It is pretty certain that this Polish engineer did not suffer from acrophobia: the Ferrocarril Central Andino, which was designed by Ernest Malinowski, reaches up to 5,000 metres above sea level at ...

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World-famous social anthropologist, traveller, ethnologist, religion scholar, sociologist and writer. He is the creator of the school of functionalism, advocate for intense fieldwork, and a forerunner ...

A genius entrepreneur and an accomplished (yet humble) political activist in exile. He pioneered large-scale production of luxury watches and charmed both Queen Victoria and Walt Disney with his ...

In order to raise funds for important research, Sendivogius needed a day job. In 1594, he moved to Prague, where he gained a powerful position in the court of Emperor Rudolf II. Sendivogius rose in ...

A fascination with Jacek Kaczmarski led the Belarusian poet, philologist and translator Andrei Khadanovich to record an album of songs by the Polish bard in his own translation. The song ‘Walls’ (Mury ...

September 1661, Łańcut. The impressive quadrilateral castle, both an elegant Baroque residence and an unconquered fortress, was getting ready for a wedding. Two mighty aristocratic families were to be ...

Bronisław Piłsudski is a self-taught genius and world-famous ethnographer who conducts research on the indigenous peoples of North-East Asia. He is exiled to Sakhalin as punishment for his involvement ...

When the January Uprising failed, the tsarist apparatus of repression decided to strike the artistic education system. A mass migration of Polish painters began, amongst them recent insurgents. They ...

Pełna jest stereotypów i klisz, seksistowskich uproszczeń i niedobrych żartów, a mimo to przyciąga do kin miliony widzów. Na czym polega fenomen polskiej komedii romantycznej? Mawiają, że jest ...

"Inne spojrzenie" z pamiętnymi rolami Grażyny Szapołowskiej i nagrodzonej w Cannes Jadwigi Jankowskiej-Cieślak to film o ...

W zachowanym w zbiorach Muzeum Literatury życiorysie z 1971 roku zapisał: Urodzonemu w Warszawie, 14. XI 1920 roku, po tygodniu zaledwie istnienia, zmarła matka, a w dziewięć dni później – ojciec.