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Zach Fisher, Towson
Grad., 3B, Baltimore, Md./Perry Hall
Fisher batted .478 (11-23) with two doubles, six runs scored and five RBI's in Towson's 4-1 week. The Tigers' third baseman had at least two hits in all five games and also stole four bases. He drove in a run in four of the contests. Fisher hit .583 (7-12) as Towson won two of three in its CAA series at George Mason.
Ryan Williams, William & Mary
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Williams batted .471 (8-17) with a double, two runs scored and five RBI's in William & Mary's 4-1 week. The senior shortstop hit .556 (5-9) and drove in three as the Tribe swept a three-game conference series from JMU and also was 3-for-5 with a pair of RBI's in a victory over Norfolk State.
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Batts threw his fourth consecutive complete game in UNCW's 4-2 victory over Delaware on Saturday, ending the Blue Hens' 13-game winning streak. The junior scattered seven hits, struck out eight and didn't issue a walk against a UD squad that ranked second nationally in batting average. He retired the final 10 batters of the game in order.
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Bates allowed just five hits and one earned run over 9.0 innings in Georgia State's 4-3 12-inning victory at New Orleans last Friday. The right-hander struck out a career-high 11 batters, which was the most for a Panthers' pitcher since 2011. He retired the final 13 batters he faced and 17 of the last 18.
DELAWARE (24-10, 10-5 in CAA)
The Blue Hens increased their winning streak to 13 games with a 6-3 victory over UMBC last Tuesday but saw it end with a pair of losses in a key three-game series at UNCW. DJ Long batted .545 (5-11) with a homer, four runs scored and three RBI's in the UNCW series and extended his hitting streak to seven games. Jimmy Yezzo hit .444 (8-18) for the week with his league-leading 20th double, a homer and four runs scored. EJ Stoltzfus is batting .381 during a 6-game hitting streak. Matt Soren held UNCW to three earned runs on five hits over 6.0 innings and won his third straight game in Sunday's 11-7 triumph at UNCW. Stephen Richter picked up his 20th career save in the win. Dan Gatto gave up just four hits and two runs over 6.2 innings during three appearances.
GEORGE MASON (13-23, 5-13 in CAA)
The Patriots went 1-3 last week but ended a 10-game slide by topping Towson 4-2 on Saturday. Mason scored all four of its runs in the eighth as Patrick Esposito contributed a two-run single. Anthony Montefusco, who also had an RBI in the eighth, scattered four hits and allowed just two runs over 6.0 innings on the mound. Reliever Mark Maskimow closed the game with three shutout frames to get the win and improve to 3-1. Josh Leemhuis was 3-for-4 and drove in three runs in Friday's 10-6 setback to the Tigers.
GEORGIA STATE (24-14, 5-7 in CAA)
The Panthers went 4-1 last week, defeating Kennesaw State 12-5 before winning three of four at New Orleans over the weekend. Chase Raffield batted .333 (7-21) with two homers, four doubles, six runs scored and six RBI's. He went deep in both games of Saturday's doubleheader sweep at UNO and has seven homers for the season. Shortstop Chad Prain, who is among the nation's leaders with a .444 average and 38 RBI's, has reached base in 35 straight games. GSU's bullpen recorded all four wins and two saves last week and combined for a 1.06 ERA over 26.1 innings. Freshman starter Nathan Bates limited UNO to one run on five hits over 9.0 innings last Friday but didn't get a decision. He had a career-high 11 strikeouts and retired the final 13 batters he faced.
HOFSTRA (17-20, 6-9 in CAA)
The Pride had a 3-2 week, which included a 4-2 victory over St. John's and a doubleheader sweep of ODU on Saturday. Senior Austin Nyman hit .467 (7-15) with two doubles, three RBI's and four runs scored. He also stole five bases to take over the CAA lead with 20. Kenny Jackson hit his fifth homer of the year on Saturday and has reached base in 21 straight games. Hofstra's bullpen gave up just one hit over 8.0 shutout innings in the doubleheader vs. ODU. Bryan Verbitsky tossed three scoreless frames in the opener to get the win and the trio of Nick Kozlowski, Andrew Barbarino and Brett Schreiber combined for five innings of no-hit ball in the finale with Kozlowski getting the win.
JAMES MADISON (14-20, 6-11 in CAA)
The Dukes have dropped 11 games in a row following an 0-4 week, which included being swept by CAA foe William & Mary. Mistakes hurt JMU last week as it committed 10 errors, issued 19 walks and hit 10 batters. Junior Conner Brown batted .438 (7-16) with a triple, homer, three runs scored and six RBI's. JMU also got strong weeks offensively from Casey Goss (.529), Cole McInturff (.462) and Chad Carroll (.412) as it batted .333 as a team. Johnny Bladel had his 27-game on base streak come to an end, but is still second in the league in on base percentage (.503) for the season. Bladel ranks fourth all-time at JMU with 130 walks.
