She was a natural born soldier. She fought better and more eagerly than her colleagues. Despite her obvious heroism, she was refused a Virtuti Militari Cross. She had to wait nine years for this - and finally she was awarded the order ... by the grace of the partitioner. Joanna Żubr, née Pasławs
He was the emperor, but he was betrayed and dragged out of the palace. His advisers were burned alive, his nose and tongue were cut off, and then deported to the most northern of the northern provinces of the empire. A decade later, when everyone had forgotten about him, he appeared with a large arm
A Polish slave is taken to Spain, where he regains his freedom and under the name Mudżāhid takes over Ibiza. Such a story could have happened in the times of Bolesław the Brave. Where did the Poles on the Iberian Peninsula come from? They were among the Slavic slaves who in the Middle Ages were an
He targeted beasts that took a taste for human flesh. It was his bullets that killed a tigress from Champawat, India with at least 434 victims. No wonder Jim Corbett has gone down in history as a man-eater slayer - and one of the most famous hunters of all time. Jim Corbett was born in British Ind