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To: Bernard
There's also a Pope in there, and Stan Musial.

There ya go!

Not to mention:

Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat;
Aleksander Wolszczan (co-discoverer of first extrasolar planets)
Jozef Dietl, physician;
Roald Hoffmann (Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1981)
Mieczysław G. Bekker, first moon rover;
Stanisław Radziszowski, Computer science;
Witelo, a medieval philosopher and scientist in optics.

63 posted on 02/09/2014 7:27:39 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

and Lech Walesa and the Black Madona( Mary of Chestowa)


85 posted on 02/09/2014 7:48:22 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: ROCKLOBSTER; Bernard

All good men, but the greatest Pole was a king, Jan Sobieski III who stopped the Muslim Turks at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Otherwise we’d all likely be Muslim. His namesake vodka is not bad either.


168 posted on 02/09/2014 10:47:48 AM PST by masadaman
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