UNCW (26-11, 9-2 in CAA)
The Seahawks, who are ranked #25 by Baseball America this week, went 3-1 last week, including taking two of three in their big CAA series with Delaware. Luke Dunlap batted .462 (6-13) with five walks and also scored four times.He's riding a 7-game hitting streak. Michael Bass returned from an ankle injury and had five hits in Saturday's doubleheader sweep of UD. Bass tied the UNCW record with a 26-game hitting streak before having it snapped on Sunday, but has reached base in 33 straight games. Hunter Ridge is one RBI shy of Jonathan Batts' career school record of 182. Mat Batts threw his 4th straight complete game on Saturday, limiting UD to seven hits and fanning eight in a 4-2 win. He retired the final 10 batters of the game. Jordan Ramsey (6-2) held UD scoreless in Saturday's second game until allowing a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth of a 3-2 victory.
NORTHEASTERN (21-15, 7-8 in CAA)
The Huskies beat Connecticut (4-2) and Harvard (10-2), but dropped two of three at Richmond over the weekend. Outfielder Aaron Barbosa batted .380 with five runs scored and seven RBI's. He drove in a career-high five runs in Saturday's 12-5 win at UR. Michael Foster smacked a pair of homers in the series at Richmond and has three for the year. Lefty Isaac Lippert scattered eight hits over six shutout innings and fanned five versus UConn to improve to 3-1. Freshman James Mulry limited Harvard to an unearned run on six hits to earn the win. Mulry struck out eight and didn't issue a walk.
OLD DOMINION (18-16, 8-10 in CAA)
The Monarchs topped Richmond 7-4 but lost two of three at Hofstra over the weekend. Freshman outfielder Connor Myers batted .364 with a double, triple and four runs scored last week. Ben Slaton hit . 455 for the week, including a 3-for-6 effort with two RBI's in Sunday's 14-5 victory at Hofstra. Eight different ODU players had an RBI on Sunday. Ben Verlander, who is batting .375 with a league-high 10 homers for the season, drove in six runs last week to raise his RBI total to 27. Junior Ryan Yarbrough (2-3) limited the Pride to one earned run on six hits in Sunday's win and struck out a career-high eight batters.
TOWSON (19-17, 9-6 in CAA)
The Tigers had a 4-1 week, beating in-state foes UMES (7-4) and Mount St. Mary's (12-7) before taking two of three at George Mason. Third baseman Zach Fisher batted .478 (11-23) with two doubles, six runs scored and five RBI's. He had at least two hits in all five games and also stole four bases. Kurt Wertz had his first two-homer game at MSM and then went deep in back-to-back games at Mason to up his season total to six. Brandon Gonnella held Mason to four hits over 7.0 shutout innings and fanned seven on Sunday. Kyle Paul finished the 8-0 victory. Senior Mike Volpe improved to 5-2 after beating Mason 10-6 in the opener. Towson has 51 double plays in 36 games and led the nation last week.
WILLIAM & MARY (25-13, 9-3 in CAA)
The Tribe went 4-1 last week, capped by a three-game sweep of James Madison that pulled W&M within a half-game of first place. Shortstop Ryan Williams batted .471 with a double and five RBI's. Freshman Jonathan Sarty hit .385 with a pair of doubles and drove in six. Michael Katz had three RBI's in Saturday's 9-8 victory over JMU and is batting .429 for the season. Ryan Brown went 3-for-3 and scored twice as W&M took the finale 5-3 on Sunday. Senior lefty Matt Wainman earned three saves last week, allowing just four hits and no runs over 7.0 innings while fanning five.


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Roy Hibbert rediscovers his touch from the post after battling lingering injury
By Rob Mahoney
For months, we saw what may well be the valley of Roy Hibbert's career: good attempts with no return, a surprisingly erratic hook shot and a strangely persistent inability to convert even the simplest looks around the basket. It was all very uncharacteristic, given that the mammoth center had just months prior established himself as one of the best back-to-the-basket players in the league.
Indiana had re-signed Hibbert last summer with the expectation that he would again serve as the backbone of Indy's vaunted team defense while providing both scoring and facilitation from the low post. His struggles to finish ordinary post-up possessions or draw double teams with consistency added another layer of difficulty for a team already reeling from the absence of Danny Granger.
But things have changed a bit since this season's sour early months.
It's no coincidence that the Pacers have scored at a top-10 rate since the All-Star break and, essentially, since Hibbert's touch returned. Paul George and David West held over Indiana in the interim (and continue to do the bulk of the offensive creation for the Pacers, who sit third in the East at 48-27), but a fully operational Hibbert has done wonders for Indiana's balance and ball movement.
A 7-footer with an established post game naturally draws in defenders with every move and every dribble, and those teams that refuse to swarm Hibbert in the post now run the risk of him simply backing down his man and dropping in an easy hook. In a league increasingly wary of surrendering open three-pointers, that happens more often than you'd think. Hibbert has scored 19.5 points per 36 minutes on an incredibly sound 50.4 percent shooting since the NBA's intermission. Prior to the break, Hibbert was putting up just 12.6 points per 36 while shooting just 41.4 percent from the field — woeful marks for any interior player, and especially one of Hibbert's skills and pay grade.
