In the middle of the 19th century, the rise of the railway led to the development of a revolution in travel across Europe.In this great upheaval of an industrious and innovative century, an idea was to germinate and make its way into the mind of the Belgian engineer Georges Nagelmackers (1845-1905):
Everyday life in the Sarmatian Commonwealth was full of paradoxes. The enormous extravagance was accompanied by greed, the splendor of the manors with the conflagration of the war. A nobleman could sit on the throne or be fooled by a woman. In the 17th century, nothing was obvious in Poland. As
His books appear on almost every list of the 100 greatest works of world literature. He himself came from a Polish family, but everyone knows him under a foreign name. Did this genius writer not want to be Polish? Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, better known to the world as Joseph Conrad, was
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