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The origin of the district's name derives from the Polish word bór ('conifer forest'), which was located on the village itself. Later the name of the settlement was Germanized by the Germans living in Breslau, as a result of which the name shifted to phonetically similar German Burg ('castle').
SBB (first known as Silesian Blues Band, later as Szukaj, Burz, Buduj – Polish for "Search, Break up, Build") is a Polish progressive rock band formed in 1971 in Siemianowice, Upper Silesia. It was made up of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Józef Skrzek , guitarist Apostolis Anthimos , drummer Jerzy Piotrowski , and sound engineer ...
NK.pl then ranked among the top five websites used in Poland, behind Google.pl, Onet.pl, and Wirtualna Polska, and it was visited by more than 50% of Polish Internet users each month (with 10% of the traffic coming from abroad). [4] As of July 2009 86% of its users lived in Poland, according to Alexa. The site was also popular in Norway, where ...
The logo of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Polish Wikipedia. The Polish Wikipedia was created in September 2001 under the domain wiki.rozeta.com.pl. [2] It was originally hosted by a server in a shoebox inside the wardrobe of one of its founders, Paweł Jochym. [2]
The Polish alphabet (Polish: alfabet polski, abecadło) is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography. It is based on the Latin alphabet but includes certain letters (9) with diacritics : the acute accent – kreska : ć, ń, ó, ś, ź ; the overdot – kropka : ż ; the tail or ogonek – ą, ę ; and ...
Poland's fate was heavily discussed at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. Joseph Stalin, whose Red Army occupied the entire country, presented several alternatives which granted Poland industrialized territories in the west whilst the Red Army simultaneously permanently annexed Polish territories in the east, resulting in Poland losing over 20% of its pre-war borders.
Polska Agencja Prasowa S.A. was incorporated in 1918 as the Polish Telegraphic Agency (Polska Agencja Telegraficzna, PAT) which makes it one of the world's oldest wire services. [11] PAT ran 14 news bulletins in several languages. In 1925, it launched a regular newsreel and offered a photo service since the 1930s. [12]