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Polansky
Polanský (Czech feminine: Polanská) is a surname. It may refer to: * Adrian Polansky (born c. 1950), American politician * David Polansky (1919–2003), American basketball coach * Jiří Polanský (born 1981), Czech ice hockey player * Larry Polansky (born 1954), American musician * Mark L. Polansky (born 1956), American aerospace engineer and astronaut * Paul Polansky (1942–2021), American writer and Romani activist * Peter Polansky (born 1988), Canadian tennis player * Ron Polansky, American philosopher * Sol Polansky (1926–2016), American diplomat * Tadeáš Polanský (1713–1770), Czech Jesuit and physicist See also * * Polanski (surname) Polański (, feminine: Polańska; plural: Polańscy) is a Polish surname. It may refer to: * Aleksandra Polańska (born 2000), Polish swimmer * Eugen Polanski (born 1986), Polish-German footballer * Gabriela Polańska (born 1988), Polish volleybal ... {{surname, Polansky Czech-language surnames Slovak-language surnames [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Polansky
Peter Polansky ( ; born June 15, 1988) is a Canadian professional tennis player of Czech origin. He was Canada's top singles player from June 21, 2010, until January 17, 2011, in the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP rankings. He was also Canada's No. 2 from August 4, 2008, until June 21, 2010, with the exception of one week. In 2018, he became the first player in the Open Era to qualify for all four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments as a lucky loser within the same calendar year. Personal Polansky () was born in North York, Ontario, Canada. Polansky survived a major scare as an 18-year-old. While in Mexico for a Davis Cup tie as a team hitting partner, he woke up sleepwalking and jumped or fell from a three-story room suffering serious injuries. Later, he said that he saw a dark figure approaching his bed wielding a knife and only thought about escaping through the window. He recovered miraculously to be playing tennis just four months later. Polansky has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky (October 16, 1954 – May 9, 2024) was an American composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and academic. Biography The brother of the writer Steven Polansky, Polansky read mathematics and music at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), graduating in 1977. He served on the faculty of Dartmouth College and held the title of Emeritus Strauss Professor of Music upon his retirement from Dartmouth. He subsequently returned to UCSC and served on the UCSC music faculty from 2013 to 2019. He was a founding member and co-director of Frog Peak Music (a composers' collective). He co-wrote HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom. There are several recordings of his work, including ''Four-Voice Canons'' (an album of mensuration canons). He served as co-producer of ''Asmat Dream: New Music Indonesia, Vol. I''. Polansky was previously married to ethnomusicologist and performer Jody Diamond. Music historian and musician Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Polansky
Adrian Polansky (born c. 1950) was appointed secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture by Governor Kathleen Sebelius in February 2003. Polansky served on the Kansas Energy Council, the Governor's Council on Homeland Security and Kansas Task Force on Methamphetamine and Illegal Drugs. Polansky graduated from Kansas State University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy. Polansky was appointed Executive Director of the Kansas Farm Service Agency on July 1, 2009 by the Obama Administration. He served in the same capacity from 1993 to 2001 under the Clinton Administration. Personal life Polansky lives in Manhattan, Kansas with his wife, Kristine, who is an attorney. They married in January 2003. Polansky’s first wife, Joyce, died in 1993 after 18 years of marriage. A son, Adam, is a 2002 graduate of Kansas State University who currently is involved in managing the Belleville, Kansas-based family farm and seed business. Adam’s twin, A.J., was lost in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Polansky
Paul Polansky (February 17, 1942 – March 26, 2021) was an American writer and Romani activist. Paul Polansky held a degree in journalism, history and rhetoric from Marquette University. In the early 1990s, he founded the Czech Historical Research Center in the United States and participated in several American and European scientific conferences on human rights in Eastern Europe. In the 1990s, he discovered 40,000 documents in the Czech archives on the Gypsy extermination camp in Lety, run by the Czechs during World War II. After making this discovery, he moved to the Czech Republic to continue his research. He also began organizing conferences devoted to them at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1999, Polansky began working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to serve as an advisor for Roma (Gypsy) refugees in Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sol Polansky
Sol Polansky (November 7, 1926 – January 6, 2016) was an American diplomat. Born in Newark, Polansky received his bachelor's degree from University of California in 1950. He then went to Columbia University and attended the Russian Institute from 1950 to 1952. In 1972 Polansky went to the National War College in Washington, D. C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ... Polansky joined the United States Foreign Service in 1962; he was stationed in the Soviet Union, Poland and West Berlin. He was also stationed in East Germany from 1976 to 1979 and in Austria from 1979 to 1983. From 1987 until 1990, Polansky was the United States Ambassador to Bulgaria. Notes 1926 births 2016 deaths People from Newark, New Jersey Columbia University alumni National War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
