Life / Are there any bookstores in Wroclaw, Rzeszów or Krakow where I can buy books in English? [5]

try some used book seller's and look for free books on the net

Polonia / Uncomfortable treatment of Poles in Lithuania? [15]


Pilsudski

History / Polish Revolution 1830-31 " Józef Chłopicki" [5]

He held aloof at first from the November Uprising of 1830-31, but at the general request of his countrymen accepted the dictatorship on 5 December 1830. However, he saw the hopelessness of the insurrection and quickly resigned on 17th of January; then, however, he joined the army as a private soldier and fought in some battles. At Wawer (February 19) and at the Battle of Olszynka Grochowska (February 20) he displayed all his old bravery, but was so seriously wounded at the Battle of Olszynka Grochowska that he had to be conveyed to Kraków, near which city he lived in complete retirement until his death in 1854.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Ch%C5%82opicki
russianrulershistory.com/poland-and-the-november-uprising-against-russia

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


how he has benefited?

News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]


ONE guy - I know about 50 people from Warszawa, Lublin, Olsztyn, Sandomierz, Gliwice, Szczecin, Rzeszów, Tyczyn, Zakopane - who's salary is about 1200 zł a month - and they are happy because they earn anything at all. Try to find a job if you are 50 or 50+... And my brother's student's in Rzeszów are happy if they could find jobs in Biedronka, Tesco or Jasionka airport...

UK, Ireland / UK Polonia protesting v German TV series [65]

no, it's not

History / If Poles were antisemitic, would they ...? [240]

Kajtus Czarodziej is really depressing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaytek_the_Wizard

History / If Poles were antisemitic, would they ...? [240]

I have read all of King Maciuś I, Bankructwo małego Dżeka {Little Jack bancruptcy}, Kajtuś czarodziej [Kajtus the sorcerer}, Dziecko ulicy[ Child of the street], his memories

Life / Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures [390]


no, he wasn't - my great-uncle had a good word for almost everyone, but about Geremek could say only "the rest is silence"... He disliked people who snitch... One of his friends was arrestested by SB after returning from France, and it could be only Geremek who accused him

News / Demolish Poland's Palace of Culture? [55]

Hmmm.... after Piskorski installed a clock faces on it - i like it more. I'm living on Żelazna street so I could see it from my window

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


real language of love

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


he was never in prison, he was only interned, signed his allegiance and was released, backed up on it, were interned again for one or two months

[quote=Harry]After it came out that he'd worked for the SB, how many articles did he write for GW? Oh yes, one single book review.[quote]

are you sure?

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


TKM? It was about AWS, wasn't it?

News / Polish flag in dog sh*t + the "Imperium" movie [37]


no, it was Danuta Hojarska: aldonajankowska.pl/hojarska.html

News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]


this "residence" was a flat in a nearly destroyed during a war town house that Rajmund and other residents renovated by themselves.

News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]


it's not truth - how about Henryk Gołębiewski filmweb.pl/person/Henryk.Golebiewski
and other child-actors of Janusz Nasfeter or Ślesicki?

History / A Polish Town in Turkey. Who Knew? [9]

My great.... great[?] grand father had a shop in Adampol. Before II World War my grandfather received a letter from polish ambasador of Turkey, that he inherited this shop, but he passed it to the Adampol people... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonezk%C3%B6y

About Adampol, read a book of Jerzy £ątka: Oskarżam arcyksięcia Rudolfa [I accused a Kronprtinz Rudolf] and "Carogrodzki pojedynek"

Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]


Are you living in Rzeszów? Which mall are you talking about? Krakowiak? Frac, Real, Tesco, Leclerk, Biedronka, Lidl? Alma?

Life / Heroes/heroines of Poland's pop culture [27]

what about Radamenes from "Siedem źyczeń/Seven wished"?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wishes_%28TV_series%29

ups! wishes!

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]


nooo.... you are wrong. In polish you ought to say: Czy tylko ze mną jest/masz problem?

History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]

like Bandera, perhaps?

kyivpost/content/ukraine/ukraine-nationalists-celebrate -banderas-birth-anniversary-318350.html

Life / traditional polish knitting? [4]

koronki koniakowskie? - lace of Koniaków

Koniakow's history begins in the second half of XVI century. Around this time, settlers from Cieszynski's Silesia located in this area, created the following villages: Istebna and Jaworzynka, together with Koniakow, known as the Beskid's Tri-Village. However, it was not only settlers of Polish origin that inhabited this area. Also Vlachs (Wallachians) were passing through with their flocks of sheep. Some of them decided to stay, and mixed in with the original habitants. Such mixtures fructified between men and women, and their ethnic differences were exposed in their types of clothing and also their cultural beliefs..

Poland Tatra mountain knitting

News / UN threatens ''Poland's windows of life" [24]


my friend was "partly" adpoted - i.e. he was illegitimate, his biological father was married and had one night stand with a young drinker. When wife of this man found out about this, she insisted, that the boy ought to be adopted by them. He was teenager, when someone "well-wishing" person told him about all of this and it was a real trauma for him. He wanted to meet his biological mother, he met her - and it was a disaster. Sometimes it's better not know to much...

News / UN threatens ''Poland's windows of life" [24]


and would you like to know that your father was a rapist?

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

oh my, how I like such love-speech

News / UN threatens ''Poland's windows of life" [24]

about ten-twelve years ago I wrote a feature about "windows of life" in hungarian hospitals. Babies could be adopted inmediately. Statistics were, that after introducing "windows" infanticide decreased about 30%

History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]

oh my... How do you know about "duck-boy's" sexuality? Did you speak with his "lover"? Have you seen them in bed or in the toiltes of Dworzec Centralny? And it's true, that commie-govenment liked to know as much as possible about citizens' personal life, but it was impossible to know all about all of them...

History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]


no, it's not true. They destroyed a lot of UB and WSI documents, most of the records of informers.But information of PZPR membership one could find in the employee's personal files - in case of Rajmund Kaczyński - at the Politechnika Warszawska. As yet - nobody found such information. And I have mention - the Kaczyński family neighbours i know are sure, he WASN'T in PZPR.

And, Delphi, it's not true, that "People like him didn't get what he had without membership". You didn't live in Poland then...

News / Pokłosie - should the film have received funding from Polish state coffers? [37]


my great uncle was Bawarian, he was a prisoner of Dachau, his older son - a polish scout - was shot by German [not NAZIS}. his younger - was kidnapped by Germans as an Arian specimen [Janissary]...

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

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