Author : Helena Paderewska
Publisher : Brave World
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780692535417
"I have undertaken merely to give a sketch of the work my husband did for his country during the years of the great war, to tell the motives and impulses which animated him, to explain to his friends throughout the world how it came that he abandoned his art and his career to plunge into politics and to indicate how little he regards the sacrifice he has made.... I simply know that he has given to Poland the best that was in him and more than that can be asked of no man."
Author : Robert C. Williams
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The Voynich Manuscript resides in a library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. No one can read the manuscript, break its cipher, or identify its provenance. Nothing like it exists. No one mentions it until 1912. Why? Golden Fleece tells the story of London antiques dealer Wilfred Voynich, his relations with British intelligence, and the provenance of his 1912 cipher. In this book, author Robert C. Williams posits that Voynich’s manuscript was not an early modern find but a modern creation by Voynich himself and others using materials acquired from an antiques warehouse in Florence, Italy. The tale of Voynich and his manuscript suggests a modern hoax comparable to Piltdown Man that combines history, espionage, revolution, and cryptography. About the Author Robert C. Williams is a retired Russian historian who has taught history at Williams and Davidson College and Washington University in St. Louis. He has also served on the boards of Agnes Scott College and Wesleyan University and is a co-founder of History Associates Incorporated. He has a special interest in choral and barbershop singing and his family camp on Kezar Lake in Maine. He and his wife Ann married in 1960 and have three children and four grandchildren. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books, one of which, Russian Art and American Money, 1900-1940, was nominated by Harvard University Press for the Pulitzer Prize.
Author : Mikołaj Gliński
Publisher :
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Poland
ISBN : 9788360263556
"Can you distil the essence of a country into just 100 words? We think so. 'Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Word' will make you fall in love with a country with one of the most unusual histories out there. It'll also show you how languages intersect and whole cultures arise, and make you realise just how interwoven our world is. Along the way, you'll find out why quarks are made from curd cheese, learn what elephants have to do with a Central European country, and discover how pierogi saved an entire town. Plus, you'll get to enjoy 100 illustrations by Polish graphic designer Magda Burdzyńska"--Back cover.
Author : Maciej Siekierski
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817918663
The celebrated pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski was the rave of Paris, London, and New York audiences in the early twentieth century, with annual concert tours across the continents. But during World War I, Paderewski set music aside and turned to politics, becoming an eloquent spokesman for the country of his birth, Poland, then occupied by the empires of Russia, Germany, and Austria. Through his fame as a musician, Paderewski gained access to the top political leadership of France, Britain, and the United States. His devoted wife and collaborator, Helena, facilitated and accompanied virtually his every move. Her memoirs, written in English for a US audience and as a tribute to the US contribution to the Allied victory and help in the restoration of Poland, are the story of this great international adventure. In addition to being the constant companion and confidante of her famous husband, Helena was a woman with a broad range of practical interests and commitments. Her humanitarian and social work projects ranged from a care home for elderly female veterans of the struggle for independence, to care homes and feeding stations for refugee children, to her flagship endeavor, the Polish White Cross, an organization with some twenty thousand members over which she presided. She is one of the key sources on the historical events in which she participated or her husband told her about.
Author : William W. Hagen
Publisher :
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521884926
The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.
Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Author : Harris M. Lentz
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The first half of the 20th century was perhaps the most turbulent in history. Two world wars and numerous smaller conflicts significantly changed the geopolitical map, resulting in an unprecedented number of changes throughout the world. Some of the leaders in the period made an indelible mark on their nation and, in some cases, the world; others are scarcely remembered even in their own homeland. Nearly 1,200 emperors, kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers, premiers, emirs, and other heads of state or government served from 1900 through 1945, and all are included in this comprehensive reference work. Each biographical profile first gives birth and death dates, then gives an account of how the leader came to power and an overview of his or her term in office. The profiles are packed with data.
Author : Ruth Fox Hume
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1932350756
Ignace Jan Paderewski was born in Poland in November, 1860. At his death in 1940, he was honored by burial in the Arlington Cemetery. As a boy, young Ignace saw repeated Polish rebellions against the controlling foreign powers fail. He determines that the way to help Poland become free and united is for him to become a person of renown-somehow! His vast natural instinct for music unexpectedly opens a door. Though he excels in musical theory and composition, his dream of becoming a concert pianist is continually thwarted by poor advice and instruction. Then, in 1884, displaying the exceptional gift that recurs throughout his lifetime-of meeting the right person at the right time-Ignace starts on the path to becoming a virtuoso pianist at the unheard of age of 24! By 1910, after taking the world by storm through his brilliance as a performer and popularity as a man of humility, warmth and appeal, Ignace begins his incredible career as statesman. It is now that his lifetime of meeting, winning and helping others comes to the fore, granting him vital influence among political figures and situations of his day. Here is an absorbing portrait, full of lively and illuminating incident, observations from contemporaries and matter for reflection, of a man who was aptly called "a genius who happens to play the piano." Historical Insight article by Daria SockeyLocation: Poland and the U.S.Time Period: Modern Era, WW1
Author : Andrzej Garlicki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A scholarly study of Polish nationalist, field marshall, president, and finally dictator, J=sef Pilsudski (1867-1935), being an edited and abridged translation of Garlicki's major biography, which went unpublished in its entirety within Poland until 1988, a year before the final collapse of the comm
Author : John Gillespie
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Pianists - their lives, performances, and recordings - are detailed in this text, the second of a two-volume set. Each biographical essay emphasises musical background and training, special influences on development, significant performances, and more. Performance is analysed and emphasis given to style and repertoire. For those pianists who recorded, there are selective discographies and reviews of outstanding recordings. The authors attended many performances and often supply a personal dimension to the discussions. This readable work, containing extensive documented coverage of 100 artists, should be appreciated by scholar, student and music buff alike.
