History / Identify the artists for these paintings? Appears to be 19th or 20th century painting [14]

@LPelo, thanks for the photos!

Could you take a close up photo of that "sticker" on the back of the painting? What does it say?


To be honest the quality of the photos isn't good enough to judge that...


I don't know, but this painting doesn't seem to show up on Google.


People often contact Desa Unicum (the biggest auction house in Poland) to identify and get a price evaluation of a painting:

desa.pl/en/

History / Identify the artists for these paintings? Appears to be 19th or 20th century painting [14]

@LPelo, could you take a better photo of the painting? A bit closer and not from above - maybe sit in front of it while taking the photo if you can?

Is there anything at the back of the painting?

History / Identify the artists for these paintings? Appears to be 19th or 20th century painting [14]

@LPelo, it looks like Wojciech Kossak to me.

Is it an original painting? :O

History / Identify the artists for these paintings? Appears to be 19th or 20th century painting [14]

@LPelo, it looks like Adam Setkowicz:

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Setkowicz

Where did you get this painting from (if you don't mind sharing the info)?

Po polsku / Polska miedzy Niemcami i Rosja. Zalety i wady. [471]


Nic mi to nie "rozjaśniło", bo ja czytałam rzeczowe artykuły na temat tej afery, gdzie nie było nic o "zalewie setek tysięcy migrantów z Azji i Afryki". Problem był nie w liczbach tylko w tym, że ta afera miała w ogóle miejsce - to dosyć komiczne, że akurat za rządów PiS-u :)))


Tusk powiedział tak:

tvn24.pl/polska/pakt-migracyjny-przyjety-przez-rade-unii-europejskiej-donald-tusk-komentuje-nie-przyjmiemy-zadnych-migrantow-st7915521

"- To jest moje zadanie, i ja się wywiąże z tego zadania. Polska będzie beneficjentem paktu migracyjnego. Nie będziemy za nic płacić, nie będziemy musieli przyjmować żadnych migrantów z innych kierunków, Unia Europejska nie narzuci nam żadnych kwot migrantów. Natomiast Polska będzie skutecznie egzekwowała wsparcie finansowe ze strony Unii w związku z tym, że stała się państwem goszczącym steki tysięcy migrantów głownie z Ukrainy - powiedział."

No zobaczymy.


Bo nadal nad nim pracowali? Z jakieś 10 lat negocjacje w związku z tym paktem trwały.

Po polsku / Polska miedzy Niemcami i Rosja. Zalety i wady. [471]


Nie jestem dziecinna - po prostu to co dla wyborców PiS jest "poświęcaniem polskich interesów" często nie jest tak odbierane przez wyborców PO i na odwrót.


Trumpowi/Amerykanom
Zakup dużej ilości amerykańskiego sprzętu wojskowego (za pieniądze podatników), który będzie kosztowny w eksploatacji, a w wypadku wojny części zamienne itd. trzeba będzie sprowadzać zza oceanu, itd.


Nie okazała się żadną "wydmuszką" i o tej aferze to się akurat naczytałam, więc nie wciskaj mi PiS-owskieo kitu. 🙄

Po polsku / Polska miedzy Niemcami i Rosja. Zalety i wady. [471]

@gumishu, nie śledzę, ale wybacz, co PiS robił w tej sprawie kiedy był u władzy? Cóż takiego korzystnego dla Polski wynegocjowali? Już pomijam PiS-owską aferę wizową... 🙄

Po polsku / Polska miedzy Niemcami i Rosja. Zalety i wady. [471]

@gumishu, no wygląda na to, że jesteś niedoinformowany:

wiadomosci.wp.pl/min-domanski-bedziemy-glosowac-przeciwko-paktowi-migracyjnemu-w-ue-7027382490192384a

Po polsku / Polska miedzy Niemcami i Rosja. Zalety i wady. [471]


Jeżeli PO właziło Niemcom tudzież brukselskim elitom w dupę to głównie symbolicznie (lub zgodnie z polskim intresem) :)


