• (Polish: Zmotoryzowane Odwody Milicji Obywatelskiej), commonly known as ZOMO, were paramilitary-police formations during the communist era in Poland....
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    Poland during the time. The Polish People's Army, Citizens' Militia (MO), ZOMO special paramilitary units, and tanks were deployed on the streets to demoralize...
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    paramilitary formations: the elite Motorized Reserves of the Citizens' Militia (ZOMO) and the reservist Volunteer Reserve of the Citizens' Militia (ORMO). In...
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  • Zomo the Rabbit is a 1992 book by Gerald McDermott based on a Nigerian folktale that explains why the rabbit runs so fast from other animals. Booklist...
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    Dzo (redirect from Zomo (animal))
    A dzo (also spelled zo, zho and dzho, Standard Tibetan: མཛོ་, romanized: mdzo) is a hybrid between the yak and domestic cattle. The word dzo technically...
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  • Black soup (redirect from Melas zomos)
    mentioned a Spartan dish in his Life of Lycurgus named μέλας ζωμός, mélas zōmós. Today, the phrase has been translated to "black soup" or "black broth"...
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    Polish ZOMO squads with police batons preparing to violently disperse protesters during martial law in Poland, 1981–1983. The sarcastic caption reads "outstretched...
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  • thrives at this altitude. The animal they raise is the zomo, it is a hybrid between a yak and a cow, a zomo can produce more milk than either species. Narrated...
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  • zdrowia) and was widely applied by police (Milicja Obywatelska), riot police (ZOMO) and internal security forces/political police (Służba Bezpieczeństwa), particularly...
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    The official police organization, Milicja Obywatelska (MO), along with its ZOMO squads, conducted mass surveillance and violent suppression of protests....
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    The Special Platoon of the Motorized Reserves of the Citizens' Militia (ZOMO) was responsible for the brutal handling of strikers protesting against Wojciech...
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    Securitate and GP Poland – Urząd Bezpieczeństwa, Służba Bezpieczeństwa and ZOMO The press in the communist period was an organ of the state, completely reliant...
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    English translations; here are a few of those proverbs: "Giwa awani gari zomo." "An elephant is a hare in another town (i.e. a great man is a nobody where...
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    The Spartans had vinegar as a part of their traditional blood soup melas zomos; in addition to flavoring the broth, the acidity of the vinegar prevented...
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  • the regime declared martial law in Poland, under which the army and the ZOMO special police forces were used to crush Solidarity. The Soviet leaders insisted...
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    Poland, was Józef Franczak, who was killed with a pistol in his hand by ZOMO in 1963. Poznań 1956 protests were massive anti-communist protests in the...
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    marked by its frugality. A notorious staple of the Spartan diet was melas zomos (black soup), made by boiling the pigs' legs, blood of pigs, olive oil,...
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    and feature heavily in folklore of southern Nigeria while the hare (Hausa: Zomo) and Spider (Hausa: Gizzo) features heavily in northern Nigeria. In the mythology...
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    main thrust against the miners consisted of eight companies of riot police (ZOMO, supported by ORMO (police reservists) and NOMO) with seven water cannons...
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  • brutally beaten by the security services, such as Milicja Obywatelska and ZOMO. The Bydgoszcz events soon became widely known across Poland, and on 24 March...
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  • "cheese"; ysta "to curdle" iūs "gravy, broth, soup; sauce; juice" > juice ?zōmós "soup, sauce; grease" ⇒ yūṣa- "soup, broth; water in which pulses are boiled"...
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    fotografie - Solidarność, historia współczesna, historia stanu wojennego, ZOMO, milicja, podziemie, władza ludowa, demonstracja, opozycja, Michał Adamowicz...
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  • Ntyam Ondo Suzanne Mengue Zomo is a Cameroonian jurist who was elected to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights for a six-year term in 2016. Mengue...
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    to legend, he was a gentleman farmer by day, but a highwayman at night. Zomo, a rabbit from Nigerian folklore. El-ahrairah - The Prince of Rabbits, or...
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  • image". Times of India. Retrieved 22 September 2024. "Straż miejska znowu jak ZOMO. Foty". Fakt.pl. 17 June 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2012. "Straż miejska...
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    Milicja Obywatelska (MO) operated several BTR-60PAs. They were used by ZOMO riot control units. The Polish Army also received a dozen BTR-60PU-12s, which...
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    resistance in Poland was Józef Franczak who was killed with pistol in his hand by ZOMO in 1963.[citation needed] On 5 May 1945 in Bohemia, the Narodowe Siły Zbrojne...
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  • the ZOMO squads, which were elite units of Citizens' Militia (MO) during the Polish People's Republic. As a result, the opposition branded ZOMO with...
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  • (with Jerry Pinkney) – Drylongso William Mayne – Low Tide Gerald McDermott – Zomo The Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa Hilary McKay – The Exiles Michael...
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    Uganda; Ugira; Utamba; Utudu; Wanda; Warari; Wassarawa; Yakama; Zanfarawa; Zomo Shiroro Galkogo 921102 Abaku; Agumi; Agwanggi; Aiwa; Akwaki; Aleji; Allawa;...
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