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    Count Adam Gurowski (September 10, 1805, in Russocice near Kalisz, Poland – May 4, 1866, in Washington, D.C.) was a Polish-born author who emigrated to...
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    and music theorist Adam Gunn (1872–1935), Scottish-American decathlete Adam Gunthorpe (born 1983), Australian cricketer Adam Gurowski (1805–1866), Polish-American...
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    after the fall of slavery. Lincoln, commented State Department official Adam Gurowski, "is frightened with the success in South Carolina, as in his opinion...
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    bewildered, without intelligent decision or self-reliance." Count Adam Gurowski, a Radical Republican Polish émigré who was a minor State Department...
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    1885). One of the first titles issued by the firm was the diary of Adam Gurowski, reviewed in 1862 by the New York Evening Post: "This work is a crabbed...
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    colonel of the North Carolina militia in the Revolutionary War Count Adam Gurowski (1805–1866), a fiery one-eyed Polish exile and radical George Hadfield...
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    In 1835, an extremely attractive Polish count, the 23-year-old Ignatius Gurowski (1812–1887), moved into Custine and Saint-Barbe's home in the rue de La...
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  • Emancipation Proclamation until his death and was literally forced – Count Adam Gurowski said he was literally whipped – "into the glory of having issued the...
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    the heart beating in the Confederate population was a French heart. Adam Gurowski, a Polish-born US citizen working in the US State Department, replied...
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    Gondatti Gregory IV of Antioch Oskar Gripenberg Curtis Guild Jr. Wladyslaw Gurowski Gustaf V Gustaf VI Adolf Gustav, Prince of Vasa Haakon VII of Norway John...
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