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# Aleksander Hafftka

Aleksander Zygmunt Hafftka (November 24, 1892 – June 2, 1964) was a Polish Jewish historian and statesman.

## Life

Hafftka was born November 24, 1892, in Częstochowa to a family of a wealthy Jew Tuwia Hafftka, who owned of a porcelain factory.
In 1919 he took a position in the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands, Wilno District soon becoming in charge of information about Jewish affairs.
During the Polish-Bolshevik War Hafftka was conscripted and served aide-de-camp to general Lucjan Żeligowski and his advisor in national affairs. When the latter staged a pretense coup and established the Republic of Central Lithuania Hafftka joined its state apparatus while remaining advisor to Żeligowski.
In the government of Józef Piłsudski (1918–1928), Aleksander Hafftka became the highest-ranking Jewish statesman. During 1927–1937, he was head of the Jewish Division in the Nationalities Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland. He was fired from the position amid accusations in taking bribes from the Society in Defense of Ritual Slaughter. Although he was exonerated and won a defamation process, he was never restored in any governmental position. This is thought to be related with the rise of anti-Semitism in post-Pilsudski Poland, and also with changes in the state politics in national affairs. Later he joined a group that assisted resettling Jewish German refugees in Poland.
After the German invasion of Poland Hafftka's family escaped from Warsaw to Wilno. In about a year they managed to secure transit visas with the help of Japanese consul to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara and eventually settled in New York City.

## Works

He was co-publisher and editor of the Polish-Jewish Encyclopedia (Encyklopedia Żydów Polskich), and the author of Anti-Semitism in the German Republic.

### Publications

* Ustawodawstwo Polski odrodzonej w stosunku do żydowskiej mniejszości narodowej
* Żydzi w Polsce odrodzonej. Działalność społeczna, gospodarcza, oświatowa i kulturalna (Vols. 1 and 2, co-author)
* Żydowskie ugrupowania polityczne w Polsce
* Żydowskie stronnictwa polityczne w Polsce Odrodzonej
* Der Antisemitismus in der deutschen Republik (under pen name Fritz Marburg, Vienna, 1931)
# Shamira Wilson

Shamira Wilson is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Wilson's work has been featured in exhibitions and installations at Newfields Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Indiana State Museum, and The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

## Early life and education

Wilson was born in Kentucky and moved to Indianapolis in 1987. In 2004, Wilson graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelors of Art in Psychology. After moving back to Indianapolis Wilson attended Herron School of Art and Design to study Furniture Design.

## Career

Wilson works primarily with paint, textiles, and wood. As an artist, Wilson is passionate about "ethnobotany, herbalism, and geology" and creates works informed by the environment using geometric shapes.
Wilson contributed to the Black Lives Matter street mural in Indianapolis. She painted the "E" in "MATTER". Through this collaborative mural project, Wilson became a member of the art collective,The Eighteen. Wilson has displayed her works in exhibitions associated with The Eighteen: We. The Culture: Works by The Eighteen Art Collective at Newfields, Stories from Our Community: The Art of Protest at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and EIGHTEEN: Black Lives Matter at Indianapolis Art Center.
In 2022, Wilson contributed to an interactive installation in the Indiana State Museum's Gallery One titled, "Seed Swap".

## Selected exhibitions

* What to do with difference? Art Gallery, Kamladevi Complex, India International Centre (IIC). New Delhi, India. March 2021.
* Lasting Impressions. Harrison Center for the Arts. Indianapolis, IN. October 2019.
# Andrzej Kochanowski

Andrzej Kochanowski (1542–1596) was a Polish nobleman, poet and translator. He was Jan Kochanowski's younger brother and Piotr Kochanowski's paternal uncle. He was the fourth son of Piotr Kochanowski [pl], judge of Sandomierz, and his wife Anna of the Białaczowski-Odrowąż family. He married Zofia Sobieska and became father of (among others) Jan and Samuel.
Jan Zamoyski, the great chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland, was Andrzej Kochanowski's patron and suggested that he translate Virgil's Aeneid. Kochanowski's version of Virgil's epic poem, published in 1590, is among the most important Polish translations of the 16th century. Kochanowski also translated works by Plutarch.
# The Barrel Organ

The Barrel Organ ("Katarynka" in Polish) is an 1880 short story by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus.

