Except for someone who picked up "a shoe-polish note at the end," everyone was smitten.
He goes on to give a short talk about his life, with polish, without notes.
Charles Domery (c. 1778 – after 1800), also known as Charles Domerz, was a Polish soldier, noted for his unusually large appetite.
The Polish WIEM Encyklopedia notes that the Legions ended with the death of most of their personnel in the Haitian campaign, which concluded in 1803.
The Polish press noted mass arrests of Polish activists "to whom no charge can be ascribed other than being Poles" and concluded that this was proof of the systematic anti-Polish policies of the German-ridden Lithuanian government.
"This needs polishing," he noted.
Polish intellectuals, Gross notes, were mortified by what was happening in their country.
Before World War II the Polish lands were noted for the richness and variety of their ethnic communities.
Mr. Buzek, a former Polish prime minister, noted, for example, that Poland and Britain had already secured opt-outs from the charter.
Mr. Adamowicz did not give a cause of death, but Polish news reports noted that Father Jankowski had battled diabetes for years.
He suffered from the separation from friends and family, including an older brother, Marian, a noted Polish writer who died in 1998.