Yet the most fascinating aspect of Hibbert's performance is how little has actually changed. There's no meaningful difference in terms of the quality or nature of Hibbert's attempts, and there was no discernible shift in terms of his shooting form or positioning. Hibbert simply endured the worst shooting slump of his career as if it were a bad storm — torrential and damaging, sure, but limited by its inevitable passing. The skies are clearer now, but neither Hibbert nor any of the principles involved seem to have any idea what dictated the comings or goings of his struggle. From Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN.com:
Ask [Hibbert], his coach or his teammates where anything has changed about his form or mechanics, and all you get are shrugs. So what's Hibbert doing now that he wasn't at the start of the season? "The tougher question is, 'Why wasn't he finishing before?'" Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "What he's doing now is what we've come to expect." Hibbert led all scorers on Monday night, recording 26 points on 11-for-14 shooting from the field. Hibbert offered his own theories: "Don't force things," he said. "I come in on my days off and try to get better. I try to mimic David West's workouts." Vogel offered another theory prior to the game. When Hibbert couldn't buy buckets earlier in the season, Vogel encouraged the center to focus on anchoring the defense. Sure, be mindful of opportunities on the other end, but do it with less deliberate effort and more in the flow of the offense.
That guesswork on the part of Hibbert and Vogel ultimately isn't that satisfying, and it does little in the way of drawing us toward any real conclusions. But this is one matter in which we may simply have to be content with the unexplained.
A deep dive into the tape shows more or less the same Hibbert through struggles and successes, save perhaps the slightest hesitation as the misses began piling up. That said, we can find the slightest indication of a very relevant injury, as Hibbert described a certain flimsiness in his wrist to Mike Wells of the Indianapolis Star a few months back for a report that is no longer online (excerpt via 8p9s):
"I haven't had any power in my right wrist, so my hand has been basically a stub…It doesn't hurt. It just has weakness. Things were just out of whack. I was getting the shots I wanted with my right hand, but a few would go completely off track. So my touch was basically gone. That's why I was shooting more shots with my left hand in the post."
Hibbert doesn't often mention the ailment and I've seen no evidence of Vogel or any other Pacer citing Hibbert's injury as an excuse. But it could help explain Hibbert's early season struggles and justify why so many of Hibbert's post-up attempts took odd angles or bounces after leaving his hand in the season's early going. To explore that notion, let's take a look at Hibbert's shot chart from the 53 games prior to the All-Star break:
Take note of the glaring swath of red on the right block, where Hibbert went 9-of-35 overall. Many right-handed post players prefer to work from the left block because it allows them to go middle more naturally, but Hibbert has a tendency to push middle before countering baseline for a hook shot. That means the shots he's attempting from the right side of the floor — as in that 9-of-35 zone — are largely attempted with the right hand, while those on the left were primarily lefty hooks or face-up set shots. There were also a number of occasions in which Hibbert noticeably went away from potential scoring opportunities with his right while working from the middle of the floor — an occurrence that certainly jives with the weakness he would later describe to Wells.
For contrast, let's look at Hibbert's shooting in the 21 games since the break:
Hibbert's shooting from the left side of the lane has more or less held constant, all while his shooting from the right block has improved by nearly 20 percent. The overall number of attempts from the right and left are also sliding toward equilibrium, after Hibbert noticeably favored the left earlier in the year, taking almost twice as many attempts from that side of the block. Considering the circumstances, this may be as closest thing to definitive evidence that we're likely to see, even if it's merely based on an underplayed injury. Still, Hibbert's weak wrist may too help to explain some of his difficulty in finishing looks in the immediate basket area early in the season — a trend which seems to have been bucked with his much-improved shooting at the rim over the last few months.
It's a bit strange that Hibbert's wrist injury hasn't been a bigger component of the conversation surrounding his struggles, but information on the matter has been strangely limited and Hibbert himself even seems reluctant to mention it. Still, this may be the most grounded way to make sense of what had been a baffling stretch of basketball for a normally impressive player.
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Confluence of the Narew and the Vistula at Modlin, Poland
|- left
|Nida, Pilica, Bzura, Brda, Wda
|- right
|Dunajec, Wisłoka, San, Wieprz, Narew, Drwęca
|Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk
|- location
|Barania Góra, Silesian Beskids
|- elevation
|1,106 m (3,629 ft)
|- coordinates
|- location
|Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea,
Przekop channel near Świbno, Poland
|- elevation
|0 m (0 ft)
|- coordinates
|1,047 km (651 mi)
|194,424 km2 (75,068 sq mi)
|for Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea
|- average
|1,080 m3/s (38,140 cu ft/s)
|Wikimedia Commons: Vistula
The Vistula (/ˈvɪstjʊlə/; Polish: Wisła [ˈvʲiswa]) is the longest and largest river in Poland, at 1,047 kilometres (651 miles) in length. The watershed (drainage basin) area of the Vistula is 194,424 km2 (75,068 sq mi), of which 168,699 km2 (65,135 sq mi) lies within Poland (splitting the country in half). The remainder is in Belarus and the Ukraine.
