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=** POLAND **= = =

POLAND'S FLAG-
White- peace and honesty Red- hardiness, bravery, strength, and valour

POLAND NATIONAL ANTHEM-
Poland is not yet lost while we live What foreign force has taken from us We shall take back with the sword. March, march Dabrowski** * ** From Italy to Poland Under your command We will reunite with the nation. We will cross the Vistula and Warta Rivers, We will be Poles, Bonaparte showed us how to win. March, march Dabrowski** * ** From Italy to Poland Under your command We will reunite with the nation. Like Czarniecki to Poznan, after Swedish annexation, We will come back across the sea to save our motherland March, march Dabrowski** * ** From Italy to Poland Under your command We will reunite with the nation. Father, in tears, says to his Basia: "Just listen, It seems that our people are beating the drums." March, march Dabrowski** * ** From Italy to Poland Under your command We will reunite with the nation.

TIMELINE OF POLAND'S HISTORY-
|| ** 966 ** || Duke Mieszko I became Poland's first recorded Christian leader 966 - 1370 The Piast Polish Dynasty || || ** 1382 ** || 1382 - 1572 The Jagiellonian Dynasty || || ** 1572 ** || 1572 - 1795 The Royal Republic || || ** 1700s ** || The Three Partitions of Poland - Russia, Prussia and Austria divide Poland amongst themselves || || ** 1914 ** || 1914-18 World War I - Poles were forced into the Russian, German, and Austrian armies and forced to fight each other || || ** 1918 ** || 11 November - Poland becomes independent || || ** 1932 ** || Poland concludes non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. || || ** 1934 ** || Poland signs 10-year non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany || || ** 1939 - ** || 23 August Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact and threaten Poland 1st September Germany invades Poland 17th September Soviet Union invades eastern Poland 1939 - 1945 World War 2 || || ** 1944 ** || The Warsaw Uprising - Poland comes under Soviet control || || ** 1947 ** || Poland becomes a Communist People's Republic || || ** 1978 ** || Karol Wojtyla, Cardinal of Krakow, elected Pope. || || ** 1980 ** || Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity || || ** 1981 ** || Martial law imposed. Many of Solidarity's leaders, including Walesa, are imprisoned || || ** 1983 ** || Martial law lifted. || || ** 1990 ** || Walesa elected president of Poland. || || ** 1995 ** || Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former Communist, narrowly beats Lech Walesa to become president. || || ** 2004 ** || May - Poland is one of 10 new states to join the EU. ||
 * ** 900's ** || The Polania tribe became dominant ||

FAMOUS PEOPLE IN POLAND-
Marie Curie Meyer Lansky Patricia Arquette David Ben-Guron Joseph Conrad Klaus Kinski Bronislaw Malinowski John Paul Helena Rubinstein Paul Wolfowitz Yitzhack Zuckerman