władysław Grabski
Maciej (Polish pronunciation: ) is a Polish given name, the etymological equivalent of Matthias. Its diminutive forms are Maciek, Maciuś. Namedays according to Polish calendar: 30 January, 24 February, 14 May Maciej may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Maciej Cieślak (born 1969), Polish guitarist and songwriter * Maciej Dunal (1953–2014), Polish actor and singer * Maciej Fortuna (born 1982), Polish jazz trumpeter, composer and musical educator * Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976), Consul General at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City * Maciej Jachowski (born 1977), Polish actor * Maciej Kozłowski (1957–2010), Polish actor * Maciej Łukaszczyk (1934–2014), Polish pianist * Maciej Maleńczuk (born 1961), Polish singer, guitarist and poet * Maciej Małecki (born 1940), Polish composer and pianist * Maciej Musiał (born 1995), Polish actor * Maciej Silski (born 1976), Polish singer * Maciej Stuhr (born 1975), Polish actor, comedian and im ...
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Jan Kidawa-Błoński
Jan Kidawa-Błoński (born 12 February 1953, Chorzów) is a Polish film director, producer and screenwriter. Life He initially studied architecture at the Silesian University of Technology. In 1980, he graduated from the National Film School in Łódź where he studied filmmaking. For his debut film, ''Trzy stopy nad ziemią'' ("Three Feet Above the Ground") he was awarded the Złote Grono Award at the Łagów Film Festival. Between 1982-1991, he was a member of the ''Silesia'' Film Studio. He served as head of the Polish Filmmakers Association from 1990 to 1994. He also sat on the board of the Independent Film and Television Producers Association in the years 1997-2001. In 2005, he directed an award-winning film ''Destined for Blues'', which tells the story of his nephew Ryszard Riedel, lead singer of blues-rock band Dżem. In 2010, he won the Golden Lions Award at the 35th Gdynia Film Festival for his film ''Little Rose''. In 2014, he became the recipient of the Silver Medal fo ...
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