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  • He made his high-school and university studies in Wilno, then belonging to

    Czeslaw Milosz - Biography 1980

  • This story of Polish resistance to the Nazi occupiers in the woods around Wilno follows a 14-year-old boy, Janek, as he learns the harsh lessons of war.

    War Hero, Diplomat, Author, Impostor Richard Lea 2010

  • In 1923 she took part in Wystawa Nowej Sztuki (Exhibition of New Art) in Wilno (Vilna), which was the first constructivist manifestation in Poland.

    Teresa ��arnower (��arnower��wna). 2009

  • The names Wilno and Vilna have also been used in older English and French language publications.

    Jerusalem of Lithuania | Jewschool 2007

  • Now these lands are in Belarus, while the city of Vilnius (Wilno), which all XX century Belarusian intellectuals have considered their spiritual capital (the first Belarusian books were published there more than 400 years ago, and the first newspaper at the turn of the century), but also where one of the oldest Polish universities was founded by Jesuits, is now the capital of Lithuania...

    languagehat.com: SVOJA MOVA. 2005

  • Wilno, a former human cannonball, lived down the street.

    running away with the circus Gwenda 2004

  • For emotional support, thanks to WWW Wilno Women Writers, my Humber group, and to Internet writing cronies.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

  • For emotional support, thanks to WWW Wilno Women Writers, my Humber group, and to Internet writing cronies.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

  • The editor of the Dziennik Wilenski ( "Wilno Daily"), Jan Obst, was beaten up with impunity by military officers for having called Pilsudski a buffoon.

    Poland's Past Kasparek, Jozef 1984

  • The editor of the Wilno Slowo ( "Word"), Stanislaw Mackiewicz, was arrested and confined in the Bereza Kartuska concentration camp for political prisoners.

    Poland's Past Kasparek, Jozef 1984

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