Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's first priority at the NATO summit is to gain final approval for his Partnership for Peace, which will provide an option for any former Soviet republic, Warsaw Pact member or non-NATO West European state to join in limited military cooperation, including training and exercises, with NATO's...
But leading NATO states like Britain and France are in no hurry to take Poland or Hungary into the alliance, which is above all a military pact. Outgoing Defense Secretary Aspin says he is "uncomfortable with extending security guarantees to new countries while we're cutting the defense budget." If...
Using his Nazi connections and financed by investments from Jews, Schindler establishes a factory that produces pots and pans. He exploits Jewish labor because under Nazi laws they earn less than Poles. His accountant is Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) and with his help, Schindler's factory becomes a success.
After 1880, immigration changed once again. Most of the newcomers were from Eastern and Southern Europe: Russian Jews, Poles, Italians and Greeks. They too left the Old World to escape poverty and, in the case of the Jews, persecution. Like their predecessors, they were mostly peasants, but they faced a...
IN 1990 THERE WERE MORE EUROPEAN DESCENDANTS -- including German, Irish, English, French, Dutch, Scots-Irish, Scottish, Swedish, Welsh and Danish, Portuguese, British and Swiss -- living in California than in any other state. New York led in the number of Italians, Poles and Russians; Minnesota in Norwegians; Texas in Czechs; Pennsylvania...