We all know very well how efficiently the construction of highways in contemporary Poland is going. But how about the fact that basically nothing has changed in ... two hundred years? Work on the first railway in the Russian partition (and the railroads are, in a sense, the nineteenth-century equiva
Magic has been with mankind since the dawn of time. The first sources on witchcraft date back to ancient Mesopotamia and Babylonia. However, the period when magical writing became particularly popular was during the Middle Ages. Magic was viewed very differently in medieval Europe. Initially, it
From the middle of the 19th century, artistic inspiration broke with figurative art, antique themes and the classicism:the paintings of natural landscapes by Degas, Monet or Renoir inaugurated the “impressionist” movement. Later, the influence of Paul Cézanne on the painting of the beginning of the
The cult of the elements was closely related to the cult of fertility in the Slavs. That is why they believed that the wind was the cause of pregnancies, water stimulated women to give birth, and fire was the bridegroom of the ever-moist Mother Earth ... Water Water is one of the main elements