Full name: Marie Sklodowska Curie Place of Birth: Warsaw on November 7‚ 1867 Age of death: JULY 4TH 1934 CAUSE OF DEATH CANCER- LEUKEMIA Early life: in what was then the Russian Empire‚ with Poland having been divided up amongst various European nations due to war and subsequent treaties. When she was only 10 years old her mother died of tuberculosis‚ a short time after her elder sister had died of typhus. Despite this setback‚ Marie struggled on with her studies‚ graduating high school at age
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Location and Geography. Lithuania is on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Just over 40‚500 square miles (65‚000 square kilometers) in area‚ it shares borders with Poland and Kaliningrad (Russian Federation) in the southwest‚ Belarus in the east‚ and Latvia in the north. The country is divided into four regions: Aukštaitija‚ the highlands in the northeast and central portion of the country; Žemaitija‚ the lowlands in the west‚ stretching from the Baltic coast to the Nevėžis river; Dzūkija‚ in the southeast;
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Polish Migration to the UK Polish migration to the UK began in the year 2004‚ when Poland joined the EU. People were moving from Poland to the UK in search of jobs and better pay‚ because there was shortage of work in Poland and the pay was not good‚ some people only being paid £4 a day whereas in the UK people were getting £400 a day. They were doing jobs that British people did not want to do such as plumbing‚ cleaning‚ building and driving‚ Polish people were generally very hard workers and
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In this case‚ a Canadian manufacturing firm wants to do business in Poland and do the environment scanning. The environment scanning process: Economic: Poland is the central location to other European countries provides MNCs with easy access to competitive markets nearby. Poland has low labor costs and almost 15% of the people are still unemployed. Poland has a vast modern transportation system. Industry or market: Poland is the central location to other European countries provides MNCs
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map of Europe Lithuania can hardly catch your attention‚ because its area is only 65‚000 sq. km. The borders of our country stretch for more than 1800 km. In the North it borders Latvia‚ in the East and in the South Belorussia‚ in the South – West Poland and the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation. The amber coastline with beautiful whitish beaches stretches for 99 km of the country’s West failor. The failor is decorated by Kuršiai spit dunes‚ Sudūva high-yielding fields‚ Dzūkija lakes‚
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development of logistics sector in those countries such as big foreign trade areas‚ strong‚ growing economies‚ relatively large domestic markets‚ huge increase in Foreign Direct Investment and many others. These elements make such countries as Hungary‚ Poland‚ Czech Republic and other states as well as companies in the region
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about Polish culture. Poland is an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea withe the
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time since Hitler’s defeat. The creation of NATO and the resurgence of Western Germany encouraged the USSR to create an alliance with its satellite nations—the Warsaw Pact. The USSR had essentially controlled or at least held strong influence over Poland‚ Albania‚ Bulgaria‚ East Germany‚ Romania‚ and Czechoslovakia. The Warsaw Pact codified the existing relationships the USSR had with those countries and both formally and
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over half of Saxony‚ and above all the greater part of the Rhine land. With these acquisitions Prussia definitively gains the status of a great European power. Meanwhile‚ Russia secures its takeover of Finland‚ trusteeship over the greater part of Poland‚ and takes Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire‚ this helped Alexander I continue his march to Constantinople. Austria recovers the Tyrol‚ the kingdom of Venetia‚ Lombardy‚ as well as Dalmatia. These territories gave the Hapsburg Empire a Southern and
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Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence‚ anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. Thereafter‚ Germany and the Soviet Union invaded‚ on September 1 and 17 respectively‚ their respective sides of Poland‚ dividing the country between them. Part of eastern Finland was annexed by the Soviet Union after the Winter War. This was followed by Soviet annexations of Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania‚ Bessarabia‚ Northern Bukovina and Hertza region. Names The Molotov–Ribbentrop
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