MODELUJEMY NASZ NOWY STAN 'POLSKA' W PARKU. NAJPIERW ZAATAKOWANO
STOLICE CLEVELAND , ALE TO SIE USPOKOILO. DOSTAL MONTREAL ZAPEWNE Z
POWODU MOZLIWOSCI EKONOMICZNYCH PRZEZ GRANICE. TO TEZ 'USTALO'.
I TERAZ INFLANTY.

SPRAWDZAM O CO CHODZI; KOMU? AMERYKANOWM I ROSJANOM JAK SIE WYDAJE
( CIEKAWOSTKA - KAZDE MA INNY MOTYW, KTOREGO OFIARA SA POTOMKOWIE
LUDZI KTORZY STWORZYLI TEN KRAJ TAM - LAMIA ZE TOP RUSSO - GERMANIA -
PROSZE SPRAWDZIC JAK DALEKO NA WSCHOD - ST PETERSBURG MYSLAL ZE TO
ICH;
A CO ROBILI TAM NIEMCY PRZEZ OBOMA WOJNAMI?)

 ( inna ciekawostka jest ze niemal tak ciezko jak INFLANTY, atakowamy
is NOWY MASONIK - robimy interesujace konstrukcje wykraczajace poza
oryginalny koncept masonow - uzywany ruchu w przerzutni ( motion as
gauge and as set); bardzo interesujace; mze nasze flody na paradzie
zabawia sie w ruchome projekty 'mobiles'; podobno nie lubia tego
ludzie Busza - nicziewo takowo nie dobiezajat)

  Narazie Inflanty:

INFLANTY ( COURLANDIA; KURLANDY) - POLSKIE WOJEWODZTWO WOKOL RIGI
( KIEDY TA BYLA CZESCIA CEZARII - RZYSKIEGO CESARSTWA) I POZNIEJ.


FIRST , WHERE IT IS? IT WANDERS. RUSSO GERMAN? REALLY?


And the Kurlander Bacon Tart has to do with Swabian spas; it comes
from /mt outpost of Btie Gerrnanism, Kurland, a province of former
Latvia. ...
December 5, 1965

DOOM JAN POUREN.; Russian Court Condemns Him to Death -- He is Safe
Here.
ST. PETERSBUBG, Jan. 21 -- A courtmartial at Riga to-day condemned to
death Jan Pouren, who was accused of murdering a Dr. Katterfeld in
Kurland Province.
... TITLE OF ABOVE: "DOOM JAN POUREN.; Russian Court Condemns Him to
Death -- He is ...
.... who was accused of murdering a Dr. Katterfeld in Kurland
Province. ... but he had a strong sympathetic following in this
country, and succeeded in ...
January 22, 1910"

...............THE LETTS UNWILLING SUBJECTS OF GERMANY.; All the
Traditions of ...
The Germans went through this province with fire and sword. ... It was
the then flourishing Kurland or Courland and the cultivated estates of
the l.,etts. ...
July 21, 1918

 - WILL GERMANY ATTACK RUSSIA'S BREAD LINE?; A Military Expert
Argues ...
The unexpected and sudden advance of German troops into the heart of
the Russian Province of Courland has thus far been featured by the
Russian General ...
May 5, 1915

 Baltic Provinces Which Germany Is Overrunning; Ruling Teuton
Class ...
Baltic Provinces Which Germany Is Overrunning Ruling Teuton Class Has
Oppressed Bulk of Inhabitants of Courland, Lithuania, Livonia, and
Esthonia for ...
March 3, 1918

 RUSSIA AND ITS SCHOOLS; Great Strides in Advancing Educational ...
In the Province of Yaroslav to-day there are no lo.s 32.11)9 primary
schools, ... Esthonia and Courland, 6;, er h}O ; theu tile provinces
of It. Petersburg, ...
July 9, 1899

 JEWS PERSECUTED BY MILITARY CENSOR; Russian Government, Press,
and ...
Goremvktn and Maklakov, who %were assured of' the loyalty of the Jews
of the Courland province. The editor was warned that such dt- in the
future would meet ...
October 8, 1916

