"Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel is the second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League. Written in 1929 the stories, which are listed below, are set in 1793 but appear in no particular order. They occasionally refer to events in other books in the series and Orczy frequently reuses plot lines and ideas from the longer Pimpernel novels. Citoyen Lauzet, Chief of section in the rural division of the department Seine et Oise, is perturbed by the Pimpernel's success in rescuing the Comte"
"and Julia Quinn. These novels are much more explicit than the traditional Regency works and include many more love scenes. Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright, and artist of noble origin. In 1903, she and her husband wrote a play, ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution. She submitted her novelization of the story under the same title to 12 publishers. While waiting for the decisions of these publishers, Fred Terry and Julia Neilson accepted the play"
"Beau Brocade Beau Brocade is a 1907 novel written by Baroness Orczy and was followed by the play of the same name in 1908. It was adapted as a silent film ""Beau Brocade"" in 1916. ""The Ballad of Beau Brocade"", was an 1892 poem by English Poet Henry Austin Dobson. After their recent defeat, the hamlets and villages of Derbyshire are no longer ringing with the wild shouts of Bonny Prince Charlie's Highland Brigade; instead troops loyal to King George are looking for those accused of high treason and are offering a reward of twenty guineas for the death of"
"of Barbara became romanticized as the great tragic love affair. It has been used as an example of ""love conquers all"" with Bona Sforza often acting as the chief villain. It caught public imagination and has inspired many artists to create poems, plays, films, and other works. That made Barbara Radziwiłł one of the best known and most recognized women in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland. Barbara was the youngest child of Jerzy Radziwiłł, Voivode of Trakai and Vilnius and Great Lithuanian Hetman, and his wife Barbara Kolanka, daughter of Voivode of Podolia."
"Wacław Potocki Wacław Potocki (; 1621, Wola Łużańska - 1696) was a Polish nobleman (""szlachcic""), moralist, poet, and writer. He was the podczaszy of Kraków from 1678 to 1685. He is remembered as one of the most important Polish baroque artists. His most famous works are: ""Transakcja wojny chocimskiej"" (also known as ""Wojna chocimska"" or ""The Chocim War"") and his collection of epigrams, ""Ogród fraszek"" (""Garden of Rhymes""). They give a vivid picture of ideas and manners among the szlachta (Polish gentry) towards the end of the Polish Golden Age, and of many political and religious conflicts. Wacław Potocki was"
"The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903. The novel is set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The title is the ""nom de guerre"" of its hero and protagonist, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats before they are sent to the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life: apparently nothing more than a wealthy fop,"
"A Sheaf of Bluebells A Sheaf of Bluebells is a novel by Baroness Emma Orczy about the feuds between Royalists and the followers of Napoleon Bonaparte. It was first published in 1917, and turned into a play ""The Legion of Honour"" by Orczy in 1918. Many French aristocrats exiled during the revolution have been presenting petitions to enable them to return to France under the conditional amnesty granted to them by the newly crowned Emperor. Amongst them are a petition signed by Mme.la Marquise de Mortain and her son, Laurent (aged twenty-one years), and one signed by M. le Comte"
"Andrzej Krzycki Andrzej Krzycki herbu Kotwicz (also Andreas Cricius) (Krzycko Małe, 7 July 1482 – † Skierniewice, 10 May], 1537) was a Renaissance Polish writer and archbishop. Krzycki wrote in Latin prose, but wrote poetry in Polish. He is often considered one of Poland's greatest humanist writers. He earned an education at the University of Bologna studying under prominent humanists, and started a career in church hierarchy in 1501. In 1512, Barbara Zapolya married King Sigismund I the Old. Krzycki wrote a verse to commemorate this marriage, and became Zapolya's secretary the same year. When the king won the victory"
"one of Poland's three partitioners). Ultimately Kordian fails in his mission because of qualms over the ethics of assassination—but possibly escapes with his life. This play has been translated into English for the first time by Gerard T. Kapolka. It was published by The Green Lantern Press in 2011. ""Kordian"" comprises three acts, written in rhymed Polish alexandrines. The play, inspired by the failure of the November 1830 Uprising, is a study of a Polish romantic revolutionary's psyche. Kordian — his name was coined by Słowacki — is a typical romantic hero torn by his emotions. The play is also"
