From faux harems and minaret-topped palaces to Moorish smoking rooms and Ottoman fantasies, Poland’s architectural past ...

Most people don’t associate super spy James Bond with Poland, but true 007 fans know that they share many curious links. One ...

Serfdom (Pol. pańszczyzna) is a development of a specific feudal relationship between the landowner and the tenant, in the Western feudal system usually referred to as socage. In its most typical ...

The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations. But what are the absolute hardest words? Germans look at Polish and ...

What links a Polish Romantic bard, a 20th‑century reporter, and a children’s story about a maharaja’s kindness? India. Its ...

Words portray ideas, while fonts – the spirit of the times. In their book Paneuropa, Kometa, Hel (Pan-Europa, Comet, Helium), ...

They shoot sensational blockbusters, sentimental melodramas, spectacular science fiction films and dark crime stories, ...

Alain Kohler, a Swiss physicist and Chopin specialist, found a new photograph that most likely depicts Fryderyk Chopin. The ...

The Cult of Mary in the village of Gietrzwald began in the 14th century. Believers would come here to pray around the icon of ...

Intellectuals are horrified that disco polo bands perform in the same concert hall as The Rolling Stones and Miles Davis. But ...

She was a pioneer of anthropology in Europe and the first lecturer of the subject in Oxford. She rode across the Siberian ...

Since the era of silent cinema Polish actresses have been present in the American film industry. Some of them have become ...