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    The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell (Polish: Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta na wieży katedry w roku 1521 w Krakowie English: The Hanging of the Sigismund bell...
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    The Sigismund Bell (Polish: Dzwon Zygmunt or colloquially Dzwon Zygmunta) is the largest of the five bells hanging in the Sigismund Tower of the Wawel...
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    Sigismund I the Old (Polish: Zygmunt I Stary, Lithuanian: Žygimantas I Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania...
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    Jan Matejko (category Academic staff of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts)
    Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta (The Hanging of the Sigismund bell). In 1878, he produced another masterpiece, The Battle of Grunwald. That year he received...
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    attention". Gold award for painting: Jan Matejko, for The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell, Union of Lublin and Wacław Wilczek. Gold award for photography:...
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    Sigismund Bell was cast, by Hans Behem, in bronze; it is the largest of the five bells hanging in the Sigismund Tower and was named to honour King Sigismund I...
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    Jan Boner (category Merchants from the Holy Roman Empire)
    Matejko's painting Hanging of the Sigismund bell. In-line: (in Polish) History of the palace in Balice (in Polish) History of the castle of Rabsztyn General:...
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    Liberty Bell. The Zygmunt (Sigismund) Bell (from 1520) in Kraków, Poland. The World Peace Bell in Kentucky. Bronze jingyun bell cast in the year 711...
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    clapper hanging inside which strikes the sides when the bell is swung. It is hung within a steeple or belltower of a church or religious building, so the sound...
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    Compacts of Basel, during the presence of the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Jihlava was struck by another big fire in 1523, the Church of St. James the Great...
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