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- 2006, Kennan Research Grant: George Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., United States.
- 2003, Kennan Research Grant: George Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., United States.
- 2002-2003, Kościuszko Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, New York, NY, United States.
- 2000-2001, J. William Fulbright Scholarship: Sponsored by Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
- 2010, Nomination for the Kazimierz Moczarski Prize awarded annually for the Best Book in Polish History, National Center for Culture.
- 2004, Ambassador Kazimierz Dziewanowski Dissertation Award, Awarded by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) jointly with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C., in recognition of the best doctoral dissertation concerning Polish topics.
- 1999, John L. Snell Memorial Prize: Awarded annually by the Southern Historical Association for an outstanding original graduate student research paper in European
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'Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. If you just asked him, he'd tell you': Barack Obama pays powerful tribute to his hero, thanking the fallen Champ for 'gracing our time'
President Barack Obama has paid a heartfelt and powerful tribute to Muhammad Ali, who died aged 74 overnight.
The US leader also phoned Ali's wife Lonnie to offer his deepest condolences for his passing and expressed how lucky he and the First Lady felt having met her husband.
He also told her how the universal heartbreak and outpouring of support following his death was a true testament to his enduring spirit and how he 'changed the arc of history'.
In a joint statement, the Obamas remembered the fallen icon as a man who 'helped us get used to the America we recognize today'.
Ali became such an inspiration to Obama that a photo of the boxer standing triumphantly over a floored Sonny Liston hung in his office when he was campaigning to become Illinois senator in 2004.
Obama (left, meeting Ali) still keeps a pair of Ali's gloves in the Oval Office underneath the photo of the then 22-year-old 'roaring like a lion over a fallen Sonny Liston'
Barack Obama has written a poignant and heartfelt tribute to his fallen hero, Muhammad Ali (pictured, Obama sitting under an iconic photo of Ali while he was st
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Muhammad Ali
American scrapper and popular activist (1942–2016)
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