Mury (other)
Mury ("The Walls") was a Polish female anti-Nazi resistance group. Mury may also refer to: * "Mury" (song), 1978 Polish protest song * Saint-Mury-Monteymond, commune in Isère, France See also * Murie (other) * Murry (other) Murry may refer to: People Given name * Murry Bartow (born 1961), American basketball coach * Murry Bowden (born 1949), American football player * Murry Dickson (1916–1989), American baseball player * Murry Hope (1929–2012), English writer and ...

Mury
''Mury'' (The Walls) was a clandestine Girl Scouts group organized by young Polish women who were political prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The group, led by Scout Group Leader Józefa Kantor, was established on 30 November 1941. At first, ''Mury'' consisted of a small number of patriotic Girl Scouts. Then, later on, it grew to five units with about 100 young women. Their main activities included organizing food and medical supplies for the sick fellow prisoners, moral, psychological and religious support for the group members and other women in the concentration camp. The members of the group held regular meetings in various blocks in the concentration camp, where they received not only new tasks and daily instructions from the group leaders, but also acquired Scouting knowledge and high school education from fellow prisoners who had been experienced academic teachers (and subsequently incarcerated in the concentration camp as political prisoners). Based o ...
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Mury (song)
Mury (''Walls'') was a sung poetry protest song written by Polish singer Jacek Kaczmarski in 1978. It was especially popular among the members of Solidarity (NSZZ Solidarność) and is one of Kaczmarski's best known songs. It became a powerful symbol of the opposition to the communist regime in the People's Republic of Poland and was sung at countless rallies, meetings, protests and strikes throughout Poland during the 1980s. It has become popular among protesters in the aftermath of the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. From May 2024, a typescript of the song from the collection of the National Library of Poland is presented at a permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth. Inspiration The lyrics for ''Mury'' were written in 1978 to the melody of the song '' L'Estaca'' by the Catalan singer Lluís Llach, which Kaczmarski heard on one of several Spanish records he borrowed from a friend in December of that year. The intention of Kaczmarski's lyrics was to exam ...
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Saint-Mury-Monteymond
Saint-Mury-Monteymond () is a commune in the Isère department in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes of France. History In 1882, Aristide Bergès constructed a 1200 hp turbine in the neighbouring hamlet of La Gorge, at the foot of the Peak of Belledonne. Due to the steepness of the slope to the Lac Blanc, source of the river Vors, the first Penstock A penstock is a sluice or gate or intake structure that controls water flow, or an enclosed pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems. The term is of Scots origin, and was inherited from the earlier technology of mill pond ...s were constructed. Because of the work of Aristide Bergès, Saint-Mury-Monteymond became the first village in France illuminated by electrical power.Cécile Gouy-Gilbert, Anne Dalmasso and Michael Jakob ''Alpes électriques''. Dire, 2011, p. 12. 978-2-9534279-2-9 Geography Neighbouring communes are: * Sainte-Agnès, * La Combe-de-Lancey, * Laval, * Villard-Bonnot, * Sain ...
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Murie (other)
Murie may refer to: ;People: * Murie family of American naturalists, including: ** Olaus Murie (1889–1963) ** Adolph Murie (1899–1974) ** Margaret Murie (1902–2003) ** Louise Murie (1912–2012) * David Murie (b. 1976) Scottish footballer ;Other: * Murie Ranch Historic District inholding in Grand Teton National Park ** Murie Residence * Murie Science and Learning Center * Murie railway station on the Walhalla narrow gauge line in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia *Murié, an alternate spelling of Muriaé, which is a city of roughly 100,000 in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais Similar spellings * Mury (other) * Muir (other) "Muir" is the Scots word for "moorland", and the Irish and Scots Gaelic for "sea", and is the etymological origin of the surname and Clan Muir/Mure/Moore in Scotland and other parts of the world. Places United States * Muir, Willits, California, ...