The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, 1,220 meters (4,000 ft) above sea level in the Silesian Beskids (western part of Carpathian Mountains), where it begins with the White Little Vistula (Biała Wisełka) and the Black Little Vistula (Czarna Wisełka).[1] It then continues to flow over the vast Polish plains, passing several large Polish cities along its way, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon (Zalew Wiślany) or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta and several branches (Leniwka, Przekop, Śmiała Wisła, Martwa Wisła, Nogat and Szkarpawa).
- 1 Sources
- 2 Geography
- 3 Major cities and towns along Vistula tributaries
- 4 Delta of the Vistula River
- 5 Geological history
- 6 Navigation
- 7 Etymology
- 8 Historical relevance
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 External links
The Vistula river is formed in the southern Silesian Voivodeship of Poland from two sources, the Czarna Wisełka at an altitude of 1,107 m (3,632 ft) and the Biała Wisełka at an altitude of 1,080 m (3,540 ft)[2] on the western slope of Barania Góra in the Silesian Beskids.[3]
The reaches of the Vistula are composed of three stretches: upper, from its sources to the city of Sandomierz; centre, from Sandomierz to the mouth of Narew and Bug; and bottom, from mouth of Narew till Vistula's own delta at the Baltic.
The Vistula river basin covers 194,424 square kilometres (75,068 square miles) (in Poland 168,700 square kilometres (65,135 square miles)); its average altitude rising to 270 metres (886 feet) above sea level. In addition, the majority of its river basin (55%) is located at heights of 100 to 200 m above sea level; over 3/4 of the river basin ranges from 100 to 300 metres (328 to 984 feet) in altitude. The highest point of the river basin lies at 2,655 metres (8,711 feet) (Gerlach Peak in the Tatra mountains). One of the features of the river basin of the Vistula is its asymmetry - in great measure resulting from the tilting direction of the Central-European Lowland toward the north-west, the direction of the flow of glacial waters, as well as considerable predisposition of its older base. The asymmetry of the river basin (right-hand to left-hand side) is 73-27%.
The most recent glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch, which ended around 10,000 BC, is called the Vistulian glaciation or Weichselian glaciation in regard to north-central Europe.[4]
Major cities and towns along Vistula tributaries[edit]
Delta of the Vistula River[edit]
The river forms a wide delta called the Żuławy Wiślane around the town of Biała Góra near Sztum, about 50 km (31 mi) from the mouth, splitting into two branches: the Leniwka (left) and the Nogat (right). In the city of Gdańsk the Head of the Leniwka branch separates again into the Szkarpawa branch, for the purpose of flood control closed to the east with a lock. The so-called Dead Wisła divides again into the Przegalinie branch flowing into Gdańsk Bay. Until the 14th century the Vistula was divided into a main eastern branch, the Elbląg Vistula, and the smaller western branch, the Gdańsk Vistula. Since 1371 the Vistula of Gdańsk is the river's main artery. After the flood in 1840 an additional branch formed called the Śmiała Wisła ("Bold Vistula"). In 1890 through 1895, additional waterworks were carried out up the Świbna.
Near Kwidzyn the Vistula divides into two separate branches that constitute the river delta:
|Motława, Radunia, Potok Oliwski
|in the city the river divides into several separate branches that reach the Baltic Sea at different points, the main branch reaches the sea at Westerplatte
|shortly before reaching Vistula Bay
List of right and left tributaries with a nearby city, from source to mouth:
Right tributaries
Left tributaries
Climate change and the flooding of the Vistula delta[edit]
According to flood studies carried out by Professor Zbigniew Pruszak, who is the co-author of the scientific paper Implications of SLR[5] and further studies carried out by scientists attending Poland's Final International ASTRA Conference,[6] and predictions stated by climate scientists at the climate change pre-summit in Copenhagen,[7] it is highly likely most of the Vistula Delta region (which is below sea level[8]) will be flooded due to the sea level rise caused by climate change by 2100.
