Word: jagellonia
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...love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab, and was the only one at the University who could swim Jagellonia Lake. It was in Cracow that he first met Josef Pilsudski, who was organizing rifle clubs throughout Austrian Poland, on the theory that one day his Riflemen's Alliance would form the nucleus of an army to free the land. The two were as disparate as Lincoln and Douglas: Pilsudski...
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