St Dominic
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St Dominic (
c.1170–1221), Spanish priest and friar; Spanish name
Domingo de Guzmán. In 1216 he founded the Order of Friars Preachers at Toulouse in France; its members became known as
Dominicans or Black Friars. In art his usual emblems are a lily or a black and white dog, from the punning
Domini canis ‘hound of God’. His feast day is 8 August.
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The Polish campaign 1939.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/14/1985; ; 649 words
; ...commander in chief of the army since 1919, to stifle modernization; the flawed leadership of his successor, Edward Rydz-Smigly; and the political pettiness that hindered the forging of alliances with Czechoslovakia and Lithuania. Polish...
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FURST'S FINEST ESPIONAGE NOVEL SKILLFULLY PLIES THE SHADOWS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/23/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...The political references are tantalizingly obscure - to Horthy, to the prewar Polish leaders Jozef Beck and Edward Rydz-Smigly, even more obscurely described as the "children" of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the first president of independent...
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SMITH'S HAUNTING ACCOUNT OF THE SUMMER OF '39
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/2/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...and orders his associates shot. The American reporter Edward Beattie glimpsed a sign in the London Zoo that for him...admirably, animating figures long-forgotten -- Marshal Smigly-Rydz of Poland, Premier Daladier of France, hapless Emile...
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Rydz-Smigly, Edward
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Rydz-Smigly, Edward (b. 11 Mar. 1886, d. 12 Dec. 1941). Polish dictator 1935–9 Born in Brezezany, Galicia, he rose within the...
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