February 2005
Issue 14

In This Issue:
* African-American History Month
* Teleconference with Nobel Prize Winner
* Mars Exhibit in Zakopane
* Document Alert

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African-American History Month

To recall and celebrate the positive contributions to the United States made by people of African descent, American historian Carter G. Woodson established Black History Week beginning on February 12, 1926. In 1976, as part of the nation's bicentennial, the week was expanded into Black History Month. This commemoration has increasingly been referred to as "African-American History Month," although both names are currently in use.

To celebrate African-American History Month the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow and American Library "Massolit Books" invite for a lecture and presentation "The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters". The lecture will be given by Prof. Gary Monroe from Daytona Beach Community College on  February 18 (Friday), 2005 at 6 p.m. at "Massolit Books", Felicjanek 4 in Krakow.

"Highwaymen" by G. Monroe

Teleconference with Nobel Prize Winner

The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow is organizing a teleconference with Prof. Frank Wilczek Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 2004 and one of the world's most eminent theoretical physicists. Prof. Wilczek who works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the second person of Polish origin who received a Nobel prize in Physics. The first person was Maria Sklodowska-Curie. Along with David Gross and David Politzer, Frank Wilczek received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".

The teleconference will take place on February 28, 2005.

For more details please call: (12) 424 51 43

U.S. physicist Frank Wilczek, left, receives the joint 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics (© AP Photo/Pressensbild Pool)AP/WWP

Mars Photo Exhibit in Zakopane

Mars: Mission Possible, a photo exhibit organized by the United States Consulate General in Krakow will travel to Zakopane. The exhibit features photos sent to Earth by Mars rovers Pathfinder, Spirit and Opportunity as well as other images of the Red Planet.

Empty Nest (© NASA/JPL/Cornell)

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Document Alert

Iraq Elections. Road to Democracy (posted February 2005)

A publication of the State Department Bureau of International Information Programs presents a report on the elections in Iraq, ways of building democracy and role of women in Iraqi society. It also includes photo gallery and a collections of Iraqi elections links.

U.S. Consulate General, ul. Stolarska 9, Krakow, tel.: 12 424-5100
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