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    The Sigismund Bell (Polish: Dzwon Zygmunt or colloquially Dzwon Zygmunta) is the largest of the five bells hanging in the Sigismund Tower of the Wawel...
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    The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell (Polish: Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta na wieży katedry w roku 1521 w Krakowie English: The Hanging of the Sigismund bell...
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    Sigismund I the Old (Polish: Zygmunt I Stary, Lithuanian: Žygimantas I Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania...
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    Wawel Castle (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    symbols. Today, the bishops of Kraków use it quite often, which reduces the importance of the Sigismund bell. The hanging of the bell is the subject of a...
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  • the cases of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Sigismund Korybut, Sigismund I the Old, Sigismund II Augustus). The Polish spelling is Zygmunt, and the Serbo-Croatian...
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    Wawel Cathedral (category Burial sites of the Jagiellonian dynasty)
    site. The Sigismund's Tower, which contains the Sigismund's Bell The cathedral's treasury Stained-glass window in the Holy Trinity Chapel The sarcophagus...
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    Jan Matejko (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    finished Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta (The Hanging of the Sigismund bell). In 1878, he produced another masterpiece, The Battle of Grunwald. That year he received...
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    Liberty Bell. The Zygmunt (Sigismund) Bell (from 1520) in Kraków, Poland. The World Peace Bell in Kentucky. Bronze jingyun bell cast in the year 711...
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    Polish hussars (category Mercenary units and formations of the Early Modern era)
    The Polish hussars (/həˈzɑːrs/; Polish: husaria [xuˈsarja]), alternatively known as the winged hussars, were a heavy cavalry formation active in Poland...
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    several of his works (most notably, besides the painting discussed here, in Consecration of King Sigismund's Bell, 1874 and Prussian Homage, 1882). Working...
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  • years, notably the winged hussars. The official symbols of the Republic of Poland are described in two legal documents: the Constitution of the Republic of...
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    Kraków (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Mary's Basilica and the Sukiennice Cloth Hall, the Wawel Castle, the National Art Museum, the Sigismund Bell at the Wawel Cathedral, and the medieval St. Florian's...
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    martyred by the Polish King Bolesław II the Bold. He is the patron saint of Poland. Stanislaus is venerated in the Catholic Church as Stanislaus the Martyr...
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    A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost. Such bells are normally bowl-shaped, and exist in a...
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    extraordinary attention". Gold award for painting: Jan Matejko, for The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell, Union of Lublin and Wacław Wilczek. Gold award for photography:...
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    Tadeusz Kościuszko (category Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland))
    On 22 June 1818, or 23 June 1819 (accounts vary), to the tolling of the Sigismund Bell and the firing of cannon, it was placed in a crypt at Wawel Cathedral...
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    The Catholic Church venerates five patron saints of Poland. The primary patron saints are the Blessed Virgin Mary the Queen of Poland, Saint Adalbert...
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    A church bell is a bell in a church building designed to be heard outside the building. It can be a single bell, or part of a set of bells. Their main...
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    German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a...
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    soldiers. By the start of the 15th century, the core of the Polish armies was formed by mounted knights called to arms by the kings. The basic tactical...
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    Renaissance palace. In 1520, Hans Behem made the largest church bell, named the Sigismund Bell after King Sigismund I. At the same time Hans Dürer, younger brother...
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    Jan Boner (category Merchants from the Holy Roman Empire)
    Matejko's painting Hanging of the Sigismund bell. In-line: (in Polish) History of the palace in Balice (in Polish) History of the castle of Rabsztyn General:...
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    Böhm), also of Nuremberg, who cast the "Sigismund" bell (Zygmunt) at the Wawel castle in Poland for the Sigismund I the Old. Beham is best known as a prolific...
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    The Japanese Peace Bell is a bell donated to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City via the United Nations Association of Japan in June 1954...
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  • Nuremberg, who cast the Sigismund Bell in 1520, for the Wawel castle, Poland This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an...
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    that sounds the hours audibly on a bell, gong, or other audible device. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today, the clock strikes...
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    the 180th anniversary of Norwid's birth, with the ringing of The Sigismund Bell and following a solemn mass celebrated by Cardinal Macharski, the urn...
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    [ˈstajnt͡ʂɨk]) was the most famous Polish court jester. He was employed by three Polish kings: Alexander, Sigismund the Old and Sigismund Augustus. Scarcity...
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    church bells in the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, all of which are mounted in the two main bell towers. Notre-Dame used to have other smaller bells in...
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    Captain Sigismund Payne Best OBE (14 April 1885 – 21 September 1978) was a British Secret Intelligence Service agent during the First and Second World...
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