## Plot

Mr. Tomasz (this is his given name, "Thomas" in English) is a middle-aged gentleman who lives adjacent to Warsaw's Old Town. He is always neatly dressed and is endowed with a good sense of taste. Around midday, he walks from Krasiński Square to Senatorska Street. He has been doing so for 30 years. As a young man, Tomasz was a spontaneous and sociable attorney. He dedicated his days to two passions, work and women. Though he had many lady friends, he never married. Instead, he grew increasingly interested in high culture. He is now retired and is still alone. His apartment holds an impressive collection of art and furniture; he is very rich but has no women friends.
Tomasz has one aversion: he cannot stand the sound of a barrel organ. His aversion is so extreme that he pays the porter to keep organ grinders out of the courtyard.
One day Tomasz discovers that a blind eight-year-old girl has moved into an opposite flat with her mother and the mother's friend. Tomasz feels intrigued by the little girl's odd behavior. Then he realizes she is blind. The child’s affliction shocks him.
The narration shifts to the life of the girl and her mother since the girl's loss of vision. It has been one of fairly happy moments spent in their old flat.
One day, as Tomasz is busy working, he ignores his daily routines, even forgetting to instruct the new porter not to let organ grinders into the courtyard. He is very upset on hearing the sounds of a barrel organ. But when he gets up in order to chase the organ grinder away, he sees the little girl in the opposite window enjoying the music's metallic tones. She likes listening to melodies played by organ grinders. Tomasz finds himself yielding to her charm and, in turn, to the barrel-organ music. He now pays the porter to let organ grinders in every day. He also decides to support the girl's medical treatment. In the final scene, he sets out to the eye doctor with a new life goal: to help the little girl and her mother.

## Characters

* Mr Tomasz – the short story's main character, a solitary retired attorney, connoisseur of art, owner of a collection of rare trinkets and stylish furniture. He enjoys leading a quiet life, writing letters, giving legal counsel, and taking walks in the city. He finds himself attracted to the little girl who moves into the opposite flat. He later decides to help her and her mother as much as he can.
* Blind girl – the 8-year-old neighbor girl. Despite her disability, she is curious about the world. The quiet, calm courtyard of her new apartment building takes away her smile. But she is drawn out of her isolation by barrel-organ music and Mr. Tomasz's kind heart.
* Blind girl’s mother – almost absent from the short story, she is young and caring, and works at home as a seamstress.
# Harry R. Purkey

Harry Robert "Bob" Purkey (July 13, 1934 – February 16, 2018) was an American politician. Starting in 1986, he was a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 82nd district in Virginia Beach.
Purkey announced that he would not run for reelection in 2013.
# Nicholas T. Kane

Nicholas Thomas Kane (September 12, 1846 – September 14, 1887) was an American Civil War veteran, businessman, and politician who served for six months as a U.S. Representative from New York before dying during his first year in office in 1887.

## Life and career

Nicholas T. Kane was born in County Waterford in Ireland (then a part of the U.K.) on September 12, 1846. His family moved to the United States in 1848 and settled near Albany, New York, and Kane attended the local schools.

### Civil War

He enlisted in the Union Army in 1863, joining the 20th New York Cavalry. He attained the rank of Corporal twice, and each time was reduced to Private. Kane served until the end of the war in 1865, and afterwards remained active in the Grand Army of the Republic.

### Business career

After the war, Kane worked in woolen mills in New York and Rhode Island, as did several of his brothers and other relatives. He became wealthy as the owner and operator of several successful mills in New York.

