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Today something which seems to be bad joke. The unreadable and the longest Polish www adress. Why bad joke? Because the www adress belongs to government site..

The peregrine falcon is one of the most famous and characteristic Polish birds.Sadly, it is now one of the species on the verge of extinction. Poland from the 80th is trying to rebuild the population of this bird.

Author:Artur Wójtowicz under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

During the German occupation in Poland in 1939-1945, Nazis authorities banned the breeding of pigeons. They feared that pigeons would be able to bypass German armies and deliver messages from other countries to Poland or messages from resistance. But the most, Nazis were feared that the world would get know what happens in Poland.

Author: Andreas Trepte under:Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa – Na tych samych warunkach 2.5

Zombie Walk is an interesting annual event in Poland in which hundreds of people dressed up as zombies march through the streets of Warsaw. It looks really scary, especially that sometimes they're fought by the army, which is of course fake. The whole thing looks very realistic, just like in zombie movies. Enjoy the videos.

Who invented the fork? Italy, or ... Poland? Many historians believe that it is Italy. However, Poland had a lot of merit in this topic. It is suspected that the queen Bona brought forks to the Poland. It is also known, that it were Poles, who began to use a fork soon after the Italians.

..brilliantly made video to promote celebration of 600 anniversary of the BVattle of Grunwald (Tannenberg).

Monastery of Holy Linden tree (pol Swieta Lipka) is considered to be one of the most important and beautiful Baroque religious buildings in Poland.

Author: Marek & Ewa Wojciechowscy under:Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa – Na tych samych warunkach 3.0

272 Jelcz MEX - bus from '60 and 70 produced by the Polish company Jelcz Czechoslovakian license, was and still is an icon of Polish moto.

Author:Lukas 3z under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Polish oligchars from the Second Polish Republic were able without the agreement of the king to pursue his own foreign policy and even own wars with other countries! It was possible, because magnates had a lot of money and lands and they made depednent from them smaller land owners. Powerfull oligarchs lent smaller landlords moneys. Very often debtors could not pay back their debts. Since then they were under control. They have to vote on their debtors in Polish councils.

Author: Jan Matejko

Today interesting video showing Wrocław - one of the biggest city of Poland. Video is made in special technique, so the people, buildings, cars and trams looks like toys or like micro world.