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Dec.13.2004 | |
During the night of Dec. 12-13, 1981, the Polish military authorities moved to take control of the country, and the Council of State established a "Military Cou... | |
Dec.13.2004 | |
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski is wrapping up his adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," and the film-maker known for grim and challenging fare s... | |
Dec.10.2004 | |
In an effort to shoehorn the various personifications of Father Christmas into a gallery, American and Western pundits have often hit upon the the curious figur... | |
Dec.9.2004 | |
After three months of digging, drilling, hammering and general ordered chaos, Cracow's Main Market Square reopened for business this morning, decked out with a ... | |
Dec.9.2004 | |
'The finest Renaissance edifice north of the Alps' was unveiled this month after a year's careful restoration. The Sigismund Chapel (Zygmunt in Polish), called ... | |
Dec.8.2004 | |
A Polish man traveled more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) on rollerblades to Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters to ask Chairman Bill Gates pay the medical costs of two... | |
Dec.7.2004 | |
What would make the perfect Polish Christmas prezzie? A jar of 'smalec' from Chlopskie Jadlo perhaps? Well certainly not for vegetarians, or anyone vaguely quea... | |
Dec.8.2004 | |
For one fleeting morning each December, Cracow's Main Market Square hosts a much-loved competition for the prize for the most fabulous Christmas Crib - 'Szopki'... | |
Dec.6.2004 | |
Poland's first budget airline Air Polonia has been grounded due to financial problems, stranding 53,000 passengers, its chairman said on Sunday. But Jan Litw... | |
Dec.02.2004 | |
A comic-strip version of the life of Pope John Paul II written by three Frenchmen has been published in the ailing pontiff's homeland Poland, the book's publish... | |
Dec.2.2004 | |
The Polish embassy in Tel Aviv is striving to cope with a sweeping number of Israelis, young and old, applying for a Polish passport, opting for a better life b... | |
Nov.02.2004 | |
Polish war crimes prosecutors have opened an investigation into the 1940 massacre in the Katyn forest of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by t... | |
Nov.29.2004 | |
They may not have been wearing electric blue space costumes with twirling red capes, but the gallant citizens who took to the trees of Old Cracow over the last ... | |
Nov.29.2004 | |
Cracow's Christmas Markets opened up over the weekend, giving shoppers an early chance to chivvy out some festive bits and bobs for this year's celebrations. ... | |
Nov.28.2004 | |
Celebrations kicked off last night in recognition of ten years of the Manggha Centre, a Polish-Japanese enterprise that embodies one of the richest additions to... | |
Nov.28.2004 | |
Groups of Poles demonstrated across the country on Saturday in support of western-leaning Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated... | |
Nov.26.2004 | |
The Czech Republic will return 33 priceless Hebrew manuscripts stolen by the Nazis during World War II to the Jewish Theologic Seminary in Wroclaw, Poland, an o... | |
Nov.26.2004 | |
Wedged between troubled Ukraine and the West, Poland has plunged into the disputed Ukrainian presidential election in an attempt to mediate – a sign of anxiety ... | |
Nov.25.2004 | |
Former Polish President Lech Walesa will go to Ukraine Thursday to help mediate the stand off following the disputed presidential elections. The PAP news age... | |
Nov.24.2004 | |
People aren't falling over to sing the praises of Soviet bloc architecture, but in recent times a number of individual buildings have garnered a certain retro a... | |
Nov.24.2004 | |
The renovation of Cracow's Main Market Square may be stealing the show at the moment, but just round the corner on Szczepanska street workers have struck gold. ... | |
Nov.22.2004 | |
'Welcome to the biggest Oceanarium in Poland!' reads the flyer of Cracow's much-hyped new aquatic wonderworld. Dominating the flyer are pictures of three very d... | |
Nov.24.2004 | |
Although it could be argued that Cracow's cultural calendar is as well-endowed as a queens jewellery box, Poland's second city generally loses out to Warsaw whe... | |
Nov.21.2004 | |
A Polish woman abducted from her apartment in Baghdad reappeared on Saturday in Poland after being suddenly released. While she said she was treated well, she r... | |
Nov.19.2004 | |
Cracow saw its first snow of the Winter today, but not before some of the worst weather of the year thus far. Storms tore across Poland throughout Thursday and ... | |
Nov.19.2004 | |