### Political career and death in office

A Democrat, Kane was Watervliet's Town Supervisor and represented Watervliet on the Albany County Board of Supervisors from 1883 to 1885. He was president of the county board in 1885.
In 1886 Kane was elected to the 50th United States Congress. He served from March 4, 1887, until his death from tuberculosis in Albany on September 14, 1887, before the Congressional session started. (At the time, elections were held in November, terms began the following March 4, and the Congressional session began in the following December.)
He was interred in St. Agnes Cemetery, Colonie, New York.
# Gonzalo Caneiro

Gonzalo Caneiro Ayarza (born 1 December 1971) is a Uruguayan basketball coach and former player who played for the Uruguay men's national basketball team. He won the Uruguayan Basketball Championship five times.
# Vernon Cook

Vernon Floyd Cook (July 10, 1927 – November 23, 1987) is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives. and former faculty member of the University of Akron Political Science Department.
Cook was the first Director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics.
He was a cousin of former U.S. Representative Robert E. Cook.

## Early life and military service

Cook was born in Kent, Ohio. He left high school in 1944 to enlist in the United States Army Air Corps, and served as a cryptographer for the 231st AAF BU. He was stationed in Alamogordo, New Mexico, England, and Germany as part of Operation Paperclip.
After his discharge from active duty, Cook served in the United States Army Reserve and obtained the rank of captain. His reserve duties included teaching cryptographic and interrogation techniques at Fort George G. Meade.
He married Sharen Louise Mills from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

## Education

Cook graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University in 1951. He also attended Miami University and completed the classwork required for a doctorate, but never his dissertation.
He was posthumously awarded an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Akron in 1988.

## Career
### Teaching

Cook was an assistant professor of political science at Ohio Wesleyan University and Case Western Reserve University before becoming an associate professor at the University of Akron in 1965. He continued in that position after being elected to public office, until his death in 1987.

### Politics

Cook was first elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1972. In 1979, he was made Assistant Majority Floor Leader. He served on the Finance and Appropriations committee, the Ethics and Standards committee, the Rules committee and was chair of the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review.

### Bliss Institute

In 1987, Cook was made the first director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. Although Cook had been Ray C. Bliss's choice, Cook's appointment was controversial.
Despite some partisan wrangling, Cook was eventually given the post.
An internship named for Cook provides students with the practical experience in politics.
# Harbin Hansbrow Moore

Harbin Hansbrow Moore (November 27, 1869 – October 17, 1955), also known as H. H. Moore, was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member for the 126th district of the Texas House of Representatives.

## Life and career

Moore was born in Texas. He was a farmer.
Moore served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1925 to 1927. He lost his seat after being expelled from the Texas House by a vote of 119–14 after a report found that Moore and F. A. Dale accepted a $1000 bribe from optometrist W. W. Chamberlain to "influence pending legislation and declare their seats vacant".
Moore died on October 17, 1955, at the age of 85.
# Krzynia

Krzynia (German: Krien) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dębnica Kaszubska, within Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Dębnica Kaszubska, 18 km (11 mi) south-east of Słupsk, and 93 km (58 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
# Barry Alderette

Barry Lynn Alderette (August 8, 1939 – May 17, 1996) was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for one year.

## Early life and education

Barry was born in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania on 8 August 1939 and attended Beaver Falls High School. His father was James Ellis Alderette and mother was Elizabeth Diane (Kier) Alderette, with siblings Barry, Arthur, and Beverly.
He attended Geneva College and Pennsylvania State University.