Geological history[edit]
The history of the River Vistula and her valley spans over 2 million years. The river is connected to the geological period called the Quaternary, in which distinct cooling of the climate took place. In the last million years, an ice sheet entered the area of Poland eight times, bringing along with it changes of reaches of the river. In warmer periods, when the ice sheet retreated, the Vistula deepened and widened its valley. The river took its present shape within the last 14,000 years, after complete recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet from the area. At present, along the Vistula valley, erosion of the banks and collecting of new deposits are still occurring.[9]
As the principal river of Poland, the Vistula is also located in the centre of Europe. Three principal geographical and geological land masses of the continent meet in her river basin: the lowland Eastern European shield, the area of uplands and low mountains of Western Europe, and the Alpine zone of high mountains to which both the Alps and the Carpathians belong. The Vistula begins in the Carpathian mountains. The run and character of the river was shaped by ice sheets flowing down from the Scandinavian Peninsula. The last ice sheet entered the area of Poland about 20,000 years ago. During periods of warmer weather, the ancient Vistula, "Pra-Wisła", searched for the shortest way to the sea - thousands of years ago it flowed into the North Sea somewhere at the latitude of contemporary Scotland. The climate of the Vistula valley, its plants, animals and its very character changed considerably during the process of glacial retreat.[10]
Lake Morskie Oko, White Dunajec Springs
Vistula flooding south of Warsaw, 2004
Vistula in Płock
The Vistula is navigable from the Baltic Sea to Bydgoszcz (where the Bydgoszcz Canal joins the river). The Vistula can accommodate modest river vessels of CEMT class II. Farther upstream the river depth lessens. Although a project was undertaken to increase the traffic-carrying capacity of the river upstream of Warsaw by building a number of locks in and around Kraków, this project was not extended further, so that navigability of the Vistula remains limited. The potential of the river would increase considerably if a restoration of the East-West connection via the Narew–Bug–Mukhovets–Pripyat–Dnieper waterways were considered. The shifting economic importance of parts of Europe may make this option more likely.
The name was first recorded by Pliny in AD 77 in his Natural History. He uses Vistula (4.52, 4.89) with an alternative spelling, Vistillus (3.06). The root of the name Vistula is Indo-European ultimately from proto-Indo-European. The diminutive endings -ila, -ula, were used in many Indo-European language groups, including Latin (see Ursula).
In writing about the Vistula River and its peoples, Ptolemy uses the Greek spelling, "Ouistoula". Other ancient sources spell it "Istula". Pomponius Mela refers to the "Visula" (Book 3) and Ammianus Marcellinus to the "Bisula" (Book 22), both of which names lack the -t-. Jordanes (Getica 5 & 17) uses "Viscla" while the Anglo-Saxon poem Widsith refers to it as the "Wistla".[11] 12th-century Polish chronicler Wincenty Kadłubek Latinised the river name to become Vandalus, from the Lithuanian "vanduo" ("water"), while Jan Długosz in his Annales seu cronicae incliti regni Poloniae called the Vistula "White river" (Alba aqua): "a nationibus orientalibus Polonis vicinis, ob aquae candorem Alba aqua ... nominatur".
During the Roman period, the Baltic was called the Mare Suebicum, after the Germanic Suebi people, who apparently originated from the region of the Oder. The name is believed to come from Proto-Germanic *swēbaz, either based on the Proto-Germanic root *swē- meaning "one's own" people, the third person reflexive pronoun.[12] from an Indo-European root *swe-,[13]
Historical relevance[edit]
Ancient settlements[edit]
Protoslavic tribes (Lusatia and Przeworsk Culture) occupied large parts of the Vistula Basin in the first millennium BCE. Genetic analysis indicates that there has been an unbroken genetic continuity of the inhabitants over the last 3,500 years, which would suggest that Polish tribes lived here for a long time and successfully defended against distant invaders,[14] such as Suebi and Burgundians. Even though the Romans do not appear to have had direct contact with the regions between Odra-Nysa Łużycka and the Bug, the Vistula Basin along with the lands of the Rhine, Danube, Elbe, and Oder came to be called Magna Germania by Roman authors of the 1st century AD.[14] Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD, would describe the Vistula as the border between Germania and Sarmatia.
Tacitus is another source regarding information on the early inhabitants of the Vistula. However, he makes no secret that many of the tribes to the east of the Vistula were somewhat shrouded in mystery. For example, when describing the Venethi, Peucini and Fenni he wrote that he was not sure if he should call them Germans, since they had settlements and they fought on foot, or rather Sarmatians since they have some similar customs to them.[15]
The Vistula river used to be connected to the Dnieper River, and thence to the Black Sea via the Augustów Canal, a technological marvel with numerous sluices contributing to its aesthetic appeal. It was the first waterway in Central Europe to provide a direct link between the two major rivers, the Vistula and the Neman. It provided a link with the Black Sea to the south through the Oginski Canal, Dnieper River, Berezina Canal, and Dvina River. The Baltic Sea–Vistula–Dnieper–Black Sea route with its rivers was one of the most ancient trade routes, the Amber Road, on which amber and other items were traded from Northern Europe to Greece, Asia, Egypt, and elsewhere.[16][17]
The Vistula estuary was settled by Slavs in the 7th and 8th century.[18] Based on archeological and linguistic findings, it has been postulated that these settlers moved northward along the Vistula river.[18] This however contradicts another hypothesis supported by some researchers saying the Veleti moved westward from the Vistula delta.[18]
A number of West Slavic Polish tribes formed small dominions beginning in the 8th century, some of which coalesced later into larger ones. Among the tribes listed in the Bavarian Geographer's 9th century document were the Vistulans (Wiślanie) in southern Poland. Kraków and Wiślica were their main centres.
