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Picture this... you get the violin superdork, the fastest finger in the world, the the guitar superdork, have P.E.A.R.T play drums mostly because a suitable wonky drummer hasn't shown up yet, and maybe get creepy janko keyboard girl too.
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From Wilno, the Amber Road passed through villages only recently occupied by the knights, and when he and janko spent the night at a Lithuanian farmhouse, Pawel learned of their harsh rule.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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They did not follow the leisurely route which Lubonski and Lukasz had taken on their expedition into Austria, but rather a direct line to the towns of Brno and Hollabrunn, where the Austrian and German generals participating in the battle would meet them, and as they marched, always at maximum speed, Brat Piotr, with janko at his side, began to strike friendships with the noblemen who formed the contingent of wing&d hussars.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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When janko Buk was strapped into the Alitalia plane he began to appreciate the wonderful thing that was happening: he was flying to see the Holy Father, that simple, forthright Polish son of old peasant stock who came from a village not far from Bukowo and whose church life had been spent in Buk's Krakow.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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When Ruthenian marauders had pene - trated almost to the Vistula, one Janko led a band of village men who drove them back with heavy losses, and from a dead body this janko had stolen an odd - shaped medal bearing a non-Christian symbol, which the priest wanted to destroy because it was pagan, but which the various jankos kept hidden beneath one of the walls of their cottage.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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So Lubonski sent Brat Piotr, the friar from Czesto - chowa, galloping to Bukowo to fetch Lukasz, but when those two reported to Krakow ready for the forced march into Austria, Lubonski saw that they had brought with them young janko from the village, and he protested: 'We want no boys on such a venture,' but Piotr replied: 'He is the son of janwhoservedwithyouin all the battles, and he is ready.'
Poland Michener, James 1983
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Von Eschl, a superb tactician, had good reason to be apprehensive, f or in the dense woods near the village of Tannenberg, janko the peasant from Bukowo and two thousand like him had huddled throughout this steaming, explosive day, uttering not a word on pain of death.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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Posted on June 30, 2008 at 03: 36 ET mladen Says: janko ti si uz Novaka veliki soumen.
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Posted on March 4, 2008 at 12: 07 ET slavica Says: janko, ti si najbolji, zaljubljena sam u tebe vec godinu dana, ozeni me.
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Posted on February 29, 2008 at 05: 36 ET alex Says: janko kralju, stigni noleta pa zajedno u pobede ..
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