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I am copying a previous comment of mine[-2] below. But first let me estimate the cost of food for one day in Diocletian's empire. I do not feel like solving a linear programming pr…

And here is an emoji from 1913 [0], accompanied with a footnote: "The author felt the need to enrich the Polish spelling with a new symbol, which he dares name wink . This symbol, …

Oh, and another example from Ukraine, this time in 2020: threatened by the International Monetary Fund with being denied loans in the midst of the pandemic, the Ukrainian parliamen…

Let me copy a previous comment of mine [0]. One quasi-actionable lesson of history the governments can try to remember is: do not sacrifice your strategic goals for a short-term ga…

Here is to the company Dariusz Jakubowski x'; DROP TABLE users; SELECT '1 that ran in Poland from 2014 to 2019 [0]. [0] https://prod.ceidg.gov.pl/CEIDG/ceidg.public.ui/SearchDetail…

Everyone and their dog have a pet theory on the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Let me copy a previous comment of mine.[0] My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes w…

The article you linked to is incomplete. There are five such ramps in operation on the Elbląg Canal in Northern Poland [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal#The_…

> the book again disappeared until nearly a decade ago, when it was auctioned off at Christie’s. "Disappeared" is a Newspeak euphemism for "was stolen"[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia…

In 2000, Claude Monet's Beach in Pourville was stolen from the National Museum in Poznań, Poland. The police suspected a steal-to-order gang. Six years later, an unemployed brickla…

Yeah, I got to know Benedyktowicz at the end of a long and winding experience that led me to read on the beginnings of the Krakow Chess Club (he was a founder). Depending on your o…

He also coded quite a few interactive Google doodles[0]. [0] https://medium.com/@mwichary/stanislaw-lem-on-google-s-homep...

Ludomir Benedyktowicz (1844–1926) got his both hands chopped off at the age of 18 while fighting in a Polish uprising against Russia. This did not deter him from becoming a painter…

Fun fact: The US declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, for a change, was justified by the sinking of the US ship Marguerite by a submarine whose officer "spoke Austrian"[0]. …

Saint Paul: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat" (2 Thess 3:10). Note the subtle difference in Lenin's version: "He who does not work shall not eat" [0]. [0] https://en…

Well, I suppose Napier presaged the concept of a single source of truth. Aren't other log-trig tables a waste of paper if you can look up log(cos x) under log(sin(90°−x)) and quick…

> In 1614, John Napier introduced logarithms. > Napier’s main motivation was to find an easier way to do multiplication and division. > Next, mathematicians decided to combine thes…

While I upvoted your native insight regarding present-day language and I agree that the name is stupid, I can nitpickingly Ctrl+F "дроворуб", explained already in the 19th century …

There is also the Bonerowski Palace hotel in Krakow, formerly known as the Boner Palace.

In 1995, Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, a long-time publisher of dictionaries, sued Kurpisz, a new publishing house, for plagiarizing their large dictionary of Polish. The case …

My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone diagrams[0]. For history, the main branches of the fishbone could be: Military, Econom…

One of most peculiar tourist attractions in the Wieliczka salt mine near Krakow are signs with a shaft symbol that is not in Unicode. It looks like a # with a · in the middle and a…

A Polish numismatist, Zbigniew Żabiński, came up with trofa (from Greek trophe 'alimentation'), a universal measure of the value of money. One trofa is defined as an average person…

See also Google's 2011 interactive doodle inspired by The Cyberiad ,[1] in particular by the machine that could create anything starting with n .[2] [1] https://www.google.com/dood…

Let me rephrase: assigning any military importance to the de jure status of a land is pretty weird.

> The country was ultimately liberated by the Americans in Greenland [...] Hmm. "On 8 April 1941, the United States occupied Greenland to defend it against a possible invasion by G…