The European football championship is full of interesting threads. It is difficult to describe them all in one article. That is why we have selected five amazing facts about the historical origins of Euro, about politics and about fathers for whom things were more important than football. Why so
Along with the lacing of the corsets, the moral standards loosened. Sex without consequences was promoted and conscious motherhood, cinemas, cafes and cabarets sprang up like mushrooms after rain. After centuries of oppression and war trauma, people just wanted to have fun. With the sounds of jazz a
Disregard by officials, violence at police stations - this is everyday peasant life in interwar Poland. The peasant Stanisław Kusek from the village of Borowa in the Ropczyce district was unlucky. As he was walking down the road, he was picked up by a patrol by the State Police. At the station 3
Amazing cities grew up in the Indus Valley over 5,000 years ago. The people who created them drew even streets. The houses had access to sewage and fresh water - thanks to the system of huge pools, it was never lacking. Scientists are still wondering about the phenomenon of Mohenjo Daro culture. Who
Kupala Night, which is celebrated on the summer solstice, has an extremely long tradition. It was so important that Christianity had to accept it also in its calendar almost unchanged. How did it happen that a pagan festival did not get Christianized? From the very beginning, growing Christianity
The decade of the 1970s in Poland was to be a time of escape into technological progress, modernity and improvement of the quality of life. It was accompanied by great social changes. Even if this attempt was unsuccessful, it changed society permanently. Two excellent TV series:Czter 30olatek and 07
In the summer of 1904, as many as 41,000 people stood in line for the Exhibition of Exotic Nations in the zoo in Breslau. On the catwalk, you could see live exhibits from Tunisia. Light Europe watched the savages with a feeling of superiority, but also with fascination. Before putting them behind ba
On this small island, from 1903 until 1957, one of the last closed leper colonies in Europe operated. Officially, a substitute for a normal life was created for them. The truth, however, was terrifying - that Spinalonga had no escape, and its forced inhabitants were disappearing from their documents
If they were successful, they could work for many years to end up in an asylum after losing their strength. If they were less fortunate, they ended up in the streets as prostitutes after a few months. Over 95% of them did not start a family. Their remuneration was usually left over from the hosts me
Most of us have peasant roots, and yet we are mainly interested in the history of the noble minority. Today, historians are trying to restore the right proportions in the story of the history of the Polish nation. When the peasants of Jakub Szela murdered masters during the Galician raid, they d
Many Poles find it difficult to imagine a New Years Eve party without it. Its popularity is best evidenced by the fact that there are tons of its fakes. Of course I am talking about white, sweet, sparkling wine, known as Soviet or Russian champagne. Few people know that there is a long history behin
Calendar is a contractual tool - just like time and its counting. However, let us leave the physical issues alone, and deal with the historical ones. Has the New Year always started on the first day of January? In different cultures, time is counted from another important event, in most cases le
The term Underground Railroad - that is, the underground railway - does not refer to tracks or carriages tied together running along routes hollowed out under the surface. It is a completely different composition, which, however, was also supposed to deliver the traveler to the destination station.
On January 7 - according to the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar - Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas. The liturgy of St. Basil the Great, there are decorated Christmas trees in the houses. This custom appeared in Russia only 200 years ago. And it all started with
Polish society in terms of sex is quite conservative, although it likes to look into someone elses bedroom. Regardless of the political system. What was the intimate life of our compatriots like in the times of Peoples Poland? Researching and writing about Polish sexuality is a big problem. It d
Mysterious-sounding koro is an anxiety disorder that occurs in men. The patient thinks that his penis ... will be pulled deeper into the abdomen until it disappears completely inside him. It happens that thousands of people suffer from the disease at once. This has happened many times in history.
A strategic board game that both rulers and women admired. Tactics, manipulations, intuition - today, thanks to this particular game, we can understand the changes taking place in art, politics and culture. How was the phenomenon of chess born, not without reason called royal? Nowadays, India is
5500 years ago, the areas of todays Poland were dotted with huge megalithic structures, older than the Egyptian pyramids and the British circle of Stonehenge boulders. The remains of giant buildings are the heritage of people living here in the Neolithic era, at a time when man began to subjugate th
It is difficult to estimate how many people managed to escape from the ghetto and thus save their lives. Various researchers indicate numbers from several dozen to even 250 thousand Jews. One thing is certain - getting out was not easy and required a lot of cleverness, outside help and ... money.
Fate has lovingly linked Mira, called Mimi, a prisoner of the Majdanek, Ravensbrück and Buchenwald camps, with Józef, the prisoner of Auschwitz. After the war, the woman and her lover ended up in Birkenau, where she helped to create a local museum. However, her intricate history began much earlier,
Flowers, snacks, joyful shouts - this is how Poles greeted the Soviets after the Germans escaped. At that time, many compatriots thought that this was real liberation. However, this belief did not last long. Instead of freedom, the Reds brought a new oppression. You can read more about it in our lat
A refined 900 pajamas We wear it every night before going to sleep, but how many of us have wondered what the origin of pajamas is intended both as a word and as a garment? From a small and quick research on the subject, I discovered that it is a term of ancient Persian origin, “pay jama “
Dharma and Duties of Ashram System The Vedic sages had arranged four ashrams - Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanprastha and Sanyas Ashram to organize human life according to karma. According to Yajnavalkya, the four ashrams were very necessary for the brahmins and the brahmin who followed these four ash
After the War of Independence ended with the Peace of Versailles in 1783, the Americans gained new territories over which the British had so far ruled. A huge, resource-rich territory northwest of the Ohio River was waiting for white settlers. In mid-August, the Reverend Manasseh Cutler arrived