Archive | 2015

Polish Constitution Day – May 3rd

Ustawa Rządowa – Government Act Konstytucja 3 Maja or The Constitution of 3 May, 1791 took 32 months to draft a final version.  This historic document was created to redress the “Nobles Democracy” a system that gave too many rights for nobility and corrupted the politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.  In short it sought political […]

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Dine Like Copernicus Tonight

Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) is one of Poland’s favorite Polish Sons. He is most noted for his Heliocentric Model of our planetary system theorizing that our Sun rather than the Earth was at the center of our solar system. He was born the 19th of February 1473 in the city of Toruń, and died at […]

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