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Alicja Raciszówna
Alicja is a Polish language given name that is equivalent to Alice in English. Notable people with the name include: * Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (born 1983), Polish actress and singer * Alicja Boratyn (born 1992), Polish singer * Alicja Derkowska (born 1940), Polish social activist, mathematician and educator * Alicja Dorabialska (1897–1975), Polish chemist * Alicja Fiodorow, Paralympian athlete from Poland competing mainly in category T46 sprint events * Alicja Janosz (born 1985), the winner of Polish Idol in 2002 * Alicja Kotowska (1899–1939), Polish nun, head of the Resurrectionist convent in Wejherowo 1934 to 1939, martyred by the German Nazis in 1939 * Alicja Kwade (born 1979), Polish-German visual artist * Alicja Majewska (born 1948), Polish singer * Alicja Olechowska (born 1956), Polish politician * Alicja Pęczak (born 1970), retired breaststroke and medley swimmer from Poland * Alicja Rosolska, Polish professional tennis player * Alicja Sakaguchi (born 1954), Polish lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Language
Polish (, , or simply , ) is a West Slavic languages, West Slavic language of the Lechitic languages, Lechitic subgroup, within the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, and is written in the Latin script. It is primarily spoken in Poland and serves as the official language of the country, as well as the language of the Polish diaspora around the world. In 2024, there were over 39.7 million Polish native speakers. It ranks as the sixth-most-spoken among languages of the European Union. Polish is subdivided into regional Dialects of Polish, dialects. It maintains strict T–V distinction pronouns, Honorifics (linguistics), honorifics, and various forms of formalities when addressing individuals. The traditional 32-letter Polish alphabet has nine additions (, , , , , , , , ) to the letters of the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet, while removing three (x, q, v). Those three letters are at times included in an extended 35-letter alphabet. The traditional set compri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Majewska
Alicja Majewska (born May 30, 1948 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish singer. From 1971 to 1974, she was a member of the band Partita as a vocalist. In 1975, she received the main award at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. She was also awarded a Grand Prix at the 1980 festival in Rostock, and was honored in Havana (1985). She received the " Gloria Artis" medal.Andrzej Rozbicki, ""Woła nas Pan" w Toronto ", Gazeta, Dziennik Polonii w Kanadzie Biography She spent her early childhood in Olbierzowice, where her parents were teachers. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy at the University of Warsaw in the field of andragogy. She made her debut in 1968 at the 4th Soviet Song Festival in Zielona Góra. Honored with the Bronze (2005) and Gold (2020) Medal "For Merit to Culture Gloria Artis". From 2019 to 2022, she participated as a trainer in the first three editions of the TVP2 program '' The Voice Senior''. Discography *1976 ''Bywają takie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Trout
Alicja Anna Trout is an American, Memphis-based rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. She is best known for her work with the synth-heavy Lost Sounds, which she started with Jay Reatard. Her current band, the River City Tanlines, were named an essential Memphis band by ''Spin Magazine'' in December 2007. Trout also owns and operates Contaminated Records, her own independent record label. She graduated from Memphis College of Art with an MFA in 1997. In 2009, she was featured on the MTV show ''$5 Cover''. Other musical projects After the Lost Sounds "abruptly yet not unexpectedly" disbanded in May 2005, Trout's focus switched to the River City Tanlines, a more rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from African ... oriented band. Trout has also played a part in a nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Szemplińska
Alicja Maria Szemplińska (; born 29 April 2002), also known mononymously as Alicja, is a Polish singer. She won season 10 of '' The Voice of Poland'' in 2019. The following year, she won Poland's national Eurovision selection competition '' Szansa na sukces'' with her song " Empires", which she would have performed at the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam on 14 May 2020. On 18 March 2020, the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December .... Although Alicja expressed her desire to represent Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, she was ultimately not chosen to represent Poland again and Rafał Brzozowski was chosen instead. Discography Studio albums * ''Nie Wracam'' (2024) Singles * " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Sakaguchi
Alicja Sakaguchi (born 1954 in Szczecin) is a linguist and university professor in the fields of Esperanto and interlinguistics. Biography Alicja Sakaguchi earned a master's degree after studying Hungarian and Esperantology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (1974 to 1979); she completed her doctorate in 1982. From 1981 to 1985 she was a lecturer at the University of Paderborn, then from 1986 to 1998 at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her habilitation in 2000 after publishing a book on interlinguistics. From 2001 to 2002 she was assistant professor of modern languages at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; since 2003 she has been a professor there, teaching interlinguistics, Esperanto, German and intercultural communication. She is married to Takashi Sakaguchi, a Japanese man whom she met through the Esperanto movement, and has two adult children, Dai and Leo, who are native speakers of Esperanto. Both sons were born in MömbrisMia familio, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska (; born 1 December 1985) is a Polish professional tennis player. On 9 June 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 636. On 10 June 2019, she peaked at No. 23 in the WTA rankings, doubles rankings. Rosolska has won nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour in her career (in 2008 Cachantún Cup, Cachantún with Līga Dekmeijere, in 2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience, Marbella with Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Klaudia Jans, in 2011 Budapest Grand Prix, Budapest with Anabel Medina Garrigues, in 2015 Monterrey Open, Monterrey with Gabriela Dabrowski, in 2016 Swedish Open, Bastad with Andreea Mitu, in 2017 St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, St. Petersburg with Jeļena Ostapenko, again in 2017 Monterrey Open, Monterrey with Nao Hibino, in 2018 Nottingham Open, Nottingham with Abigail Spears and in 2019 Volvo Car Open, Charleston with Anna-Lena Grönefeld), as well as 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. She represented Poland in Poland Fed Cup team, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Pęczak
