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Wanda Elaine Stopa (May 5, 1900 – April 25, 1924) was a Polish-American lawyer and murderer who committed suicide the day after committing her crime. Life [ edit ]
Examples of Polish constructivism and international style include numerous housing complexes and modern residential houses built by architects Barbara Brukalska and Stanisław Brukalski (own house at 8 Niegolewskiego Street in Warsaw, WSM housing estate in Żoliborz, Warsaw), Bohdan Lachert (own house at 9 Katowicka Street in Warsaw), Józef ...
The best-known architects and artists who worked in Poland were Dominik Merlini, Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer, Szymon Bogumił Zug, Stanisław Zawadzki, Efraim Szreger, Antonio Corazzi, Jakub Kubicki, Hilary Szpilowski, Christian Piotr Aigner, Wawrzyniec Gucewicz, Bonifacy Witkowski and Danish Bertel Thorvaldsen.
Gothic architecture is represented in the majestic churches but also at the burgher houses and fortifications.The most significant buildings are St. John's Cathedral (14th century), the temple is a typical example of the so-called Masovian gothic style, St. Mary's Church (1411), a town house of Burbach family (14th century), [1] Gunpowder Tower (after 1379) and the Royal Castle Curia Maior ...
The Ulmas were killed at home by German Nazi troops and by Nazi-controlled local police in the small hours of March 24, 1944, together with the eight Jews they were hiding at their home, after ...
Wilanów Palace in Warsaw, the 17th- and 18th-century summer residence of Polish kings Early Polish baroque buildings were often designed by foreign (most often, Italian) architects. The first baroque building in present-day Poland was the Saints Peter and Paul Church, Kraków by Giovanni Battista Trevano .
In 2015, Weishaar was a 25-year-old intern at a Chicago architecture firm when he heard about an open design competition for D.C.'s first national World War I memorial. "I set up a shelf in my ...
Polish women led to mass execution in a forest near Palmiry 52°20′N 20°44′E / 52.33°N 20.74°E / 52.33; 20.74 The Palmiry massacre was a series of mass executions carried out by Nazi German forces, during World War II , near the village of Palmiry in the Kampinos Forest northwest of Warsaw