Charles Bronson
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Charles Bronson was an American actor. He was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique". Bronson was born into extreme poverty in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, a co
Bronson in 1965
Bronson in Man with a Camera, 1959
A publicity photo of Bronson and Patricia Owens for the film X-15, 1961
Bronson in The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, 1963
Lipka Tatars
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The Lipka Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group and minority in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century.
Charles Bronson
…ran out of the mine's mouth passed just a few yards away. His father, Walter Buchinsky (né Vladislavas Valteris Paulius Bučinskas/Bučinskis), was a Lipka Tatar from Druskininkai in southern Lithuania. Bronson's mother, Mary (née Valinsky), whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania…
Belarusian Tatars
Tatar dance
Lithuanian Tatars in the Napoleonic Army.
Page from the Dastan-ı Miraç (British Library, London), a miscellany of religious works written in a Slavic language using the Arabic script, probably copied in the late 18th–early 19th century in western Belarus. Although Lipka Tatars are a Turkic people, they have been using Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Polish as their means of daily communication for centuries. The Slavic translation is written in modified Arabic characters with special letters to indicate sounds that do not exist in Arabic or Turkic.