He became cardinal in 1981 and held the post during most of the papacy of John Paul II, the first Polish pope.
The arrival of so many Poles in the UK has led to a number of initiatives such as Wales' first Polish support centre, which opened in Llanelli last year.
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Foreign awards include the Mongolian Meritorious Service Medal, First Class, the Polish Army Medal in Gold, and the Taiwan Order of Cloud and Banner with Special Cravat.
Serena Williams put an early break behind her to polish off the first set against Schiavone 6-3 in 34 minutes.
The American and Polish armies staged their first serious exercises in the Baltic region this year.
The Polish team, whose first match at the championship ended in a 1-1 draw against Greece last week, needed to tie or win Tuesday's game against Russia to keep chances alive of advancing out of Group A. Russia beat the Czech Republic last week.
According to Nordea, the euro may weaken further against the zloty in the first half of this year, with the Polish currency trading below four zlotys to the euro by the end of June.
Father Hejmo's job was, at first, to compile a press digest for the Polish bishops' conference.
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EU's anti-dumping cases against Polish and Hungarian steel may be only the first of many.
And on Sundays, mass is said first in English, then in Spanish, then in Polish.
On the October morning that Lindbergh landed at Newark Airport, among the entourage waiting to welcome him to New Jersey was Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf of B'nai Moshe, the first of the city's Conservative temples, organized by Polish Jews.
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As a member of the Polish underground during World War II, Karski was the first to provide eyewitness evidence of the Nazi extermination of Jews in occupied Europe.
The Pope's tweets will also be posted in German (with the account generating 7, 000 followers in its first day), Portuguese (10, 700), Polish (2, 650), French (5, 000) and Arabic (2, 150).
Here, in 1932, French and Polish avante-garde artists set up one of Europe's first galleries of modern art.
Half of the beers on offer are international ales while the others are from Polish brewers, including the imaginatively named light beer Pierwsza Pomoc (First Aid) from the Pinta brewery.
And he announced he would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, posthumously to Jan Karski, an officer in the Polish underground during World War II, who provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust.
With a puff of white smoke at the Vatican on Oct. 16, 1978, a Polish cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla was chosen as the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years.
The data from the 2011 census showed the vast majority of Manchester's residents used English as their main language, but also reported significant numbers using either Urdu, Polish, Arabic, Farsi, Somali, Panjabi or Bengali as their first tongue.
The waves of Irish, and Italian, and Polish, and Russian, and Jewish immigrants who leaned against the railing to catch their first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty.
During his first week with the Derbyshire team, his blond hair was turned black after members of the senior team rubbed boot polish into his scalp, but it was not long before he was gaining the players' respect on the training pitch.
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