Alicja Pęczak (born 13 January 1970 in Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian) is a retired breaststroke and medley swimmer from Poland, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ... for her native country: in 1992 and 1996. A member of Astoria Bydgoszcz and AZS-AWF Gdańsk, she is best known for winning several medals at the FINA Short Course World Championships. Pęczak was banned for 18 months because of doping use. References * Living people 1970 births Polish female breaststroke swimmers Polish female medley swimmers Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Poland Astoria Bydgoszcz sportspeople Sportspeople from Bydgoszcz Medalists at the FINA World Swimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Olechowska
Alicja Danuta Olechowska (born 10 February 1956) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 6395 votes in 20 Warsaw district as a candidate from the Civic Platform The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a Centre-right politics, centre-right liberal conservative political party in Poland. Since ... list. She was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksAlicja Olechowska - parliamentary page– includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Civic Platform politicians 1956 births Living people 21st-century Polish women politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade (born 1979) is a Polish-German contemporary visual artist. Her sculptures and installations focus on the subjectivity of time and space. Kwade lives and works in Berlin. Early life and education Kwade was born in the industrial city of Katowice, of what was then communist Poland. She was the daughter of a cultural scientist and gallery owner and conservator, and reports knowing that she wanted to be an artist at as young as five years old. Her family escaped to West Germany in 1987.Thomas Rogers (March 29, 2019)On the Met Roof, Alicja Kwade's Test of Faith''New York Times''. She grew up in Hannover and at age 19 moved to Berlin where she studied sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1999 to 2005. In 2002, Kwade spent an Erasmus year at Chelsea College of Arts in London. Work Kwade manipulates common materials like wood, glass, and copper through chemical processes to explore the ephemerality of the physical world. Her works often include reflectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice (other)
Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll * ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor * ''Alice'' (Hermann book), a 2009 short story collection by Judith Hermann Computers * Alice (computer chip), a graphics engine chip in the Amiga computer in 1992 * Alice (programming language), a functional programming language designed by the Programming Systems Lab at Saarland University * Alice (software), an object-oriented programming language and IDE developed at Carnegie Mellon * Alice (Microsoft), an AI project at Microsoft for improving decision-making in economics * Alice mobile robot * Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity, an open-source chatterbot * Matra Alice, a home micro-computer marketed in France * Alice, a brand name used by Telecom Italia for internet and telephone services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Kotowska
Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska (, Warsaw – 11 November 1939, near Wielka Piaśnica) was a Polish religious sister who was head of the Resurrectionist convent in Wejherowo between 1934 and 1939. She was arrested by the Gestapo on 24 October 1939 during prayer and murdered alongside over 300 other Poles and Jews on 11 November in one of the Piaśnica massacres. Witnesses reported seeing her comfort Jewish children while being transported. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1999 as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. Life Kotowska was born on 20 November 1899 to a devout Catholic family, the second of eight children. During World War I she worked as a nurse. She took her vows on 2 February 1924, but continued her academic studies in addition to her duties, earning a master's degree in chemistry in 1929. She later worked as a teacher and headmistress of a school. Death She was arrested by the Gestapo The (, ), Syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated Gestapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Janosz
Alicja Janosz (born 4 June 1985 in Pszczyna) is a Polish singer. She is the winner of 2002 Polish Idol. She also appeared in '' World Idol'', where she sang " I Don't Know How to Love Him" from ''Jesus Christ Superstar''. In November 2002, her debut album, ''Ala Janosz'', was released. In 2003, she recorded a song for the Polish version of ''Jungle Book 2,'' "Przyjaciel dobra rzecz" ("A friend is a good thing"). In April 2003, she recorded "To co w nas ukryte" for the Polish reality show "9 niezwykłych tygodni" ("9 amazing weeks"). In 2004, she took part in the Polish preselection to the Eurovision Song Contest and came 4th out of 15 acts. In 2005, she contributed the song "I'm still alive" to the charity album Voyces United for UNHCR. In 2005, she recorded the song "Że z wiatrem raz" with Piotr Banach. In 2011, she released her second studio album, ''Vintage''. Discography Albums * '' Ala Janosz'' POL #44 * ''Vintage In winemaking, vintage is the process of picki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
