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To: wolf78

There is a small town in Virginia, not far from Virginia Tech, called Pulaski. It’s named after the Polish Count who came to aid General Washington during our revolution. He was instrumental in forming our cavalry, if memory serves.


36 posted on 09/27/2009 9:26:38 AM PDT by Darnright (There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. - Tacitus)
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To: Darnright
Several other states have a town named for Casimir Pulaski.

Kosciusko, Miss., is named for Thaddeus Kosciusko (Tadeusz Kosciuszko), who also aided us in the Revolution.

Other notable Poles, although not involved in the American Revolution, were Madame Curie, nee Sklodowska, who invented radium, and Nicholas Copernicus, who made the earth go around the sun instead of the other way around.

67 posted on 09/27/2009 11:38:27 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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