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1. 03-18-04 Polish President: Poland "Misled" on Iraq (Guardian Unlimited)
   "President Aleksander Kwasniewski, a key Washington ally, said Thursday he may withdraw troops early from Iraq and that Poland was 'misled' about the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." 3-04

2. Poland - Travel Information by Location (Excite.Travel.com)
   Provides information on dining, where to stay, and interesting things to see. Search by city. 3-02

3. Directory of Information on Poland By Topic (Yahoo)
   Provides sources of information by topic. 3-02

4. Poland - Search Engines (SearchEngineColossus.com)
   Provides over a dozen search engines. Some search in English. Pologne, Polonia, Polska 3-02

5. Languages of Poland (Ethnologue.com)
   Provides facts about languages spoken in Poland. 3-05

6. Poland (Library of Congress)
   Provides a history of the country, including culture, government, economy, and more. 3-02

7. Poland (LonelyPlanet.com)
   Provides a history of the country, including culture, government, economy, and more. 3-02

8. Poland (U.S. State Department)
   Provides a history of the country, including culture, government, economy, and more. 3-02

9. Poland

10. Poland (Wikipedia.org)
    Provides information on culture, history, government, economy, and more. 8-02

11. News from Poland (The Warsaw Voice)
    Provides news in English. 02-06

12. Pope John Paul II (PBS)
    Provides a detailed biography of the Pope, including his historical roots in Poland. The Pope was formerly known as Karol Wojtyla. 3-00

13. Rulers by Country - P-R (Schulz)
    Provides a list of leaders by country and date. Palau, Panama, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation (USSR), and Rwanda. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 9-00

14. Walesa, Lech (Time - Ash)
    Provides highlights of his achievements and a timeline of his life. "Poland's brash union organizer stood up to the Kremlin and dealt the Eastern bloc a fatal blow." He was the leader of the Solidarity movement and became President of Poland. 8-02

15. Pope John Paul II Biography (CBC - Wiese)
    "To some, John Paul is a revolutionary. He takes strong stands on human rights, criticizes dictators, seeks reconciliation with the Jewish world, opens dialogue with other faiths, and tries, mostly in vain, to bring unity among Christians of the world. Many argue his support for the Solidarity movement in his native Poland helped bring down communism in Europe. He has also turned his eye toward the growing gap between the rich and poor, criticizing the excesses of capitalism and the empty materialism of the West."
    
    "To his detractors, he is a reactionary trying to turn back the clock on modern reality. Some harshly criticize his ultra-conservative theology, which prohibits female ordination and prohibits birth control and abortion. He brands the notion of over-population a myth and says the use of condoms as a precaution against AIDS only encourages the behaviour that leads to the spread of the disease."
    
    "John Paul II is known worldwide as The Pilgrim Pope. Since elected Pope in 1978, he has travelled to more places in the world and has spoken to more people than any other pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic Church."
    
    "He became the first non-Italian pope since the 15th century and his charisma – people who meet him describe it as a 'luminescence' – draws adoring crowds wherever he goes." 12-02

16. Pope John Paul II (BBC News)
    "Marco Politi, one of Italy's best-known Vatican watchers, believes John Paul II will be remembered not only as a great pope, but also as a leading figure of the 20th Century."
    
    "Yet when he was elected in 1978, few outside Poland had heard of Karol Wojtyla, then the archbishop of Krakow."
    
    "The cardinals who chose him knew they could count on him to uphold traditional beliefs at a time when many Catholics were questioning the teachings of the Church." 10-03

17. 02-06-04 Flu Research Breakthrough (CBS News)
    "The 1918 flu that killed 20 million people appears to be more birdlike than previously thought, according to findings by U.S. and British researchers that could help explain why it was the deadliest influenza strain ever recorded."
    
    "The research, conducted separately by scientists at the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and at Britain's Medical Research Council, used lung samples preserved from victims of the 1918 flu to reconstruct a protein crucial to their infection."
    
    " 'These were not little steps but big strides toward understanding, at the structural and molecular level, what it is about these strains that make them dangerous,' said Dr. Gregory Poland, a flu specialist at the Mayo Clinic who reviewed the research."
    
    "Different influenza strains spread around the world annually. Every so often a strain tough enough to kill millions emerges, and experts believe the world is overdue for another pandemic. Unraveling what made the 1918 flu so vicious could help doctors better react if a similar strain returns."
    
    "Asia's current bird flu, a strain known as H5N1, clearly can jump directly from poultry to people - at least 16 people have died of it this winter. Most cases have been traced directly to contact with sick birds, although human-to-human transmission has not been ruled out in one instance." 2-04

18. Rates of Rainforest Loss (RAN.org)
    Provides rates for different locations. We are destroying "78 million acres (31 million hectares) per year: an area larger than Poland." 11-04

19. Study: American Students Doing Badly (ABC News)
    "In a study of how good 15-year-olds are in math, the 'big, bad' USA ranked 24 out of 29 countries. That's behind the Czech Republic. Behind New Zealand. Twenty-fourth out of 29!"
    
    "It's not bad enough that the United States ranked near the bottom of the list. What's more disturbing is that our students actually did worse than they did the last time the test was given. The results from the first test embarrassed U.S. educators. They discussed plans to do something radical to improve math studies. Obviously, not much happened, because U.S. kids on the latest test fell behind three more countries: Hungary, Poland, and Spain."
    
    "If the test had simply asked students to solve an equation, or answer a multiple-choice question, U.S. students would have done OK. But researchers wanted to see how well students could use the math they learned in a real world situation." 12-04

20. -04-09-05 Pope John Paul II's Legacy (MSNBC News)
    "Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, a close confidant of John Paul and a possible successor, presided at the Mass and referred to him as our 'late beloved pope' in a homily that traced the pontiff’s life from his days as a factory worker in Nazi-occupied Poland to his final days as the head of the world’s 1 billion Catholics."
    
