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Peppard played Thomas Banacek, [2] a Polish-American freelance, Boston-based private investigator who solves seemingly impossible thefts. He collects from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property. One of Banacek's verbal signatures is the quotation of strangely worded yet curiously cogent "Polish proverbs" such as:
As with proverbs of other peoples around the world, Polish proverbs concern many topics; [5] at least 2,000 Polish proverbs relate to weather and climate alone. [1] Many concern classic topics such as fortune and misfortune, religion, family, everyday life, health, love, wealth, and women; others, like the first recorded Polish proverb (referring to bast production), and those about weather ...
Krzyżanowski was the editor of the largest and most reputable collection of Polish proverbs up to date, [1] called the "bible of Polish proverbs", [2] Nowa księga przysłów i wyrażeń przysłowiowych polskich (New Book of Polish Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions, also known as Nowa Księga przysłów polskich, A New Book of Polish Proverbs, published in several volumes in the years 1969 ...
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Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna ("God, Honor, Fatherland"): [1] the most common phrase found on Polish military standards. [citation needed] Za wolność naszą i Waszą ("For our freedom and yours"): [2] Its history dates back to the times when Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland, fought in the various independence movements throughout ...