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    Wacław Potocki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvat͡swaf pɔˈtɔt͡skʲi]; 1621–1696) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), moralist, poet, and writer. He was the podczaszy...
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    the Crown of Poland, Primate of Poland Wacław Potocki Elżbieta Sieniawska Stanisław Stadnicki Wacław Potocki House of Lubomirski (Srzeniwa without Cross)...
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  • edition) 1697 - Warszawa, Drukarnia OO. Pijarów, (Polish translation by Wacław Potocki) 1995 - New York, (Fourth printing by Argenis Jimenez)(English edition)...
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  • composer Wacław Potocki, Polish nobleman, poet and writer Václav Prospal, NHL hockey player Václav Smil, scientist and policy analyst Wacław Sierpiński...
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    Polish literature, as in Jan Chryzostom Pasek's memoirs and the poems of Wacław Potocki. The Polish gentry wore a long coat, called kontusz, knee-high boots...
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    to practices that in later periods would be characterized as racism. Wacław Potocki, herbu Śreniawa (1621–1696), proclaimed peasants "by nature" are "chained...
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    with salt and good will!" Another poet who mentioned the custom was Wacław Potocki. The custom was, however, not limited to the nobility, as Polish people...
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  • (born 1964) Wincenty Pol (1807–1872) Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967) Wacław Potocki (1621–1696) Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer a.k.a. Kazimierz Tetmajer (1865–1940)...
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    under the command of Stanisław Lubomirski. The battle, described by Wacław Potocki in his most famous work Transakcja wojny chocimskiej, marked the end...
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    considered classics, including those of Jan Kochanowski (Pic. 10), Wacław Potocki, Ignacy Krasicki, and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz. Many szlachta members...
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    extolled in his sophisticated poems the valors of earthly delights; and Wacław Potocki (1621–1696), the most productive writer of the Polish Baroque, unified...
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    Morsztyn, and even long diaries, including the famous Chocim War by Wacław Potocki and the Diaries by Jan Chryzostom Pasek. They also contain a wealth...
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  • and writers and poets Zbigniew Morsztyn, Olbrycht Karmanowski and Wacław Potocki. This expulsion is sometimes taken as the beginning of decline of famous...
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    when it is given to guests with salt and good will!" Another poet, Wacław Potocki, mentioned this custom. The custom was, however, not limited to the...
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    Zygmunt Pac, 1621–1684, chancellor Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, 1621–93, poet Wacław Potocki, 1621–1696, poet, writer Adam Hieronim Sieniawski, 1623–1650, starost...
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    Chocim War), which was published in 1646 in Danzig. It was used by Wacław Potocki as a basis for his epic poem, Transakcja wojny chocimskiej (The Progress...
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  • Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Wespazjan Kochowski, Samuel Twardowski and Wacław Potocki. During The Enlightenment bishop and poet Ignacy Krasicki wrote his...
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    17th-century Commonwealth. Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł List of Poles Wacław Potocki Jan Chryzostom Pasek (Polish diarist). Britannica Online. Retrieved...
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    with Ottoman Empire 1618–1621[permanent dead link‍] Edmund Kotarski, Wacław POTOCKI N. Rashba, L. Podgorodyetskii, KHOTIN WAR Winged Hussars, Radoslaw Sikora...
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    rycerstwa polskiego [List of Grand Knights of Poland] (in Polish). Wacław Potocki (1696). Poczet herbów szlachty Korony Polskiey i Wielkiego Xsięstwa...
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  • June 9 – Antoine Varillas, French historian (born 1626) August 9 – Wacław Potocki, Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, Baroque poet and writer (born...
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  • and writer Roma Potiki (born 1958), New Zealand poet and playwright Wacław Potocki (1621–1696), Polish poet and moralist Ezra Pound (1885–1972), US expatriate...
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    Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski (15 December 1784 – 14 May 1831) was a Polish explorer, poet, orientalist and horse expert. Wacław Rzewuski was born 15 December...
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  • date. The Polish Brethren are repressed and expelled, prompting poet Wacław Potocki to embrace Catholicism. Georg Stiernhielm, a nobleman of the Swedish...
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  • Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland Jerzy Jan Lerski Dariusz Libionka Wacław Lipiński Stanisław Lorentz, art historian Czesław Madajczyk, World War II...
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    Florian Potocki alias Staś (6 May 1776 – 30 November 1830) – general of infantry of the Polish Army, senator-voivode of the Congress Poland. Potocki participated...
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    military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (b. 1630) August 9 – Wacław Potocki, Polish noble (b. 1621) August 14 – Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet, English...
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  • was being promoted by the leading writers of the period, including Wacław Potocki and Wespazjan Kochowski, and was to remain a part of the national mystique...
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  • Potiki (born 1958, N Zealand, p/d) Jan Potocki (1761–1815, Polish-Lithuanian C/Russian E, nf/f) Wacław Potocki (1621–1696, Poland, p/nf) Beatrix Potter...
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    Bartosz Paprocki (given in 1578), Szymon Okolski (given in 1642) and Wacław Potocki (given in 1696). According to the legend written down by Bartosz Paprocki...
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