Many Polish legends are connected with the Vistula and the beginnings of Polish statehood. One of the most enduring is that about princess Wanda co nie chciała Niemca (who rejected the German).[19] According to the most popular variant, popularized by the 15th century historian Jan Długosz,[20] Wanda, daughter of King Krak, became queen of the Poles upon her father's death.[19] She refused to marry a German prince Rytigier (Rüdiger), who took offence and invaded Poland, but was repelled.[21] Wanda however committed suicide, drowning in the Vistula river, to ensure he would not invade her country again.[21]
Main trading artery[edit]
For hundreds of years the river was one of the main trading arteries of Poland, and the castles that line its banks were highly prized possessions. Salt, timber, grain, and building stone were among goods shipped via that route between the 10th and 13th centuries.[22]
In the 14th century the lower Vistula was controlled by the Teutonic Order, invited in 1226 by Konrad I of Masovia to help him fight the pagan Prussians on the border of his lands. In 1308 the Teutonic Knights captured the Gdańsk castle and murdered the population.[23] Since then the event is known as the Gdańsk slaughter. The Order had inherited Gniew from Sambor II, thus gaining a foothold on the left bank of the Vistula.[24] Many granaries and storehouses, built in the 14th century, line the banks of the Vistula.[25] In the 15th century the city of Gdańsk gained great importance in the Baltic area as a centre of merchants and trade and as a port city. While at this time the surrounding lands were inhabited by Pomeranians, Gdańsk soon became a starting point for German settlement of the largely fallow Vistulan country.[26]
Before its peak in 1618, trade increased by a factor of 20 from 1491. The tonnage of grain traded on the river in key years is telling: 1491 - 14.000; 1537 - 23.000; 1563 - 150.000; 1618 - 310.000.[27]
In the 16th century most of the grain exported was leaving Poland through Gdańsk, which because of its location at the terminal point of the Vistula and its tributaries waterway and of its Baltic seaport trade role became the wealthiest, most highly developed (by far the largest center of crafts and manufacturing) and most autonomous of the Polish cities.[29] Other towns were negatively affected by Gdańsk's near-monopoly in foreign trade. During the reign of Stephen Báthory Poland ruled two main Baltic Sea ports: Gdańsk[30] controlling the Vistula river trade and Riga controlling the Western Dvina trade. Both cities were among the largest in the country. Around 70% the exports from Gdańsk were of grain.[27]
Grain was also the largest export commodity of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The volume of traded grain can be considered a good and well-measured proxy for the economic growth of the Commonwealth.
The owner of a folwark usually signed a contract with the merchants of Gdańsk, who controlled 80% of this inland trade, to ship the grain north to that seaport on the Baltic Sea. Many rivers in the Commonwealth were used for shipping purposes, including the Vistula. The river had a relatively well-developed infrastructure, with river ports and granaries. Most river shipping travelled north, southward transport being less profitable, and barges and rafts were often sold off in Gdańsk for lumber.
In order to arrest recurrent flooding on the lower Vistula, the Prussian government in 1889-95 constructed an artificial channel about 12 kilometres (7 miles) east of Gdańsk (German name: Danzig) – known as the Vistula Cut (German: Weichseldurchstich; Polish: Przekop Wisły) – that acted as a huge sluice, diverting much of the Vistula flow directly into the Baltic. As a result, the historic Vistula channel through Gdańsk lost much of its flow, and was known thereafter as the Dead Vistula (German: Tote Weichsel; Polish: Martwa Wisła). German states got complete control of the region in 1795-1812 (see: Partitions of Poland), as well as during the World Wars, in 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
From 1867 to 1917, the Russian tsarist administration called the Kingdom of Poland the Vistula Land after the collapse of the January Uprising (1863–1865).[31]
Almost 75% of the territory of interbellum Poland was drained northward into the Baltic Sea by the Vistula (total area of drainage basin of the Vistula within boundaries of the Second Polish Republic was 180,300 km²), the Niemen (51,600 km²), the Odra (46,700 km²) and the Daugava (10,400 km²).
In 1920 the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War Battle of Warsaw (sometimes referred to as the Miracle at the Vistula), was fought as Red Army forces commanded by Mikhail Tukhachevsky approached the Polish capital of Warsaw and nearby Modlin Fortress situated on the mouth of the Vistula.[33]
World War II[edit]
The Polish September campaign included battles over control of the mouth of the Vistula, and of the city of Gdańsk, so close to the river delta. During the Invasion of Poland (1939), after the initial battles in Pomerelia, the remains of the Polish Army of Pomerania withdrew to the southern bank of the Vistula.[34] After defending Toruń for several days, the army withdrew further south under pressure of the overall strained strategic situation, and took part in the main battle of Bzura.[34]
The Auschwitz complex of concentration camps was located on the Vistula, at the confluence of the Vistula and the Soła rivers.[35] Ashes of murdered Auschwitz victims were dumped into the river.[36]
During World War II prisoners of war from the Nazi Stalag XX-B camp were assigned to cut ice blocks from the River Vistula. The ice would then be transported by truck to the local beer houses.
