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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Godzina "W"- the "W" Hour
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We celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising (sometimes called Warsaw Rising) this year. In 1944, the Western side of Warsaw...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
25 years ago...
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25 years ago the first free election took place in Poland- a partially free election, hard-won after a turmoil of long negotiations, worker...
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
You can't warp in the rain, or a day in the Radomskie region
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One Thursday morning my neighbour Mariza called me up. "I'm going to the countryside on Friday, there's a huge old loom that ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Five p.m. on August 1st, 1944
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Today is the 68th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. At five p.m. sirens will sound and modern Warsaw will stand still. (I can...
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The legend of king Krak and the Dragon of Wawel Hill
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Why is Cracow called Cracow? Panorama of Cracow from the Nuremberg Chronicles (1493) The latin name is Cracovia , but in Polish, ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Deep Underground: The Wieliczka Salt Mine
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Where does salt come from? Legend says that when the Hungarian princess Kinga , daughter of Bela the IVth, was married to Bolesław the Cha...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
May Days and the famous Constitution of 1791
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"Welcome, May, beautiful May, Poland is paradise today..." So say the words of the May 3rd Mazurka . The lyrics do not refer ...
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