France has always been one of the main destinations of Polish emigrants throughout history. As with many immigrant communities, they were often far from affluent. The part of Paris that used to be called Little Poland in the past extended from Monceau park to de Clichy square. In the photo above we see how Champlain street - home to many Polish families - looked like in 1858. Below, Polish school at Lamandé street 13/15.
Amidst the continuing crisis of illegal immigration through the Belarussian border, fans of Legia Warsaw prepared a controversial display during the yesterday's game against Zagłębie Lubin (Legia won 2:0). Supporters of Legia Warsaw are well known for their interesting but sometimes quite provocative displays during games.
Soldiers of 1st Sabotage-Assault Platoon of the 3rd "Bartkiewicz" Company defending the barricade at the intersection of Świętokrzyska and Mazowiecka streets (as seen from Napoleon Square).
... for their region to become a part of newly reborn Poland. In the photo above we see a group of Silesians awaiting the arrival of president Ignacy Mościcki to Istebna in July 1931.
Another staged photo but this time colorised. An album of 100 colorised photos from the Warsaw Uprising has been published recently - highly recommended...
In the photo we can see a wild forest creature, tough and resilient, able to face difficult weather conditions and sometimes aggressive. On the left we see a wild boar.
Toruń was one of the richest and one of the four largest cities of the Kingdom of Poland back in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. These days it's respectable 16th and still retains a lot of its old charm and lovely medieval architecture, so if you're ever in Poland try to visit the city where Nicolaus Copernicus was born - you won't regret it!
Yes, yes - I know they weren't really Poles in full meaning of this word, but they lived in the lands of today's Poland (Holy Cross Mountains) and they were very skillful miners of Neolithic and Bronze ages. The latest addition to Polish UNESCO heritage sites - Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region - is an ensemble of four mining sites, dating from about 3900 to 1600 BC, dedicated to the extraction and processing of striped flint, which was mainly used for axe-making.
You can see more pictures here: zabytek.pl/pl/obiekty/g-298387
We had tickets and everything to make the piernik, but my slow-a$$ willful mother-in-law (I love her and all) had to order a coffee after dinner and made us late and we couldn't enter.
But, I'm over it, I swear, it's ancient history...in the past. I mean, can't you just hold off on the coffee for one hour? Is it going to kill ya? Anyway, like I said, I'm over it. Buried in the past. It's not like all of Toruń was in danger of running out of coffee beans