 GERMANS INVADE BALTIC PROVINCES; Rivalry Force Reaches Important ...
.... extreme right of the Russians, has invaded the Russian Baltic
provinces. ... a force landed at Polangen, in the Province of
Courland, would meet with. ...
May 1, 1915

 DENIES AGGRESSION IN RUSSIA; Noske Says Germans Will Not Attack
in ...
.... should be undertaken in Courland or the Ukraine by German
forces. ... east of East Prussia an3 Immediately to the south oP the
Province of Courland.
March 29, 1919

 EDUCATION IN RUSSIA.; Great Progress In Recent Years, Especially ...
.... the proportion of illiterates in Livonia a^d Courland 'has been
reduced, ... Inhabitants, arid in the Province of Mos- ' cow the
number of primary -la ...
February 24, 1901

 TWO GERMAN ARMIES INVADE RUSSIA; NORTHERN TROOPS MARCH ON DVINSK ...
These W vo provinces, with-- the province of Courland, which has for
some time been in German possession, comprise the Baltic provinces,
possession of which ...
February 19, 1918

 RUSSIA'S RYE CROP.; BALTIC PROVINCES OFFER TO LEND GRAIN TO THE ...
The peasants of Courland, another of the Bl$1e provinces, bare made a
similar offer. They announce their willingness to lend of rye to less
fortunate ...
September 8, 1891

 What Would Happen if Peace Should Be Negotiated at Present.
.... territory on the Meuse line, of the Russian Province of Courland,
and of the payment by the Allies of an indemnity of 30000000000 marks,
($7500000000.) ...
November 8, 1915


By THE NEW YORK TIMES - Arts / Art & Design
 WHAT THE KAISER READS.; He Keeps Himself Up to Date by Careful ...
.... a Russian, or rather a Baltic Germanj from the Russian Province of
Kurland, who was formerly chief editor of the Silesian Gazette at
Breslau, ...
October 9, 1900

 ADAMSON RETURNS BUILDINGS TO CITY; Fire Department Finds ...
Thirty-five years ago .he was born in the little vi!lage of Baush, in
the Province of Kurland. Russia. As a boy le left home and went either
to the United ...
March 6, 1916



 New York Dutch Names.; Notes on Their Origin -- Vanderbilt,
Bayard ...
.... on the eastern branch of the , in the Province of Gueldcrn; Draek,
the dragon; ... Then the first part of the name of C*urland, or
Kurland. the Kar, ...
July 16, 1898

 EMMA GOLDMAN, ANARCHIST, DEAD; Internationally Known Figure ...
She spent her childhood in the Russo-German province of Kurland, where
her father had charge of the governmentsubsidized theatre and where
she received her ...
May 14, 1940

 SECRETS OF COURT EXPOSED IN TRIAL; Sensational Testimony About
the ...
Gem Count I-Ielmuill yon AIoltke. and of tle Governor of tie Province
of East ... Alaj0r Prince ]3iron yon Kurland, lo t regiment of the
Guards: Count Edgar ...

....
THE OUTLOOK FOR CHOLERA IN EUROPE.
In this province of AustriaHungary. to which cholera was brought from
the ... 29 ..........9S 53 Kurland, Dec. 23-Jan. 26 ........3S 19
Minsk, Nov. 16-Jan. ...
April 7, 1895

 RAISED $15707787 FOR WAR SUFFERERS; Joint Distribution Committee ...
2.008,4S5.bti Kurland. . . . . .................. 5,f75.624.50
Lithuania. ..... in one neighborhood of the province of the Basiiicata
within two play g, ...
March 30, 1919







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Library Lost 400,000 Books In Soviet Fire
By PHILIP TAUBMAN, Special to the New York Times
Published: April 1, 1988
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 LENINGRAD, March 30— The fire started about 8 P.M. By dawn the
library of the National Academy of Sciences, founded by Peter the
Great in 1714, was an inferno of burning books and newspapers.

Library employees watched in horror on the night of Feb. 14, a Sunday,
as flames consumed whole rooms of books, including irreplaceable
17th-, 18th- and 19th-century scientific collections.

