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Early in the 2002 Democratic congressional primary -- the true contest in Republican-starved Chicago -- Emanuel trailed in the polls by as much as 15 points behind a neighborhood activist named Nancy Kaszak, who not only had lived in the district for 25 years but was also of Polish descent, a significant asset in the famed 5th District, home to St. Stanislaus Kostka parish and ex-congressman Dan Rostenkowski.
Chicago, get ready for Rahm Emanuel's charm offensive Neil Steinberg 2010
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Sean Gallup/Getty Images Elderly women paused at a makeshift shrine in memory of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria at St. St.nislaw Kostka church in the Zoliborz district where Mr. Kaczynski spent his childhood in Warsaw on Sunday.
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Sean Gallup/Getty Images Elderly women paused at a makeshift shrine in memory of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria at St. St.nislaw Kostka church in the Zoliborz district where Mr. Kaczynski spent his childhood in Warsaw on Sunday.
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Sean Gallup/Getty Images Elderly women paused at a makeshift shrine in memory of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria at St. St.nislaw Kostka church in the Zoliborz district where Mr. Kaczynski spent his childhood in Warsaw on Sunday.
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Sean Gallup/Getty Images Elderly women paused at a makeshift shrine in memory of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria at St. St.nislaw Kostka church in the Zoliborz district where Mr. Kaczynski spent his childhood in Warsaw on Sunday.
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One of the False Dmitris hid here, too, before he became czar, and the famous robber-peasant Kostka led his revolution from these castles.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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But we are, perhaps, entitled to conjecture that particular people, like Helena and Kostka, might be (by our standards) perverse enough to welcome the Russian tanks.
The Joke Stallybrass, Oliver 1970
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Whether Ludvik's jokes are destructive or not is a matter of opinion, and again the opinions of Helena and Kostka must be considered.
The Joke Stallybrass, Oliver 1970
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Kostka, was a senator of the Kingdom of Poland and Lord of Zakroczym; his mother was Margaret de Drobniy Kryska, the sister and niece of the Dukes Palatine of Masovia and the aunt of the celebrated
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Kostka (1869), Baron de Rentz (1873), and Henri-Marie Boudon (1881);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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