Warsaw

On January 5, 2009, William Warsaw, Sr. Friends may call at THE CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME EAST, 4210 Belair Road, Sunday 1-8 P.M. The family will receive friends at the above chapel, Monday 11 A.M. Funeral services will begin at 11:30 A.M. Interment King Memorial Park. Inquiries to 410-488-5947

James Harbeck, who writes the excellent Sesquiotica blog, has an article at The Week , "The strange Scandinavian pronunciation of common English words. " The title is a joke, because the common English words mentioned are all of Scandinavian origin. We say sauna v ery differently than the Finns do. A reader named Julia posted an irate comment: What a strange, Anglo-centric article! You're talking about words that English BORROWED from those other languages you mention and then call the ORIGINAL pronounciation 'weird'.

Warsaw lay inert under Nazi German occupation in the early summer of 1944. Further east, German armies collapsed and Soviet forces rolled forward. The first Russian tanks reached Polish soil in January. The underground Polish Home Army lay low, awaiting the moment to rise. While the Allies jointly fought Adolf Hitler's Germany, they tugged over Poland's fate.The half-century anniversary of joy at the liberation of Paris on Aug. 25 was inextricably a reminder of the simultaneous agony of Warsaw, and the heroic rising that was willfully let fail.

Liliana C. "Lilly" Shepard, a Holocaust survivor who chronicled her experiences being trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto with other Jews in a 1980 book, died April 7 of cancer at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The longtime Ellicott City resident was 85. The daughter of an engineer and a homemaker, Liliana Cukier was born and raised in Kalisz, Poland. Her formal education ended when the Nazis invaded her homeland in 1939. "Then came September 1, 1939, the date Poland and the world will never forget.

Warsaw. -- A busy day. Morning appointments. The year's final Cub Scout meeting at midday. Kids to be driven 150 miles to summer camp. An article to finish in the evening.A busy day. Not frantic. Not suicidal. Just working mother busy.The housekeeper starts it badly by coming an hour and a half late. "And if your mother says one word to me," she tells the children angrily, "I'll walk out."That's East Bloc egalitarianism. She says her bus filled up with smoke, and long use, poor maintenance and empty coffers at the Transport Ministry lend her story credibility.

Warsaw -- The man had been watching us intently, almost expectantly, as we interviewed a carpenter about his reasons for not voting in the Polish elections Sunday. So we went over and asked him how he had voted.His cocked his thumb toward a campaign poster for the Polish National Community Party.''In 1946, I was arrested by the Jews who ran this country. I lost seven years of my life in jail. That's why I'm an anti-Semite,'' he said.He wore a fraying parka, a rough wool cap and thick-soled shoes.

On Saturday, the Performing Arts Association of Linthicum will present the next concert in its 1994-1995 season. The Warsaw Wind Quintet with Michiko Otaki, pianist, will perform on the stage of the new North County High School auditorium at 8 p.m.The quintet was formed in Warsaw, Poland, in 1973 by major soloists from the National Philharmonic and Radio Orchestras. They have played in the former Soviet Union and throughout Europe. The quintet regularly records for the Polish RTV and West Berlin Radio.

WARSAW, Va. - Charles Lewis is the Warsaw fish whistler, but to the catfish in his creek, he needs no introduction. They are jumping out of the water by the dozens, striking their best "Flipper" poses and swimming about in a splashy display of rubbery lips and whiskers. Lewis blows another long blast on his orange dog whistle, and the surface of the tidal creek erupts again as he steps out on his dock and casts a handful of fish food pellets into the fray. The catfish gulp and guzzle the floating pellets, vacuuming them off the surface while the ghostly forms of other catfish flash in and out of sight in the depths.

COLLEGE PARK - Sherwood quarterback Shai Warsaw threw two touchdown passes and Wilde Lake's Mario Merrills returned a kickoff 99 yards for a score as Maryland defeated the Northern Virginia All-Stars in the ninth annual Super 44 football game, 20-3, last night before 4,865 at the University of Maryland's Byrd Stadium. Warsaw was named Maryland's Most Valuable Player, completing 13 of 21 passes for 157 yards. Both of his scoring strikes (5 and 16 yards) were to Chopticon's Jamie Byroads.

WARSAW, Poland -- In the back room of a Warsaw sex shop, the manager paraded his wares."Just like in the West," said Marek Czerwinski of BAKS on Pope John Paul II Street, displaying one of his top-selling items. "Very good quality. Made of a special synthetic material. Looks very realistic."Disembodied as it was, surrealistic might have been a better word."Feel it," urged Mr. Czerwinski, a former fabric printer. "Just like the real thing."The visitor prodded the proffered goods with a forefinger.

