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Stanislaw
Stanislaw Stanisław is one of the most thoroughly Polish of all names — carrying the martyred bishop, the royal tradition, and the towering figure of Stanisław Lem, whose science fiction explored the limits of human knowledge with uniquely Polish philosophical irony. Characters named Stanisław are often depicted as men of serious moral and intellectual purpose.
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