The 1944 Warsaw Uprising was planned with the expectation that the Soviet forces, who had arrived in the course of their offensive and were waiting on the other side of the Vistula River in full force, would help in the battle for Warsaw.[37] However the Soviets let down the Poles, stopping their advance at the Vistula and branding the insurgents as criminals in radio broadcasts.[37][38][39]
In early 1945 the Red Army crossed the Vistula and drove the German Wehrmacht back past the Oder river in Germany in the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
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- ^ Barania Góra - Tam, gdzie biją źródła Wisły at PolskaNiezwykla.pl
- ^ Żaneta Kosińska: Rzeka Wisła.
- ^ Nazewnictwo geograficzne Polski. T.1: Hydronimy. 2cz. w 2 vol. ISBN 8323996075.
- ^ Wysota, W.; Molewski, P.; Sokołowski, R.J., Robert J. (2009). "Record of the Vistula ice lobe advances in the Late Weichselian glacial sequence in north-central Poland". Quaternary International 207: 26. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2008.12.015.
- ^ (English) Zbigniew Pruszaka, Elżbieta Zawadzka. "Potential Implications of Sea-Level Rise for Poland". www.bioone.org. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
- ^ (English) "Final International ASTRA conference in Espoo, Finland, 10–11 December 2007". www.astra-project.org. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
- ^ (English) Matt McGrath (2009-03-12). "Climate scenarios 'being realised'". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
- ^ (English) "Hydrology and morphology of two river mouth regions (temperate Vistula Delta and subtropical Red River Delta)". www.iopan.gda.pl. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
- ^ Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny (State Geological Institute), Warsaw, "Geologiczna historia Wisły"
- ^ R. Mierzejewski, Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. Leona Schillera w Łodzi, Narodziny rzeki
- ^ (English) William Napier (November 20, 2005). "Building a Library: The Fall of Rome". findarticles.com. Independent Newspapers UK Limited. Retrieved 2009-04-01.[dead link]
- ^ Peterson, Lena. "Swābaharjaz" (pdf). Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn. Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Sweden. pp. page 16. Retrieved 2007-10-11. (Text in Swedish); for an alternative meaning, as "free, independent" see Room, Adrian (2006). "Swabia, Sweden". Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6,600 Countries, Cities, Territories, Natural Features and Historic Sites: Second Edition. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. pp. 363, 364. ISBN 0786422483.; compare Suiones.
- ^ Pokorny, Julius. "Root/Lemma se-". Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IEED), Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University. pp. pages 882–884. (German language text); locate by searching the page number.Köbler, Gerhard (2000). "*se-" (pdf). Indogermanisches Wörterbuch: 3. Auflage. pp. page 188. (German language text); the etymology in English is in Watkins, Calvert (2000). "s(w)e-". Appendix I: Indo-European Roots. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. Some related English words are sibling, sister, swain, self.
- ^ a b (Polish) Jędrzej Giertych. "Tysiąc lat historii narodu polskiego". www.chipublib.org. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ De Origine et Situ Germanorum by Cornelius Tacitus
- ^ Augustów Canal on UNESCO Tentative List of Cultural Properties
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- ^ (English) "History of the City Gdańsk". www.en.gdansk.gda.pl. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ (English) Rosamond McKitterick, Timothy Reuter, David Abulafia, C. T. Allmand (1995). Vol.5, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History: C. 1198-C. 1300. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
- ^ (Polish) Krzysztof Mikulski. "Dzieje dawnego Torunia". www.mowiawieki.pl. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ (German) Oskar Halecki, Antony Polonsky (1978). A history of Poland. Routledge. ISBN 0-7100-8647-4. p.35
- ^ a b (English) Krzysztof Olszewski (2007). The Rise and Decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth due to Grain Trade. a - p. 6, b - p. 7, c - p. 5, d - p. 5
- ^ (Polish) Jerzy S. Majewski (2004-04-29). "Most Zygmunta Augusta". miasta.gazeta.pl. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
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- ^ (English) "Stephen Bathory (king of Poland)". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ The name of the kingdom was changed to Privislinsky Krai, which was reduced to a tsarist province; it lost all autonomy and separate administrative institutions. (English) Richard C. Frucht (2008). Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-800-0. p. 19
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Previously, we introduced the theory behind thermoacoustics. Here, I will go deeper into modeling acoustics with the Thermoacoustic interface in COMSOL Multiphysics and show you some tips and tricks on how to do this.Read more ⇢
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When sound propagates in structures and geometries with small dimensions, the sound waves become attenuated because of thermal and viscous losses. More specifically, the losses occur in the acoustic thermal and viscous boundary layers near the walls. This is a known phenomenon that needs to be included when studying and simulating systems affected by these losses in order to model these systems correctly and to match measurements.Read more ⇢
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I recently had the pleasure of preparing a small contribution to the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Fall 2013) together with Wade Conklin and Jordan Schultz from Knowles Electronics. Wade presented our paper entitled "Characterization of a microelectromechanical microphone using the finite element method". The work consisted of implementing a virtual prototype of a Knowles MEMS microphone (the SPU0409LE5H microphone, see picture below) using COMSOL Multiphysics.Read more ⇢
