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Antoni Pietkiewicz (writer)
Antoni Kazimierz Pietkiewicz (born 24 December 1948) is an engineer, businessperson and politician. He was a voivode of the Kalisz Voivodeship (1975–1998), Kalisz Voivodeship, Poland from 1990 to 1991, and the Masovian Voivodeship from 1999 to 2001. Biography Antoni Pietkiewicz was born on 24 December 1948 in Kalisz, Polish People's Republic, Poland. His parents were Feliks and Janina Pietkiewicz, and has a younger brother Jerzy. In 1978, he had granted from the Faculty of the Power Engineering of the Łódź University of Technology, and had done postgraduate studies at the Warsaw University of Technology and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. In the 1970s he was an activist in the Movement for Defence of Human and Civic Rights and the Workers' Defence Committee. From 1979 to 1980 he co-published newsletter ''Wolne Słowo'' (''The Free Word''), and in 1980 he became a member of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity trade union. He led in the creation of its divisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voivodeship Marshal
A voivodeship marshal (, ) is the head of the provincial-level government for each of the sixteen voivodeships of Poland. Elected by councillors from the provincial assembly, the marshal is the head of the collective voivodeship executive board, which acts as the ''de facto'' cabinet for the region.Council of Europe, p. 17 The current competences and traditions of the contemporary voivodeship marshal stem from the Public Administrative Reform Act of 1998, which went into effect in January 1999. Election A voivodeship marshal is elected by an absolute majority from the voivodeship sejmik in the presence of at least half of all assembly members. Prokop, p. 144 The marshal must be elected from among the councillors of the assembly. At most, two other vice-marshals are additionally elected to sit with the marshal on the executive board by the assembly. To dismiss the marshal, three-fifths of the sejmik must agree to his or her vote of no confidence, which will also result in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SGH Warsaw School Of Economics
SGH Warsaw School of Economics (, ''SGH''''Statut Szkoły Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie.'' Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie.) is the oldest and most prestigious business school in Poland. SGH Warsaw School of Economics was founded in 1906 as a private school named ''August Zieliński Private Trade Courses for Men''. On 30 July 1919, it became a separate legal entity and was granted the status of an institution of higher education. The school was renamed ''Szkoła Główna Handlowa (SGH)'' in 1933. After World War II, SGH was nationalized and its name changed to ''Szkoła Główna Planowania i Statystyki (Main School of Planning and Statistics)'', abbreviation SGPiS. The school regained its pre-war name after the fall of communism in 1991. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sędziszów
Sędziszów is a town in Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,830 inhabitants (2004). The town belongs to Lesser Poland. Transport Sędziszów railway station is a stop for both the PKP intercity trains and their regional trains. The Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line also goes through Sędziszów, and the town lies eight kilometres () from European route E77. History Sędziszów is a historic seat of the noble Jastrzębiec family (see Jastrzębiec coat of arms), and its history dates back to the 13th century. Within the Kingdom of Poland, it was administratively located in the Kraków Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province. Until World War II, Sędziszów was a private village, its last owners were the Kamiński family. In the 15th century, it had a wooden church of St. Peter and Paul. The church burned in a fire, and a new, brick one was built in 1771. After the Partitions of Poland, since 1815, the village was located in Russian-controlled Congre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Poland, fourth largest city. Łódź first appears in records in the 14th century. It was granted city rights, town rights in 1423 by the Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed to Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia before becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw; the city joined Congress Poland, a Russian Empire, Russian client state, at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The Second Industrial Revolution (from 1850) brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in population owing to the inflow of migrants, a sizable part of which were Jews and Germans. Ever since the industrialization of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BOT Górnictwo I Energetyka
Bot or BOT may refer to: Sciences Computing and technology * Chatbot, a computer program that converses in natural language * Internet bot, a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet **Spambot, an internet bot designed to assist in the sending of spam * Internet Relay Chat bot, a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to IRC as a client * Robot, or "bot", a mechanical device that can perform physical tasks * Social bot, a type of chatbot that is employed in social media networks to automatically generate messages **Twitter bot, a program used to produce automated posts on the Twitter microblogging service * Video game bot, a computer-controlled player or opponent * Wikipedia bot, an internet bot which performs tasks in Wikipedia * Zombie computer, part of a botnet Biology and medicine * BOT, base of tongue, in medicine * Bot, the lesion caused by a botfly larva *Borderline ovarian tumor, a tumor of the ovaries Places * Bni Ounj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW; ) is