"death."" This choice allows to the author make a special poetic oxymoron: Nicholai, who was born in May, and died in July, is likened to ""a May flower"", which is premature, still in the summer, mowed by death; or a young beast hunted in May (when hunting is permitted only in the autumn). Lamentation of Nicholai is not only the personal pain of the mother, but also awareness of irreparable loss for the magnate families – Radziwill and Wiśniowiecki – and for the kingdom. The death of young prince is shown through heraldic marks of the Radziwill’s emblem (an eagle"
"Stach Konwa Stach Konwa is a legendary Polish hero, especially important to the inhabitants of the Polish Kurpie region. According to legend, he was born in Nowogród and died about 1734-1735. Stach Konwa probably existed, but there are no historical sources to back this up. The name “Konwa” is not a name usually found in the Kurpie region, and it may be that it could be a pseudonym used to protect his family and friends from reprisal. On the other hand, researchers, such as Wiesław Majewski, suggest that he was created by writers attempting to stimulate public consciousness. Stach Konwa"
"and as ""Konrad Wallenrod"", by Polish composer Władysław Żeleński (1885). The Polish composer Frédéric Chopin may have based on this poem his Ballade No.1 in G minor. The Polish-born author Joseph Conrad, who had been christened Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, may have selected the second part of his pen name as an hommage to the poem's protagonist. Mickiewicz's poem influenced Conrad's frequent explorations of the conflict between publicly attested loyalty and a hidden affiliation with a national cause. Konrad Wallenrod Konrad Wallenrod is an 1828 narrative poem, in Polish, by Adam Mickiewicz, set in the 14th-century Grand Duchy of Lithuania."
"refused to sign the Act, as harmful to the interests of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He was one of the most prominent converts and advocates of the Protestant faith in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and his line of the family became devoted members and defenders of the Lithuanian Evangelical Reformed Church until its extinction. In the Holy Roman Empire, the Trąby Coat of Arms was situated in the center of a Black Eagle in a golden Shield. Mikołaj ""the Red"" Radziwiłł Mikołaj Radziwiłł, nicknamed ""The Red"" (Polish ""Rudy"", Lithuanian: ""Radvila Rudasis""), also known as ""Mikołaj Radziwiłł the Sixth"" (1512 – 27"
"dialogues. The wedding guests are hypnotized by the rosebush cane straw-wrap (""Chochoł"") who came to life and joined the party, from the farmhouse garden. The ""Poet"" is visited successively by the ""Black Knight"" (a symbol of the nation's past military glory), the ""Journalist"", then by the court jester ""Stańczyk"" who's a conservative political sage; and by the ""Ghost of Wernyhora"" (a paradigm of leadership for Poland). Wernyhora presents the Host with a golden horn symbolizing the national mission, and calls the Polish people to a revolt. One of the farm hands is dispatched to sound the horn at each corner"
"a school in Warsaw and is canonized as a saint in the Catholic church. To the right of Sapieha are reformer Stanisław Staszic (26) and, with his hand around Staszic, Andrzej Zamoyski (27), author of the Zamoyski Codex, an earlier attempt to reform the state. To the left of Staszic, the head of bishop of Smoleńsk, Tymoteusz Gorzeński (28), is visible in the crowd. Beneath Staszic and Zamoyski, with an outstretched hand, is Kazimierz Konopka (29), Kołłątaj's secretary and one of the Polish Jacobins; Konopka has a French blue-white-red flower in his hat and a czekan, an ax- and hammer-like"
"Kobylany and his wife Anne of Zygmunt Nowosielec. [6] Notable bearers of this coat of arms include: Działosza coat of arms Działosza is a Polish coat of arms. Hińcza Rogow coat Działosza - Knight of Rogowa, treasurer court and crown [1] , who lived between the fourteenth and the fifteenth century, the late approx. 1416, mentioned include in the annals of Jan Dlugosz as one who in 1400, together with John Naszonem of Ostrowiec and Castellan Śrem John of Obichowa and team knight and fleet auxiliary, he was sent by King Władysława Jagiełłę with the message to Celje, Count Herman"
"who was in the service of the king and king's brother, Henryk, broke through the enemy lines with his men, in order to retrieve Henryk's body and valuable armor, but was killed himself in the process. For Mirosław's steadfast loyalty, in the memory of his bravery, King Bolesław of Poland bestowed this coat of arms and lands to Mirosław's descendants. A shield of blue color, with a heart in a vessel, pierced from top to bottom by an arrow, helmet with five ostrich feathers, and the blue and yellow fringe, signifying the ancient colors of knight Mirosław's ancestral origins. Notable"
