Poles are used on barges to fend off the barge as it nears other vessels or a wharf.

Posen Bambergers ) – German Poles are descendants of settlers from the area near Bamberg, who settled in villages around Posen in the years 1719 – 1753.

During the Warsaw Uprising ( 1944 ), a Poles | Polish couple, members of an Armia Krajowa resistance group, are married in a secret Catholic chapel in a street in Warsaw.

The largest group of foreigners are Icelanders comprising 0. 4 % of the population, followed by Norwegians and Poles, each comprising 0. 2 %.

Today, descendants of those Poles who stayed are living in Casale and Fond Des Blancs.

For example Winston Churchill 1941 said in a broadcast speech: " There are less than 70, 000, 000 malignant Huns, some of whom are curable and others killable, most of whom are already engaged in holding down Austrians, Czechs, Poles and the many other ancient races they now bully and pillage.

Note that the longitude is singular at the Poles and calculations that are sufficiently accurate for other positions, may be inaccurate at or near the Poles.

The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.

* There are around 250, 000 Poles living in Lithuania and around 25, 000 ethnic Lithuanians living in Poland.

* 1918 – A pogrom takes place in Lwów ( now Lviv ); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.

Immigration to Panama are represented by ethnic groups in the 19th and 20th centuries: British and Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Russians or Ukrainians ( a large number are Jews ), U. S. Americans and West Indies / Caribbean ( esp.

Poles are manufactured for people of all skill levels and body sizes, with sizes as short as 3. 05m ( 10 feet ) to as long as 5. 30 m ( 17 feet 4. 5 inches ), with a wide range of weight ratings.

The majority of present inhabitants of Warmia are descendants of Poles who either were the Warmiaks or migrated from other parts of Poland, including the pre-1939 Polish Borderlands, after 1945.

* September 22 – Battle of Obertyn: The Moldavians are defeated by Polish forces under Jan Amor Tarnowski, allowing the Poles to recapture Pokucie.

He despised Czechs and Poles, and wrote " no considerations can be taken for Poles, Czechs etc., who are as impotent as they are valueless and overbearing.

The region's ethnic diversity has been affected by repeated waves of immigrant workers from abroad: Belgians before 1910 ; Poles and Italians in the 1920s and 1930s ; Italians and Germans since 1945 and North Africans and Portuguese since 1960 ; and large cities like Lille, Calais, and Boulogne are home to sizable communities of British, Dutch, Scandinavian, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American immigrants and their descendants.

Both reguations, ( 1 ) and ( 2 ), provided for a considerable group of Poles and Israelis, residing in Poland and Israel, who are simultaneously Germans.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

The Cossack army were well acquainted with this Polish style of war well, having much experience of fighting against the Poles and alongside them.

The " racially valuable " children were to be removed from all contact with Poles, and raised as Germans, with German names.

Although many Poles sympathized with France and Britain, they found it hard to fight for their ally, Russia.

By June 1920, the Polish armies were past Vilnius, Minsk and ( allied with the Directorate of Ukraine ) reached Kiev, but then the massive Bolshevik counteroffensive moved the Poles out of most of Ukraine and on the northern front arrived at the outskirts of Warsaw.

In February 1613, with the chaos ended and the Poles expelled from Moscow, a national assembly, composed of representatives from fifty cities and even some peasants, elected Michael Romanov, the young son of Patriarch Filaret, to the throne.

Initially, Germany hoped to transform Poland into a satellite state, but by March 1939 German demands had been rejected by the Poles three times, which led Hitler to decide, with enthusiastic support from Ribbentrop, upon the destruction of Poland as the main German foreign policy goal of 1939.

On 26 March, in an extremely stormy meeting with the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski, Ribbentrop accused the Poles of attempting to bully Germany by their partial mobilization and violently attacked them for only offering consideration of the German demand about the " extra-territorial " roads.

Since Poland was regarded as the East European state with the most powerful army, it became imperative to tie Poland to Britain as the best way of ensuring Polish support for Romania, since it was the obvious quid pro quo that Britain would have to do something for Polish security if the Poles were to be induced to do something for Romanian security.

In April 1939, when Ribbentrop announced at a secret meeting of the Foreign Office's senior staff that Germany was ending talks with the Poles and was instead going to destroy Poland in an operation late that year, the news was greeted joyfully by those present.

Ribbentrop first seems to have considered the idea of a pact with the Soviet Union after an unsuccessful visit to Warsaw in January 1939, when the Poles again refused Ribbentrop's demands about Danzig, the " extra-territorial " roads across the Polish Corridor and the Anti-Comintern Pact.

