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On this day 550 years ago famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun in Kingdom of Poland.

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Drunk waxwings on a sidewalk in Poland after eating fermented rowan berries.

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This sculpture of Jesus at abandoned cemetery in Poland gets slowly absorbed by a tree.

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Alexander Doba famous Polish adventurer, known for kayaking across Atlantic Ocean (5400 km) under his own power while having over 65 years, and doing it second time 3 years later, passed away yesterday at 74 years old while climbing Kilimanjaro.

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Today is Fat Thursday, so grab yourself a paczek and join 500 years old Polish tradition of eating them on this holiday.

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Evolution of esports. LoL World's championship season 1 vs season 7.

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St. Mary's Basilica in Krakow

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Today is Smigus-dyngus, holiday celebrated mostly in Poland. Traditionally boys would pour water on girl they fancy. Nowadays it is mostly celebrated by kids with water battles lasting whole day.

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Warsaw University of Technology

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Iga Swiatek, nineteen years old from Poland, just won French Open without even losing a single set!

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Today is International Tolerance Day. Warsaw celebrates it with all colours of rainbow.

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Cemetery in Warsaw on All Souls' Day.

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Warsaw also opens 3 new metro stations this year, 58% paid by EU funds.

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On this day 75 years ago, Warsaw Uprising started, biggest military effort of any European resistance. Poles decided liberate their capitol, as Soviet troops were closing in. Soviets halted their advance and allowed Uprsing to be carshed. Insurgents lasted for 63 days, with almost no outside help

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Wisłoujscie Fortress in Gdandk- naval base of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, protecting mouth of Vistula river.

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Happy Fat Thursday!

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Warsaw during charity event yesterday.

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Mayor of Gdansk, Paweł Adamowicz died in hospital, after knife attack during charity event.

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On this day, 446 years ago Warsaw Confederation was signed, the first European act granting religious freedoms.

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On this day 547 years ago Nicolas Copernicus was born. Because of the famous astronomer's birthday, newest holiday is celebrated today in Poland - Day of Polish Science.

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On this day, 450 years ago, Union of Lublin was signed, creating the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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This how cemeteries all around Poland will look like tomorrow evening. On 1st of November, All Saints day, Polish families honor their deceased lightning up hundreds of millions candles on their graves.

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Cozy looking houses in Warsaw old town.

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US officer at basment of Nuremburg castle next to the 500 years old statutes robbed by Nazis from Krakow's St. Mary Cathedral, 1945. [620x792]

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Gdansk in 1956 and present day.

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Countries that celebrate independence from Poland

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Beautiful Krakow Old Town

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Mist over Kłodzko, Poland.

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Poland in style of Angola

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Henryk Chmielewski, known in Poland as Papcio Chmiel, passed away at 97 years old. He was author of most popular comic book in Poland, published since 1957 -Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek. During ww2 he was active fighter in Polish resistance under nom de guerre Jupiter and took part in Warsaw Uprsing.

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Street musician in post war Warsaw in 1948.

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Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of Poland, was assassinated exactly 100 years ago, five days after inauguration.

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Barbican in Warsaw Old Town

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This sticker on stop sign in Warsaw

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Old Town Market Square in Warsaw

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Today morning great composer Krzysztof Penderecki passed away at 86. His pieces were used in movies such as The Exorcist, The Shining, and Shutter Iland.

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Austria-Hungary in style of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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On this day 152 years ago, Marie Skłodowska Curie was born in Warsaw. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, is the only woman to win the Nobel prize twice, and is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.

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Model of never realised development of Wawel castle in Krakow, Poland, from 1905, after it was given back by Austrian army, that would include parliament of new Polish sate, national Museum and university.

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Flag of Poland in style of California

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19th century chapel on isle in Studzieniczna, Poland.

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Statue of Jesus getting slowly absorbed by tree at old cemetery in Bieszczady mountains, Poland.

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On this day 761 years ago, during 2nd Mongol invasion on Poland, Sandomierz, one of the most important cities of medieval Poland, surrendered to invaders under false guarantee of safety. All citizens where killed or taken into slavery and city was burned.

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Kosciuszko mound in Krakow. This memorial of revolutiory hero was built in 1823 in form, that couldn't be destroyed by occupiers. Austrians instead built citadel around it and used the mound as lookout.

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Giant castle is being built in the middle of nature reserve in Poland. Officials are investigating the matter, yet developer did not halt the construction.

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On this way day 74 years ago Danuta Inka Siedzikowna was executed. She was a medical orderly in the Polish Home Army. Considered a national heroine, she was captured, tortured and sentenced to death at the age of 17 by the communist authorities.

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On this day 100 years ago battle of Warsaw started, also known as Miracle of the Vistula. Soldiers of newly independent Polish state decisively defeated Soviet Red Army, protecting rest of Europe from communists influence.

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Save the East propaganda poster of German National People's Party for 1920 elections. It depicts a Teutonic Knight threatened by a Pole and a socialist.

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Winter dick pic from Warsaw

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11 bit studio announced that for week all profits from This War of Mine and it's DLC's, on all stores and platforms, will be donated towards victims of Russian invasion on Ukraine.