Israel's Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz yesterday proposed to Poland's Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Ryszard Kalisz that it use the model of ... | |
Nov.18.2004 | |
Goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek made several superb saves Wednesday to help Poland to a 0-0 draw against France in a friendly match at Stade de France. Beleaguered F... | |
Nov.18.2004 | |
A Polish-led multinational division in charge of security in south-central Iraq faces disintegration if more countries pull their troops out, Polish officials s... | |
Nov.17.2004 | |
An opinion poll released in Poland Tuesday suggested the ruling Democratic Left Alliance enjoyed the support of just 8 percent of voters. The CBOS poll put t... | |
Nov.17.2004 | |
The Lodzinski family, an entrepreneurial clan who own a smattering of the most popular restaurants in Cracow, held a special celebration this month to mark 111 ... | |
Nov.16.2004 | |
Dziennik Polski (Polish Daily) announced this week that 100,000 zl has been raised thus far to help restore the monks hermitages at the Camaldolese Monastery of... | |
Nov.16.2004 | |
Warsaw's influential mayor Lech Kaczynski has said that Germany should pay $45 billion (24.4 billion pounds) for the destruction of Warsaw during World War Two,... | |
Nov.15.2004 | |
More than a dozen insurgents attacked the Polish Embassy in Baghdad with automatic weapons on Sunday, and embassy guards returned fire in an exchange that laste... | |
Nov.14.2004 | |
Australian police have arrested two men and seized three million ecstasy tablets that the pair is accused of importing from Poland hidden inside a bakery oven. ... | |
Nov.14.2004 | |
An Indian troupe has been performing all around Poland to mark what might perhaps be the first nationwide celebration of Diwali here. Shakhwat Hussein and h... | |
Nov.9.2004 | |
The Polish zloty rose to its highest level against the dollar in seven years this Monday. The Polish currency has risen strongly against the dollar, partly d... | |
Nov.7.2004 | |
The presidents of France, Russia and Israel are expected to attend the 60th anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp's liberation on January 27, Polish officials... | |
Nov.8.2004 | |
Following their meeting on 4 November in Krakow, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said that neither the German claims fo... | |
Nov.8.2004 | |
If you're strolling through Plac Dominikanski this evening you may hear some peculiar sounds emanating from the dignified looking church on the eastern corner o... | |
Nov.4.2004 | |
A Polish hostage being held by militants pleaded for her life in a video aired Saturday by Al-Jazeera television, asking Poland to remove its troops from Iraq. ... | |
Oct.14.2004 | |
The recent news that a piranha had been caught in the Vistula River (see Gazeta Wyborcza Wed 11th August) caused a wave of anxiety amongst Krakow's duck populat... | |
Oct.22.2004 | |
The 39th Cracow Organ Festival continues today with a recital at the charming gothic church of the Holy Cross. The much-loved festival provides a marvellous o... | |
Oct.23.2004 | |
A smattering of Poland's beleaguered aristocracy gathered today in Cracow for the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to landowners murdered by the Nazis and Soviet... | |
Oct.22.2004 | |
Open Day at Cracow's Museums - Saturday 23rd October 2004 All the main branches of the National Museum in Cracow will throw open their doors tomorrow to cele... | |
Oct.23.2004 | |
Cracow's 'Month of Photography Festival' will kick off on Monday 23rd October. Now in its third year, the festival has already taken its place as one of the sta... | |
Oct.22.2004 | |
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the world's largest chewing-gum maker, will close a plant in Phoenix that makes Eclipse breath strips and move production to Poland. Th... | |
Oct.21.2004 | |
Polish-born Pope John Paul II plans to visit his homeland in 2005, the head of the Roman Catholic church in Poland has been quoted as saying. Asked by journa... | |
Oct.18.2004 | |
A masterpiece by the painter El Greco, discovered accidentally 40 years ago by two young art historians and concealed by the Catholic Church, has finally gone o... | |
Oct.18.2004 | |
A museum dedicated to the life of a pro-Solidarity priest tortured and murdered by Poland's communist secret police opened on Saturday, ahead of the 20th annive... | |
Oct.15.2004 | |
Work has commenced on a new luxury hotel by the Polish Likus chain. Likus are behind the swish Hotel Copernicus at the foot of the Royal Castle, which was descr... | |
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