El Gamal, as for the book, I remember seeing and scanning it in a big library in Canada. It was old, definitely Brit too; the language was, if my memory serves me right, Victorian. It had great illlustrations too. That's all I remember. I also remember an unbelievable novel titled, I think, 'Doctor Copernicus,' by (I think) an Irish writer (no offense to the Irish people and friends). It was definitely unfavourable towards Poland, crudely and stupidly ridiculing. A proof of its intellectual sophistication - a Polish military man, Kopernik's contemporary, appears in the novel, whose surname is Chopin....
Two Polish heroes who prevented alien hordes from storming the gates of Europe: John Sobieski who stopped the Turks at the Battle of Vienna in 1683...Joseph Pilsudski who stopped the Jewish Bolsheviks at the Battle of Warsaw/Vistula in 1920...Pilsudski only delayed the final onslaught of Bolshevism & Naziism, but at least he gained Poland independence & gave it some breathing space...These are two Polish historical figures
re: it's thought that winner o'Battle of Vienna was Leopold I
- As usual, Germans have twisted historical facts pertaining to the Poles. Oh well, but many still know that it was Sobieski who defeated the Turks at Vienna. In England, Sobieski's victory has been immortalised in one of John Milton's writings.
Yeah, but not exactly Germans - bloody Habsburgs so Austrians in this case ;-). When I saw a monument of the winner of this battle in Budapest - I started laughing ;).
Who was the 'owner' of Hungary for a long period in the history, huh?:>
'Were', dude :> And the monument was originally built while the country belonged to them. Moreover I used the word 'owner' as the synonym of 'ruler' if your point is wrong usage of a word.
Of course they don't rule. :) Where have I said that? They USED to. The monument was built by them while they still ruled there, that's obvious. And the monument became the historical one. So there was no point to change it. But it's a historical point of view and nice example of propaganda inside one's country.
But I see, that I've made a little mistake. I'm quite tired and I've read 'is' as 'was', so I've misunderstood your question. Now you got it I think :D My bad ;)
- And what do you mean by this?
I wrote it because I wasn't sure if I haven't made a mistake of sth, and then we have a misunderstanding. ;)
Notable people of Polish descent: Radyk "boogey nights" Miroslaw IV "Ham Sandwich" Kaczynski Igor Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarararararararararin Zydrunas Zawikas Ivan Drago
Other footnote Polish people: Winston Churchill John F Kennedy Bill Clinton Idi amin
I really don't know if people born in other countries should count too...
If yes we Germans wouldn't even know where to start...alone in the US 1/4 of the people have german heritage (also the scientists, artists, musicians etc.)....and not only in the US.
"Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, William Boeing, Sandra Bullock, Walter P. Chrysler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kirsten Dunst, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Armstrong Custer, Babe Ruth, Clark Gable, Milton Hershey, Charles M. Schulz ("Peanuts"), Joseph Pulitzer, John Steinbeck, Chester W. Nimitz, F.W. von Steuben, Elvis Presley, Heinrich Steinway, John D. Rockefeller, Levi Strauss, John Studebaker, Herbert Hoover, Henry Kissinger, Jerry Springer, Ruth Westheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Billy Wilder, Bruce Willis, Johnny Weissmuller and, and, and...."
We should therefore confine it to the fatherlands I think....
Also....a winemaker (vintner) named Johann Valentin Pressler came 1710 to New York from Niederhochstadt in the southern Palatine (till today there are living lot's of Presslers). This village is today called Hochstadt...the same like the village in Pennsylvania which the Pressler-Clan founded new.
A later Pressler, who took part in the battle at Gettysburg changed the name to "Presley"...
Im mad, bratworst fag what the **** is your problem, u want to know some famouse polish people ok i dont remember some of their names but bear w/ me people..
Martha stuart is Polish
Andy Warhol Famous painter - he was polish
Ron Jaworski: quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, led them to the 1980 Super Bowl,
The first armored car robbery was done by a polish man
Ted Kazynski: The unabomber- polish (ps if he was still around hed kick ur ass for this)
Michael Anthony (Sobolewski), Van Halen band -Polish
Samuel Goldwyn, legendary film producer - Polish
Karen O (Orzołek), the lead vocalist for the New York art punk band Yeah Yeah Yeahs- is polish
Samuel "Billy" Wilder, six Oscars winning film director, screenwriter and producer - is polish
And the warner brothers are polish
---Fictional characters----------- Magneto is polish and so is Balck hawk( both comic book heros) (marvel ******* rules)
Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, the "Painless Pole" in MASH (film)
Walter Sobchak, the "Polish Catholic" from the film Big Lebowski
_real people again- John of Kolno (also known as Jan z Kolna, Johannes Scolnus, Ioannis Scolvenius or Iohannes Scolvus Polonus) (1435–1484)—a semi-legendary Polish sailor and navigator serving for the court of Denmark. According to various sources he was one of the first Europeans to reach the shores of the Americas prior to Columbus in 1476 as steersman of Didrik Pining.
So technically we got here second, first was native americans
There is lots more....
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