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Today photos of one of the Polish manors - manor in Lopuszna (village near Zakopane near Gorce mountains). The hause was built in 1790 by former confederate of Bar -Romuald Lisicki. For some time manor belongs to Leon Przerwa-Tetmajer - uncle of famous Polish Writer Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer. Till World War II manor was property of Lgocki family, but after 1945 the estate shared the fate of many other manors and was taken over by the Treasury. This almost led Lopuszna to ruin, but in 70'th the manor was taken over by the Tatra Museum and restored.

Miss World contest is the biggest and most famous international beauty contest in the world. The first one took place in 1951. Since then only once Polish women  has took the first place. It was in 1989 in Honkgong when Aneta Kręglicka won the Miss World title.

Warsaw Uprising is one of the gloriest (and sad one) events in Polish history. We will write about this in the future, but today we have a lot of photos from this uprising.

White Stork is very popular bird in Poland. Over 23% of world population (52,000 pairs) of this bird live here in Spring and Summer. Storks are wandering birds and just before Winter they fly away to hotter countries in Africa.

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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..

Today timelapse from Warsaw - Polish capital. Great video showing the city in slightly different way. Enjoy.

Today we have video from CNN presenting Polish culinary. Just watch how great and delicious it is.

Common Pipistrelle is one of the smallest bat in the world. It is 3,5-4,5 cm long (with a wingspan 19-25 cm). It's weight is about 7 g - almost the same as the U.S. dollar (8g). Such small creature lives usually.. up to 16 years.

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