How To Use Silesia In A Sentence
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A woman refugee from Silesia in Poland had moved into the family home. She greeted him with a bunch of flowers.
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Such works have always been explicated through commentary, and this one too is designed for commentary, like the German Baroque dramas to which the learned Silesians appended their scholia.
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For example, a Christmas delicacy called makówki, made traditionally in the region of Upper Silesia in the south of Poland, consists of layers of sliced bread or baguette soaked in a sweet mixture of ground poppy seeds, milk, nuts, almonds, raisins, orange peel and sugar.
Polish bread | the POLSKI blog
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Such works have always been explicated through commentary, and this one too is designed for commentary, like the German Baroque dramas to which the learned Silesians appended their scholia.
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The 'Silesian' method includes a "soldier sprag" brace wedged between the props underneath the roof bar to reinforce the props against lateral compressive forces.
5.1 Rigid support in drifts and stopes
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Mr Mipchin was sitting over a coffee-table on which was a half-finished jigsaw puzzle, apparently of a vast cornfield in Upper Silesia.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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The NW has shipping, while Silesia is the heavy coal producer in Poland.
Matthew Yglesias » The Ghosts of the Past
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Even Prussia was never a major power until Frederick the Great stole Silesia from the Hapsburg.
Matthew Yglesias » The Fall of Poland
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It is based on the anthroposophical teachings of Rudolf Steiner, particularly on the eight lectures given by him in Schloss Koberwitz in Silesia, Germany in 1924 (nowadays close to Wrocław, Poland), shortly before his death.
WBW #29: Shinn Estate Vineyards 2004 Cabernet Franc (North Fork)
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It was my mother's guilty pleasure, which my sister and I shared – guilty, because being Silesian in Warsaw wasn't easy then; Silesia being the southern region with a large German population, a melting pot of Polish, German and Czech people, with its own, now sadly dying, hilarious dialect, a mixture of all three languages.
Family life
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The brats Ive come to love in the United States are dominated by sweet spices such as nutmeg. Im also adding some marjoram, which is common in the Silesia region of Germany, to this recipe, because marjoram is an underused herb and its a favorite of my partner in charcuterie, Brian Polcyn, who taught me the finesse elements of making sausage.
Ratio
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Much as I now long for those Silesian dinners, dutifully prepared by my mum before she went to work and left for me on a plate on top of a pan of boiling water to keep warm, I never ate them in those days.
Family life
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My mother's parents were farmers in Silesia, which has now become part of Poland.
Wolfgang Ketterle - Autobiography
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With Prussian support uncut, the Russian army in Warsaw marched into Silesia forcing Italy to retreat.
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On 31 August 1939, German SS soldiers set up an attack on one of their own radio stations at the Polish-German border and the Germans broadcast a message, in Polish, urging Poles to kill the Germans who resided in the Silesian region.
Political provocation is more prevalent than you think — Fusion Despatches
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In the communist Warsaw of the 60s, my Silesian mother's cooking was famed.
Family life
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The voice had a faint Silesian accent, blurred by the hint of a lisp, and it took me back over twenty years.
TOY SHOP
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Mr Mipchin was sitting over a coffee-table on which was a half-finished jigsaw puzzle, apparently of a vast cornfield in Upper Silesia.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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A trickle of visitors soon turned to a flood and the Silesian peasant was, by the beginning of the 1840s, personally ministering to hundreds of valetudinarians a year.
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Ptolemy places in their country the city of Calisia, probably Calish in Silesia.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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The Soviets had advanced a long way from the Vistula, but fortified pockets of German troops remained — around Königsberg, the old Prussian capital, and Danzig, at the mouth of the Vistula; at Breslau, in Silesia, and the Hungarian capital, Budapest, where they were desperately withstanding a siege that was to last six weeks and to tie down R.Y. Malinovsky's army group.
The Nazis' Last Stand
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I was taught music, German and Greek by a German refugee from a Junker family in Silesia who had left home for England in the 1930s because he couldn't bear the Nazi government and what it was doing to his country.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
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These are by Platzer of 1759 and serve as a reminder of the wealth of the silver mines in Bohemia and Silesia.
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Silesia, Moravia, the archduchies, and other splendid provinces to divide among them.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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My Silesian cousin, who now lives in Germany, told me to use stock instead of boiling water – well, yes, this is tastier, but I consider it western decadence.
Family life
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Just at the moment Spartacus expects to embark his army and followers aboard the Silesian ships, news of betrayal and of Roman armies converging on his position causes Spartacus to radically revise his plans.
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The voice had a faint Silesian accent, blurred by the hint of a lisp, and it took me back over twenty years.
TOY SHOP
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Do we hear daily of the plight of the Silesian Germans?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
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On 31 August 1939, German SS soldiers set up an attack on one of their own radio stations at the Polish-German border and the Germans broadcast a message, in Polish, urging Poles to kill the Germans who resided in the Silesian region.
2010 January — Fusion Despatches
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In October 1939, Nazi Germany annexed the Polish town of Oswiecim, renamed it Auschwitz and incorporated it into its gau (province) of Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) as part of the Landkreis (county) of Bielitz.
Alex Storozynski: The Wall Street Journal understands history, when will the rest of the American media?
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And somehow I have to find out if I can file a tax return in Upper Mongolia, Outer Silesia and Atlantis, after brushing up on my language skills in Mongolian, Silesian and Atlantisian.
Archive 2007-02-01
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My name seems to have its origins in Silesia where my father's family originated and there is a town in Poland now called
Harold Kroto - Autobiography
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Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
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If the French were cantoned along and to the east of that great river, the corps would be in a good position to cover the operations already in progress against the remaining Silesian fortresses and at the same time protect the planned sieges of the important ports of Danzig, Köslin and Strälsund on the Baltic coast.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
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Brenning conducted POW relief operations primarily in Silesia, working out of Breslau.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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Silesian and baluster stems do not occur very often.
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Bunzlau, in Silesia, and with him begins what is termed the Silesian era of German poetry -- a time when this country held the first rank in learning and literature among the German States as markedly as Swabia had done in the days of the Minne-singers.
Christian Singers of Germany
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McCaughey, Ray and Harold Gaby, were sent to Lamsdorf (Stalag VIIIB) in Silesia, which was in Poland, to work in coalmines and petrochemical works.
John McWilliams
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Our silesian ‘buff’ Sandstone is used for paving, walling, facing stones, coigns, flagstones, rockery stones, walling and crazy paving.
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Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
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Some organic growers practice the "bio-dynamic" principles of the late Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian polymath, founder of "anthroposophy" and the Waldorf Schools, and who in 1924 delivered lectures in Koberwitz, Silesia, on agricultural theory.
Intelligent Travel Blog
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I don't know to what extent there is a genuinely distinct Silesian dialect—R.G.A. de Bray's Guide to the Slavonic Languages 1951, the only reference book I have that mentions it, says only that such dialects "are chiefly characterized by the pronunciation of true nasals in all positions"—or whether there is a widespread sense of micronationalism among the Silesians, but I thought I'd pass along the information.
Languagehat.com: SILESIANS.
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It must have been the same for everyone, because there is a recipe for wodzionka in my Silesian cookery book.
Family life
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Austrian house, would have Hungary, Bohemia, Silesia, Moravia, the archduchies, and other splendid provinces to divide among them.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1603-04
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Dr. Langenbeck mentions a family of Silesian peasants who seemed to have an hereditary predisposition to the abnormity known as microcephalism, or small-headedness.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885