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Barbara Piasecka Johnson dies at 76; heiress to Johnson & Johnson fortune
Barbara Piasecka Johnson, a former chambermaid who married into the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical family and walked away with part of its epic fortune after a bitterly contested battle over her husband's will, died Monday in her native Poland. She...
Tags: Liechtenstein, Auction Service
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Adventure World theme park set to break ground in Poland
Los Angeles Times staff writerThe $800-million Adventure World Warsaw theme park set to break ground July 21 will feature lands dedicated to mythical creatures, ancient legends, fantasy worlds and Polish history. PHOTOS: Adventure World Warsaw theme park in Poland Located about a...Tags: Netherlands, Warsaw (Poland), Gardens and Parks, Trips and Vacations, Greek Gods and Goddesses
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Harry Eisen dies at 95; Norco Ranch founder
Harry Eisen, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who founded Norco Ranch Inc. in western Riverside County in the 1950s and built it into one of the state's leading egg producers, processors and distributors, has died. He was 95. Eisen died July 19 of...
Tags: Respiratory Disease, Warsaw (Poland), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief
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Wislawa Szymborska dies at 88; Nobel-winning Polish poet
During a five-decade career, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska had so rarely appeared in public that a newspaper dubbed her the "Greta Garbo of poetry" after the notoriously private actress.
But in 1996, Poland's most reticent literary icon was forced to...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, The Washington Post, Movies, Woody Allen, Entertainment
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Museum of Tolerance hosts Lech Walesa at Solidarity anniversary celebration
Culture MonsterThe Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles this week hosted a 30th anniversary celebration for Solidarity, the Polish trade union that was instrumental in leading to the collapse of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Speaking at the event was...... -
Firefighters rescue deer stranded on Baltic Sea ice floe
L.A. UnleashedWARSAW, Poland -- Polish firefighters dodged treacherous sheets of ice in a risky after-dark rescue of a terrified deer stranded on a floe in the Baltic Sea, a spokesman said Wednesday. The rescue team faced serious hazards navigating among the...... -
Henryk Gorecki dies at 76; composer of 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Henryk Gorecki, a Polish composer famous for his Third Symphony, also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs," died Friday following a serious illness. He was 76.
Gorecki (pronounced Go-RET-ski) died in the cardiology ward at a hospital in his home...Tags: Health, Concerts, University of Southern California, Roman Catholicism, Entertainment
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In 'Tov,' Rosanna Gamson ponders her family history -- and more
In fall 2005, Rosanna Gamson had one of those jarring, do-or-die career epiphanies as she watched a production by the avant-garde Polish theater company Song of the Goat at UCLA. "The way those performers sang, danced and told a story moved and...Tags: Myrna Loy, Jerzy Grotowski, Massacres, Entertainment, Crimes
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Book Review: Coming of age as all else unravels in 'A Thousand Peaceful Cities'
A Thousand Peaceful Cities
A Novel
Jerzy Pilch, translated from the Polish by David Frick
Open Letter: 144 pp., $14.95 paper
There's a serious question at the center of Jerzy Pilch's comic novel "A Thousand Peaceful Cities": Is political violence ever...Tags: Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Leszek Kolakowski dies at 81; exiled Polish philosopher
Times Staff And Wire ReportsLeszek Kolakowski, an exiled Polish philosopher who turned against his Marxist beliefs and became an intellectual leader of Poland's democracy movement, died Friday at a hospital in Oxford, England. He was 81. The cause was "a sudden, short disease,"...Tags: Warsaw (Poland), Health, Communist Party of China, Parties and Movements, Colleges and Universities
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Bohdan Paczynski, 67; a key figure in the search for dark matter and planets
Times Staff WriterAstrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski, who was the first to suggest that gamma-ray bursters lie outside the Milky Way and who revolutionized astronomy by using gravitational lensing as a tool to search for dark matter and new planets, died April 19 in his...Tags: Astronomy, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Warsaw (Poland), Science, Gaming
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