## Personal life

He was married to Patricia Ivancik Alderette and has a daughter, Chaundra

## Career

He served in United States Air Force (1960) and the Pennsylvania Air National Guard (1960–1966). He was a licensed insurance agent and the owner and operator of Alderette Insurance Company.
He also worked as special assistant and auditor at Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General. He was elected as the treasurer of Beaver Falls (1978–1982) and member of the Planning Commission for Beaver Falls (1975–1983). He was a member of Municipal Water Authority at Beaver Falls (1977–1983). He was the president of Beaver County Young Democrats and a member of the Beaver Falls Democratic Committee (1972–1982). He was the city chairman (1974–1980). He was elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1982 and served one term, his unsuccessful campaign for re-election to the House (1984).
# Bernard O'Brien (politician)

Bernard F. O'Brien (March 5, 1914 – January 30, 2011) was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

## Biography

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on March 5, 1914, O'Brien attended James M. Coughlin High School.
O'Brien played an instrumental role in funding the construction of the Cross Valley Expressway in northeastern Pennsylvania. He was succeeded in the state House by Kevin Blaum, a young Wilkes-Barre city councilman who upset O'Brien in a Democratic primary.

## Death

O'Brien died in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, on January 30, 2011.
# Herbert Arlene

Herbert Arlene (September 5, 1914 – November 9, 1989) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 3rd district from 1967 until 1980. He was the first African-American elected to the Pennsylvania Senate. He also served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the Philadelphia County district from 1959 to 1966.

## Early life

Arlene was born in Harrison, Georgia to Elbert and Mattie King Arlene. He graduated from the Philadelphia public schools, Philadelphia Business College and received an honorary L.L.D. from Miller College.

## Career

He was the owner of Arlene's Tailor Shop and a member of the board of trustees of Lincoln University, the board of directors of the Greater Philadelphia Development Corporation, the Bearean Institute, Hospital Authority of Philadelphia. He served as Ward Leader for the 47th Ward in Philadelphia and as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1956 to 1966 and as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 3rd district from 1967 to 1980.
He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is interred at the Rolling Green Cemetery in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
# Harold Horn

Harold Acker Horn (May 10, 1924 – December 31, 1985) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was born in Gap, Pennsylvania to Albert M. and Lavinia M. Acker Horn.
Harold Horn died December 31, 1985.
# H. Jerome Jaspan

H. Jerome Jaspan (August 28, 1897 – November 24, 1969) was an American politician and lawyer.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jaspan went to Wyoming Grammar School and Central High School. He received his law degree from Temple University Law School. He practiced law. Jaspan was the Pennsylvania Assistant Solicitor and special Pennsylvania Deputy Assistant Attorney General from 1926 to 1932. From 1937 to 1939, Jaspan served in the Pennsylvania State Senate and was a Democrat. Jaspan died in Germantown Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
# Theodore Johnson (politician)

Theodore Johnson (May 5, 1903 – December 1992) was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
He was born in Georgia to William Edward and Mary (née Collins) Johnson.
# John Laudadio

John F. Laudadio, Sr. (December 26, 1916 – June 6, 1977) was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
# Paul M. Lawson

Paul M. Lawson (January 29, 1914 – February 20, 1988) was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He graduated from Penn State University.
# William G. Barthold

William Gregory Barthold was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the 18th district from 1937 to 1938 as well as serving as a Judge in Northampton County from 1938 until his death in 1969.

## Biography

Barthold was born in Philadelphia on December 12, 1897, to Allen H. and Emma A. Barthold. His family moved to Bethlehem while he was still a child. He attended the Bethlehem High School graduating as Valedictorian of the class of 1914. He attended Lehigh University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1918. He went on to study law at the Harvard Law School, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in 1922.
Barthold opened a legal practice in Bethlehem right out of college until he was elected the Solicitor of neighboring Freemansburg in 1924, an office he would hold until 1942. He was elected the District Attorney of Northampton County, Pennsylvania for a term from 1928 to 1932. He was then elected the solicitor for Sheriff for Northampton County for a year from 1934 to 1935, then he was elected the solicitor of the Bethlehem School District from 1934 to 1937.
In 1937 Barthold was elected as a Democratic to represent the 18th district of the Pennsylvania State Senate for a term until 1938. He declined to seek another term and instead was elected a judge in Northampton county. He would serve as a judge until 1947 when he ran to become the President Judge of Northampton county. Winning and serving in that position until 1969. While he was president judge in 1948 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Moravian College.
Barthold died on September 22, 1969, at the age of 71 while in office. He was buried in the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem.