On January 5, 2009, William Warsaw, Sr. Friends may call at THE CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME EAST, 4210 Belair Road, Sunday 1-8 P.M. The family will receive friends at the above chapel, Monday 11 A.M. Funeral services will begin at 11:30 A.M. Interment King Memorial Park. Inquiries to 410-488-5947

WARSAW, Poland -- A national drama that embarrassed the Roman Catholic Church and roused Cold War memories ended in a spectacle yesterday when the new archbishop of Warsaw resigned before his Inauguration Mass after admitting that he collaborated with Communist secret police decades ago. The Vatican quickly accepted the resignation of the Most Rev. Stanislaw Wielgus, who waited until hours before the ceremony in St. John's Cathedral before capitulating to...

When I first arrived in Warsaw in the summer of 1990, the Poles on board the Lot Polish Airlines clapped as the aircraft touched down near the warehouse-like structure that was the Polish capital's international airport. The Poles on the Lot flight I took to Warsaw in October also clapped when we landed, a sign to me that in some ways, despite major political and economic shifts in recent years, Poland might not be such a different place after all. But as soon as I stepped into Warsaw's much modernized Port Lotniczy im. F. Chopina -- named for Polish composer Frederic Chopin, whose heart is entombed in a downtown church -- I knew that Poland had indeed changed.

In the summer of 2004, I was making my way from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Istanbul, Turkey, by bus and train. Traveling through Eastern Europe is an amazing experience. Everywhere you go, you are surrounded by evidence of ancient buildings and cultures. An unexpected destination during my travels was the graveyards across the region. The European style of caring for graveyards is to visit them frequently and adorn the graves with fresh flowers. In many ways, graveyards are beautiful, with engravings speaking of what the dearly departed meant to the family they left behind.

On November 9, 2005, RUTH F. KELLOGG, 87, died at Kosciusko Community Hospital, Warsaw, IN. Ruth lived in Baltimore most of her life. She retired as a lab technician from Bon Secours Hospital and was member of St. Michael's Episcopal Church and the United Seniors Association in Baltimore. She did volunteer work for North Charles Hospital. Preceded in death by her parents, Alfred Ostrom and Julia (Herrick) Kellogg, and a brother David Kellogg, she is survived by brother Richard Kellogg; six nephews: Richard Kellogg, Jr., Montgomery Kellogg, Donald Kellogg, Michael Kellogg, Stephen Kellogg, and Alan Kellogg; a niece Rebecca Muncy; cousin Louise Donhouser; great-niece Samantha Muncy; and great-nephew David Kellogg.

On Sept. 1, 1939, Jerzy Kajetanski, a 25-year-old graduate student at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland, was returning home by bus from a stay in the resort town of Swider when he suddenly came upon a bloodcurdling sight. "I saw a bombed-out house and a dead white horse in the roadway," Kajetanski later wrote in his journal. "That horse was the first casualty of war that I was to see." Hitler's armies had invaded Poland, an act that would unleash the most destructive conflict in history.

On November 9, 2005, RUTH F. KELLOGG, 87, died at Kosciusko Community Hospital, Warsaw, IN. Ruth lived in Baltimore most of her life. She retired as a lab technician from Bon Secours Hospital and was member of St. Michael's Episcopal Church and the United Seniors Association in Baltimore. She did volunteer work for North Charles Hospital. Preceded in death by her parents, Alfred Ostrom and Julia (Herrick) Kellogg, and a brother David Kellogg, she is survived by brother Richard Kellogg; six nephews: Richard Kellogg, Jr., Montgomery Kellogg, Donald Kellogg, Michael Kellogg, Stephen Kellogg, and Alan Kellogg; a niece Rebecca Muncy; cousin Louise Donhouser; great-niece Samantha Muncy; and great-nephew David Kellogg.

Chone Shmeruk, 76, widely considered the most prominent contemporary researcher of Yiddish, died Saturday in his native Warsaw of unspecified causes, according to Hebrew University in Jerusalem.Mr. Shmeruk, a professor emeritus of Yiddish literature and former chair of the Yiddish Department at Hebrew University, also wrote extensively on the history of east European Jewry.He won the Israel Prize, the country's highest honor, last year.He fled Poland for the Soviet Union during World War II. Returning to Warsaw after the war, he discovered that his entire family there had been killed.