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The Museum of John Paul II Collection (Polish: Muzeum Kolekcji im. Jana Pawła II) in Warsaw, also known as the Porczyński Gallery or Carroll-Porczyński Collection, is a museum dedicated to its painting collection, which is housed in the building of the former stock exchange and Bank of Poland. [1]
In 1921, Warsaw's total area was estimated at only 124.7 km 2 with 1 million inhabitants–over 8,000 people/km 2 made Warsaw more densely populated than contemporary London. [51] The Średnicowy Bridge was constructed for railway (1921–1931), connecting both parts of the city across the Vistula .
Many structures related to the fort can be seen in the Modlin district, including ruins from defensive structures designed by Napoleon Bonaparte [2] and Tsarist Blocks built between 1899 and 1901 to house soldiers of the Russian army, and which are still in use as private flats today. [3] The Germans occupied the town beginning in September 1939.
The Warsaw radio mast was a guyed steel lattice mast of equilateral triangular cross section, with a face width of 4.8 metres (16 ft). The vertical steel tubes forming the structures of the mast had a diameter of 245 millimetres (10 in); the thickness of the walls of these tubes varied between 8–34 mm (0.31–1.33 in) depending on height. The ...
In reality, however, the fortress was not completed until 1874. The cost of construction came to 11 million rubles (roughly 8.5 tonnes of pure gold or 128 million euro at today's' prices), a colossal sum by 19th-century standards, and was borne entirely by the city of Warsaw and the Bank Polski, as yet another punishment for the failed uprising.
Despite losing the battle for the Champions League, Polonia Warszawa started in 1st round of the UEFA Cup where they lost to Udinese Calcio twice with scores of 0:1 and 0:2. [ 24 ] Come the 2000/2001 season and the Black Shirts began to lose their form, playing poorly in the 1st division, yet still managing to win The Polish Cup.
The first major modernization took place in 1957. The new model was called FSO Warszawa M20 model 57, but not long after its name was changed to Warszawa 200. The new model received a restyled front-end section. The powertrain was modified too, the compression ratio was raised from 6.2:1 to 6.8:1 and maximum power crept up to 52 hp (38 kW).
srodmiescie.um.warszawa.pl Śródmieście ( pronounced [ɕrudˈmjɛɕt͡ɕɛ] ), also anglicised as Downtown , is the central district of Warsaw , the capital city of Poland . It encompasses the Old Town , the city's historic core, and is the centre of cultural, commercial and political life of the capital.