Natomiast PiS jest gotów poświęcić jak najbardziej realne polskie interesy aby wleźć w dupę Amerykanom :)

Po polsku / Polska miedzy Niemcami i Rosja. Zalety i wady. [471]


;D Ilościowo czy procentowo? :D


Daj mi spokój z takimi pierdołami. Kiedy PiS był u władzy to twierdził, że to PO jest prorosyjskie i pokazywał zdjęcia Tuska ściskającego się z Putinem (niektórzy na PF też to robili):

rp.pl/polityka/art40361391-ko-czy-pis-kto-jest-bardziej-prorosyjski-prof-antoni-dudek-polacy-juz-zobojetnieli


Weź przestań, tak jak PiS właził Trumpowi w dupę to chyba nikt nie właził :))))

Po polsku / Polska miedzy Niemcami i Rosja. Zalety i wady. [471]


No bo Bobko to taki "ekspert" od Polski i polskich spraw, że głowa mała, acha ;D ;D


;D ;D ;D


Oj, tak, mają, niestety. Ale są też bardzo istotne sprawy, które ich dzielą.


PiS to popaprani hipokryci...

Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]


It would be unusual, but not impossible... It could be like some inside-joke in the family, I guess, for some reason...


"Paprotka" - for a girl. It actually sounds nice and cute :) Next stage of diminutive would be "Paprocia" and even further: "Paprociunia", for example.

News / Northern Lights in Poland [42]


Welcome to the club... I didn't see anything either :( I missed my probably only chance to see the aurora in my own city... 😭 I wish the media informed about it sooner, so I'd know beforehand and prepare or at least I'd look out of the window/go out on the balcony... 😞


Me too :))

Genealogy / Looking for ANNA MARIA. MISIUREWICZ - P J PROBY the American/British singer [12]

@jon357, yes, if I understand correctly she got married in 1974 to Alan Maskell (his parents: Edward Maskell & Eleanor Greenway) and is known as Maria Maskell now (judging by what is written on that site).


True.

Genealogy / Looking for ANNA MARIA. MISIUREWICZ - P J PROBY the American/British singer [12]


I guess it could be her then:

sejm-wielki.pl/b/sw.52576

Law / Firearms Law Poland - UK training company [4]

You need to have permanent residency in Poland in order to get a gun license that would allow you to buy guns. I am not aware of any exceptions to this rule...


Probably, especially if you don't plan to live and train people in Poland.


kpdi.pl/english/kontakt/ (They're in Gdańsk)

I don't know if those know English, but you can contact them and find out:

Warsaw:
sadowski-kancelaria.pl/kontakt.html

Opole:
kancelaria-mehl.pl/kontakt/

News / Northern Lights in Poland [42]

The map of Poland is getting green, so people in the North of Poland may see something, it looks like there's going to be K7 aurora in 30 minutes (it's nowhere near what we had in Poland on Friday though - it was K9).

News / Northern Lights in Poland [42]

Helpful links for those who still want to try to see aurora today:

For people living in Poland - aurora forecast for Poland - you can check the present situation, what was happening earlier and what will happen in around 30 minutes - just choose the hour (for now the map is completely gray, so there's no aurora visible in Poland right now):

meteologix.com/pl/aurora

The world - if you scroll down you can choose "North America", "Europe and Asia" and "Southern hemisphere" to check what are the chances of seeing aurora at your location at the moment (right now it's 0% for both Europe and Asia):

spaceweatherlive.com/pl/aktywnosc-zorzowa/zasieg-zorzy-polarnej.html

Here you can find recent news about solar storms, play the aurora simulation for the planet for today (it doesn't show the latest 2 hours, but can give you some idea about what's going on) and if you scroll down the charts there's also Estimated Planetarny K Index (it doesn't show the latest 3 hours though):

swpc.noaa.gov/homepage

News / Northern Lights in Poland [42]


Did you get lucky in the end?