## Personal life

Barthold married Frances Katherine Née Werkheiser in 1925. The couple had two children, both daughters; Jeanne Audre Barthold and Nancy G. Barthold. Barthold was a member of the United Church of Christ. He was also a member of the board of trustees for Cedar Crest College, St. Luke's Hospital and was on the advisory board for the Salvation Army and the Bethlehem YMCA. He was a member of the Saucon Valley Country Club and served on the board of several local charities.
# Amos Hutchinson

Amos K. Hutchinson (January 1, 1920 – August 1, 1990) is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

## Issues

In April 1986, residents of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, who were represented by Hutchinson, expressed anger and frustration with him and with executives of the Greater Greensburg Sewage Authority because of their failure to respond to their requests for help in fixing the basement flooding problems they were having due to a small stream which overflowed its banks repeatedly. Residents, who said they had been assured by Hutchinson that $350,000 had been allocated from the state for use by the sewage authority to create a new storm sewer, were angry at city officials who claimed that the state had not yet provided the money for the construction. Residents pointed out that sewage authority personnel could at least attempt to alleviate their flooding problems by cleaning the creek of debris while waiting for the state to follow through with the promised storm sewer funding.
# Kevin Blaum

Kevin J. Blaum (born June 4, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is a former American politician who was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding area for nearly three decades.

## Biography

Blaum is a 1970 graduate of James M. Coughlin High School. He earned a degree in Education and Political Science from the University of Scranton in 1974.
Blaum taught Government and American History at Bishop Hoban High School in Wilkes-Barre from 1975 until 1980. In 1975, he was elected to serve on the Wilkes-Barre City Council at the age of twenty-three in spite of his young age and placement at last on the ballot. Blaum's extensive door-to-door canvassing effort, which he claims hit "all doors in the city of Wilkes-Barre," played a significant part in securing his victory.
He was first elected to represent the 121st legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1980 after defeating longtime Democratic incumbent Bernard F. O'Brien in a primary and easily trouncing a Republican opponent in the general election. The door-to-door campaign of Blaum again carried him to an impressive win, especially in the primary against the legendary O'Brien.
In 1994, Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey awarded a $19.2 million state grant to construct the 10,000 seat Mohegan Sun Arena—initially dubbed the Northeastern Pennsylvania Convention Center—in Blaum's district. Blaum served as Chairman of the Arena Authority supervising the construction and management of the arena, and helped to lure Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League to become primary tenants of the arena.
As chair of the House Aging and Youth Committee, Blaum crafted substantial changes in Pennsylvania's laws regarding child abuse and child protection laws, including Act 151 of 1994, which expanded the definition of child abuse to include children in "imminent risk of serious physical injury or sexual abuse," established child abuse background checks for school employees, and set up a system of reporting cases involving sexual abuse or serious bodily injury of students by school employees. He was also the architect of Pennsylvania's Underage Drinking Law and Pennsylvania's Ethics Act. He also crafted Act 20 of 1996, which eliminated many jurisdictional disputes over the collection of child support payments. He was honored with the Domestic Relations Association of Pennsylvania's "Presidents Award" in 1996 and with Common Cause of Pennsylvania's "Champion of Good Government Award" in 1989.
In 2004, he was elected Secretary of the House Democratic Caucus. He retired shortly after the 2006 election and announced his retirement in December 2005 at the arena, indicating to those gathered that he wanted the construction of the arena to define his legacy.
After retirement, Blaum served as an associate director of admission and the director of financial aid at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania until his retirement in the early 2010s. From 2008 to 2013, he wrote a weekly opinion column for Times Leader newspaper entitled "In the Arena."