Genealogy / Crest and the meaning of last name Sumski [33]


Ask Novichok lol

Genealogy / Crest and the meaning of last name Sumski [33]


Of course it could.


Good for you lol But many people don't bother to research their family history. Also, people's families can have different histories. Different than yours.


From what I understand the OP isn't "rootless, homeless". Since her ancestors came to the US - I'm guessing that she's an American.

Genealogy / Crest and the meaning of last name Sumski [33]


It sounds like you've been living too long in the US and you "forgot" how history in this part of Europe messed with borders and family histories. 🤨


You mean OP? I meant Reesh1 - he wrote "Szumski".
And as for OP - read his post again. He wrote: "it was shortened when they came to the usa. Think there may have been a z in it."

Genealogy / Crest and the meaning of last name Sumski [33]

@Bobko, it looks like Szumski is a Polish surname:

waw4free.pl/wydarzenie-54407-bogumil-szumski-brat-marii-dabrowskiej-zolnierz-beliny-i-generala-maczka

First of all, "szum" in Polish means "hum, noise" etc. And this surname comes from those place names: Szumsk (Wilno region, among others), Szumsko (Opatów region), Szum (regions in Poland and Ukraine) or Szumy (Belarus):

genezanazwisk.pl/content/szumski

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [188]

@Miloslaw, yes, I like that painting too :)

And here's a landscape by the same painter:

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [188]

@Miloslaw, yes, it's an oil painting :)


If you think that then you haven't seen much - there's even more realistic art out there :)))

Travel / Leaving baggage unattended in Chopin Airport [16]

@jon357, there were evacuations at Okęcie - due to false bomb alarms. But, also, for example, when someone left a backpack at a parking lot in front of a terminal - the owner showed up at the time when the bomb squad was working already - and so he got fined.

Travel / Leaving baggage unattended in Chopin Airport [16]


No problem :))


Yes, you are - you can relax :))) As you wrote yourself:


So, as the lady told you - you'd get fined if the police was called. First they usually announce through the speaker for the "lost" owner of the baggage to show up and if the owner doesn't show up - then they call the police. And since you showed up and took care of your baggage - there was no need to call the police = no fine.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [188]

To celebrate today's special day - "Pączek z konfiturą" by Sebastian Talar (oil on wood panel, 20 x 20 cm, 2016) :))):



🍩❤️


You can't suddenly start painting at university age without any previous training and expect great results :))) To paint well you have to first learn to draw at all and then it takes a lot of practice to do it well.

Also:


1. Paper isn't the best for oil painting. Primed canvas or primed wood panels are much better.
2. In order to paint with oil paints you have to know the basics on how to do it.
3. People are one of the most difficult subjects to draw/paint. It's better for beginners to start with something simpler, imho, in order not to get discouraged and to learn the basics.

In other words - you can't just decide out of the blue to climb Mount Everest without any prior experience in climbing and expect not to die in the process :)))) 😉

Travel / Leaving baggage unattended in Chopin Airport [16]

@Flynns17, I only explained why the lady warned you. She was probably also just explaining to you why it's a serious matter, so you wouldn't leave your baggage unattended again :)


As jon357 already wrote:

Travel / Leaving baggage unattended in Chopin Airport [16]


Any baggage left alone is treated as a potential danger - bomb squad has to be called and the place - evacuated.

Also, some stranger could put something illegal into your baggage, for example, and you could get in trouble.

Life / Cult videos on Polish youtube [17]

AJ strikes again and this time... he lands in prison lol And not just any prison, but the oldest working prison in Poland (in Nowy Wiśnicz) - a former monastery complex founded by count Lubomirski after an important and victorious battle of Chocim (Khotyn) in 1621 in which Polish-Lithuanian-Cossack forces defeated the invading Ottoman army.



(the prison with a castle on the right in the photo)

I found it strange that Poles would change such a monastery into a prison and so I checked the history of this place and it was Habsburg emperor Joseph II that liquidated the monastery and turned it into a court and high-security prison in 1783.

At first it was a prison for criminals and bandits from the Tatra Mountains, but later on also political prisoners were being sent there - members of independence organisations.

In 1919 POWs were being kept there and later it became a temporary military prison.

During WWII the Nazis turned it into a camp - until Auschwitz camp started operating. The church was dismantled.

In 1944 a successful mission of freeing the inmates by 36 AK (Home Army) fighters took place with only 6 AK soldiers operating as an assault group inside the prison. The prison was completely taken over, 128 political prisoners were freed and weapons, ammunition and other military equipment obtained. Those prisoners were saved the day before being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

The commander of the AK attack on the prison was Lt. Józef Wieciech aka "Tamarow".