    " 'Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality — our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude,' Ratzinger said in heavily accented Italian." 4-05

21. -11-09-05 European Union to Probe Reports of Secret U.S. Prisons (MSNBC News)
    "European Union officials said Thursday they would investigate a report that the CIA set up secret jails in Eastern Europe to interrogate top al-Qaida suspects. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch in New York said it has evidence indicating the CIA transported suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan to Poland and Romania." 11-05

22. Campus Crusade for Christ (Reference.com)
    "Campus Crusade for Christ is a interdenominational Christian mission organization, focusing on evangelism and discipleship in over 190 countries around the world. Started in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles by Bill Bright, Campus Crusade has now branched out to many different universities and many other fields of ministry. Its mission is 'to seek to show people how to know and experience God's love and plan for their lives.' The parent organisation is known as Campus Crusade for Christ International, and the fields of ministry include the military, high schools, families, and athletes. In many parts of Europe it is known as Agape Europe. http://agapeeurope.org.In other countries the university ministry is known under different names. For example in Poland, New Zealand and Australia, the ministry is known as Student Life." 01-06

23. -09-03-08 West Mulls Options in Georgia-Russia Crisis (CBS News)
    "The notion of an Atlantic alliance with its hands tied has only gained steam since the Russia-Georgia conflict was touched off earlier this month. After Georgian soldiers moved to end a decades-old territorial dispute by attempting to take back the breakaway enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russian troops pounced on Georgia – where they remain in reduced numbers today."
    
    "Earlier this week, Russia recognized the two regions as independent, further stoking international condemnation and feeding the fears of countries like Ukraine and Poland, an EU member, still mindful of Soviet domination." 09-08

24. Sendler, Irene: Heroine of the Holocaust (MSNBC News)
    "Sendler, a Roman Catholic social worker, risked her life and survived torture to help save thousands of Jews after the 1939 German invasion of Poland. Sendler, who died earlier this year at the age of 98, led a group of 30 volunteers, the majority of them women, who managed to smuggle 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto and gave them false identities." 09-08

25. -09-17-09 President Obama Shelves U.S. Missile Shield (Time.com)
    "President Obama's decision to shelve plans to station U.S. missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic is being portrayed as a pragmatic response to the threat of Iranian nuclear missiles. In confirming the move on Thursday, Obama said the U.S. wants to focus instead on deploying "technologies that are proven and cost-effective and that counter the current threat" — that is, Iran's medium-range missiles rather than any intercontinental ballistic missiles Iran could possibly develop."
    
    "Meanwhile, Obama's decision will surely raise alarms in the corridors of power in Ukraine, Georgia and other NATO-inclined countries in the former Soviet bloc, who saw the battle over the missile shield as a litmus test of Obama's willingness to stand up to Russia's efforts to re-establish its hegemony in its post–World War II sphere of influence." 09-09

26. -09-19-09 Russia Won't Deploy Missiles Either (CBS New)
    "Russia will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland because the U.S. no longer wants to place a missile-defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian deputy defense minister said Saturday." 09-09

27. Europe - Travel Information by Location (Excite.Travel.com)
    Provides information on dining, where to stay, and interesting things to see. Search by city, state, or country. Includes Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Holy See, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, and Wales. 3-02

28. Polish Translation of Web Pages - English Instructions (LogoMedia.com)
    Provides online translations of Web Pages that you select. To view the Web through the Awesome Library, put the URL of the Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/) in the URL box, select "English to Polish," and then select Translate. 7-02

29. Awesome Library in Polish (InterTran)
    Provides the Awesome Library, and the rest of the Web, in Polish. InterTran also translates Polish Web sites to English or other languages. Translations are sometimes very slow. 7-02

30. Polish Version of Google Search Engine (Google.com)
    Provides searches of the Web in Polish. 7-02

31. Walesa, Lech (Time - Sancton)
    Provides highlights of why he was selected as Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1981. 8-02

32. 12-13-02 European Union Expands by 10 Nations (CBS News)
    "Setting the stage for its largest expansion ever, European Union leaders agreed Friday on financial terms with 10 countries, mostly from the formerly communist east, to bring them into the union in 2004."
    
    "It will be the first expansion since Austria, Finland and Sweden joined in 1995, bringing the current total to 15 countries."
    
    "With the new members, the EU will surpass the North American Free Trade Agreement as the world's largest market, with 445 million people compared to NAFTA's 416 million."
    
    "The 10 candidates — Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus and Malta — are to join in May 2004."
    
    "Their entry will be the EU's largest, most ambitious expansion ever and one that carries huge political significance, for it will erase the continent's Cold War divide." 12-02

33. 12-13-03 European Summit Breaks Down (BBC News)
    "European Union leaders have failed to reach agreement on a constitution at a crucial summit in Brussels."
    
     "The talks broke down over the voting rights states will have after the EU expands from 10 to 25 members in May."
    
    "Poland and Spain insisted on keeping the voting rights already secured, while France and Germany want a system to reflect their bigger populations." 12-03

34. Sweden (Wikipedia.org)
    "Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige (help·info)), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It is surrounded by Norway (west), Finland (northeast), the Skagerrak, Kattegat and Öresund straits (southwest) and the Baltic Sea (east). It has maritime borders with Denmark, Germany, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and it is also linked to Denmark (southwest) by the Öresund Bridge. It has been a member of the European Union since 1995. Its capital city is Stockholm."
    
    "At 449,964 km² (173,720 square miles), Sweden is the third largest country in Western Europe." 07-07