The decrypts showed that there was much tension in Anglo-Polish relations with the British pressuring the Poles to allow Danzig to rejoin the Reich and the Poles staunchly resisting all efforts to pressure them into concessions to Germany.

For a brief moment in August 1939, Ribbentrop convinced Hitler that the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union would cause the fall of the Chamberlain government, and lead to a new British government that would abandon the Poles to their fate.

Remarkably, 63 % of the modern Kyrgyz men share Haplogroup R1a1 ( Y-DNA ) with Tajiks ( 64 %), Ukrainians ( 54 %), Poles ( 56 %) and even Icelanders ( 25 %).

Poles also arrived as the city became popular seaside resort and spa town among tourists from all over Germany with an amount of about 5-8 percent of Poles.

The city was resettled with Poles, many of whom had themselves been expelled from Kresy ( see: Polish population transfers ( 1944 – 1946 )), and historic buildings were restored.

The German population was expelled from between 1945 and 1947 and replaced with Poles and, as the medieval Polish name Lignica was considered archaic, the town was renamed Legnica.

According to the municipal administration of Rybno, after World War I Poles in Działdowo believed that they will be quickly joined with Poland, they organized secret gatherings during which the issue of rejoining Polish state with help of Polish military was discussed.

The Golden Horde would frequently clash with Hungarians, Lithuanians and Poles in the thirteenth century, with two large raids in the 1260s and 1280s respectively.

* the Polabian Wends, Sorbs, and Obotrites between the Elbe and Oder rivers ( by the Saxons, Danes, and Poles, beginning with the Wendish Crusade in 1147 )

For regions inside the polar circles, the maximum lengths of the time that the sun is completely below the horizon varies from about 20 hours at the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle to 179 days at the Poles.

Christopher M. Clark says that John Casimir of Poland was on the one hand " eager to separate Brandenburg from Sweden and to neutralize it as a military threat " when Poland-Lithuania was threatened by the Tsardom of Russia, and on the other hand was ready to accept the Hohenzollerns ' demands due to pressure by the House of Habsburg, who after the emperor's incidental death earlier that year needed to secure the elector's vote, and whose " urgings [...] carried a considerable weight, since the Poles were counting on Austrian assistance in the event of a renewed Swedish or Russian attack.

They were not Poles.

He would tell the Poles, he said, that they had been `` given a fine place to live in, more than three hundred miles each way ''.

Believing devoutly as they did in Anglo-Saxon institutions, it was important to both Roosevelt and Churchill that the Poles should have them.

Others deported to Auschwitz included 150, 000 Poles, 23, 000 Roma and Sinti, 15, 000 Soviet prisoners of war, some 400 Jehovah's Witnesses and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.

Auschwitz I served as the administrative center, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70, 000 people, mostly ethnic Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.

Auschwitz II was an extermination camp or Vernichtungslager, the site of the deaths of at least 960, 000 Jews, 75, 000 Poles, and some 19, 000 Roma.

He evangelized Poles and Hungarians.

Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science.

This proceedings volume features the research presented at the Smithsonian at the Poles symposium, convened as part of the International Polar Year 2007-2008.

The Poles commanded by Piotr Dunin, consisting of some 2000 mercenaries decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, having some 2700 mercenaries, commanded by Fritz Raweneck and Kaspar Nostyc.

After a short pause at midday, Teuton units were able to push the Poles back ; however, they found themselves under very heavy fire from crossbows of the Polish infantry, which caused huge losses and withdrawal.

The Poles lost just 100 soldiers, but 150 later died from wounds.

During the first day of the battle, the Poles were victorious.

The Poles, encouraged by their success on the first day, deployed all their available cavalry.

This time, Tatar cavalry gained the upper hand, pushing the Poles back to their camp but were then repulsed by heavy fire from the Polish infantry and artillery.

The Poles lost 300 soldiers, including many officers.

He was then able to reassemble the Cossack host, which was able to present a substantial army to confront the Poles at Bila Tserkva.

* Generation of Columbuses, tragic generation of Poles born ca.

First, because motorised vehicles were in short supply, the Poles used horses to pull anti-tank weapons into position.

Germans, Irish, Poles, Swedes and Czechs made up nearly two-thirds of the foreign-born population ( by 1900, whites were 98. 1 % of the city's population ).

The Poles repulsed many raids of the Tatar-Mongols.