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Kuligowski
Kuligowski, feminine: Kuligowska, is a Polish surname. It is a toponymic surname derived from any of places named Kuligów, Kuligowo, or Kuligi. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Kuligowski (born 1955), Polish chess player * Eddie Kuligowski (1946–2021), French photographer * Erica Kuligowski, American social research scientist * (born 1979), Polish volleyball player See also * * *Kulikowski References {{Surname Polish-language surnames Toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Kuligowski
Erica Kuligowski is an American social research scientist investigating human behavior during emergencies and the performance of evacuation models in disasters. She currently works at RMIT University, RMIT university in Melbourne (Australia). Kuligowski used to work the Engineering Lab of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Early life and education Erica Kuligowski grew up in Baltimore and Forest Hill, Maryland. She attended high school near a fire station and thought about becoming a firefighter. While attending a program at University of Maryland College Park for women in STEM, Kuligowski watched a demonstration on fire modeling which inspired her to pursue fire protection engineering. Kuligowski earned her B.S. in 2001 and M.S. in 2003 in Fire Protection Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland at College Park. She then went on to earn her PhD in sociology from University of Colorado Boulder in 2011. Her dissertation focused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Kuligowski
Edouard "Eddie" Kuligowski (22 July 1946 – 15 January 2021) was a French photographer who won the Niépce Prize, the most prestigious prize for a photographer in France. Biography Kuligowski was born in 1946 in Montargis, France into a working-class family of Polish descent. Kuligowski studied in an advertising photography studio before joining the agency ''Viva'', then ''VLOO''. Starting in 1973, his black and white photographs were published several times a year such as ''Camera International'' and ''Zoom''. They were exhibited internationally. In 1976, Kuligowski won the Niépce Prize. In the 1980s and '90s, he took fashion and advertising photographs, which were published in magazines such as ''Harper's Bazaar''. In 2000, he began teaching photography courses and training interns. Eddie Kuligowski died on 15 January 2021 at the age of 74. His wife Susan died four days later. Collections *Bibliothèque nationale de France *Centre Pompidou * * Musée Réatu *Musée Cantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Kuligowski
Adam Kuligowski (born 24 December 1955) is a Polish chess master. He was awarded the GM title in 1980. Tournaments In 1973, he won Polish Junior Championship. In 1973/74, he took 3rd in Groningen (EU Junior-ch; Sergey Makarichev won). In 1974, he took 15th in Manila (World Junior-ch; Tony Miles won). In 1975, he took 6th in Tjentište (World Junior-ch; Valery Chekhov won). In 1975, he tied for 6-10th in Poznań (32nd POL-ch). In 1975, he took 2nd in Dresden. In 1978, he tied for 1st-2nd with Aleksander Sznapik in Kraków (35th POL-ch), drew the playoff match (2 : 2), and took the Polish Champion title on tie-break. In 1978, he won in Warsaw. In 1980, he tied for 3rd-4th in Łódź (37th POL-ch). In 1980, he won in Warsaw. In 1980, he tied for 2nd-4th in Krosno. In 1980, he tied for 1st-2nd in Niš. In 1981, he tied for 4-6th in Warsaw (38th POL-ch). In 1981, he tied for 3rd-4th in Lewisham. In 1983, he took 14th in Wijk aan Zee (Hoogovens; Ulf Andersson won). Chess Olympiads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulikowski
Kulikowski, feminine: Kulikowska, is a Polish surname. It may be variously transliterated as Kulikowsky, Kulikovsky, etc. It is a toponymic surname derived from any of places named Kulikówka, Kulików, or Kulikowo. Notable people with the surname include: *Lidia Kulikovski (born 1951), Moldovan librarian and bibliographer * (1872–1910), Polish playwright, poet, feminist, teacher, naturalist, reporter *Michael Kulikowski (born 1970), American historian *Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky (1768–1846), Ukrainian composer *Nikolai Kulikovsky (1811–1958), second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia *Traudl Kulikowsky (born 1943), German actress *Zofia Weigl (née Kulikowska; c. 1885–1940), Polish biologist, a collaborator in search vaccine for typhus See also * * *Kuligowski Kuligowski, feminine: Kuligowska, is a Polish surname. It is a toponymic surname derived from any of places named Kuligów, Kuligowo, or Kuligi. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Kul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Surname
Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law (legal system), civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom. The law requires a given name to indicate the person's gender. Almost all Polish female names end in the vowel ''-a'', and most male names end in a consonant or a vowel other than ''a''. There are, however, a few male names that end in ''a'', which are often old and uncommon, such as Barnaba, Bonawentura, Jarema, Kosma, Kuba (formerly only a diminutive of Jakub, nowadays also a given name on its own) and Saba. Maria (given name), Maria is a female name that can be used also as a second name for males. Since the High Middle Ages, Polish-sounding surnames ending with the masculine ''-ski'' suffix, including ''-cki'' and ''-dzki'', and the corresponding feminine suffix ''-ska/-cka/-dzka'' were associated with the nobility (Polish ''szlachta''), which alone, in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponymic Surname
A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,"Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar.Last Names and Their Meanings ''ancestry.com'' which included names of specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or lands that they held, or, more generically, names that were derived from regional topographic features.Iris Shagrir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagrir, Ellenblum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuligów
Kuligów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrówka, within Wołomin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Wołomin and north of Warsaw. The village lies on the Bug River The Bug or Western Bug is a major river in Central Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland, and Ukraine, with a total length of .Villages in Wołomin County {{Wołomin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuligi
Kuligi is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rajgród, within Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately south of Rajgród, east of Grajewo, and north-west of the regional capital Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Biał .... References Villages in Grajewo County {{Grajewo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish-language Surnames
Polish (, , or simply , ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic subgroup, within the 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. It maintains strict T–V distinction pronouns, 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 comprises 23 consonants and 9 written vowels, including two nasal vowels (, ) denoted by a reversed diacritic hook ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