''The library looked like a furnace,'' recalled Lyudmila Petrov, head
of the rare books department, this week.

By the time the fire was put out late the next afternoon the library
courtyard was buried under a mountain of smoldering books and
newspapers thrown from the windows by firemen as they fought the
blaze. #400,000 Books Destroyed The first official accounts of the
fire suggested little damage - the library's acting director has
denied a Soviet scholar's published assertion that there was an
initial coverup - but a visit to Leningrad this week confirmed more
recent reports in the Soviet press that the fire was catastrophic.

Six weeks after the fire, workers are still sifting through the
blackened debris, searching for scraps of print that survived intact.

Library officials said 400,000 books were destroyed, 3.6 million were
damaged by water, 10,000 were damaged by mold and 7.5 million are in
need of preventive care to block the spread of fungus.

The Leningrad library, the main library of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences since the Bolshevik Revolution, has grown from Peter the
Great's day to become one of the world's largest, housing more than
17.5 million volumes. Twelve million were stored in the building
ravaged by fire.

The loss has reverberated throughout the international library
community like a death in the family. Experts Come From Abroad

Book restoration experts from abroad, including three from the United
States, one of them from the Library of Congress, have gathered here
to help. Offers of additional help have come from dozens of foreign
institutions, among them the New York Public Library and the Harvard
University libraries.

But the loss has been felt most acutely at home. Russians admire their
books with a passion that is sometimes difficult for foreigners to
understand.

In a culture not yet dominated by television, and without many of the
entertainment options available in the West, books retain a special
hold on the Russian imagination.

As news of the fire spread through Leningrad, thousands of citizens
came to the library offering to help sort through the debris and
assist in the daunting job of drying millions of volumes damaged by
water that was poured into the library for 19 hours by 40 fire
brigades.

More than 15,000 volunteers have worked at the library in the weeks
since the blaze, according to the acting director, Valery P. Leonov.
Director Is Hospitalized

The director, Vladimir A. Filov, was hospitalized immediately after
the fire, reportedly with a heart problem.

One of the country's leading scholars, Dmitri S. Likhachev, charged
this month that the library initially tried to disguise the extent of
damage and called in a bulldozer to clear away some of the debris,
including salvageable books.

In an article published by Knizhnoye Obozreniye, one of the Soviet
Union's main literary reviews, Mr. Likhachev called the fire ''a
national calamity'' that library officials tried to cover up in the
same way the Government first tried to minimize the damage and dangers
of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

Mr. Leonov, who was among those criticized by Mr. Likhachev, denied
the accusation in an interview at the library Tuesday. He called Mr.
Likhachev's account ''an erroneous and inexplicable attack on the
library's integrity.'' Library Officially Reopened

Although officially reopened in mid-March, the library is able to
conduct only a part of its normal business.

The six-story, concrete library building, situated on Vasilyevsky
Island, one of the oldest districts of this former imperial capital,
is still permeated with the smell of smoke.

Hallways are filled with makeshift bookshelves covered with volumes
bent open to speed drying. Other books hang like clothes from lines
strung above the shelves. Roaring fans pump hot air into the halls.

Outside in the courtyard, five workmen shoveled ashes and the almost
unrecognizable remains of books and newspapers into a large trash bin
in the chill spring air. Periodically, one of the men would spot a
surviving page and gently pluck it from the rubble.

Mr. Leonov said the fire started in the library's newspaper
repository. He said the cause remained unknown.

Mr. Leonov said an inventory of destroyed and damaged books was still
being prepared, but reported that the fire had burned through 190,000
foreign volumes maintained in the Baer collection, named after a
former curator, Karl Baer. The rest of the burned books were Russian,
he said.

Mr. Likhachev said in his article that the fire had also wiped out
some of the library's oldest collections, including medical works of
the 17th century and the libraries of the Dukes of Kurlandia and the
Radziwill family.

The founding core of the library, more than 1,500 books donated by
Peter the Great, was not damaged.

Photos of books damaged by fire set out to dry at the library of the
National Academy of Sciences in Leningrad (pgs. A1 & A4) (NYT/Paul
Hosefros)

.................











