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❤️ Bolesław Zajączkowski 🐨

"Capt. Bolesław Zajączkowski (1891 in Kraków - August 17, 1920 in Zadwórze) was a Polish lawyer and reserve officer of the Polish Army. Polish-Ukrainian War A former reserve NCO of the Austro-Hungarian Army, he volunteered for the Polish forces fighting in the battle of Lwów. During the fights for that city against the forces of the West Ukrainian People's Republic he commanded a machine gun post at the so-called Execution Hill (), a scene of particularly heavy fights. After the successful defense of the city, he returned to civilian life only to rejoin the Polish Army after the outbreak of the Polish- Soviet War. Polish-Soviet War During the Budennyi's assault on Lwów he was chosen as a commander of a volunteer battalion of roughly 330 men, mostly pupils and students. = Battle of Zadwórze = All but 12 men of that volunteer battalion perished in an 11-hours long battle of Zadwórze. For entire day the unit under his command withheld repeated attack by an entire cavalry division. After their defenses were finally broken, Zajączkowski committed suicide not to fall into enemy hands. For his merits he was posthumously promoted to the rank of Major and awarded with Virtuti Militari medal. After the war his body was one of five to be exhumed, identified and buried with military honors at the Lwów Eaglets' Cemetery in Lwów. Polish Army officers Lawyers from Kraków 1891 births 1920 deaths 20th-century lawyers "

❤️ Schocken Books 🐨

"Schocken Books is an offspring of the Schocken Verlag, a publishing company that was established in Berlin in 1931 with a second office in Prague by the Schocken Department Store owner Salman Schocken. It published the writings of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka and S. Y. Agnon, among others. After being closed by the Germans in 1939, Salman Schocken, who had emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1934, founded the Hebrew-language Schocken Publishing House in Mandate Palestine. Salman Schocken himself immigrated to the U.S. in 1940. In 1945 he founded the English-language Schocken Books in New York City. In 1987 it was bought up by Random House. Schocken Books continues to publish Jewish literary works. Selected publications in English =Franz Kafka= * The Trial * The Castle * Amerika * The Diaries 1910-1923 * Letters to Felice * Letters to Ottla * Letters to Milena * Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors * The Complete Stories * The Sons * The Penal Colony * The Great Wall of China * Dearest Father :Billingual Editions * The Metamorphosis * Parables and Paradoxes * Letter to His Father =Walter Benjamin= * Illuminations * Reflections =Gershom Scholem= * Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism * The Messianic Idea in Judaism * On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead * On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism * Zohar: The Book of Splendor =Hannah Arendt= * The Promise of Politics * The Jewish Writings * Responsibility and Judgment * Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954 * The Origins of Totalitarianism =Elie Wiesel= * The Time of the Uprooted * Somewhere a Master * Wise Men and Their Tales * The Judges * Legends of Our Time * After the Darkness * And the Sea Is Never Full * The Testament * The Fifth Son * A Beggar in Jerusalem * All Rivers Run to the Sea * The Trial of God * Twilight * The Gates of the Forest * The Town Beyond the Wall * The Forgotten * From the Kingdom of Memory * The Oath * Rashi See also *Bücherei des Schocken Verlag *Nahum Norbert Glatzer *Haaretz * Books in the United States * Books in Germany Bibliography * External links * *A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part I - Katharine McNamara talks with Altie Karper. *A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part II - Katharine McNamara talks with Susan Ralston. *A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part III - Katharine McNamara talks with Arthur Samuelson. Book publishing companies based in New York (state) Franz Kafka Jewish German history Jewish printing and publishing Publishing companies established in 1931 "

❤️ Sankoty Aquifer 🐨

"The Sankoty aquifer is an aquifer in the U.S. state of Illinois that provides groundwater to a number of communities in northwestern and central Illinois. It is an unconsolidated deposit lying in a bedrock valley formerly occupied by the ancestral Mississippi River. Type locality The sand which forms the Sankoty aquifer was named after a railroad siding near Peoria, Illinois in 1946 by Leland Horberg. The legal description given by Horberg in identifying the type locality for the Sankoty sand is T9N, R8E, Section 15 (Peoria County, Illinois). Lithology and stratigraphy The Sankoty sand is an unconsolidated deposit within a bedrock valley formerly occupied by the ancestral Mississippi River. It is classified as a member of the Banner Formation and occupies the same stratigraphic position as the Mahomet sand. The Sankoty sand has distinctive characteristics that are readily recognized in sample cuttings. In its most typical aspect, the Sankoty is composed of 70 to 90 percent quartz grains of which 25 percent or more are pink, rounded, and polished. The texture is usually medium-grained but varies from silty fine sand to coarse gravelly sand. Groundwater occurrence The Sankoty sand is one of the most extensive aquifers in the state. It frequently is thick and is typically found below elevations of 520 to 530 feet above sea level. It has been used as a water source in the Peoria area since at least 1892. By 1909, it was observed that groundwater levels at the North Field in Peoria fluctuated with the river stage in the Illinois River. The Sankoty aquifer extends beyond the width of the Illinois River valley and occurs beneath the uplands. In these locations, it is frequently confined by clayey deposits of glacial till (which may include other sands). Consequently, the groundwater may occur under confined (artesian) conditions. Groundwater pumping has altered historical groundwater flow in the Sankoty aquifer. The flat geography of the area leads to groundwater flows that are perpendicular to the Illinois River, however municipal groundwater pumping in the Peoria, Illinois area and to a lesser degree agricultural pumping elsewhere over the aquifer has led to numerous cones of depression. References Groundwater in the Peoria Region. Horberg, Leland, Max Suter, and T.E. Larson, 1950 Illinois State Water Survey, Bulletin 39, Champaign, IL 128 p. Water Resources in Peoria-Pekin District. Buswell, A.M, 1940 Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, Bulletin 33, IL 114 p. Geology of Illinois Aquifers in the United States "

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