Those are photos of aurora taken by Piotr Wierzbicki yesterday evening at around 22:00 not far from Toruń (around 17 minutes drive from Toruń) in Piwnice (there's a university astronomical observatory there - you can see Poland's biggest radio telescope in those photos):

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News / Northern Lights in Poland [42]


Wow, that must be awesome... 🥺 How many times did you manage to see them?


I agree! I don't think I've seen such photos of "aurora clouds" and those stars shining through the aurora! Wow! 🤩
The author is Ewa Wydrzyńska-Scelina and the photos were taken on Friday/Saturday after midnight :)


I hope you'll succeed - fingers crossed! 🤞

Yesterday during sunset big-ass, thick and dark clouds covered the sky in my area, unfortunately :( There was just a tiny fragment of sky left and after sunset I could see a nice turquoise colour of the sky, but I don't know if that was just a post-sunset sky or whether it had anything to do with aurora... The sky cleared only later at night, but I didn't see anything, so I went to sleep...

My parents went to my grandma to the countryside on Saturday, so in theory they should have great conditions - no clouds, dark skies, great view on the horizon, but they didn't see anything during yesterday evening either... :(

I guess you have to get lucky with the location or what? Because look at those photos - they were taken yesterday evening at Chańcza lake in my region (I know this lake, I've been there) at around 22:50 - so magical!: 😍

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News / Northern Lights in Poland [42]

@cms neuf, the same here :(((

It looks like it "blew over" during the day and now it's gone... :(

There doesn't seem to be any indication that there's going to be anything to see tonight, so I'm going to sleep... Maybe tomorrow... *sigh* 😢

Goodnight.

News / Northern Lights in Poland [42]

Northern lights in the somewhat cloudy skies of the Bieszczady Mountains (photos by EWS) :):

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UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]


And if that's the case then why there was semen on her clothes? And whose semen was that? If that's true that the flatmates weren't even questioned then I'm guessing DNA samples weren't taken from them either.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]


That was ruled out though. I mean, the toxicology tests didn't show any substances in her blood that could be the cause of her death if that's what you mean.


In theory that's possible, of course. However, her friend said in "Intervention" that Sandra never had a boyfriend and noone knew about this (besides the friend, I'm guessing). My guess is that it's possible that she was a virgin.


Well, I'm afraid it doesn't look like they were very inclined to take all kinds of possibilities into consideration...

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]


It takes two to tango, jon357.


Again, you're talking about yourself :))))


So how about we call a truce finally? I think we both said all we wanted already, so there's no point in continuing this. This thread shouldn't be about us and our mutual grievances and arguments.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]


You must be talking about yourself :)))


That's an assumption on your part that she's "unable". You don't know that. Judging by what was written in the articles and said in "Intervention" she has good reasons to think that the police and the coroner didn't do their job.


You were so terribly concerned yesterday about being respectful towards her and her grief and that she might be reading our comments and today you're shit1ing on her by claiming that she's unable to accept "the truth" and it's all in her head. Wow. That went quick.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]


I think it's rather universal in humans lol Although it probably also depends on the level of arrogance, etc.


Like what? As a mother I'd prefer for my daughter to die of natural causes rather than get beaten up, raped and murdered...

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]


No, I'm not. I repeatedly wrote that I'm giving the info that is available. And since the British police didn't respond in any way to the accusations of negligence I'm more inclined to believe the mother, Sandra's friends and the detective FOR NOW, that's all. If you prefer to believe the British police, etc. then that's your choice. It's your business.

Btw, this is what I wrote in my second comment in this thread in response to jon357:


And as you can see my stance didn't change.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]


Why on Earth is it "becoming distasteful"? What are you talking about?


That's what I wrote yesterday, but you're starting all over again today.


We don't know if the mother knew about it at that time and, besides, she may not trust the British police and coroners at this point and maybe that's why she wanted to have a second autopsy in Poland. Either way, Sandra's body is apparently in Poland already, so it's done anyway.