"in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. The manager of Wokulski's Warsaw store, Ignacy Rzecki, is a man of an earlier generation, a modest bachelor who lives on memories of his youth, which was a heroic chapter in his own life and that of Europe. Through his diary the reader learns about some of Wokulski's adventures, seen through the eyes of an admirer. Rzecki and his friend Katz had gone to Hungary in 1848 to enlist in the revolutionary army. For Rzecki, the cause of freedom in Europe is connected with the name of Napoleon"
"belief is that the iris serves as a warning to be heeded, as it was named for the messenger of Olympus. It also conveys images of lost love and silent grief, for young girls were led into the afterlife by Iris. ""Broken Vows"" was accompanied with poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when it was first exhibited. French King Clovis I (466–511), when he converted to Christianity, changed his symbol on his banner from three toads to irises (the Virgin's flower). The fleur-de-lis, a stylized iris, first occurs in its modern use as the emblem of the House of Capet. The"
"a painter, it was at art school that she met a young illustrator named Montague MacLean Barstow, the son of an English clergyman; they married in 1894. It was the start of a joyful and happy marriage, which she described as ""for close on half a century, one of perfect happiness and understanding, of perfect friendship and communion of thought."" They had very little money and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator to supplement his low earnings. John Montague Orczy-Barstow, their only child, was born on 25 February 1899. She started writing soon"
"to the hero!"" Several Polish football clubs and other sports teams were named after him, including, Zawisza Bydgoszcz. Several dramas have been made based on his life. Zawisza Czarny Zawisza Czarny ( or Zawisza the Black; 1379 – 12 June 1428), Sulima coat of arms, was a Polish knight and nobleman who served as a commander and diplomat under Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło and Hungarian-Bohemian king Sigismund of Luxembourg. During his life, he was regarded as a model of knightly virtues and was renowned for winning multiple tournaments. His nickname is due to his black hair and his custom-made,"
"Antoni Malczewski Antoni Malczewski (3 June 1793 – 2 May 1826) was a Polish romantic poet, known for his only work, ""a narrative poem of dire pessimism"", ""Maria"" (1825). At the times, prominent and scandalizing was his autodestructive romance with a married woman, Zofia Rucińska, who had a mental illness. Malczewski was born to a wealthy family in either Volhynia or Warsaw, and attended school in Krzemieniec (modern-day Kremenets, Ukraine), but did not graduate. He joined the army of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw during the Napoleonic Wars in 1811, and remained in the army of Congress Poland under Emperor"
"names him János Vitéz (""Sir John""). János travels back to Hungary by boat, only to learn that Iluska hss been worked to death by her cruel stepmother. In memory of her, he plucks the single rose growing from her grave and keeps it. He then sets off on a series of increasingly more dangerous adventures, hoping to end his life in some glorious feat. He reaches the Land of the Giants, where he kills the king in his castle and has all the other giants pledge fealty to him. Later, he arrives in the Country of Darkness that is ruled"
"the monument, the statue of Konwa faces east with his fist raised in that direction, perceived as an expression of opposition to Soviet domination. Stach Konwa Stach Konwa is a legendary Polish hero, especially important to the inhabitants of the Polish Kurpie region. According to legend, he was born in Nowogród and died about 1734-1735. Stach Konwa probably existed, but there are no historical sources to back this up. The name “Konwa” is not a name usually found in the Kurpie region, and it may be that it could be a pseudonym used to protect his family and friends from"
"stuff"" is often used by football writers, commentators and fans when describing displays of great skill, or surprising results that go against the odds, in reference to the dramatic storylines that were the strip's trademark. Other comic books and graphic novels such as ""Eagle"", ""Valiant"", ""Warrior"", and ""2000 AD"" also flourished. Created by Emma Orczy in 1903, the Scarlet Pimpernel is the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist, establishing the ""hero with a secret identity"" into popular culture. The Scarlet Pimpernel first appeared on stage"
