Polonia in the USA

Author Owen Gingerich, a professor at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, presented his recent book- The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus here on April 13, 2005 to an audience at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland. After being introduced by host Charge d' Affaires Boguslaw Winid, Prof. Gingerich proceeded to deliver an eye-opening lecture about his most recent Copernicus book, and Copernican theory, which he illustrated with colorful and explanatory slides. As is often stated, Copernicus' most revolutionary and totally unprecedented astronomy work "stopped the earth and moved the sun" in the grand scheme of all things celestial in our universe. This radical theory was set into Latin print in the spring of 1543 and presented to Copernicus as he was laying on his deathbed. The great mortal man died as his earth-stopping immortal work was born- to live forever as an axiomatic law of the universe.

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Polish National Alliance (PNA) Council 21, led by President Jim Mislak, offered a children's Polish language summer camp here at it's large, multi-functional building from June 20 to July 8, 2005. Attending the pilot program were 9 boys and girls ranging in age from 2 to 6, most of whom had at least one Polish speaking parent at home. The focused cultural program was conceived, planned and implemented by PNA Polish language teacher Beata Moskala-Gallaher, assisted daily by Beata Szymonik and Andrzej Carnaggio.

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Military historian and author Francis C. Kajencki was feted here with a special evening at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland on June 22, 2005. The affair was hosted by Minister Plenipotentiary Boguslaw Winid and co-sponsored by the Polish Library in Washington, led by President Ryszard Okreglak. Kajencki presented to the attentive audience a short, fascinating synopsis for each of his 5 published books:

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A special Remembrance Evening commemorating the extraordinary life of the late Jan Nowak-Jezioranski - the famed Courier From Warsaw - was held here on February 1, 2005 at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland. Nowak had passed away in Warsaw on January 20, 2005 at the age of 91. His actual name was Zdzislaw Jezioranski but he adopted the nom-de-guerre Jan Nowak (the Polish equivalent of John Doe) to protect his real identity during his heroic, legendary and always extremely dangerous resistance activities in Nazi-German occupied Poland during the 6 years of World War II that began in 1939.

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