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Encyclopedia entry: Ostrołęka
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      311 words ... ... Ostrołęka , Rus. Ostrolenka, town (1993 est. pop. 52,400), Mazowieckie prov., NE Poland, on the Narew River. It is a railway junction and a manufacturing center where pulp and paper, lumber, and foodstuffs are produced ...

Article: WATCH THE BIRDSKI; Sarah Anderson teams up with a dedicated band ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  September 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... first attempt at trying to see a thrush nightingale by the Narew River. I finally spotted it after having been given painstaking ... strolls. They seemed to follow us as we left Nowogrod on the Narew River and headed north-east to Goniadz in the Biebrza National ...

Article: Touring Poland's Skansens.(Country overview)
Faces: People, Places, and Cultures;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... homes have been furnished with household implements. A church was recently added as well. Located on the steep bank of the Narew River, the museum at Kurpie is the secondoldest skansen in Poland. Not only is it interesting to visit, but also it offers spectacular ...

Article: WETLANDS: FINLAND, POLAND AND UNITED KINGDOM NAME NEW RAMSAR ...
Europe Environment;  November 10, 2005 ;     566 words ... ... 125,760 hectares. The new sites are: the Druzno Lake Nature Reserve (3,068 ha), in the Vistula Delta region, the Narew River National Park (7,350 ha) - an area potentially threatened by the construction of the Siemanowska dam on the Belarus ...

Article: Dreamscape with Burial Pits
The Jerusalem Report;  August 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... virtual Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, of former Jewish life in Europe. Tykocin is nestled on the bank of the gentle Narew River. It's a quiet agricultural village with about 3,500 inhabitants. That was roughly its population prior to World War ...

Article: A breath of fresh air: touring Poland's skansens.
Faces: People, Places, and Cultures;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... homes have been furnished with household implements. A church was recently added as well. Located on the steep bank of the Narew River, the museum at Kurpie is the second-oldest skansen in Poland. Not only is it interesting to visit, but it also offers ...

Article: Habitat and seasonal variations in diet of otters, Lutra lutra in ...
Folia Zoologica;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... glutinosa. Pine Pinus silvestris forests dominate on the slopes of the river valley. Biebrza River, a right tributary of the Narew River, is a 155 km long, lowland river in north-eastern Poland. Two separate sections were defined as study areas, a 5 km ...