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The exhibition 'The Monument. Central and Eastern Europe 1918-2018' at Warsaw's Xawery Dunikowski Museum transforms monuments ...
Like in many other European countries, the arrival of summer is celebrated on St. John’s Eve in Poland. While part of the Polish custom ‒ bonfires, singing and dancing ‒ resembles other celebrations ...
From grassy fields and wooden sheds to sleek steel-and-glass terminals, Poland’s airports have soared through a century of ...
When the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan at the end of WWII, one man in particular was affected by the death and destruction. Having helped create the weapon, he dedicated the rest of his life to ...
Фільм доступний польською, англійською, іспанською та українською мовами, а також в аудіоописі та з перекладом мовою жестів.
Though Warsaw has rebuilt from ruins, its streets still bear the scars of the 1944 Uprising – bullet holes, shattered ...
A surprisingly large number of Hollywood characters have names that sound Polish to US ears, but whose Polish background is never discussed, and whose names few real Poles actually have. Never fear, ...
The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations.
The introduction of Christianity to Poland in 966 is symbolically linked to the founding of the Polish state. But while the event enabled Poland to enter the realm of Western Latin civilization and ...
Bad Meat? The End of the World? Polish Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska was especially fond of funny names of Polish towns and villages. Since great minds think alike… we take a gander at ...
Hollywood has a prolific history of spicing up every story they use as the basis for a film script. The Zookeeper’s Wife is hardly an exception, so if you are dying to know which parts of this ...
Marrying for love? You must be kidding. In old Poland, matchmaking sooner resembled the negotiation of an economic pact. Nonetheless, the entire process was accompanied by many colourful elements, ...