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Polish Carrier Celebrates Nokia Lumia 630 Launch With Windows Phone-Themed Sneakers
Polish carrier Plus is offering a chance to grab free Windows Phone-themed sneakers to those who customize their pair in the most creative way.
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'Vampire' burial in Poland keeps alive the myth that will not die
Popular literature would have it that the vampire's preferred habitat is Transylvania (or, if you're under 15, the slightly less glamorous Forks, Washington). But modern day vampire hunters might better focus their attention on a little-known area of northwestern Poland, where earlier this month a suspected vampire grave was exhumed.
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Polish foreign minister says country's alliance with US worthless
A Polish news magazine said on Sunday it had obtained a secret recording of Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in contention for a senior European Union job, saying that Poland's relationship with the United States was worthless.
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Polygon goes to Poland
Examining Poland's game development scene by looking at the country's history.
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Poland found to be complicit in US torture programme
Poland was complicit in the USA’s rendition, secret detention, and torture of alleged terrorism suspects, a top human rights court has ruled. The judgement, made by the European Court of Human Rights, found that the Polish government colluded with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to establish a secret prison at Stare Kiejkuty.
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There is city that stops for one minute every year - this day is today
Once a year on august 1st, the people of Warsaw pay hommage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. The biggest rebellion against German Nazi occupation during WWII cost over 200 000 lives and destruction of the capital.
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MonkeyFab Remembers The Warsaw Uprising With A Surreptitious 3D Scan
Polish 3D printer maker MonkeyFab has created a 3D scan of the Mały Powstaniec or Little Resistance Fighter, a statue in Warsaw's Old Town that commemorates..
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Criticizing Israel ends political careers in US: Rozzo
What Israel is doing in the besieged Gaza strip is the “massacre” and “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians and US officials “can’t say anything because this can end a lot of political careers,” an American political analyst in New Jersey says.
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The highest measured scores in blood alcohol concentration
The search for the highest blood alcohol concentration (BAC) ever measured turned out to be a true quest. The problem is that the Guiness Book of Records doesn't keep track of whoever had the high...
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Polish couple fall off cliff and die while taking selfies
A Polish man and woman taking selfies at the cliffs of Cabo Da Roca in Portugal on Saturday fell to their deaths. According to investigators, the couple had been taking photos of themselves when they fell down a cliff and into the Atlantic Ocean, NBC reports. A rescue team recovered their bodies Sunday after having to suspend their search Saturday due to bad weather.
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Inside job: the story of Witold Pilecki, leader of the Secret Polish Army
Unknown to most of the world until the late '80s, Witold Pilecki was a leader of the Secret Polish Army. Dan Lewis on an all-round badass.
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Inside job: the story of Witold Pileki, leader of the Secret Polish Army
Unknown to most of the world until the late '80s, Witold Pilecki was a leader of the Secret Polish Army. Dan Lewis on an all-round badass.
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Polish and Ukrainian scientists unearth 1,000 victims of Stalin in castle once used as secret police prison
Polish and Ukrainian scientists have unearthed a mass grave containing up to 1,000 victims of Stalinist terror in a castle once used as a secret police prison. Among the victims in the grave were Polish soldiers. The Polish press has already called the find a “new Katyn” in reference to a massacre of thousands of Poles by Stalin in 1940, which still clouds Polish-Russian relations.
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Warsaw Is The Cheapest City For A Cultural Vacation
London and Paris are great, but if you're on a budget, a trip to those sparkling cities might make you feel a bit, well, broke. Thankfully, affordable options are out there, and you'll probably never guess where you can go for a culture-filled vacation on the cheap. Behold, Warsaw. The capital of Poland is not only a beautiful, vibrant city, it's also the cheapest one in Europe for a cultural adventure.
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Italy's Mogherini and Poland's Tusk get top EU jobs
EU leaders have appointed Italy's Federica Mogherini as EU foreign policy chief and Poland's Donald Tusk as European Council president. The announcement came in tweets from the current council president, Herman Van Rompuy, at an EU summit.
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Invasion of Poland, 1939: Color Photos From WWII’s First Front
On Sept. 1, 1939, one week after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, more than a million German troops—along with 50,000 Slovakian soldiers—invaded Poland. Two weeks later, a half-million Russian troops attacked Poland from the east. After years of vague rumblings, explicit threats and open conjecture about the likelihood of a global conflict—in Europe, the Pacific and beyond—the Second World War had begun.
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U.S. Army Choppers Forced to Land in Polish Fields
Six U.S. army helicopters landed in a rapeseed field in northern Poland, eyewitnesses said, after coming back from military exercises, alarming locals on guard over tensions across the border. Five Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and one tandem-rotor Boeing Co. Chinook chopper touched down near the village of Gruta, 220 kilometers north of Warsaw at about noon yesterday, according to local eyewitnesses.
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Hidden gas chambers uncovered at Nazi death camp
Archaeologists working at the site of the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor, in eastern Poland, say they have uncovered previously hidden gas chambers in which an estimated 250,000 Jews were killed.
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Putin says he could have troops inside Poland ‘in two days’: report
Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken warlike rhetoric to a new level, threatening to send troops into a number of NATO countries, including Poland, an influential German newspaper reported Thursday.
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Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania form joint military unit
Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania launched a joint military force on Friday that Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said could start its first exercises in the tense region in the next year. The three countries and other states in the area have been on high alert since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in March - and Western powers accused Moscow of sending troops to back rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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