KSU
KSU may refer to:
Universities
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KSU (band)
KSU is one of the oldest and most influential Polish punk rock bands, founded in 1977 in the southeastern town of Ustrzyki Dolne (in the Bieszczady Mountains). According to its creator, Eugeniusz Olejarczyk, creation of the band was the fruit of listening of radio stations from Western Europe, in which several punk rock songs were played. Young listeners from Ustrzyki decided to play covers of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, and in 1978 they came up with the name KSU, which comes from car licence plates, issued by the Krosno Voivodeship authorities for vehicles from Ustrzyki Dolne. With new name came new music - KSU began playing songs inspired by Sex Pistols, Damned, and UK Subs.
In 1980, due to friendship with Kazimierz Staszewski, KSU travelled across Poland to Kolobrzeg, to participate in the New Wave Festival. The band was dubbed a sensation, but soon afterwards its members were one after one called up to the Polish Army and KSU ceased to exist. In 1988 KSU recorded a LP "Pod prąd" ("Against the flow"), which was warmly welcomed by its fans.
NIE
NIE or Nie or Nieh (before pinyin) may mean:
- Nie Er, Chinese composer
- Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Marshal
- Nie Ch'i-Kuei or Nieh Ch'i-Kuei (聶緝槼), Provincial Judge of Shanghai under Empress Dowager Cixi. Nieh was a son-in-law of Zeng Guofan (曾国藩)
- Nie Shicheng (Chinese: 聂士成), a Chinese general who served the Imperial government during the Boxer Rebellion
- Nie Dan (known as Daniel Nie ), a winner of 2000 Sam Ragan Awards, a leading Chinese-American artist
Nie (surname)
Nie (simplified Chinese: 聂; traditional Chinese: 聶; pinyin: Niè) is a Chinese surname. Nie is the 126th surname in the Hundred Family Surnames. It is spelled Nip in Cantonese.
Notable people named Nie
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NIE (weekly magazine)
NIE (Polish for "No") is a Polish weekly magazine published in Warsaw.
History and profile
The magazine was first published in October 1990.Jerzy Urban is both the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine.
Its political line is left. The magazine is very critical of right wing political vies and religion, especially Catholicism. In the 1990s it supported the leader of the Democratic Left Alliance, Aleksander Kwasniewski. It publishes lot of satirical texts with cartoons and pictures.
NIE has a circulation of 600,000 copies in 1991. In 1995 its circulation was over 700,000 copies.
In 1990 when Solidarity and the church were planning to push a strict new anti-abortion law through parliament, the magazine published a quarter-page, full-color photograph of a nude couple about to make love to warn its readers that "they risked going to jail or being forced into unwanted marriages if they did what the couple in the picture was about to do." The church leaders and President Lech Walesa harshly criticized it and in March 1991 the prosecutor's office charged Urban with "publishing an image of pornographic character."
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