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The village of Głebokie (now Hlybokaye, Belarus) in 1900

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Zofia Posmysz in Auschwitz, 1942

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Anna Stanisławska

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Ulica Floriańska (St. Florian Street) in Kraków

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Tapestry with satyrs supporting the royal monogram of Sigismund Augustus

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Lancers on patrol in Spain

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Elephantomyia pulchella

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Fiat Abarth 500C, manufactured in Tychy, Poland

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Jan Mazurkiewicz during World War II

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An obwarzanek krakowski sprinkled with poppy seeds

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E. bozenae holotype

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Warsaw in ruins, 1945

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Centrum Królewska office building in Warsaw, designed by Stefan Kuryłowicz

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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

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Zygmunt Padlewski

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Marie Curie Museum in Warsaw

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Konstanty Laszczka, with nude in clay

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Krzysztof Penderecki

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PWS-6 airplane

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Portrait of King Louis I of Hungary and Poland wearing the "Hungarian Crown"

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Piotr Domaradzki

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Ewa Bandrowska-Turska

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Bishop Petros with Saint Peter the Apostle in a 10th-century Nubian wall painting, National Museum in Warsaw

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Temerl Bergson

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Textile manufacturing plant in the Warsaw Ghetto

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Celestyn Czaplic

  • ... that when confronted with an ethical dilemma, Celestyn Czaplic's (pictured) contemporaries asked themselves, "what would Czaplic think of that?"
  • ... that the Zielony Balonik ("Green Balloon") literary cabaret of Kraków was rumoured to be a place of "orgies, nude dancing and all manner of dissipation"?
  • ... that during a decade of the interbellum, Germany and Poland fought a customs war?
  • ... that the poem "Murzynek Bambo" ("Bambo the Little Negro") by Julian Tuwim has been criticised for its portrayal of black people?
  • ... that before his death in 2011, Tadeusz Sawicz was believed to have been the last surviving Polish pilot to have fought in the Battle of Britain?

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A Polish Easter palm

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Franciscan Church of Zamość

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Koliba villa in Zakopane

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The New Jewish Cemetery of Kraków

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The Black Madonna of Czestochowa
The Black Madonna of Czestochowa

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"Astronomer Copernicus: Conversation with God", painted by Jan Matejko
"Astronomer Copernicus: Conversation with God", painted by Jan Matejko

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White Stork, juveniles
White Stork, juveniles

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Fire of Kraków

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Paul Tremo

  • ... that the motto of a cookbook by Paul Tremo (pictured), a court chef to King Stanislaus Augustus of Poland, was, "not everyone thinks, but everyone eats"?
  • ... that during the Września children strike of 1901–04, ethnic Polish schoolchildren were flogged for protesting against religious instruction in German?
  • ... that Kali, a fine art painter, was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement during World War II?
  • ... that the Polish-born Jakub Mareczko was the most successful under-23 cyclist in Italy in 2014?

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Jan Dekert

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Trójniak, a Polish mead

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Kiełbasa szynkowa

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Karolina Styczyńska

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A V-2 rocket at the Blizna launch site

  • ... that, in order to disguise the V-2 missile launch site in Blizna (pictured), in what is now southeastern Poland, the Nazi Germans created a mock village with plywood cottages and barns, as well as plaster people and animals?
  • ... that Polish Jewish writer Rokhl Auerbakh worked overtly as the director of a soup kitchen and covertly as a member of a secret group that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto?
  • ... that Emany Mata Likambe, Zaire's former ambassador to Poland, was discovered homeless and living in the streets of Warsaw in 1994, after his government had failed to pay him for over two years?
  • ... that it was not illegal to possess or use cannabis in Poland until 1997?

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Alojzy Plewa (left) with his brother and Ruth Schwarz

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Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski

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Magdalena Fularczyk

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Frumka Płotnicka

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Agnieszka Popielewicz

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Slippery jacks

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A P-badge

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A typical zapiekanka served on a paper tray

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Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski

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Jeremi Wiśniowiecki

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Carpathian newt (Lissotriton montandoni)

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Kazimierz Moczarski

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Fragment of an Aerolot poster

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Leaning Tower of Toruń

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Page from the Sankt Florian Psalter

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Equality Parade in 2006

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The Lusatian Neisse river separating Görlitz, Germany, from Zgorzelec, Poland

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Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein logo

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Polish and Ukrainian border posts

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Palace of Arts, Kraków

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Daszyńska-Golińska

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The Great Synagogue of Piotrków

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An engraving of the Szombierki Power Station

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Detail of Skarga's Sermon showing Piotr Skarga

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Zbigniew Bródka during the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

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Mechanical billy goats butting heads atop the Poznań Town Hall

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Killion Munyama

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PL-01 at the International Defence Industry Exhibition in 2013

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Kielce Bus Station

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Twelve mazurek cakes

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Tank on the 2008 Polish Armed Forces Day Parade

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The Maurzyce Bridge as seen from a new bridge built slightly downstream.

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Rainbow installation in Warsaw

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Colorado potato beetle

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Monument to Józef Piłsudski in Warsaw's Piłsudski Square

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Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland (fragment)

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Courtyard of the Brzeg Castle

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Willenberg at Treblinka in August 2013

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Page of the Bible

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Cloister of the Mogiła Abbey

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St. Francis' Church in Kraków

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A Polish Nobleman - the painting

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Medieval Town of Toruń, view from the tower of the Old Town City Hall

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Manuscript of the poem

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Casimir Pulaski Monument c. 1900

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Dragon breathing fire

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Maria Konopnicka

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A Polish ducat, or red złoty, minted in 1831

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Postcard showing a Polish girl about to get a soaking

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Typical Polish magnates in the 16th century as painted by Jan Matejko

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Rare European bison

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Gorce Mountains, view from Jaworzyna

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Church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Lourdes in Kraków

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Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz by Jan Matejko

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Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

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Franciszek Lampi, Portrait of a Lady

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Maria Bal as Angel of Death by Jacek Malczewski
Maria Bal as Angel of Death by Jacek Malczewski

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Henryk Chmielewski aka Papcio Chmiel

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National Museum of Wrocław