"the real-life Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin, who survived the Revolutionary period to serve as an official under Napoleon. He was a noted liberal Deputy under the Bourbon Restoration. Other historical figures who appear in Orczy's ""Pimpernel"" series include: Orczy's original play, ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", was produced and adapted by Julia Neilson and Fred Terry. It opened on 15 October 1903 at Nottingham's Theatre Royal and was not a success. Terry, however, had confidence in the play and, with a rewritten last act, took it to London's West End where it opened at the New Theatre on 5 January 1905. The"
"irrefutable proof that Karol Olgierd Borchardt is still remembered as a hero of Gdynia. He was extremely strong-willed, set goals for himself on a regular basis and, what is more, he was open-minded, caring and inquiring as well. His book ""Znaczy kapitan"" describes fascinating adventures at sea in a humorous and informative way, mostly connected with Mamert Stankiewicz. The book ""Szaman morski"" tells the tales about Eustazy Borkowski. The title is a nickname of this extraordinary sea captain (eng. sea shaman). The titles of his books are very difficult to translate into English. Karol Olgierd Borchardt was a very tall"
"Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki of the Sas coat of arms (, , ""Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky""; 1640 – February 19, 1694) was a Polish nobleman and diplomat of Ruthenian (Ukrainian) descent. For his actions at the 1683 Battle of Vienna when he managed to get out of the besieged city to seek help, he was considered a hero by the local people. According to a legend which appeared 1683 he is often cited as starting the first café in the city, using coffee beans left behind by the retreating Ottoman Turks. However, more recent sources prove that the first"
"Violetka's husband. Monika Korczab – Art agent, fascinated by Kusy's paintings. Ola – Journalist and Czerepach's assistant. Weronika Więcławska-Tao – daughter of Krystyna and Andrzej Więcławski. Jerry Smith – employee of the American Embassy, in love with Lucy without reciprocity. Then he fell in love with Monika. Jagna Nowak – a nurse. Grażyna – Kinga's mother. Wojciech Ostecki – a policeman. Wacław Sądecki – a bishop. Wargacz – Solejuk's neighbour. Wargaczowa – Wargacz's wife. Myćko – Wargacz's friend. Weronka – a shop assistant. Roman – an accountant. Jakub – Kinga's boyfriend. ""Ranczo"" is set in the fictional small town of"
"a result of the turmoil caused by the Spring of Nations (""Wiosna Ludów""), became a mentor of Gregor Mendel, directing his talent toward the development of the theory of evolution and helping to lay the foundations of genetics. He was a member of several scientific societies, and the editor of Lviv's magazines ""Rozmaitości"" and ""Mnemozyna"". ""Chrysanthemum zawadskii"", a species of chrysanthemum described by Franz Herbich, is named after him. Aleksander Zawadzki (naturalist) Aleksander Zawadzki, born Józef Antoni Zawadzki, (6 May 1798 in Bielsko, Cieszyn Silesia – 5 June 1868 in Brno) was a Polish naturalist, author of flora and fauna"
"volume of ""Poems"" (""Poezje""), comprising two parts: ""The Tatras"" (""""Tatry"""") and ""Songs of Time"" (""""Pieśni czasu""""). He also translated from German, e.g., Goethe's idyll of ""Hermann and Dorothea"". He ceased writing poetry following an unhappy romantic involvement. Franciszek Nowicki Franciszek Henryk Siła-Nowicki (29 January 1864, in Kraków, Austrian Empire – 3 September 1935, in Zawoja, Poland) was a Young Poland poet, a mountaineer, socialist activist, and designer of the ""Orla Perć"" (Eagle's Path) High Tatras mountain trail. Franciszek Nowicki was the son of Maksymilian Nowicki — a zoologist and pioneer Polish conservationist — and Antonina Kasparek, sister of Franciszek Kasparek,"
"Juliusz Słowacki Juliusz Słowacki (; 23 August 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the ""Three Bards"" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. His works often feature elements of Slavic pagan traditions, Polish history, mysticism and orientalism. His style includes the employment of neologisms and irony. His primary genre was the drama, but he also wrote lyric poetry. His most popular works include the dramas ""Kordian"" and ""Balladyna"" and the poems ""Beniowski"" and ""Testament mój"". Słowacki spent his youth"
"of the Polish Republic and for achievements in the development of Polish culture. Tadeusz Gajcy Tadeusz Stefan Gajcy (; 8 February 1922, Warsaw - 16 August 1944, Warsaw) was a Polish poet and ""Armia Krajowa"" (Polish Home Army) soldier. He co-founded and edited the ""bibuła"" literary magazine, ""Sztuka i Naród"". He debuted in the underground press in 1942 and is considered to have been the most notable member of the ""Generation of Columbuses,"" after Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. Like Baczyński, Gajcy died in the Warsaw Uprising of August–October 1944. On August 2, 2009, President Lech Kaczyński posthumously awarded Gajcy the Commander's"