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Castle of Teutonic Order in Kwidzyn, Poland.

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Christmas market on biggest medieval square in Europe, Krakow.

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Palace on the Water during winter time, Royal Baths, Warsaw.

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Polish volleyball team just won World Championship!

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Warsaw, Poland.

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New brand of Polish electric cars was revealed. Production to start in 2023.

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Warsaw, late 50s.

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05:42 in Warsaw

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Warsaw Main Station. Summer 1941 and January 1945.

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Today is Polish National Flag Day. The white and red represent purity of spirit and bravery. On photo: Polish flag flying over Berlin exactly 75 years ago at the end of ww2.

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Running route in Warsaw.

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St. Joseph's Church in Krakow, Poland.

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On this day 247 years ago Commission of National Education was created in PLC. Because of its vast authority and autonomy, it is considered the first Ministry of Education in European history. In its memory Poland celebrates Teachers' day today.

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Church in centre of Warsaw.

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Ogrodzieniec castle in Poland.

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Varso Tower in Warsaw last week officially became highest building in Poland, beating the Soviet Place of Culture after 65 years.

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Zbruch Idol, one of the few monuments of pre-Christian Slavic beliefs, that survived to this day. Made in IX century sculpture most likely depicts pantheon of slavic gods.

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Imperial flag of Poland

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Beautiful gorge in Poland

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Ghetto wall in Warsaw in 1943 vs present day.

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Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, designed by Lev Rudnev and bulid in 50s. Sometimes called The Eighth Sister or Stalin's Dick.

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Warsaw skyline in 2021, when all skycrapers, currently under construction, will be finished.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke.

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A quiet alley in Warsaw old town.

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Exactly the same place pre-ww2 and today. Nowolipie street in Warsaw, Poland.

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My Swiss Shepherd during a walk on bank of Vistula river, skyline of Warsaw in the background.

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On this day, 1019 years ago Congress of Gniezno ended, one of most important events in early history of Poland. Emperor of Holy Roman Empire Otto III symbolically crowned Bolesław the Brave there, the first king of Poland.

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Beautiful 100 years old stained glass at St. Francis Basilica in Krakow.

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Countries that celebrate independence from Poland

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Warsaw in late 80s

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Polish war plans from 70s in case ww3 would broke out.

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Warsaw old town

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Voytek the Soldier Bear as a pup with Polish officers in Syria, 1942 [1600x981]

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On this day 364 years ago, Deluge started, Swedish invasion on Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This conflict took life of approximately 1/3 of Commonwealth's population and it is said to be more destructive for Poland, than WW2.

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Diagram of highest skyscrapers in Moscow, Istanbul, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Warsaw.

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Dunajec Castle, Poland

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Nice view during a walk along Vistula.

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On this day, 79 years ago, Nazi Germany paraded through streets of fallen Warsaw. The bomb was planted on path of Hitler's car, but attempt failed due to lack of communication between Polish resistance.

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Flag of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the current coats of arms of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus.

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Kamieniec Podolski in 1691, southern stronghold of Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, captal of Podolskie voivodeship, today Ukraine.

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View of Kazimierz Dolny in 1811, watercolour painting by Jan Feliks Piwarski, Poland.

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Ogrodzieniec castle in Poland. Right now Netflix's The Witcher is filmed there.

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Saxon Square, Warsaw 1919. The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was demolished in the mid-1920s after Poland gained independence and the Saxon Palace, destroyed during World War II. Only a part of the colonnade with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was preseved.

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Places used in the names of chemical elements.

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Illustration from Łaski's Statute(1506) depicting Polish King and Senat. Around them Coats of Arms of provinces and vassals of Kingdom of Poland.

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Coats of arms of voivodeships and vassals of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Łaski's Satute (1506). Btw thanks for keeping it safe Sweden, you can give it back now.

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These maps show 2015 presidential election in Poland and density of boars population. Now current government ordered slaughter of almost whole population of boar in Poland. Coincidence?

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Flag of Kingdom of Poland under PU with Russian Empire

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Imperial Castle in Poznan, bulid in 1910 for Kaiser Wilhelm II, only 8 years before Poland regained independence.

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Replica of crown of Bolesław I the Brave, most important royal insignia of Poland, robbed and melted by Prussians in the beginning of XIX century.

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Far right posters I saw today in Warsaw. They say: Hey German/Austrian Give back what your grandpa has stolen in Poland Or pay for it.

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Imperial Castle in Poznan before 1914 [960x702]

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This Thursday biggest roofed water park in Europe was opened near Warsaw - Suntago Park of Poland.

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Krakow Szopka are traditionally made in Krakow for Chrimas since XIX century and feature Nativity of Jesus and historical buildings of the city. Recently this tradition was inscribed on the list of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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Children building barricades during Warsaw Uprising 1944. [2000x1905]

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Poland if it had no neighbours

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St. John Archcathedral in Warsaw before war and today. Communist dignitaries thought that English neo-gothic was too metropolitan, so it was rebuilt in classic polish brick gothic style.

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Imperial castle in Poznan 1947 [1175x1800]

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