Heraldic Symbols.
The arms of Curland, (Germany,) Putz, (Tyrol,) and Argentier de
Chappelaines supply candlesticks and candles, all lit. Those of
Kerliviou furnish the salt ...
June 3, 1894

 THE CITY GOVERNMENT.; BOARD OF ALDERMEN. [OFFICIAL.] PETITIONS ...
.... in . grading and curLand Eu:ter, a,so l:.gi:ifty-fifth-street,
between l 'if :h and avenues. w;ta lo t bs the following vote ,-
Aldermen Henry, Ilnll, ...
October 28, 1863

 DISCUSSING THE TARIFF; THE DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO THE BILL.
Curland about a rising thermometer, he said thu>i if the Democrats
shirked this problem t, would go home to find the rising; faster than
it was rising here. ...
July 14, 1882

 CANCEL DEAL FOR SHANNON; Flaw in Pedigree Halts Sale of
Australian ...
18 (EE)Harry Curland today announced that a deal for him to buy
Shannon, ... Curland said he and WJ Smith, an Australian who bought
Shannon at auction for ...
November 19, 1947

 WAR WOUNDED LACK COMMON COMFORTS; Hospitals, Under Long Strain ...
16 Mrs. J. A. FriedChevra A. E. Curland ........ 10[ ona .............
45 C. Stern ' 12 Carey Printing Co. 12 Golmub Cohen. [ 10 A.
Suderoff . ...
February 20, 1916
...

ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Joan Curland, Infantry. Atl of the officers of the new Yorktown except
Commander Chadtvick ware ordered Lo ra ca board at Leafiue Navp Yard
Wednesday. ...
April 12, 1889

 Boycott by Horsemen Prevents Hollywood Park Opening Today
That horse is owned by Mrs. Harry Curland, wife of the owner of the
tracks restaurant concession. After the directors' meeting, the track
announced that it ...
May 12, 1953

 WHERE REFORM IS NEEDED; ABUSES WHICH CLEVELAND CAN ABOLISH. RIVAL ...
.... for instance, be'.3eves that tile only obstacle which sta lads
between 11::a the portfolio of the Post Chi"-lic o DC:j!al is Senator
Curland, of . lie. ...
January 27, 1885

 OCEANIC TAKES THE WASHINGTON; Colt, at 50 to 1, Springs Big ...
Pennon, Plcketer, 8, 1?etter Times, Rrllllance, Winner, 'fake Ail and
Curland also ran. SECOND RACE-- For four-year-olds and upward; : purse
51,u00; ...
October 29, 1922
 Heraldic Symbols.
The arms of Curland, (Germany,) Putz, (Tyrol,) and Argentier de
Chappelaines supply candlesticks and candles, all lit. Those of
Kerliviou furnish the salt ...
June 3, 1894

 THE CITY GOVERNMENT.; BOARD OF ALDERMEN. [OFFICIAL.] PETITIONS ...
.... in . grading and curLand Eu:ter, a,so l:.gi:ifty-fifth-street,
between l 'if :h and avenues. w;ta lo t bs the following vote ,-
Aldermen Henry, Ilnll, ...
October 28, 1863

 DISCUSSING THE TARIFF; THE DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO THE BILL.
Curland about a rising thermometer, he said thu>i if the Democrats
shirked this problem t, would go home to find the rising; faster than
it was rising here. ...
July 14, 1882

 CANCEL DEAL FOR SHANNON; Flaw in Pedigree Halts Sale of
Australian ...
18 (EE)Harry Curland today announced that a deal for him to buy
Shannon, ... Curland said he and WJ Smith, an Australian who bought
Shannon at auction for ...
November 19, 1947

 SWAPS SCRATCHED; Bobby Brocato, Fourth Longden Victor, Takes ...
H. Curland-Mrs. N. Goldstone entry.cC. H. Jones and Son-EF Smith
entry.SIXTH-5S, 000, allow.. 3Y0, lily M,Forthebest. 116 .. (Maese)
28.80 11.60 6.60 The ...
February 26, 1956
....