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The leading Jet Flying Ace of World War II in the European theater who downed 28 aircraft, destroyed 3 on the ground before he was
 finally shot down, and then came back to destroy 6 1/2 migs in Korea is
Colonel Francis S. Gabreski of Long Island, New York

(Died January 31,2002)

Hot beer soup, usually served overcubed farmer cheese, was once Poland's most typical breakfast food; the less better off ate Zur (sour ryemeal soup) for breakfast.
 

Poland refuses German demands for Gdansk and the "Polish Corridor." March 22, 1939
 

 

By mid-1941, Germany gained control of all of Poland and the Germans continued the establishment of Jewish ghettos that the Germans had started in 1939. Germans formed the Jewish ghettos by evicting hundreds of thousands of gentiles from their homes and then crowding many more Jewish families there than the space could reasonably accommodate. There were no Jewish ghettos in Poland before Germany started creating them in 1939. It is ironic that some people not well acquainted with the history of the ghettos have mistakenly thought that the ghettos were formed by a bigoted Polish population who spitefully wanted to segregate the Jewish population to selected areas. Instead, the real truth is that Polish people were unwillingly removed from their homes by the Germans to form the ghettos, and then the Polish people illegally aided the Jews by bringing them substantial amounts of food and other supplies.  
It has been widely written that Josef Mengele was the first Doctor to ask for human victims.
The first was actually Dr. Sigmund Rascher who was the conducting air pressure experiments in Dachau for the Luftwaffe. Medical experimentation on human beings took place in nearly every concentration camp.

There was a time, as late as 1965, that the vast majority of immigrants were from Europe. Today, over 60% of newcomers are from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Nevertheless, among Europeans taking up residency in the U.S., Poles rank among the highest, outnumbered only by persons coming from Russia.

Polish-born pontiff John Paul, the former Kraków Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, is credited with enriching the Vatican menu with such Polish delicacies as jajecznica na boczku (scrambled eggs fried in bacon), flaki (tripe), pierogi and sernik (cheesecake).

 

September 11, 2001

Poland observed a day of "Solidarity with the American Nation"
during which flags were flown at half mast.
The Polish Senate Honored the victims with a minute of silence
and a prayer.
Thousands of mourning Poles, many of them sobbing with emotion,
signed the Condolence Book set out at Warsaw's Krolikarnia Palace

That the best  mathematic calculators on sale today come equipped with RPN What's RPN? ... It's called" Reverse Polish Notation" and was invented in 1928 by Dr. Jan Lukasiewicz a Polish mathematician.  Today it's a standard part of the language of computer science!

 

Josef Wybicki became so emotionally involved in Poland's struggle for an independent state, that he was driven to write the enthusiastically patriotic anthem - the song Dąbrowski's Legion's sang as they marched
from Italy to Poland in 1797.

In 1927 "Dąbrowski's  Mazurka" officially became Poland's National Anthem "March, march Dąbrowski," rousingly patriotic, brings reverence and courage to each and every Pole.

 

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Poland's Solidarity movement was born during the August 1980 Gdansk Shipyard strike. Following nine years of political struggle with the communist regime it led to the collapse of Soviet bloc and the democratic development of the Europe's eastern half.
 

In Warsaw baby boys are dressed in pink and baby girls in blue. In other parts of Poland the situation is just the opposite: girls are given pink outfits and boys get blue ones.

That there are 13 states in the United States that have paid homage to the great  Polish American patriot Casimir Pułaski.  They are: Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia,  Wisconsin and Arkansas.