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A mix of stories. Rock Music is Polish  Patricia Andrzejewski High School Yearbook  Born 1-10-53 in Brooklyn, New York to a beautician and sheet metal worker, Patricia Andrzejewski became Pat Benatar while still a teenager. Although Pat was preparing for classical studies at the famed Juilliard School of Music, after graduating Lindenhurst High School on Long Island in 1971, before the decade had finished she was hailed as the Queen of Rock Music. The "G" on the album cover is just there to spell "GO", I guess. It would be pretty hard to spell i ¶ æ. Our Music Page [GO HERE]  See what a Polish Pizza Hut Website looks like click the logo above  Polish KFC Website
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Poles 200,000 B.C. Fred Flintstonski & Barney Rubblewicz? Archeological finds prove humans have lived in the Krakow area since 200,000 BC at least, and some 50,000 years ago a hamlet with a factory churning out stone tools prospered on Krakow's central Wawel Hill. What's this doing in Church? St. John's Cathedral in the Old Town of Warsaw, many guides tell tourists about the German tank that was driven into the church and which destroyed the south side. However, they do not always show you the track of the tank that was built into the wall during reconstruction; look for this on the ul. Dziekania side of the cathedral. Toss the Kielbasa Chicken Baked with Prunes, was prepared in the 14th century for the Bishop of Zeitz. The ingredients include sliced onion, shredded white cabbage, large prunes with their pits, chopped parsley, juniper berries, a large roasting hen cut in half, bay leaf, bacon, ginger, cinnamon, a red Hungarian wine, and a little dill seed. This bakes, covered, in an earthenware pan, and is served on boiled millet refried in oil or butter and accompanied by green mustard sauce. What you would taste, according William Woys Weaver, the editor and coauthor of Food and Drink in Medieval Poland, is the spirit of 14th-century Polish cuisine. Not French, mind you. Not Italian, or German even. But Polish. St. Andrzejki Day Rituals Not diamonds, but picket fences, melted candle wax and walnut shells are a girls best friend on this special night. November 29th - just before the full moon is the Eve of St. Andrew's Day (St. Andrzejki Day). This is a special time for young Polish girls who want to find a husband. On this night and the next day, fortunes are told and the results are not taken lightly. 
Here are a few ways that fortunes are told: The most popular way is by melting wax and pouring it into a bowl of cold water. Wax is then picked up from the water, raised to the light, and the girls try to see the similarities of it to real objects. Depending on the shapes, fortunes are told for the following year. If nothing meaningful comes up, there is always a chance that a girl will dream of something important dealing with her future, that night - but only if she could remember it. In another traditional way of fortune telling, girls stand in a circle leaning over a bowl of water with a small floating walnut shell containing a tiny-lighted candle. Each girl pastes a slip of paper with the name of a favored young man on the inside edge of the bowl above the water. To whichever name the lighted candle sailed to and burnt, a marriage proposal from him could be expected. 
Also, during the day, a girl counts to the fourteenth post on a fence to see what her future husband will look like - fat, thin, short, tall, old, young. In another game, a scarf, a ribbon, and a rosary are placed separately under three plates. A girl, her eyes blindfolded, turns around three times while other girls rearrange the plates. If she draws a scarf, it means marriage; a ribbon - single for another year; rosary - becomes a spinster or a nun.So, for all the girls who participated in this ritual - we hope your dreams come true. PS - St. Andrew was an apostile, brother to Peter. It is generally agreed that he was crucified by order of the Roman Governor, Aegeas, at Patrae in Achaia, and that he was bound, not nailed, to the cross, in order to prolong his sufferings. The cross on which he suffered is commonly held to have been the decussate cross (looks like a "X", now known as St. Andrew's.
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Queen of Polonia 2005 
Monika Swiderski of San Francisco, California is this year's winner. Born in Poland, Monika has a carreer in Hotel Management. Miss Polonia California and Queen of Polonia International is based in Los Angeles, CA.
Polish Pirate Count Maurycy Beniowski (also known as Baron Maurice de Benyowski) was born in Poland to a noble family. At that time Poland was partitioned into three parts, Beniowski was born in the Russian part. As a youngster he took part in the Polish uprising to liberate Poland from the Russian rule (Konfederacja Barska) and after being captured by Russians was sent into exile to Siberia. However he managed to escape and after some tumultuous years he found himself leading an armed expedition headed toward Madagascar. On an African Island near Madagascar he managed to establish a stronghold, and pronounced himself the king of Madagascar. We can easily classify him as a pirate because he was not above attacking shipping lanes around Madagascar, and he didn't represent any authority. One of the nearby islands (Mauritius) was named after this Polish adventurer and to this day he is remembered there. Thank German Critics The term "Polish composers' school" was popularised in the early 1960s mainly by German music critics. This term was coined to name the specific style of Polish music in which the tone of sound is a foundation of the structure of a musical piece. Stone upon stone, Brick upon brick A [List] of over one hundred of the largest and most significant historical buildings in Poland. From The Honolulu Star Bulletin Want some polonaise with your poi? The 35-member Folk Song and Dance Ensemble of the Agricultural Academy of Lublin, Poland, will share its music and dances during "Polish Days in Hawaii," beginning Sunday. Performances will be at Polynesian Cultural Center at 5:30 Monday through Thursday. Prohibicja in Warsaw This quirky American-styled restaurant harks back to the good old days when Al Capone ruled Chicago, and guys wore rather more stylish clothes than they do in this god forsaken age. 
Here you can get into the spirit of those charming gangsters and enjoy some fine cocktails, tasty food and a touch of jazz of course. Prohibicja was launched by four famous Polish actors, and pics of big characters in Polish cinema can be spotted on the walls, decked out in dapper 1930's costume. All in all a fun restaurant with a good location just by the Old Town Square. Next trip to Poland, give it a try.3 Million Catholic Poles The concentration camps which swallowed up the flower of European Jewry were first built to imprison Polish intellectuals and priests. The fact is, some 3 million Catholic Poles -- fully half the number of Jews murdered by Nazis -- died at the hands of Hitler's bloody legions. Even in the flickering light cast by the furnace fires of Auschwitz and Treblinka, the story of non-Jewish Poland under the Nazis has been left largely untold. It's widely known that some Poles were happy to see Hitler solve their "Jewish Problem". Less well known is the fact that many other Poles risked their lives to shelter Jews. And they died together in the millions --friends of Jews and anti-Semites alike. |
  Pisanki Modern technology has provided egg wraps. Intricate patterns simply applied to your eggs. Locally available at Janina's on Sylvania Ave.  A 13th century knight's castle, on a peninsula in Lake Zurich houses an extraordinary Polish Museum. Click the pic. |
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