a Polish state university created on the basis of the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. UKSW is a public university that offers education in the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences, and, since 2019, medicine. The university has twelve faculties located in two campuses in Warsaw's Bielany district: on Dewajtis and Wóycickiego Streets. The university offers forty majors, including medicine, psychology, law, journalism, environmental engineering, Italian philology, and economics. In 2016, the Mazovian Laboratory Center of Life Sciences UKSW was established on the campus at the Wóycickiego Street site. In 2019, the university received the European Commission's "HR Excellence in Research" award, confirming its adherence to the principles of the European Charter for Researchers. In addition, all faculties of the university are under the supervision of the Minister of Science and Higher Education; four o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a Warsaw metropolitan area, greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises List of districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Alpha 2, alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Audit Office (Poland)
The Supreme Audit Office (, abbreviated ''NIK'') is the supreme audit institution and also one of the oldest state institutions in Poland, created under the Second Republic of Poland, Second Republic on February 7, 1919, barely 3 months after the restoration of Poland's independence. History The Supreme Audit Office was created on the initiative of the Head of State, Józef Piłsudski. Its organisation and functioning are set out in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and the NIK Act of 23 December 1994. The NIK is subordinate to the Sejm (lower house of the Polish Parliament) and it acts in accordance with the principle of collegial responsibility. The NIK is headed by the President who is appointed by the Sejm for a six-year term of office. The NIK performs audits related to, primarily, the execution of the state budget as well as public finance spending and management of public property by state and local governmental bodies and economic entities. Every year, the NIK sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancellery Of The President Of The Republic Of Poland
The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland (, KPRP) is an institution that assists the President of Poland with fulfilling his tasks as head of state. The Chancellery is headed by its chief, currently being Małgorzata Paprocka. Chiefs of the Chancellery # Michał Janiszewski (September 1989 – December 21, 1990) – under President Wojciech Jaruzelski # Jarosław Kaczyński (December 22, 1990 – October 31, 1991) – Lech Wałęsa # Janusz Ziółkowski (November 1, 1991 – May 11, 1995) – Lech Wałęsa # Tomasz Kwiatkowski (May 11, 1995 – August 12, 1995) – Lech Wałęsa # Stanisław Iwanicki (August 21, 1995 – December 22, 1995) – Lech Wałęsa # Danuta Waniek (December 23, 1995 – December 2, 1997) – Aleksander Kwaśniewski # Danuta Hübner (December 2, 1997 – November 13, 1998) – Aleksander Kwaśniewski # Ryszard Kalisz (November 13, 1998 – June 13, 2000) – Aleksander Kwaśniewski # Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz (June 13, 2000 – Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internment
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without Criminal charge, charges or Indictment, intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement rather than confinement ''after'' having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities. The word ''internment'' is also occasionally used to describe a neutral country's practice of detaining belligerent Military, armed forces and equipment on its territory during times of war, under the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907#Hague Convention of 1907, Hague Convention of 1907. Interned persons may be held in prisons or in facilities known as internment camps or Concentration camp, concentration camps. The term ''concentration camp'' originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial Law In Poland
Martial law in Poland () existed between 13 December 1981 and 22 July 1983. The Polish United Workers' Party, government of the Polish People's Republic drastically restricted everyday life by introducing martial law and a military junta in an attempt to counter political opposition, in particular the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity movement. Since the late 1970s, Poland had been in a deep economic recession. Edward Gierek, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), had obtained a series of large loans from foreign creditors to achieve better economic output. This instead resulted in a domestic crisis. Essential goods were heavily rationing, rationed, which acted as a stimulus to establishing the first anticommunist trade union in the Eastern Bloc, known as Solidarity (), in 1980. Gierek, who permitted the trade union to appear per the Gdańsk Agreement, was dismissed from his post less than a month later and confined to house arrest. Following countl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and the resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity, Poland, Tricity (''Trójmiasto''), with a population of approximately 1.5 million. The city has a complex history, having had periods of Polish, German and self rule. An important shipbuilding and trade port since the Middle Ages, between 1361 and 1500 it was a member of the Hanseatic League, which influenced its economic, demographic and #Architecture, urban landscape. It also served as Poland's principal seaport and was its largest city since the 15th century until the early 18th century when Warsaw surpassed it. With the Partition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
