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Thursday, April 2, 2026

OSS CBI Photobook 27 - Preparations

Posted by Julie Zdrojewski at 4:10 PM

Labels: Berent Friele, OSS Field Base near Hsian, Paul Cyr, Team Jackal, temple statues, training Chinese operatives

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Juliane Zdrojewski, 2014

Happening Right Now in Argyle, New York:

"Baby, it's cold outside."

Happening in Fond Memory in Argyle, New York:

Happening All the Time in Argyle, New York:

Like Stanczyk, pondering the future.

Jan Kanty

1390-1473.

Nicolai Kopernik

1473-1543. Painting by Jan Matejko, "Copernicus's Conversation with God."

Jan Sobieski

r.1674-1696. Saved Europe.

Haym Salomon

1740-1785. With Robert Morris, handled the financing of the American Revolution.

Thaddeus Kosciuszko

1746-1817. Military engineer to General Washington.

Kazimierz Pułaski

1745-1779. Father of the US Cavalry.

Adam Mickiewicz

1798-1855. Poet. Preserver of Polish national spirit in poetry.

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin

1810-1849.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

1846-1916. Novelist. Preserver of Polish national history and spirit in literature.

Ignacy Lukasiewicz

1822-1882. Designed the first real oil refinery, and the field of petrochemical engineering.

Karol Olszewski

1846-1915. First chemist to liquefy gases.

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski

1857-1924. Novelist and man of letters. Sailor.

Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie

1867-1934. Discovered radium.

Jozef Piłsudski

1867-1935. Repulsed Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe following WWI.

Casimir Funk

1884-1967. Conceptualized vitamins, and called them "vital amines."

Stanisław Maczek. "Baca"

1892-1947. Shut off the Germans' escape route from the Falaise Pocket.

Jan Karski

1914-2000. Artillery officer and Resistance agent.

Solidarność Campaign Poster, 1989

Wawel Hill, on the Vistula, in Krakow

What though the sea with waves continuall

Doe eate the earth, it is nor more at all;

Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth aught,

For whatsoever from one place do fall

Is with the tide unto an other brought:

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

Fairie Queen, II:39

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Thursday, April 2, 2026

OSS CBI Photobook 27 - Preparations

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