Post by Jaga on Oct 6, 2019 18:53:29 GMT -7
I am a follower of Geography now:
www.youtube.com/user/GeographyNow
They go alphabetically talking about each country. In two weeks they should be covering Poland, since they have already covered the Philipines. I just thought I should share with you what I wrote to the program hosts about Poland, quoting some of my articles from the website that is still active and ask you for any clarification etc:
I used to have a very active Polish Culture website, but the newer version got hacked, since I did not update the software, I still have the majority of my articles available under my old website:
culture.polishsite.us/
you can see them by clicking the topics to the left:
culture.polishsite.us/sitemap.html
the most important things about Poland which should be emphasized
- According to the legend Poland was created after one of three brothers: Lech, Czech (from Tchechia) and Rus saw the eagle nest and then Lech (the name from Polish tribe of Lechites) decided to settle. Polish first capital: Gniezno originates from nest; interesting fact: Slavic tribes united because of the danger from Germans attacking from the West and this is how Poland was created: In Slavic languages Germans are called NIEMCY, but “niemy” means “mute” since they couldn’t communicate
- Poland used to be multi-national empire, the biggest in Europe in commonwealth with Lithuania; known for religious freedoms, there were many Jews that were protected by law, Ukrainian, Belarussians, but it had a weak royal power and it was slowly destroyed, in three partitions at the end of XVIII century; Poles tried to revitalize it with the Kosciuszko uprising (Kosciuszko later went and fought in American revolution and the highest Australian mountain has his name… although he never went there) , new constitution (1791, May 3 – presently Polish national day) and new education reform but it was too late. Poland was erased from the map in 1795l then shortly established by Napoleon…(so Poles had always good relations with France, bad with Germans and Russians); then re-established after WW I.
- WW II started with German’s attack on September 1, 1939, followed shortly by unexpected attack by Soviets on Sept 17.
- Warsaw was destroyed in 85% after Warsaw Uprising that started in August, 1944 (don’t confused it with ghetto uprising) – that was going to establish Polish government independent from Soviets that were liberating Poland under its own rules; unfortunately the uprising was not successful and Soviets waited until Germans destroyed the city until January 1945.
Poland is in the middle of Europe, not in the Eastern Europe. The boarders were shifting since a lack of natural boundaries, and because of the powerful neighbors: Germany and Russia; (look at culture.polishsite.us/smwelcome.html and culture.polishsite.us/articles/art1fr.htm)
Famous Poles or people of Polish origin: Copernicus, Maria Sklodowska-Curie, John Paul !!, Lech Walesa, Frederick Chopin,, Martha Stewart, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda, Helena Rubinstein, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stephan Wozniak, Brinislaw Malinowski (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art465fr.htm), Jan Czochralski (crystal growing method), and much more, for instance Fahrenheit was born in Gdansk which is Polish now, but it was an international town. There was also famous Polish school of mathematicians with Stefan Banach (Banach’s space), Sierpinski (famous Sierpinski’s triangle), Stanislaw Ulam (worked on nuclear bomb, Einstein’ friend), Stanislaw Lem – science fiction writer and many sport figures in soccer etc…Here is the article about famous Polish Nobel winners: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art472fr.htm
Not all of them were Polish when they received the award
Poland is famous for beautiful amber (in Baltic sea), storks (storks are under the special protections, you cannot destroy their nests, every fourth stork is Polish: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art348fr.htm), last auroch passed away in Poland after living a good life, it is still cultivated in Polish tradition as tur: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art461fr.htm, and Polish pottery
What to visit in Poland: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art3fr.htm
Royal castle Krakow, Salt mine Wieliczka (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art264fr.htm), Gniezno first capital of Poland, Biskupin –ancient fortress ((culture.polishsite.us/articles/art435fr.htm), Marlbork teutonic castle (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art405fr.htm), Aushwitz concentration camp (in Poland, don’t call in Polish: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art256fr.htm), Carpathian and Tatra mountains (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art32fr.htm) with its folklore (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art134fr.htm) , Mazurian lakes, Czestochova Monastery; Bialowieza forest (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art217fr.htm) (boardered with Belarus), Kazimierz – old Jewish district in Krakow (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art223fr.htm), the Eagle Nest Train with chain of limestone castles;
Polish food:
Polish food is good especially for the moderate climate, cheap but time-consuming to prepare. The main ingredients base on plants grown in Poland like potatoes, rye, wheat, barley, millet, cabbage, beets, tomatoes, cucumbers etc.