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When performing an analysis on small-scale audio equipment, such as hearing aids, cell phones, and microphones, the obvious physical phenomenon that's analyzed is pressure acoustics. However, there are other physics interactions that significantly affect these small devices, including electromechanical interactions and viscothermal losses. Most notably, thermoacoustics (the detailed modeling of acoustics including thermal conduction and viscous losses) is an often overlooked effect that can alter the results of a model. These effects are important in all devices with small length […]Read more ⇢
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Multiphysics applications are all around us. Consider, for example, a setting where science may be the last thing on our minds: a music concert. You might be enjoying the slight sinusoidal variations in atmospheric pressure we call sound waves, or music, but those pressure variations must come from somewhere. In fact, they are due to a multiphysics effect where sinusoidal structural vibrations in an object disturb the surrounding air, causing pressure variations in the air that then propagate outward and […]Read more ⇢
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The way the sound is shaped as it passes through the pipe of an organ is the result of a carefully calculated and intricate pipe design. Browsing through the Model Gallery, I came across a model of an organ pipe, and it happens to be a great acoustics tutorial for using the Pipe Acoustics, Frequency Domain interface in COMSOL Multiphysics. Let's talk organ pipe design, and walk through how we can model it with multiphysics software.Read more ⇢
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The Doppler effect, or Doppler shift, is the change in wavelength and frequency caused by the movement of an observer relative to the source. One of the most common ways we can experience the Doppler effect in action is in the change of pitch that occurs due to a moving sound source. You've probably experienced the Doppler effect when a fire truck or ambulance passes by with its sirens blaring. As the siren passes, the pitch suddenly drops as the […]Read more ⇢
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Mufflers are often located in exhaust systems or on heat, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, where their key functionality is to dampen the noise that is emitted from the system. A correct description of the acoustic damping (absorption and attenuation) processes in the muffler is important when designing and modeling these systems.Read more ⇢
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In researching the article "Meetings on the Green" (page 37), we found that more and more executives are placing a high value on business golf. As Jeffrey Chabon, president of ZWorld Entertainment Inc., says in the article: "Not only do you learn a lot about a person on the golf course, you also show your own true colors."
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Percy Gray (American, 1869-1952)
Cypress Trees Near Point Lobos, 1924
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Like many of his early 20th-century contemporaries, Percy Gray revered nature and its positive influence, clung to a belief in the virtues of the past, and was intent on maintaining a simple life in the midst of a complex age. For Gray, these ideals were exemplified by the Native Americans he painted, the principles of the American Arts and Crafts movement that he contributed to, and by his own desire to preserve Cali fornia's natural beauty, both in reality and in his art. Gray did not begin his career by painting the landscapes for which he later became known. After his initial study at the California School of Design in San Francisco, he put his skills to work as an illustrator. In 1895 he moved to New York and pursued the same line of work while continuing his art training at the Art Students League and with William Merritt Chase. He stayed in the city for the next eleven years. In New York, Gray began a series of portraits depicting Native American leaders and chiefs. He eventually produced more than twenty such portraits, the majority of which were completed after he returned to California. Most were watercolors on paper; only one, which is in the Crocker collection and shown here, was on porcelain. Gray began producing his mature work in the early 1910s when the Arts and Crafts movement was at its height. By this time, he had become almost exclusively a landscape painter. He painted most often in watercolor, but sometimes worked in oil, here on an unusual, trapezoidal canvas (opposite page). He painted selectively, stating that it was hard to find trees— eucalyptus in particular—with enough poetry to translate into painting.1 Gray was careful about the times of day he chose to approach his subjects, and he combined the poetic realities he found with his own carefully structured compositions, evanescent approach to atmosphere, and expressive color.
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18880 W Bluemound Rd, Brookfield
I love it! They have the best custard ever! The burgers are very tasty too!
19850 W. Bluemound Road, Brookfield
The Melting P ot has nice atmosphere, but nothing worthy of the price. We had a reservation yet seating took 20 minutes on a Monday night. The cheese fondue was lumpy and bitter.…
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I was in town, excited to try out a new restaurant. A "built to order" sandwich shop, but somehow upscale. I was with a large group, so there was a variety of selections ordered:…
17800 W Bluemound Rd, Brookfield
My husband took me out to eat here on a Thursday night. The place looked hip and and quite a few customers. The ambiance was great.
The staff were all well dressed in all black.…
95 N Moorland Rd, Brookfield
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In ShortCrowds of couples, teenagers and parents with toddlers press up against the long refrigerated display case at this dessert chain, where a variety of ice creams, frozen…
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In Short Vanilla and chocolate soft-serve ice cream is the foundation for this chain's popular sundaes, banana splits, peanut butter parfaits, milkshakes and chocolate-dipped Dilly…
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16680 W Bluemound Rd, Brookfield
The best italian sausage pizza in town, it does not get any better than this, or at least in Wisconsin for that matter.
Mr B's Bartolotta Steakhouse. Although world famous for his mastery of Italian seafood, Paul Bartolotta is still Milwaukee's pride, after all, and such a man could not fail to produce a great steakhouse once he put his mind to it. … read more