So, that's a place with some history...

And, as AJ pointed out - in this winter fairytale scenery you can feel there like in some mountain resort in Slovakia (if it wasn't a prison, of course lol) :)

---------------------------

GISW

(American equivalent = prison Special Operations and Response Teams - SORT)

PART 1

In this video AJ gets into the part of being both a rebellious prisoner and a GISW (Grupa Interwencyjna Służby Więziennej) operator. He also passes a physical ability test for GISW after wich you become a GISW candidate:



PART 2

Here AJ passes a physical ability test in full uniform after which you can become a member of GISW. The test takes place in an abandoned prison (where two TV series are being filmed, btw). He also takes part in real exercises as a GISW operator - quenching a prison mutiny with a fire taking place inside the prison.

He also finally gets bitten by a service dog lol :))): 🐕‍🦺



So, what's next in those series? The most popular comment under the first video suggests GROM :) 😎 I guess letting him in there would be fitting considering AJ's nickname (Ojciec = Father), but is that possible? I guess we'll see... For now the next video may be about spending 24h as a prisoner, apparently! 👀

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]


"Kids"? According to Polish law 18-year-olds are adults... If they can vote, drive a car, work, pay taxes, get married and be parents, be in p0rn films, then why wouldn't they read about the realities of the Holocaust?


"See"? Well, not only see...

I, however, see some inconsistency here... I don't recall you being bothered by or worried about Polish law which says that it's OK for a 15-year-old to be f*cked by 30-year-olds, 40-year-olds, 50-year-olds, 60-year-olds, etc. So, for you a 15-year-old is "adult" enough to have sex with someone hitting 40, but 18-year-olds are "kids" who may not cope with just reading about the Holocaust? 🤨 You think that a 15-year-old girl isn't likely to get more traumatised and damaged by being sexually exploited by someone as sociopathic and perverted as Strzelec35, than by... reading a book?

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]


*an interview with Marek Edelman

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Edelman

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]


I had to take breaks though, because at some points I thought I won't be able to finish it... But if you read that book you'll probably know why I read it till the end (the author wanted the world to know what was done to them).

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]


I don't know about that... We had to read it at our last year at high school, so I was at least 18 years old at that time... If I didn't read it then, would I or other students read it later? Many probably wouldn't... So, I think it was an important part of education - not only about history, but also about human nature... It was defenitely depressing, especially considering that we also had to read "Inny świat. Zapiski sowieckie" ("A World Apart. A Memoir of the Gulag") by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (born in Kielce, btw) in the same year (and other WWII literature and poems and history). Where and when to learn about it if not at school though?

Btw, we were taught about WWII and the Holocaust (and the 1946 Kielce pogrom) already in the secondary school and we had to read "Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem" at that time too (an interview Mark Edelman), as far as I remember... There was some messed up stuff in that book too... (I actually think we were probably too young for that book - normally these days it's a high school reading, I think.)

I've read "Smoke over Birkenau" when I was a teen too, from start to finish - out of my free will...

Btw, what obligatory reading do RuSSian and American schools have regarding the topic of WWII? Is there any?

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]


I don't think I've ever heard of him, to be honest...


I read only two books about the Holocaust - both written by Polish gentile survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau and those two books were enough for me...:

1.Tadeusz Borowski's short stories - one scene from "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" made me cry out loud like a baby... It was literally un uncontrollable sobbing... No book has ever made me cry like that... It was an obligatory reading when I was at high school for Polish classes.

2. "Smoke over Birkenau" by Seweryna Szmaglewska:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_over_Birkenau

I found it on a bookshelf at my grandma's house in the countryside and decided to read it... It included the gruesome details of everyday camp "life" that they don't show in Hollywood films...

Btw, out of curiosity - what is "the Holocaust book" that kids have to read at school in the West? Anne Frank's diary? I'm asking about this one, because it seems to be very popular in the West (I personally have never read it).

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


I don't know about Europe, but they seem to excel at exporting hot actors and actresses to Hollywood lol :)


The only non-telenovela Turkish series that I've watched were mini-series "Börü" ("Wolf") - the title on Polish Netflix is "Wilk". It's well made, a good watch and yeah... interesting, because it shows events before and at the beginning of the coup attempt in Turkey from a perspective of special-operations police unit.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [940]


Sure, I don't mean that memorising stuff should be abolished completely. But there should be something besides that and there should be some reasonable balance.

