From the Causeway Film & Video Forum: REDISCOVERING POLISH CINEMA: HISTORY – IDEOLOGY – POLITICS. Åódz, October 2006. Location: Poland Call for Papers Deadline: 2006-04-15 TO BE HELD 23-25 OCTOBER 2006 IN ÅÓDZ (POLAND) Various transformations in the social and cultural landscape have been reshaping the way Polish cinema is understood, yet still there is […]
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Check out an excellent analysis of Poland, Polonia and blogging over at Blogcount. The article entitled Profile of a Polish Blogger observes: We hypothesized that the overall theory motivation “social utility†would be the most predominant motivation; this was supported. We also hypothesized that “self-expression†would be a more frequent motivation for writing blog posts
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By Michael Szporer The first organization of American Poles was the Association of Poles in America (Stowarzyszenie Polak? w Ameryce) founded in 1830 by the veterans of Revolution of 1830 (November Uprising). Jan of Kolono, a Polish sailor under the sponsorship of the King of Denmark reached the Labrador and explored the Atlantic coast as
Did you know that the largest underground resistance army during World War II was the Polish Home Army? The Home Army, 300,000 strong at its peak, is credited with supplying the Allies with constant intelligence information from the eastern front, providing information about the V-1 rocket in Peenemunde, secretly sending Britain a V-2 rocket, the
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