Soups are popular in Poland. The typical Polish soups: Beetroot soup (barszcz), Polish sour rye soup (zurek) and sauerkraut soup. The typical meatless Polish dishes are pierogi (dumplings) filled with cheese or sauerkraut and mushrooms and cabbage rolls (golabki). The typical dishes with meat are: hunter stew (bigos) made from cabbage (sauerkraut) and sausage (Polish kielbasa, but the real sausage is much better than this available in supermarkets) and breaded pork (kotlet schabowy); horseradish soup, ryemeal soup, bigos, herring, hunter stew;
culture.polishsite.us/smfoodfr.htm
culture.polishsite.us/articles/art346fr.htm about paczki (pictures)
culture.polishsite.us/articles/art165fr.htm chrust, faworki
Poles do not only eat potatoes in their pure form as potatoes but they prepare so called kluski of different sorts or dumplings out of it. By the way, Polish potatoes, especially the young ones are delicious!
culture.polishsite.us/smtravel.html
In the past the Catholic Church was an unifying force against aggressions from Lutheran Germany and orthodox Russia and then Soviet Union; now people are as divided as in the US – some Poles are nationalistically catholics, the other are pro-EU liberals, so altogether it is just a mess… and lots of people are not attending religious services anymore
Poles are famous for hospitality,
Polish immigration to the US: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art41fr.htm
Polish language is difficult, full of consonants like this tongue breaker about insects: “Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie, w Szczebrzeszynie”
my name Jagoda means blueberry in Polish and Russian (although it is pronounced with different accent in Russian), but strawberry in Czech or Serb0-chroatian languages
www.youtube.com/user/GeographyNow
They go alphabetically talking about each country. In two weeks they should be covering Poland, since they have already covered the Philipines. I just thought I should share with you what I wrote to the program hosts about Poland, quoting some of my articles from the website that is still active and ask you for any clarification etc:
I used to have a very active Polish Culture website, but the newer version got hacked, since I did not update the software, I still have the majority of my articles available under my old website:
culture.polishsite.us/
you can see them by clicking the topics to the left:
culture.polishsite.us/sitemap.html
the most important things about Poland which should be emphasized
- According to the legend Poland was created after one of three brothers: Lech, Czech (from Tchechia) and Rus saw the eagle nest and then Lech (the name from Polish tribe of Lechites) decided to settle. Polish first capital: Gniezno originates from nest; interesting fact: Slavic tribes united because of the danger from Germans attacking from the West and this is how Poland was created: In Slavic languages Germans are called NIEMCY, but “niemy” means “mute” since they couldn’t communicate
- Poland used to be multi-national empire, the biggest in Europe in commonwealth with Lithuania; known for religious freedoms, there were many Jews that were protected by law, Ukrainian, Belarussians, but it had a weak royal power and it was slowly destroyed, in three partitions at the end of XVIII century; Poles tried to revitalize it with the Kosciuszko uprising (Kosciuszko later went and fought in American revolution and the highest Australian mountain has his name… although he never went there) , new constitution (1791, May 3 – presently Polish national day) and new education reform but it was too late. Poland was erased from the map in 1795l then shortly established by Napoleon…(so Poles had always good relations with France, bad with Germans and Russians); then re-established after WW I.
- WW II started with German’s attack on September 1, 1939, followed shortly by unexpected attack by Soviets on Sept 17.
- Warsaw was destroyed in 85% after Warsaw Uprising that started in August, 1944 (don’t confused it with ghetto uprising) – that was going to establish Polish government independent from Soviets that were liberating Poland under its own rules; unfortunately the uprising was not successful and Soviets waited until Germans destroyed the city until January 1945.