Lets take physics, chemistry and biology classes, for example. I don't know if it's a norm, but I remember watching American films in which kids at school were doing cool stuff at those classes, experiments or even cutting dead frogs, doing projects, working in pairs or groups, etc. Not that I would like to cut a frog lol, but we weren't basically doing anything at those classes. Maybe it was due to poor school funding - I don't know. But how do you encourage kids to be scientists after such painfully boring, unpractical classes? Maybe it changed since my times - I hope so...


And it takes a lot of time that could be used in a different way.


Sorry, maf, but I don't know all this educational terminology... All I know is - making kids curious about the world and how it works and encouraging them to learn about it can't possibly be bad...

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [940]


What I like about this Finnish attitude is: instead of learning things by heart all the time (memorising based education) students should be taught to think, analyse, search for info. I'm writing this, because that's not how it was like when I was at school - primary, secondary, high-school - it didn't matter, it was all the same. Memorising, memorising, memorising. The rule of three Zs: Zakuj, Zdaj, Zapomnij (Memorise, Pass, Forget). We weren't being taught to think or analyse anything much*. Thinking for yourself wasn't even being encouraged in any way and sometimes - even punished. I remember when one time my classmate at high-school interpreted a poem at Polish classes in a different way than it was interpreted in the textbook. The teacher put her down and ridiculed her in front of the whole class to such an extent that she made her cry and the girl ran out of the classroom and hid herself in the toilet. God, I hated that teacher.

*The only exception I can recall was at high-school when different classes from our school would go to cinema to watch some more ambitious film with a short "info/lecture" being given by a local film critic before watching it. After that our homework was to write a review of that film for Polish classes. That was cool and interesting.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [940]


Wow, I'm totally loving this Finnish attitude:

"At school we never can teach all the needed facts for the students, it is much more important to teach them to be curious about life and learn constantly based on experiences and new requirements faced in life (...)

Nowadays we can check up facts from the internet whenever it is needed but it is much more important to learn to think and conduct your life and be a balanced person with good relationships to your friends and relatives. Besides, growing teenagers need more rest and sleep than grown-ups because they are growing, therefore there is a real need for a break from school for them even in physical terms."

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [940]


Japan isn't a good example to follow in this respect, imho.


It seems to me that Nowacka doesn't have an idea about what she's doing (considering the reality of Polish education and how hastily this is going to be implemented). Did she even consult this with anyone? o_O Because it doesn't look like it. I think it's possible that it's some kind of "political sausage".


And even in Finland it's not like there's no homework at all... There's less than in Poland, but still - teachers assign homework. It's up to them though - if they assign it or not - they decide if it's needed:

vfis.tdtu.edu.vn/news/2023-03/homework-should-or-should-not

Here's a long and good article about this whole "no homework" mess in Poland:

oko.press/likwidacja-prac-domowych-bo-tak-chce-maciek-z-wloclawka-tusk-i-nowacka-wchodza-na-mine

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [522]

Yup, sorry, I'm guessing that's Witold - from the "Battle of Grunwald" painting by Jan Matejko ;P 🤦

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [522]


Władysław Jagiełło?

Feedback / Suggestions for forum features [6]


Or you do... Once you leave the thread the box becomes unticked, so I guess you have to post that comment after all.

Classifieds / Polish language tutor needed in southern Opole voivodeship or Albany New York [5]


You mentioned Nysa area and it looks like, besides teaching online, she's willing to travel to different places:

Online
Opole
Wrocław
Brzeg
Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Krapkowice
Nysa
Kluczbork
Namysłów

There is her phone number posted, so you can call her and ask about that or send her an e-mail message (click "Wyślij wiadomość" button).

Feedback / Suggestions for forum features [6]


I don't think you have to post a comment in order to get notifications from a given thread - it's enough to tick that box... 🤔


Yup, I agree.

The "Life" forum includes culture.

Feedback / Suggestions for forum features [6]

When you start writing a comment in a thread the option "email notifications" appears next to your comment's "Preview" button. If you tick it, you will be sent notifications about every new comment in this thread, as far as I remember. 🤔

Classifieds / Polish language tutor needed in southern Opole voivodeship or Albany New York [5]

@samotnik, what about her (she can teach both at her place, at your place and online)?:

e-korepetycje.net/magdalenakluk/jezyk-polski-dla-cudzoziemcow

From "Opinions" section:

"Edwin
Magda is a skillful and competitive Teacher, I have been learning with her for a year and a few months, and I can't express how much impact she has made on my language learning at the early adulthood stage in my life, I highly recommend her! she can adapt to our rushed day to day life"

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [522]


I was thinking about making a riddle about them too - great minds think alike! :D