Chicago fugitive extradited from Poland
Fugitive featured in Tribune investigation is extradited from Poland to face charges in fatal crash. Number of extraditions linked to Tribune investigation on international fugitives now stands at four. Poland returns fugitive to Chicago to face charges in ...
Court: Poland culpable for CIA secret prisons
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Poland to pay reparations to two Saudis being held in Guantanamo Bay. On July 24, seven judges on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against Poland in a landmark case, making it the first European ...
GG House / Architekt.Lemanski
Architects: Architekt.Lemanski Location: Krakow, Poland Area: 369.0 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Tomasz Zakrzewski From the architect. “GG House” was located on a south, steep slope in the green district of Cracow – Przegorzały. The simple form of the building is divided among window placements on th ...
The Sykes-Picot Agreement: How the Krak des Chevalier caused the modern violence in the Middle East
When you visit a hospital dear reader you likely didn’t know that you were visiting a concept started by the Knights of the First Crusade—particularly in the Middle East to care for the poor and unfortunate during their conquest by Christianity against Muslim forces. The term is derived from the Hos ...
History and Bigotry, by Leslie Wilson
Paul von Hindenburg, one of the two generals commanding German troops on 23rd August 1914 at Allenstein A hundred years ago today was the start of the battle of Tannenberg. It was fought at Allenstein,(Polish Olsztyn), in what was then East Prussia, which is actually 30km away from Tannenberg but in ...
Miss Europe postcards
The 1930 French film, Prix de beauté (also known as Miss Europa), tells the story of a typist named Lucienne (played by Louise Brooks) stuck in a dull job whose life changes when she wins a beauty contest. The film was based on a screenplay by Augusto Genina, René Clair, Bernard Zimmer, and Alessand ...
Ukraine: A Perspective From Europe
Submitted by Alasdair Macleod via Peak Prosperity, The eminent historian Niall Ferguson in an op-ed for the Financial Times (Friday August 1 st) made a comparison between the events leading up to the start of WW1 and the Ukraine situation today. While the comparison is apposite given the 100-year an ...
red-lipstick: Emma Dajska (Poznań, Poland) - 1: Untitled (3),...
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Living on a battle field, Katherine’s World War I Story
Village in Galicia destroyed early in World War One. Katherine Pylatiuk was ten years old when the Russian Army invaded her village, Bila, just outside of Ternopil, in Eastern Galicia. She was 18 when the World War One finally ended in 1921. When the war started in 1914, Katherine, my great aunt, li ...
I need love!
It's something with Sweden ... As soon as I come back I'm constantly thinking of Jon. I don't know why. I miss him so much. I don't know but I'm feeling so alone these days! And I'm doing nearly anything to get some attention and "love" cuz what I get it's not real. No one is serious with me. I've d ...
Baltic
Short timelapse video shows the sunset on the Baltic Sea coast near Jaroslawiec in the north Poland