Poland is in the middle of Europe, not in the Eastern Europe. The boarders were shifting since a lack of natural boundaries, and because of the powerful neighbors: Germany and Russia; (look at culture.polishsite.us/smwelcome.html and culture.polishsite.us/articles/art1fr.htm)
Famous Poles or people of Polish origin: Copernicus, Maria Sklodowska-Curie, John Paul !!, Lech Walesa, Frederick Chopin,, Martha Stewart, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda, Helena Rubinstein, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stephan Wozniak, Brinislaw Malinowski (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art465fr.htm), Jan Czochralski (crystal growing method), and much more, for instance Fahrenheit was born in Gdansk which is Polish now, but it was an international town. There was also famous Polish school of mathematicians with Stefan Banach (Banach’s space), Sierpinski (famous Sierpinski’s triangle), Stanislaw Ulam (worked on nuclear bomb, Einstein’ friend), Stanislaw Lem – science fiction writer and many sport figures in soccer etc…Here is the article about famous Polish Nobel winners: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art472fr.htm
Not all of them were Polish when they received the award
Poland is famous for beautiful amber (in Baltic sea), storks (storks are under the special protections, you cannot destroy their nests, every fourth stork is Polish: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art348fr.htm), last auroch passed away in Poland after living a good life, it is still cultivated in Polish tradition as tur: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art461fr.htm, and Polish pottery
What to visit in Poland: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art3fr.htm
Royal castle Krakow, Salt mine Wieliczka (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art264fr.htm), Gniezno first capital of Poland, Biskupin –ancient fortress ((culture.polishsite.us/articles/art435fr.htm), Marlbork teutonic castle (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art405fr.htm), Aushwitz concentration camp (in Poland, don’t call in Polish: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art256fr.htm), Carpathian and Tatra mountains (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art32fr.htm) with its folklore (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art134fr.htm) , Mazurian lakes, Czestochova Monastery; Bialowieza forest (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art217fr.htm) (boardered with Belarus), Kazimierz – old Jewish district in Krakow (culture.polishsite.us/articles/art223fr.htm), the Eagle Nest Train with chain of limestone castles;
Polish food:
Polish food is good especially for the moderate climate, cheap but time-consuming to prepare. The main ingredients base on plants grown in Poland like potatoes, rye, wheat, barley, millet, cabbage, beets, tomatoes, cucumbers etc.
Soups are popular in Poland. The typical Polish soups: Beetroot soup (barszcz), Polish sour rye soup (zurek) and sauerkraut soup. The typical meatless Polish dishes are pierogi (dumplings) filled with cheese or sauerkraut and mushrooms and cabbage rolls (golabki). The typical dishes with meat are: hunter stew (bigos) made from cabbage (sauerkraut) and sausage (Polish kielbasa, but the real sausage is much better than this available in supermarkets) and breaded pork (kotlet schabowy); horseradish soup, ryemeal soup, bigos, herring, hunter stew;
culture.polishsite.us/smfoodfr.htm
culture.polishsite.us/articles/art346fr.htm about paczki (pictures)
culture.polishsite.us/articles/art165fr.htm chrust, faworki
Poles do not only eat potatoes in their pure form as potatoes but they prepare so called kluski of different sorts or dumplings out of it. By the way, Polish potatoes, especially the young ones are delicious!
culture.polishsite.us/smtravel.html
In the past the Catholic Church was an unifying force against aggressions from Lutheran Germany and orthodox Russia and then Soviet Union; now people are as divided as in the US – some Poles are nationalistically catholics, the other are pro-EU liberals, so altogether it is just a mess… and lots of people are not attending religious services anymore
Poles are famous for hospitality,
Polish immigration to the US: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art41fr.htm
Polish language is difficult, full of consonants like this tongue breaker about insects: “Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie, w Szczebrzeszynie”
my name Jagoda means blueberry in Polish and Russian (although it is pronounced with different accent in Russian), but strawberry in Czech or Serb0-chroatian languages
